China: attractions and places of interest

Window to the World is a famous Chinese theme park located in the city of Shenzhen, which belongs to China. This huge park complex houses about 130 architectural monuments known all over the world. Here, on a territory with a total area of 480 thousand m2, the Egyptian pyramids, the Grand Canyon, wh...

Longmen is a temple cave located on the territory of two mountains of China. The total length of the caves is about one kilometer along the mountainside. The temple complex got its name due to the similarity of the mountains located opposite each other and the river flowing between them with the gat...

Yueyaquan Lake is located near the Chinese town of Dunhuang in the center of the Gobi Desert. This unique masterpiece, created by nature, has the shape of a crescent moon. In translation, this is exactly the meaning it has – "new moon". There is no vegetation around it, only endless sand is present ...

Yungang is the oldest attraction in China, thanks to the cave caves that were cut down here about 15 centuries ago. This area, which attracts many tourists, is located 400 km away. from Beijing. Political aspects gradually transformed Indian Buddhism into the Chinese religion. Buddhism has not play...

The Forbidden City is the largest palace in China, where the country's emperors of the XV - XX centuries were located. For at least 500 years, this mysterious complex in the middle of Beijing was the residence of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ordinary citizens had no right to visit the...

Kowloon Fortress City is a former huge dirty communal apartment in Kowloon that belonged to Hong Kong in China. Considering that the city is not big, there was a time when there were about 50 thousand people in it. The wonderful settlement has a fairly rich history, which began a thousand years ago...

Shilin is the most picturesque national park in China, 126 km from the city of Kunming. A forest of rocks and trees is located on an area of 350 km2. The territory consists of 7 zones: Moon Lake, Naigu Stone Forest, Quifing Cave, Zhiyun Cave, Long Lake, Dadeshui Waterfall, stone forests. It's easy t...

The Great Wall of China is the oldest building of the Chinese people, which underlines the power of this country. It was built about 2 thousand years ago to preserve the integrity of the empire's borders, as well as to protect agricultural land from enemy raids. Its main materials were entire forest...

Reed Flute Cave is the most beautiful place on the planet, located in China. The cave is hidden in a rock surrounded by bamboo thickets used by the local population for the production of flutes. Once there, you feel like you're in a fairy tale, and the gentle neon lighting complements the already be...

The Terracotta Army is a burial site of clay soldiers near the city of Xi'an, found in 1974 near the tomb of the Chinese emperor. The statues of at least 8,099 soldiers were buried together with Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who united China and connected all the links of the Great Wall. They might have be...