China: attractions and places of interest

The highest mountain on the planet is located on the border between Nepal and China and is known as Everest or Jomolungma in the Himalayas. The peak of the mountain itself belongs to China and has a height of 8848 meters above sea level. This peak has the shape of a pyramid. Its upper slopes are com...

Potala Palace is the oldest and highest architectural building in China. It is located at an altitude of more than 3.7 thousand meters above sea level and rising 115 meters up. The palace was set up on the Red Hill of the Tibetan city of Lhas. Translated by Potala means « mystical mountain ». The f...

The colored rocks of Zhangye Danxia are simply amazing mountain ranges that belong to China. These enchanting formations in the middle of Gansu province – the dream of any photographer. The components of the Jiane Danxia rainbow rocks are mainly red sandstones, which refer to the Cretaceous period. ...

In the southwest of China, not far from Kunming, there is a bizarre village, visiting which you immediately feel like a giant. And the thing is that only dwarfs are residents of this area. They feel good among themselves like, avoiding inconvenience and ridicule from « big » people. Thanks to a sma...

Hanging Temple – is not an ordinary Chinese temple, which was erected in the middle of a cliff near the sacred mountain of Henshan in Shanxi province. It belongs to temple buildings that belong to one of the sacred mountains of Taoism. The monastery was erected among a huge cliff just below the gor...

Chocolate Park in China – this large area is filled with wonderful workshops, the material for which was chocolate. This exhibition of chocolate products covers an area of about 30 thousand m.2. The chocolate park was opened in Shanghai among the local Himalayas Museum. The park has chocolate figure...

Mogao Caves are located on Mount Singing Sands in Dunhuang. This is an early temple of China, erected in 353-366 years of our era and is the oldest creation of manual work. According to legend, the caves appeared due to the fact that some Chinese pilgrim Le Zu-nu came a vision of a thousand golden B...

It just looks charming. A park of clay sculptures that appeared on Chinese soil not so long ago, in a small town called Tanshan, owned by the province of Hebei. This park arose in 2008, but has already managed to acquire many fans and become a real attraction of this area. The creator of clay Park ...

The Temple of Heaven is the largest temple complex in Beijing, covering an area of 270 hectares, surrounded by two rows of walls, one of which surrounds the entire territory of the complex, and the second only the temple. The structure of the temple has a round shape on the north side and a square o...

West Lake – is located in the easternmost part of China and is a real attraction of Hangzhou. The lake has long been famous for its picturesqueness, which attracts numerous tourists, both from China and from other countries of the world. The coastline of the lake is 15 km, and its area is 5.8 km2. ...