We`ve been live in Nanjing for almost 5 years, it was so hard at the first year because the language and culture difference, but now, we already adapt to the life here, and we enjoying living in Nanjing special.

Every weekend, i will take my family out to spend sometime with family members, and we came to Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-sen last weekend, it was so great, we flew kites, had picnic, kids were having fun, and they seems like to communicated with local people here too, we are so happy to see that.

I heard about  10,000 Buddhas Vegetarian Restaurant in Nanjing form a local travel book, but never get chance to go and have a try, what a shame!

Irina

Yangshou West Street is the oldest street in Yangshuo, it has over all 1,400 years history, this street now is a landmark of Guilin Yangshuo, every year it will attract tons of travelers to come here, either shopping or feel this antique street.

At Yangshou West Street you can see many traditional Chinese folk elements, like craft shops, painting and calligraphy stores, so here is a good place to buy souvenirs.

A new man made miracle.

It was new made in 90`, doesnt have much history, but the whole attraction is meticulously planned and very well presented with something of interest for everyone, and it`s really really tall, 88meters, only for this will be a good reason to go.

Here are some parade pictures

Gu Lang Yu is  a beautiful island in Xiaman and a Landmark too. It`s Summer now i should make a plan to go there again and enjoy the sunbath and the sea.

I like to go to Foreign Languages Bookstore every month, it has many imported books, from German, States, France, Spain, Japan etc. even though the price is pretty high, but i will select one i want to buy the most, and then i will spend a lot time for just sitting down there reading other good books. Another good reason is there wont have many people here normally,quiet and nice.

Yue fei is the mighty general in Southern Song dynasty, he is the most talented defender against 12th century Jvrchen hordes.

This famed patriot was stripped of his post and murdered in prison, people in order to remember him and criticize those bad person, nearby his tomb, there are four iron statues of his tormentors kneeling in shame, visitors used to spit at these statues though we are not doing these anymore.

All i want to say is Old Town, Lijiang is a fantastic place to me, the culture and history is attractive and people here are really nice and simple, you can go to talk to them every time anything and they will talk to you , and most of them can speak English some even can speak over 5 kinds of languages, i am not kidding!

Before we have Hong Kong Disneyland, Ocean Park was the hottest theme park in Hong-Kong, every kids will ask their parents to take them to Ocean Park, they like to see the Dolphin show, get close to the animals, but after  Hong Kong Disneyland built up, man, you will see all the kids will say to their parents"Mum, i wanna go to Disneyland", they just totally forgot of Ocean Park. Haha so funny.
Bet to be honest, when i know Disneyland will come to Hong Kong, i was so excited, and the second day when it`s open to public, i was there even though that cost a lot, but i had a wonderful time there. But Ocean Park is still important to Every Hong Kong people.

Nono.

I visit Gu Lang Yu last 2 week and traveled around Xia Men with 8 days.

Gu Lang Yu is a landmark of Xia Men, with nice sea and views, if you can get up early and hit Sunlight Rock, plus you need a nice day too, then you probably can see the beautiful Sun rise.  I missed it because i can not get up early after traveling all around, got so tired everyday.

I had a good time when i was traveling around. Hope more people can speak English though, that will make my trip more easier since i can speak zero English.

Planning this trip to Xi`an for almost 3 months, and today we finally made it, when we got off the flight and drop off our luggage at hotel, we just cant wait to start our trip no matter the jet leg we have.

The first place we went is Xi`an City Wall, a great and amazing building standing in front of us, it was standing there for almost 700 years, can you believe that? When you up to the wall, you can see part of  the city views, the lovely Chinese red lanterns hanging up, so historical, i feel so excited of seeing everything here, i like it so so much.

And in coming days, we are going to Terra-Cotta Warriors, Tomb of Qin Shi Huang, E Pang Gong, Ban Po Museum, Qing Long Temple, Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan etc. can`t wait !!!

Philipa

2009-11-29