The coming Chinese New Year is the Year of Snake! 

Lots of guests wonder why there is no the Year of Cat.  It is due to the rat’s mistake!

The Cat and the rat were good friend.  They joined the animal marathon race organized by the Jade Emperor. 

The rat told the cat a wrong date of the race mistakenly.  So the cat did not show up on the racing day and lost the chance to be one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs, just like the rat.

The cat was so angry and wanted to take revenge, although the rat apologized.

Therefore cats and rats have played the game of hide and seek for many years!

If you want to learn more about the Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs, you can go to the the Garden of Chinese Zodiac in the Kowloon Walled City Park.

Just share a funny story with you on the Chinese New Year Eve!

Happy Chinese New Year to all!

許多外國客人會問，為何有龍、有蛇、有鼠又有狗，但沒有貓年呢?

作為導遊，務求不得失愛貓之人和屬鼠之人，於是會講以下的故事……

貓和鼠本是好朋友，牠們更一起參與了由玉皇大帝主辦的「動物長跑」，希望成為十二生肖之一。

不過鼠不小心地把錯誤的賽跑日子告訴了貓，貓結果沒有出席長跑，失去和其他動物爭奪榮譽的機會!

於是長跑成為一對好朋友交惡的導火索，鼠不斷解釋，卻得不到貓的原諒，貓更決定報仇，這就是貓和鼠玩了這麼多年捉迷藏的原因!

想知道更多有關十二生肖的事，各位可到九龍寨城公園的「生肖倩影–童樂園」一遊。

希望透過當導遊的點滴，向大家帶來新春的祝福，祝蛇年進步!

Universally known capital. It is the political heart of China. It is impossible to describe such a city in some lines. We have only one thing to say: go ahead! To see absolutely: the Forbiddden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and famous Hutong (Chinese traditional districts in the process of disappearance!). For information, the Great Wall of China is at 70 km in the North of the capital.

Beijing Card:

Beijing hutongs

"Two," the hutongs are the Mongolian ZiYuan transliteration.The Buddha said tomographic jin tong "lane is the dialect, built in yuan dynasty mostly 1,267 laid down, has more than 700 years history.　Therefore, Beijing hutongs are long history, it reflects the history of Beijing, is a rich content.

Beijing's hutongs, great majority is ZhengXi east, south, namely straight toward the north, which constitutes a founder of Beijing, also shows that Beijing is the city planning, meticulously according to the board of the blueprint for buildings.The house sits is composed, parallelism and courtyards, so the hutongs, north-south direction of hutong hutongs.This plan is built from the imperial past experience, reflect the characteristics of traditional generations to build the city.

But the real change, or face alley after liberation.In 1949, for Beijing to beiping to the capital of the People's Republic of China.From the historical and cultural cities, Beijing has undergone earth-shaking changes, urban construction sites.Until the mid eighties, Beijing city is the old city of Beijing area, including urban constructed 24 times more than triple the liberation.New kinds of building area, equivalent to built five old Beijing.So, the number of hutong than before, had doubled the street alley, 6104 called the hutongs are still directly, and the environment also 1316 becomes neat and beautiful, more important is the connotation of the old city walls with hutongs gradually became more widespread, also.Beijing is not only new up lots of buildings, residential area, but also in life for the reconstruction of the old street, lane.Many hutong name is continuing, but mostly had not old model, some kind of old hutongs threatened by unit building houses replaced.Typical JuEr bystreet, such as enterprise warehouse areas appears small wl, not only in the courtyard buildings that residents of the housing conditions have improved, and maintain the root of "jing" flavor.For the protection of the ancient style, maintain the traditional features, Beijing city is a mirror more than 20 for historical and cultural reserve, like south gongs, col. 4: north road to eight etc were as siheyun bungalow reserves.Since yuan dynasty formed from the old Beijing hutongs of chessboard type pattern is, and the fourth ring and 3rd ring, such emission layout linked together.Hutongs also look young, ancient and modern style, graceful sceneries out here.

And more,etc,etc..

Warmly welcome to Beijing,welcome to China!

With the borders of the province of Guangdong, Hongkong includes the island of Hongkong, the peninsula of Kowloon, the New Territories and an archipelago of 235 islands and small islands, adding up a surface of 1091 km2. This unit enjoys a subtropical climate to the mode of monsoons.

After the War of Opium in 1840, the government of the dynasty of Qing had to yield the island of Hongkong and to rent Kowloon successively and the New Territories in Great Britain. Pursuant to the joint Declaration sino-British, signed in September 1984, China took again on July 1, 1997 the exercise of his sovereignty on Hongkong which became a special administrative area of China.

Hongkong has 6 million inhabitants of which more than 95% are Chinese.

Hongkong is an international center of trade and manufacturing industry, and one of the most important financial markets. Hongkong is a tourist high-place in Asia. Called 'Pearl of the East', Hongkong has many hotels of luxury, innumerable restaurants, rich person cultural vestiges, famous shopping centres, beautiful beaches and a good infrastructure.

There is very little hotel for routards. It should be noted that it is possible to make Canton - HongKong in 1h30 by train.