China Travel 2.0

A complete guide to china’s high-speed rail 4 expert tips and 5 top lines travelers shouldn’t miss By David Feng 30 November, 2011 Tweet High-speed rail (HSR) is China’s new designer label Travel — more convenient than flying and far superior to buses — stitching the country together with an inspirational blend of 21st-century engineering [...]

When Britain claimed Hong Kong in 1842, the peninsula and islands in southern china was a collective of fishing villages and a haven for coastal pirates. The territory returned to Chinese control in 1997 as one of the world’s leading financial centers and one of Asia’s most popular tourist destinations. Whether you want to explore [...]

40 Shanghai foods we can’t live without From simple street fare to Bund-style cuisine, here are our picks for the most delicious and iconic food items that define the Shanghai food scene Although Shanghai’s oily, sugary and soy sauce-doused cuisine can’t be heralded as the best eating on the mainland, we love our food here [...]

Best Shanghai food walk: Qibao Old Street 7 edible reasons why Shanghainese regularly make the trip to Qibao water town Qibao (七宝) is the closest water town to Shanghai and it is home to one of the most popular food streets for Shanghainese. Our family has been visiting Qibao for almost two decades and we [...]

Shanghai’s 5 best 小龙虾 ( Crayfish )Restaurants: A bite-by-bite guide Dig into Shanghai’s favorite summer seafood in five crowd-pleasing xiaolongxia restaurants Your perfect Shanghai summer dinner: clawlicious xiaolongxia and beer. Call them what you like — crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, “little dragon shrimp” or “little lobsters” — but everyone knows that the Shanghainese go gaga about [...]

china can boast not only the ancient temples, palaces and constructions like the Great Wall. It goes beyond the cutting-edge cities of Shanghai and Beijing. Geography is China’s greatest treasure – read and discover the most breathtaking places in the country! Check China Tours for organised trips and China Flights on how to get to [...]

Admire the Huangpu River meeting the Yangtze, frolic in a lush experimental farm or just lie still in Asia’s most artistic wheat field — all only a metro ride away Shanghai’s best-kept secrets aren’t all hidden down dark corners and twisting alleyways. Some are actually highly accessible. In fact, so accessible, they’re right next to [...]

Beijing to Shanghai in Five Hours? New Data on china’s High-Speed Rail JUN 14 2011 The country continues its plans with newly revealed ticket prices and top speeds, all under pressure to have a spotless safety record What changes the debate over high-speed trains yielded were revealed yesterday: lower ticket prices and slower top speeds, [...]

Traveling by train is by far the best way to experience china, its efficient, cheap and a relatively fast way to get around this vast part of Asia. Riding on long train journeys allow you to take some well earned rest from your trip whilst getting you from A to B and helping the environment [...]

50 reasons why Shanghai is the one of greatest city in the world World’s Greatest Cities: 50 reasons why Shanghai is No. 1 The hardest thing about listing 50 reasons why Shanghai is the greatest city in the world is trimming it down. Did your reason make it? 1. Direct to your door Everything delivers [...]