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Guānlán Original Printmaking Base
At this 300-year-old village, rows of quaint black-and-white houses exuding a modest, functional elegance unique to Hakka architecture are occupied by the workshops and galleries of printmaking artists from China and overseas. The village, with its tree-lined paths and lotus ponds,
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Mandarin’s House
Built around 1869, the Mandarin’s House with over 60 rooms, was the ancestral home of Zheng Guanying, an influential author-merchant whose readers had included emperors, Dr Sun Yatsen and Chairman Mao. The compound features a moon gate, tranquil courtyards, exquisite rooms and a ma
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Shegar Dzong
Shegar is dominated by its Crystal Fort, one of Tibets most fantastical, whose crumbling defensive walls snake up the side of an impossibly steep mountain that looms over town; picture Mt Crumpit in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas . Trails allow you to clamber up from the monastery
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Yuen Po Street Bird Garden & Flower Market
In this enchanting corner of Mong Kok, you will find a handful of old men out ‘walking’ their caged songbirds. Stick around long enough and you should see birds being fed squirming caterpillars with chopsticks. There are also feathered creatures for sale, along with elaborate cages
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Chagpo Ri Rock Carvings
This hidden corner of Lhasa features over 5000 painted rock carvings that were created on the back side of Chagpo Ri over the course of a millennium. Throughout the day pilgrims perform full body prostrations in front of the images, while stonecarvers at the far end of the courtyar
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St Joseph’s Seminary & Church
St Joseph’s, which falls outside the tourist circuit, is one of Macau’s most beautiful models of tropicalised baroque architecture. Consecrated in 1758 as part of the Jesuit seminary (not open to the public), it features a white and yellow facade, a scalloped entrance canopy (Europ
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Ngan
Ringed by mountains, and joined by a stream so that on the map they resemble the infinity symbol, these are the largest lakes in Kham. Ngan-tso is the more westerly and so is the one seen first by travellers from Lhasa. Ask your guide to show you how to get to the old village near
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Church of St Sophia
The red-brick Russian Orthodox Church of St Sophia, with its distinctive green onion dome and roosting pigeons, is Harbin’s most famous landmark. Built in 1907, the church has traded religion for photographs of Harbin from the early 1900s. Its unrestored interior and dusty chandeli
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Sir Robert Ho Tung Library
This charming building founded in the 19th century was the country retreat of the late tycoon Robert Ho Tung who purchased it in 1918. The colonial edifice featuring a dome, an arcaded facade, Ionic columns and Chinese-style gardens, was given a modern extension by architect Joy Ch
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Chuāntóng Sinkhole
A two-hour hike takes you past limestone caves, primeval vegetation and an underground river. You can trek to the sinkholes bottom via an ethereal-looking cavern with a hole in its roof. On sunny days at noon, a shaft of light passes through the hole onto the cavern floor. Theres n
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Guǎngjǐ Bridge
Originally a 12th-century pontoon bridge with 86 boats straddling the Hán River, Guǎngjǐ Bridge suffered repeated destruction over the centuries. The current version is a brilliant, faux-ancient passageway with 18 wooden boats hooked up afresh every morning and 24 stone piers toppe
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Macau Museum of Art
This excellent five-storey museum has well-curated displays of art created in Macau and China, including paintings by Western artists like George Chinnery, who lived in the enclave. Other highlights are ceramics and stoneware excavated in Macau, Ming- and Qing-dynasty calligraphy f
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Xīnjiāng Autonomous Region Museum
Xīnjiāng’s massive provincial museum is a must for Silk Road aficionados. The highlight is the locally famous ‘Loulan Beauty’, one of the 3800-year-old desert-mummified bodies of Indo-European ancestry that became symbols of Uighur independence in the 1990s. Other exhibits include
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PMQ
This new arts hub occupies the modernist buildings and breezy courtyard of the old married police quarters (c 1951). Youll see the usual suspects – design studios, cafes, galleries and a bookstore. The sites earliest incarnation was a temple built in 1843, which was subsequently re
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Lǚshùn Prison
Lǚshùns best sight is a cluster of restored red-brick buildings which functioned as a prison from 1902 to 1945. It may have changed hands from the Russians to the Japanese, but its purpose remained unchanged: more than 450,000 prisoners came through its cells. Somber displays, incl
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Happy Valley Racecourse
An outing at the races is one of the quintessential Hong Kong things to do, especially if you happen to be around during one of the weekly Wednesday evening races here. The punters pack into the stands and trackside, cheering, drinking and eating, and the atmosphere is electric. Th
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Hong Kong Park
Designed to look anything but natural, Hong Kong Park is one of the most unusual parks in the world, emphasising artificial creations such as its fountain plaza, conservatory, waterfall, indoor games hall, playground, taichi garden, viewing tower, museum and arts centre. For all it
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Luòyáng Museum
This huge new museum, situated out of the action south of the river, has exhilarating displays across two huge floors and is one of the few places to get ancient Luòyáng in any kind of perspective. There’s an absorbing collection of Tang-dynasty three-colour sāncǎi porcelain and th
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Zìlì
Zìlì, 11km west of Kāipíng, has the largest collection of diāolóu historic watchtowers, though only a few of the 15 are open to the public. The most stunning is Míngshí Lóu (铭石楼), which has a verandah with Ionic columns and a hexagonal pavilion on its roof. It appeared in the film
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OCT
The sprawling OCT-LOFT complex, converted from fashionably austere communist-era factories, is one of the best places to see contemporary art in Shēnzhèn, and makes for a wonderful browse-as-you-stroll experience. Large exhibition spaces and private galleries – many closed on Monda
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