The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is the largest of its kind in the world attracting over 10 million visitors a year. Held since 1963, the festival features thousands of ice and snow sculptures and entire buildings and bridges made of ice. The event is spectacular and well worth putting on your travel […]

The Red Yao people have lived a unique lifestyle in the mountains near Guilin, China for thousands of years. They wear distinctive colorful clothing, but are most known for the long hair of the women. On our way to the Longshen Rice Terraces we stopped and visited a village and saw a show focusing on […]

We ended our 48 days in China with our most touristy few days of our whole trip based out of Guilin. Situated on the Li River in Southern China. The metropolitan area is home to about 5 million people. It is a very popular tourist destination and is known for its distinctive geography; the limestone […]

Our stay for a week in Anren Town, Chengdu was a pleasant surprise and very interesting. Our 48 day trip through China was fairly busy. Our master retirement plan is to travel the world slowly, spending months in each area or city. However, in China we spent only a week in most cities, so there […]

A day in rural Chengdu was one of the highlights of our 48 days in China. Don’t get me wrong, we loved visiting all the well-known, traditional tourist sites: Great Wall and Tiananmen Square in Beijing, The Bund in Shanghai, the Terracotta Army in Xian, etc. However, whenever we travel, we like to see how real […]

While we were in Xian, China, we took a day trip, (well, actually a day and a half trip but more on that later) to Mt Hua. The mountain has been called, “the most precipitous mountain under heaven” due to its steep terrain. It is incredibly beautiful and has many Taoist temples, niches and carvings […]