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 an altitude of 8848 meters above sea level. This vertex has the shape of a pyramid. Its upper slopes ar...

The Potala Palace is the oldest and tallest architectural structure in China. It is located at an altitude of more than 3,700 meters above sea level and rises 115 meters high. The palace was built on the Red Hill of the Tibetan city of Lhasa. In translation, Potala means "mystical mountain". The fi...

The colorful rocks of Zhangye Danxia are simply amazing mountain ranges that belong to China. These enchanting formations in the middle of Gansu Province are a photographer's dream. The constituent components of the rainbow rocks of Zhangye Danxia are mainly red sandstones dating back to the Cretace...

In the southwest of China, near the town of Kunming, there is a quaint village, visiting which you immediately feel like a giant. And the thing is that the inhabitants of this area are only dwarfs. They feel good among their own kind, avoiding inconvenience and ridicule from the "big" people. Thank...

Xuankong Si, also known as the Hanging Monastery, is an unusual Chinese temple built in the middle of a cliff near the sacred Hengshan Mountain in Shanxi Province. It belongs to the temple buildings that belong to one of the sacred mountains of Taoism. The monastery was built among a huge cliff jus...

The Chocolate Park in China is a large area filled with wonderful workshops, the material for which was chocolate. This exhibition of chocolate products covers an area of about 30 thousand m2. The Chocolate Park was opened in Shanghai among the local museum of the Himalayas. There are chocolate figu...

Mogao Caves are located on Singing Sands Mountain in Dunhuang. This is an early temple in China, built in 353-366 AD and is the oldest handmade creation. According to legend, the caves appeared due to the fact that some Chinese pilgrim Le Tzu-nu had a vision of a thousand golden Buddhas. It was an i...

The Clay Sculpture Park, which recently appeared on Chinese soil in a small town called Tangshan, belonging to Hebei Province, looks simply fascinating. This park appeared here in 2008, but has already managed to gain many fans and become a real attraction of the area. The creator of the 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 temple structure has a round shape on the north side and a square shape on...

Xihu Lake is located in the easternmost part of China and is a real attraction of Hangzhou city. The lake has long been famous for its scenic beauty, which attracts many tourists, both from China and from other countries of the world. The lake has a coastline of 15 km and an area of 5.8 km2. Xihu L...