If you want to walk around the Guangzhou City with your camera, Kaiping Watchtower is a Must-Go place. Only one and a half hour driving distance from the heart of the city, you will find a totally exotic place. There are hundreds and thousands watchtowers erected peacefully in fields. Behind every single one, there was a story,  similar stories with different details.  Yes, 100 years ago, people were poor and they did farming for living. Wars and local robbery took their peace away; many people left their home and sailed long way to San Francisco to seek a better life. Although life wasn't pleasant there, either for them, they missed their home country so much. Therefore, even if they starved, even if they were discriminated in their work place, they contributed most of their money to build the watchtowers in their hometown in order to keep their kids and family safe. 

Most of the watchtowers have 5-6 floors, there aren't patios or any other decorations from the bottom to the second top; in that way, no one can climb in the house; each floor has a small window so even though they can climb, the people inside can throw stones or gun shoot to force the enemies to step back. The top level has the most incredible western design. As people who pay for the construction settled down oversea, they got used to the western building and western lives. They demanded to build a castle-like watchtower. I am very proud of our ancestors, because the local builders had never been outside the country, they looked at the postcard mailed from oversea, and inspired to make such a piece of art. 

Inside the watchtowers, you can feel the history, a Chinese history as well as a western one. As you might see, there are lots of commodities were carried to China from 9000 miles away. I have to say, here, you can taste history, taste the wisdom of our culture. It is a connection between China and other parts of the world. 

·Located in the south of Mengyang Natural Reserve, 48 kilometers from Jinghong City and 115 kilometers from Pu’er City in Xishuangbanna, the Wild Elephants Valley is the most fascinating forest park known for primeval tropical rainforest and flocks of Asia wild elephants. The Wild Elephant Valley Rainforest Scenic Area is also called Sanchahe Forest Park. It is said that currently about 130 wild elephants frequently appear in the Wild Elephant Valley. In China, Asia elephants can only be seen in the rainforests of Xishuangbanna while the Wild Elephant Valley is the sole place where wild elephants frequently show up .

Originally, People found lots of wild elephants and other animals bathing or drinking water in the "elephant pond" of the Wild Elephant Valley. Since 1980s, subordinate of National Nature Reserve Bureau has been throwing salt at the bank of the pond to entice wild elephants. Flocks of wild elephants were frequently attracted to lick the salt since then. In 1991, the Nature Reserve Bureau of Xishuangbanna established an observation tower in the park. In the following years, The Wild Elephant Valley was developed into a forest park equipped with air corridor, cableway, houses built on crotches of tress, pedestrian path and other facilities.

The Wild Elephant Valley covers a total area of 3.7 square kilometers, a water area of 8000 kilometers with an elevation of 747-1055 meters. Apart from the most eye catching rainforest and wild elephants to view, the park has been established with several scenic zones to serve tourists, such as Tree houses, Butterfly Park, Snake Park, Orchid Garden and the Bainiao Garden (where a hundred of rare birds perch in).

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The several routes of cycling tour in countryside outside of Yangshuo town were created myself. I've consulted with many cycling enthusiasts and used my own knowledge to plan the best routes. 

To ride bicycle on paths through paddies, villages, karst peaks, or along river, you could stop anywhere to enjoy landscape, crops, farmers and buffalos working ... ...

three pagoda are the ancient landmarks in yunnan province.now they are the symbol of dali too.it s the oldest Buddist architecture in south china and south Asia too. Simultaneously, it is cultural relic under national protecton.the three pagodas are the sole building that shows the tradition and ancient prosperity of old dali.every year it attracts many visitors throughout the world.

The local call it "the Bei's Garden". Built in 1934, the Bei's residence was then owned by Bei Zuyi, who was the descendant of Bei Runsheng, both from the glorious family in Suzhou. Bei Zuyi later became the president of Bank of China in 1945. He is also the father of the celebrated architect, I.M Pei.

The Bei's Residence has reinforced concrete structure with Art Deco style decoration supplemented by Chinese symbolic elements. To the east of the entrance are inscribed Chinese characters meaning longevity in 100 styles. The garden in front of the building features all basic components of a typical Chinese garden: Taihu rocks, bridge, pond, pavilion and flowers, etc. Something special in the garden is the stone pavilion in Islamic style, unadorned but exotic.

Hailuogou is located in Sichuan Province in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gongga Mountain, the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau slope.

Hailuogou Glacier is the lowest elevation glacier in East Asia;with 2850m above the sea level, it is the closest from big city(451 km away from Chengdu about 6 hours drive) ,it is the easiest to access among all modern oceanic glaciers.

Hailuogou has natural springs, in winter time, you can stay in the warm spring and watch the snow mountain at the same time.