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Temple of Heaven

The square layout of the Temple of Heaven is completely without a reason to get lost when you are visiting there. Whether you enter from the north gate or the south gate, it is generally not to go back and just go out from another gate, which is also more time-saving. The route is also very clear, because the Temple of Heaven is completely laid out according to the central axis. The main attractions are the Hall of Prayer, Imperial Heavenly Vault, Echo Wall and Circular Mound Altar.

If you don’t know that the role of the Temple of Heaven is for sacrifice, you will feel that the building of the Hall of Prayer is very beautiful. After knowing the history and architectural structure of the Temple of Heaven, after a few visits to the Temple of Heaven, you will feel that this landscape is really beautiful. The temple of heaven has more impact on the hearts of many people than the Summer Palace. You will feel that the building is really beautiful. Although there is no accumulation of knowledge, it is simply like it. After knowing its history, you will feel it more charming.

In fact, no matter what the season is, the Temple of Heaven is quite lively, especially the Hall of Prayer has so many visitors there.

Tickets are divided into gate tickets and attraction tickets. The scenic spots include the Hall of Prayer, the Echo Wall, and Circular Mound Altar on the middle axis. And they are the essence of the Temple of Heaven Park. At first it felt like a ceremonial tower. At the scene, the Beijing Red color together with the Aristocratic Blue and Emperor yellow color collocation of the building is truly sacred in the sun. The Temple of Heaven ticket price is 15 Yuan, the joint ticket is 34 Yuan, and the joint ticket is stopped for sale at 16:30 in the afternoon. If you don’t catch up, you can’t enter the scenic spot. You can only look at it from a far distance.

When there are already many tourists, if you want to take good pictures of the Prayer Hall, you need to raise the angle a bit, so that the camera just cuts out some people below, so that the photos don’t look messy.

The vast majority of tourists stay at the front of the Hall of Prayer and the top of the steps, so you can walk to the back side and wait for the nearby pedestrians to walk away to take an empty scene of the Temple of Heaven.

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Sera Monastery

The debate of Sera Monastery is very famous. The Debate Garden is at the northern end of the main entrance. The time for debate is generally from 15:00, and you can watch it at will. The martial arts work is fixed every Monday to Friday afternoon and is open to visitors. What is more formal than the usual debates are the regular seminars, which are held by the monks to discuss and even debate the Dharma. The daily debate is an auxiliary method for the lamas to understand the meaning of the righteousness and improve their cultivation.

When you go to the Sera Monastery to see the debate. Listening is incomprehensible, it can only be seen; if you can’t understand it, you can only regard it as a lively show. The monk is either serious or relaxed, or contemplative or smiling, or eloquent or refuted, making a scene of enthusiasm. You may think that if all the colleges had such a strong academic atmosphere, there would not be so many people who had lost their lives.

In addition to the debate, the architecture in Sera Monastery is also very distinctive. As one of the three major temples, Sera Monastery is also very famous in Tibetan temples. Visitors will come here to watch the debate that begins at 15:00 pm every day.

You need to a climb 200-meters slope after entering into the gate of Sera Monastery. In the middle it is the main road, the temples are on the sides, and the older murals are preserved in many halls of the Sera Monastery. In addition, the celestial burial platform in Lhasa is on the hill behind the Sera Monastery. After 16:00 o’clock in the afternoon, Sera Monastery will close some halls, so it is necessary to go there earlier if you like to visit them. If you are not afraid of feeling tired, you can climb to the back of the Sera Monastery, where you can take a panoramic view of Lhasa. You will feel it memorable if you make your Tibetan tour to the Sera Monastery.

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Victoria Peak

Victoria Peak, Hong Kong’s premier tourist destination, not only has spectacular views, full of shopping and dining fun, but also has a number of unique must-see attractions to bring you a diverse travel experience, allowing you to experience Hong Kong’s life culture.

To climb to the top of the Victoria Peak, taking one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious Peak Tram is definitely an unforgettable experience! The entire railway is towed by steel cables, and the train climbs from 28 meters above sea level to 396. Meters (about 1,300 feet), and passengers can overlook the Victoria Harbour along the way. Sitting in the carriage, the body could not help but lean backwards. The slope of some sections ranges from 4 to 27 degrees! The tall buildings and the dense trees seem to fall to the side, and you will feel it wonderful!

Designed by the famous British architect Terry Farrel, the Peak Tower is the unique bowl shape. It is a must-see destination for sightseeing, entertainment and shopping. Its appearance is widely used by millions of postcards and photos around the world.

On the Hong Kong’s highest 360-degree viewing platform, the Peak Tower skyscraper 428, it is a visual experience that allows you to stand on the invincible viewing platform at an altitude of 428 meters, which is the most advantageous location in Hong Kong, you will be intoxicated. In addition, The Peak Tower has a campsis grandiflora Gallery. The giant panels showcase the precious photos of Hong Kong in the early days and return to the past to experience the changes in Hong Kong.

It is recommended that you buy tickets online in advance, you can save the queue time, and it is recommended to take the cable car up the mountain and take the bus down the mountain (because the queue team going down the mountain is more horrible than that of climbing the mountain, and to experience two different modes of transportation, you will find the scenery along the way is also different). In addition, when you take the cable car, you should sit on the right-hand side of the mountain. You can see the high-rise buildings in Central along the way. The left seat shows the mountain view. After all, it’s on the mountain. The top floor observation deck is quite cold at night. Remember to bring a jacket to keep warm.

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Yu Garden

Yu Garden is indeed a nice little garden. It is not like the exquisiteness of Suzhou Garden. Instead, it has more handsome masculinity inside, and it is refreshing. The Yu Garden is not as big as it was supposed to be. After all, it was a private garden, and it takes almost 1.5 hours to visit all the scenery spots inside. The distinctive roof and the engraved character scene really make Yu Garden very special. If you have visited the beautiful and quiet gardens in Suzhou, you can pass by and take a visit the charm of Yu Garden. And if possible, just choose the time when there is not so many people visiting the Yu Garden to come there, as it will be quiet, if you can isolate the embarrassment outside. The Yu Garden is closed earlier, and just pay attention to it.

When you go in the Yu Garden, it is recommended to take a map, so as not to go back, and you can buy a mobile phone explanation, it will be more interesting.

As soon as you enter Yu Garden, you will feel that as if you have traveled to another time space. There is no reinforced concrete and no high-rise buildings. There are only corridors, flowing water and willow. Although the Yu Garden is a scenic spot, you can choose to buy a ticket to go in and see, or you can choose to just stroll outside. Similar to Beijing’s South Luogu Lane, there are various ancient buildings, small shops and snacks along the street. It is really a place to eat and play.

You can buy the tickets for Yu Garden directly online, which is 54 Yuan/ 2 person. It is Suzhou garden style, and you may personally feel that it is more suitable to spend time to waste in Yu Garden, if you rush to leave, you may not feel the beauty of Yu Garden.

The Yu Garden itself is very beautiful. This typical Suzhou-style garden is exquisite and beautiful. The dragon wall is especially impressive. It is a rare garden in Shanghai. It is quite big inside. There are many tourists on the weekend, especially many foreign tourists. You can take pictures everywhere. There are many rockeries, and there are water and old houses. You may like those eaves, as the micro-carvings of the building are different.

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The Potala Palace

For most of people who take a tour to Tibet, the Potala Palace is their top 1 choice there.

It is the highest and most majestic palace in the world, and it is the most important symbol of Lhasa and even Tibet. It was built by the Tubo dynasty, Zanpu Songzan in order to marry the Princess of Wencheng and Princess Bhrikuti. Over the past 1300, there have been nine Tibetan kings and 10 Dalai Lama who have been here for administration.

“Potala” is Sanskrit and translated as “Putuo”. It originally refers to the residence of the Goddess of Mercy. The Potala Palace is also a holy place in the hearts of all pilgrims. It is mainly composed of the Red Palace and the White Palace. The highest red palace in the middle is an important place for religious ceremonies. The surrounding White Palace is place mainly for the Dalai Lama’s life and political activities.

There are a large collection of historical relics collected and preserved in the Potala Palace, including pagodas, statues, murals, Thangka, and scriptures. The most striking of them is the eight spiritual towers of the Dalai Lama since the Fifth World (the Sixth Dalai Lai Cangyang Gyatso has no spiritual tower), which is a palace of art. There are three locations for taking the photos of the Potala Palace: the Yaowangshan Observation Deck on the southwest side of the Potala Palace, the artificial lakeside on the Zongjiao Lukang Park, and the Potala Palace Square.

Official telephone number of the Potala Palace: 0891-6339615;

Referred time needed: 1-3 hours;

How to go to the Potala Palace:

Take the No. 8 bus and get off at the Yaowangshan Farmers Market Station; if you are departing from Beijing East Road, you can walk to it.

Ticket:

Ordinary ticket: 200 RMB (Monday to Sunday during May 1st – October 31st)

Ordinary ticket: 100 RMB (Monday to Sunday during November 1st – April 30th of the following year)

Free of charge: children under 1.2 meters.

Open time:

09:00 a.m. – 14:00 p.m. (Monday to Sunday during January 1st – December 31st.

Tickets for the Potala Palace during the peak season are difficult to buy, and time does not allow you to queue up to buy tickets overnight if you are in a hurry. So, you can book tickets and guides for the Potala Palace online in advance. The whole process will be very satisfactory and the time is reasonable. The tour guide is also very good, but the history of Tibet is not something you can learn by visiting the Potala Palace as you need to learn slowly. Anyway, Potala Palace is surely a great place for you to take a visit.

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Qutang Gorge

The Three Gorges has three large canyons from west to east. The Baidi City to the Tunxi section is called the Qutang Gorge. The Wushan to Badong Guandukou section is called the Wu Gorge. The Xiangxi of Zigui to Nanjinguan section is called the Xiling Gorge. There are many cultural sites, monuments and buildings left over. You can take a cruise on the Three Gorges and enjoy the Three Gorges scenery along the way.

Qutang Gorge is known as being ” powerful”, also called the Kui gorge. It is the shortest gorge of the Three Gorges, but it is the most majestic section. The Qiangtang Gorge is 8 kilometers long. It starts from Baidi Mountain in Fengjie County in the west and reaches Daxi Town in Wushan County in the east. It is 1,200 meters above sea level, even if the water level rises to 175 meters. The absolute height is still more than 1,100 meters, and the momentum of “Kui Men Xiong Tian Xia” is still the same as before.

There are many scenic spots and historical sites in Qutang Gorge. There are Fengjie Ancient City, Eight Diagrams, Stone Sentinel Maze and Yufu Tower on the upper reaches of the gorge narrows. There are Baidi City, Ancient Pland Path and Bellows gorge on the top of the northern bank of the Gorge. There are powder walls, Mengliang Ladder and Daxi cultural ruins on the south bank, etc. In the south bank not far from the lower part of the Bellows gorge, there is a strange and unusual mountain peak that protrudes from the riverside. It is called “Rhinoceros looking at the moon”, which is very vivid. The site of the DuFu Thatched Cottage is just a few kilometers away from Baidi City, and it is a place where poets linger.

Official telephone number of the Qutang Gorge: 023-56528366

Referred time needed: more than 3 hours

How to get to Qutang Gorge:

Qutang Gorge needs to take a boat to have a tour. It will take 7 hours from Chongqing Chaotian Wharf by boat to Fengjie New County, then transfers to Baidi City by bus, or you can directly purchase the Three Gorges cruise tickets in Chongqing, Wuhan or Yichang.

Ticket: free.

Opening time: all day.

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The Terracotta Army Museum

The Terracotta Army Museum is divided into three pits. After going inside, keep in mind that don’t take photos with the terracotta warriors, the tour guide will tell you that after all it is a funerary, and it is a bit suffocating.

The Terracotta Warriors developed today are only three over ten thousand of that very year.

The first pit is the largest of the three pits. The tour guide will also tell you that the terracotta warriors here are all single eyelids. It is said that Qin Shihuang thought that the people with double eyelids are more serious. If you want to be a high official, you can’t be double eyelids. But Qin Shihuang himself is a person with double eyelids.

The head and body of each terracotta warrior are separated, and the high collar is used to cover the gap between the joints.

All the terracotta warriors are higher than the actual height of the Qin Dynasty soldiers. The people in the Qin Dynasty are generally around 160-170CM high, while the terracotta warriors are generally above 172cm. The reason is that Qin Shihuang wanted to create a feeling of grandeur.

There is no large-scale excavation in the No. 2 pit, and it is also a soil slope. There is a cabinet in the back showing the typical terracotta figures. The wrinkles of the collar, the elaboration of the beard and the eyebrows, all show the fineness of the sculptor. The hair is particularly clear, the contours of the ears, the eyes are engraved, the lines of the nails and the palms are all there, the waistband of the hemp rope, and the print of the soles, also are showing the meticulousness and difficulty of the carving.

The third pit is the command post, and the right is the place where divination is. You can find some tassels for divination and the place where the ancient prayer war was won.

Tickets: 150 Yuan/person for terracotta warriors, and people under 16 years old or above 70 years old is free of charge.

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Li River

Li River is the soul of Guilin, its landscape is the essence of Guilin scenery, and it is the must-visit attraction of Guilin tour.

Official telephone number of The Li River: 0773-2825502

Reference for time needed: more than 3 hours.

How to go to The Li River:

1.Full drifting: Since the current Li River ticket is basically purchased by the travel agent, few tourists go to the Li River Water Transport Company to buy tickets, and the water transport company does not have an outlet for the ticket sales. Therefore, there is currently no Public transportation from the city to the pier which is convenient for individual passengers in Guilin city.

(1) If the tourists purchase the tickets for the Li River through other channels, they must go to the terminal by themselves. The only way is to take a taxi. The Mopanshan Wharf and Zhujiang Wharf are 20km away from the urban area, and the fare is about 100 yuan.

(2) If the tourist purchases the ticket through the travel agency and the hotel agent, the travel agency will charge a fare of 35 yuan/person and the tour guide service fee, so the tourists can wait at the hotel, and there are coaches and guides to pick you up directly from the hotel to the pier, which saves you the trouble of getting on the bus.

2, The essence of drifting (ie go to Yangdi or Xingping for drifting):

Departure from Yangshuo: (1) At Yangshuo North Bus Station, there is a shuttle bus from Yangshuo to Yangdi Wharf (the license plate is marked with “Yangdi”, and pick up and drop off at any time), starting at about 6:40 a.m. every day, and there will be the bus for every 20 minutes. And the journey takes about 1 hour, the fare is 9.5 yuan / person; (2) if there are more people, they can choose rend a van from Yangshuo County city to Yangdi dock, about 160-180 yuan for generally 6-7 people;

Departure from Guilin: (1) take the “Guilin to Yangshuo shuttle bus” in Guilin Railway Station Square, get off at Yangdi intersection (not arrive at Yangdi Wharf), the time course is about 1 -1.5 hours, the fare is about 15 yuan, then transfer to the minibus from Yangshuo to Yangdi Wharf at the intersection, the fare is about 3 yuan / person, about 15 minutes to arrive; (2) take the bus to Yangshuo, Lipu, Pingle and Gongcheng at Guilin Bus Station (15 minutes  walks from the railway station square), to Yangdi intersection. The method is the same as (1).

Anyway, it will much convenient for you if you join the tourist group for your Li River tour. Just enjoy.

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Lingering Garden

Suzhou has never lacked the unique tone that the regions south of the Yangtze River exclusively has. The old city of Suzhou is not big. If it is the first time to come to Suzhou, the garden must be included in your itinerary, such as The Humble Administrator’s Garden, Lion Grove Garden, Lingering Garden, Net Master Garden, etc. if you are interested in history, then you can go to Tiger Hill and Hanshan Temple. If there is enough time, don’t forget to choose a few ancient towns nearby to have a visit. The famous ones are Zhouzhuang and Tongli Ancient Towns. The nearest one is the MuDu Ancient Town, even if it is just in a daze, it is good choice for you. If you love the scenery between mountains and rivers, then go to Taihu Lake or go to Tianping Mountain. Dongshan and Xishan are unpopular, but the scenery is absolutely stunning there.

Anyway, among all the gardens in Suzhou, the Lingering Garden is the most preferred for so many visitors. Built in the Ming Dynasty, the Lingering Garden is also known as the Four Famous Gardens of China with Suzhou Humble Administrator’s Garden, Beijing Summer Palace, and Chengde Mountain Resort. It is well known for its exquisite architectural design and numerous stone buildings. In the garden, you can enjoy four different views of mountains and waters, fields, mountains and forest, gardens. It is divided into four scenic spots: the middle, east, west and north garden. The two walls of the corridor that runs through the scenic spot are the famous “legacy of the Lingering Garden”. The central part is famous for its water features, and it is the essence of the whole garden; the western part is known for the rockery scenery, which is the highest point of the whole park; the north is idyllic spot; the Yunyun Peak in the eastern part is one of the three wonders in the Lingering Garden gardens.

Official telephone number of The Lingering Garden: 0512-65517340; 0512-65579466; 0512-65337903.

Reference for time needed: 1-3 hours.

How to go to The Lingering Garden:

Take the tourism line 1, line 3, line 5 or No. 6, 7, 22, 33, 44, 70, 85, 88, 91, 317 directly to the Lingering Garden, or you can take the No.101, No. 103 to the Guanqian street station and transfer to the tourism line 1.

Tickets:

Ordinary ticket: 55 Yuan for adult ticket (Monday to Sunday)

Ordinary ticket: 45 Yuan for adult ticket (Monday to Sunday, October 31 – April 15 of the following year)

Opening hours:

07:30-17:30 (Monday – Sunday from January 1st – December 31st)

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West Lake

The West Lake, located in the west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is one of the first national key scenic spots in China and one of China’s top ten scenic spots. It is one of the main ornamental freshwater lakes in mainland China. This West Lake is very suitable for those couple who are falling in love to have a visit for dating. How can you not go to West Lake when you are at Hangzhou? A lot of people think that the fall of the West Lake is the most beautiful, although there are no spring blossoms, the colorful leaves can bring out the beauty of the West Lake. However, if you are not color control, you can also try to shoot the effect like those Chinese painting. Walking around the West Lake under the comfortable sunshine, looking at the broken bridge, the crowd is moving, but you will feel the bridge is even smaller.

The West Lake is very big. It will take not just one day or two days to complete appreciating the ten scenes of the West Lake. The quiet West Lake is like a girl who is lying still, looking green and beautiful. The West Lake is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the middle culverts are clear, the lake is wrapped in mountains, and the mountains and lakes are so beautiful that they complement each other. The beauty of the West Lake is that it is glittering in the enjoyable weather, and it is hazy in the rain, but it can be beautiful scenery no matter it is in the rain, snow, cloudy day or sunny day.

If you come to West Lake in the earlier summer, you will find that the lotus leaf is only a little big, but it has the special charm. The impression that the West Lake gave a lot of tourist was that it is a place full of poetry and painting.

The broken bridge is continuous, the lonely mountain is not alone, and the long bridge is not long. The West Lake worth a visit. If you want to take a boat on the lake, do remember to bring cash.