Travel in China

Friday, November 4, 2011

Kaiping Watchtower Houses

An increasing number of travelers are heading for Kaiping, a small city 122 kilometers southwest of Guangzhou, to see the 1,833 fortress-fashioned residences scattered around 15 towns.

Kaiping watchtower houses have become the hottest tourist attraction in China since being placed on the United Nations World Heritage List this June.

Kaiping Watchtower Houses(开平碉楼)

Mid-Autumn Day

Next Monday is Mid-Autumn Day. Mid-Autumn Day is a Chinese traditional festival . Mid-Autumn Day, now is a public holiday, and in that day most of Chinese will reunion with their families. At that night, they will get a delicious dinner with their families. After dinner, many families will offer a sacrifice to the moon.

Moon Cake is the traditional food in Mid-Autumn Day. There are many kinds of moon cake, like egg yolk moon cake, lotus seed paste mooncake,seafood moon cake,snowy mooncake and so on.

Moon Cake

egg yolk moon cake

Xi'an（西安）

Big Wild Goose Pagoda --大雁塔

Shaanxi is one of civilized important , all together China headstream, as far back as having
Lantian Man to grow work here right away in the front for 1000000 years, starting from the 11th
century B.C., successively have 13 in history dynasty found a capital here. Shaanxi Province field
of being that our country cultural relics and historic sites gathers together , name of having "the

Travel in Deqing

Deqing, a small town of Zhaoqing City. And this Dragon Boat Festival, I traveled there for my holiday! We(my sister-in-law's family and me) went to Pan Gu Mountain, Panlong Gorge and Jinlin Water Village!

In Pan Gu Mountain(Pan Gu(盘古) is a god in China), we visited the primitive tribe and watched some amazing performance, like swallow firebrand, climb sword ladder and so on.