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Statue Square
This leisurely square used to house effigies of British royalty. Now it pays tribute to a single sovereign – the founder of HSBC. In the northern area (reached via an underpass) is the Cenotaph , built in 1923 as a memorial to Hong Kong residents killed during the two world wars. O
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Shíkùmén Open House Museum
This two-floor exhibition invites you into a typical shíkùmén (stone-gate house) household, decked out with period furniture. The ground-floor arrangement contains a courtyard, entrance hall, bedroom, study and lounge. Theres a small kitchen to the rear and natural illumination spi
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Cheung Po Tsai Cave
This ‘cave’ – in truth not much more than a hole in some rocks – on the southwestern peninsula of the island is said to have been the favourite hideout of the notorious pirate Cheung Po Tsai, who once commanded a flotilla of 600 junks and had a private army of 4000 men. He surrende
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Hong Kong Cemetery
Crowded and cosmopolitan, dead Hong Kong is no different from the breathing city. Tombstones jostle for space at this Christian cemetery (c 1845) located on Wong Nai Chung Rd alongside the Jewish, Hindu, Parsee and Muslim Cemeteries, and St Michael’s Catholic Cemetery. Burial plots
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Dai Minority Park
This was once the part of town that everyone in this region came to experience – especially for its classic temples and Dai families hosting visitors in their traditional homes. (It’s now the aforementioned ‘theme park’.) Tourists can spend the night in villagers’ homes and partake
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Yàlóng Bay
Yalong Bay is more attractive and less crowded than Sānyà’s other beaches, though with fewer shops and vendors budgeters might want to bring their own food and water. It offers a wide range of activities, including jet-skiing, banana boats, snorkelling and diving. China’s beaches a
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Altun Mosque Complex
Yarkand’s main sights are clustered around its charming central 18th-century mosque. Next to the mosque in the modern square is the Mausoleum of Ammanisahan , commemorating a 16th-century local Uighur queen and musician famed for her work collecting Uighur muqam music. Behind the t
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Sai Kung
Apart from the Outlying Islands, the Sai Kung Peninsula is one of the last havens left in Hong Kong for hikers, swimmers and boaters, and most of it is one huge 7500-hectare country park. A short journey to any of the islands off Sai Kung town is rewarding. Hidden away are some exc
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China National Tea Museum
Not far into the hills of Hángzhōu, you’ll begin to see fields of tea bushes planted in undulating rows, the setting for the China Tea Museum – 3.7 hectares of land dedicated to the art, cultivation and tasting of tea. Further up are several tea-producing villages, all of which har
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Residence of the Ganden Tripa
To the east of the Golden Throne Room and slightly uphill, this residence (also known as Zimchung Tridok Khang) contains the living quarters and throne of the Ganden Tripa. Other rooms include a protector chapel, with statues of Demchok, Gonpo Gur (Mahakala) and Dorje Naljorma (Vaj
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2010 World Expo Site
Most of the pavilions at the site of the 2010 World Expo were designed as temporary structures and were dismantled shortly after the events completion. However, at least five structures on the Pǔdōng side will remain standing and continue to host exhibits and events, including the
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Muslim Quarter
The backstreets leading north from the Drum Tower have been home to the city’s Hui community (Chinese Muslims) for centuries. Some believe that today’s community took root in the Ming dynasty. The narrow lanes are full of butcher shops, sesame-oil factories, smaller mosques hidden
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Yāntái Folk Custom Museum
Its really architecture on display at this museum, a guild hall built between 1884 and 1906 by arrivals from Fújiàn. In the centre of the courtyard is a spectacularly intricate, decorated gate. Supported by 22 pillars, its adorned with hundreds of carved and painted figures, phoeni
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Palha Manor
This impressive former merchant’s house is now a government museum thick with political spin on the evils of feudal exploitation. Dont be put off, enough fascinating fragments remain to give a picture of upper-class Tibetan life a century ago. Displays include bottles of imported p
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Kanbula National Park
The desert scenery outside of Tóngrén comes to a pinnacle in this national park where flaming red mountains meet the turquoise waters of a reservoir created by the damming of the Yellow River. A nervous-sweat inducing road snakes up through the park’s peaks, past sleepy Tibetan vil
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Orange Isle
The most famous of the city’s parks is a 5km-long sliver of an island smack bang in the middle of the Xiāng River. A reflective 32-year-old Mao immortalised it in Changsha, probably his best regarded poem, after standing at its southern tip and looking west towards Yuèlù Mountain o
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Soochow University
Before the communists took over, this college was Chinas oldest private university, founded by missionaries of the Methodist church in 1900. The university is still in operation and its beautiful old campus is accessible from the west gate (西门; xīmén ) where you’ll see St Joseph Ch
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Tsamda Hot Springs
These odourless, iron-rich springs 12km west of Tingri are piped directly into a tepid public pool (¥20), or you can rent a private room with simple bath (¥40) for a couple of hours. Dont expect spa treatments but it might be just the thing for cleaning yourself off after a day or
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Governor’s House Museum
East of Signal Hill Park stands one of Qīngdǎo’s best examples of concession-era architecture – the former German governor’s residence constructed in the style of a German palace. The building’s interior is characteristic of Jugendstil, the German arm of art nouveau, with some Germ
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Deyang Shar
Entry to the Potala is up two steep access ramps that will soon leave you wheezing in the oxygen-depleted air. The stairs lead past the ticket office to the large Deyang Shar, the external courtyard of the White Palace. At the top of the triple stairs leading up to the White Palace
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