Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the Most Famous Gorges in China

January 15th, 2010 Hero No comments

Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze River is located in Chongqing City and Hubei Province in China. It begins from the Yangtze River on the Fengjie County in the west, and ends to the east of toll-gate of Yichang City, Hubei Province, totally 192 kilometers long. In addition to the famous Three Gorges, the many rivers in China are having scenic spots named with Three Gorges. Besides, there are many poems that are using the Three Gorges as subject matter.

There are countless scenic spots in Yangtze River, but the most famous one is the Three Gorges of cause. The three gorges are Qiantang Gorges, Wu Gorges and Xiling Gorges. The Qiantang Gorges is 8 kilometers long, and the wide of Qiantang Gorges is no wider than 150 meters. It is the most grand and steep one. Wu Gorges is totally 40 kilometers long, mountains echoes through the land, and the river bends just like a beautiful picture draw by nature. Xiling Gorges is the longest one; it is 76 kilometers long and is also famous for its steep and dangerous. The water flowing fast and the mountains are high besides the river. Since the forming of new China, Gezhou Dam has been built and it improved the living besides the Xiling Gorges.

There are countless scenic spots besides the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, such as Rhinoceros Looks at the Moon, the Goddess Peek, Mengliang ladder and so on. It is the place worth anyone to visit in China.

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Myrtle Beach,The Place Worth to Go

January 10th, 2010 Hero No comments

I have been to Myrtle Beach once last year, I still remember the scene and the things I do with my wife there. I really like this place. The sea, the sunshine and the wind all make me feel relax and enjoy my time.

However, it is one of the famous places in South Carolina State in USA; there are tens of thousands of travelers to visit this place every day. So to find Myrtle Beach accommodations is important. This time I get the experience. When search Myrtle Beach accommodation online, I can find much hotel information through the internet. However, there are many hotels you can find online, not all the hotel can provide you a beautiful view that you want. I search the hotels and see where it located. Finally, I find Myrtle Beach Hotel and decided to book a room in that hotel.

When I got there, and live in the hotel, I felt satisfy with my decision. This hotel is good, the services, the food and the most important is I can see a good view through the window! So, if you want to go there, you can find a hotel and book a room first, or you may get trouble when finding accommodations.

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The Country with a Long Long History

January 7th, 2010 Hero No comments

Cyprus is located in Eastern Europe, just beside Turkey. Though it’s not a big country, it has a very long history in this land. As early as 9,000 years ago, human activates are have been found on the island. It’s worth for us to have a holiday there.

However, no matter how attractive the places are, I think cheap holiday deals are always the first thing for a traveler to be considered. Nowadays, we can find many different touring parties through the internet, and we can find flight tickets wherever we want to go easily, but not all the touring parties and flight tickets are cheap, we should first find cheap flights to Cyprus. We should choose some websites that famous and can be trust to book our tickets, and then compare the price and the traveling lines in these websites, finally pick the most suitable one. After that, we can enjoy our cheap holidays to Cyprus.

When you got there, I suggest you to try some local grape wine, and cheese. The grape wine and cheese are Cyprus’ special local products, when drinking grape wine, cheese is just the right food to go with it. And don’t forget to buy some perfume for souvenir, perfume in Cyprus has a long history and very famous in the world. Just enjoy your trip to Cyprus.

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Find a Good Present for Your Wife

January 6th, 2010 Hero No comments

New Year is just past, I think the next date for celebrate is Valentines Day to many people, so as me. As a man, I have had give many different kinds of presents for my wife, and in order to give she a surprise, I have to give her something special and different.

I have think about many different goods, and I think lingerie maybe a good choice for her. As a man, we are lack of experience of choosing lingerie, but we can choose the brand what she usually wear or the famous one. Just take my wife for example, she focus on Chantelle bras with great passion, so Chantelle bras is in my list. And moreover, I find Wacoal bras are also good. The quality and the shape are really good, and it’s soft, elastic and flexible. As a lingerie, the quality is the most important to be considered. And we know that, women are really mind their body shape, so I also think about body shapers, I know she will be happy if I give her a shapewear as present.

In a word, no matter what kinds of present we give our wife or girlfriend, the most important is to make she happy if we love each other, and I think lingerie will be one of the best choices.

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The Tales Devil’s Castle in Wuerhe

December 27th, 2009 Hero No comments

Wuerhe Devil’s Castle is also called Wuerhe Windy Castle. It is located at the northwest edge of the Junggar Basin and Jiamu River of Wuerhe mining area, 100 kilometers southwest from the Karamay City. There is a unique wind erosion landscape with a strange shape. The local Mongolians are called this place as “Sulumuhake”, meaning Devil’s Castle.

Wuerhe Decil’s Castle was formed form northwest to southwest, long and width are over 5 km, totaly about 10 square kilometers wide, about 350 m above the sea level. According to investigation, about 100 million years ago, during the Cretaceous, there is a huge lake with many plants growing around, different dinosaurs and other ancient animals are living there, just like a paradise for living things. But then after two major changes with the earth quakes, the lake became a place just sandwiching with sandstone and clay, geology call it “the Gobi platform.”

Because of Wuerhe Devil’s Castle is located at the place with a draught, the wind brows all-year-round. The largest wind power is up to level 10-12. Strong winds also give Wuerhe Devil’s Castle not only a “name”, but also the “shape”. When you visit there, you will find the rocks are have their special shape, some are like tempos, some are like towers and some are like huge mushroom. It will marvel each visitor who have been there.

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Mount Flame, A Mountain Full of Myth

December 15th, 2009 Hero No comments

Flaming Mountains is located in the northern edge of the Turpan Basin in Xinjiang Province. Ancient known as “Red Rock Mountain”, Uygur language called “kyzyl Le Tage” which means Red Mountain. Mount Flame is form by red sandstone, it cross from Piqan County Langang River in the east to Turpan Taoer Ditch in the west, just like a red dragon, goes from the west to the east, lying in the Turpan Basin. The length of Mount Flame is 98 km from east to west and 9 km from north to south. At the average of 500 meters height, the highest peak is near the Tuyu Ditch of Piqan County, 831.7 meters above the sea level.

There is an old saying goes: The famous of a mountain is not because of its high. Mount Flame is just a good sample. Although Mount Flame is only hundreds of meters high, it is full of myth because of the story from the famous novel Journey to the West. When Xuanzang go on a pilgrimage for Buddhist scriptures, he has to cross Mount Flame, however, the place is too hot to cross, then Monkey King borrow the Palm-leaf Fan blow out the flame and lets Xuanzang cross the mountain.

Mount Flame has its special physiognomy natural condition. And by the well known story from Journey to the West also makes Mount Flame full of myth.

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General Gobi, The Legendary Gobi of China

December 10th, 2009 Hero No comments

General Gobi is located in the eastern part of Junggar Basin and northern part of Qitai and Jimsar County. It is about 43 kilometers from east to west, 20 kilometers from north to south. In these nearly a thousand square kilometers range, it gathered many wonders of different appearance. General Gobi formed with a multiplicity of large Gobi Desert style tourist area, it is the unique scene of China and rare in the world.

General Gobi get it’s name from a general in Tang Dynasty. In that time, a famous general lead an army of 500 soldiers resisted Western Tujue army in this place, although the general won the war, he was lost in this Gobi with his soldiers, and all of the army died in this Gobi. Many years later, to commemorate the general and his army, people build the General Temple there and the Gobi was called General Gobi.

There is also another famous scenic spot called Devil Town, the full name should be “Nomin Devil Town”. It located in southwestern part of Dinosaur Valley, seven times larger than the famous Urhe Devil Town. this is in fact also “Yardang Landform.” geology. After a long time of  scour by wind and rain it form a variety of strange shapes: human, demon, beasts, buildings,  Pavilion, Castle, bridge and so on. And every time when the wind blows, the Devil Town will be sounds like a big troop come or like devil crying.

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The Necessary Gear for Travel

December 5th, 2009 Hero No comments

Luggage is the necessary gear for traveling; we are never though of traveling without taking our luggage. Luggage is so important for travelers because every traveler has his personal goods go with him more or less.

Different people has different needs for luggage, one may like to travel with all his personal goods, so he need a big one, one may enjoys traveling free, so he may choose a small one, and one may like traveling with showing his personality, so he would like to choose a sharp one. Now, I would introduce three kinds of luggage for you if you are going to buy one. Each of these luggages has their features, and hope you can pick one you like.

The first one is Delsey Luggage, this brand of luggage provides you more space to take your goods for travel. You can find many pockets in the luggage and will never worry about where to put your goods. The second one is Hartmann Luggage, if you want to take something that will not become deformed, then, this one is your best choice. The outside of these bags are hard, just like a shell that can protect your goods without deform. And the third one is Tumi Luggage, this kind of luggage have many different kind of shape and with different function, no matter big or small, you will pick one that suits to you.

If you are preparing to buy a luggage for your travel, think of the above luggage I introduce to you.

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Taklimakan Desert, the Biggest Desert of China

December 1st, 2009 Hero No comments

Taklimakan Desert, located in southern Xinjiang Province, the Tarim Basin, Taklimakan means “huge” and “wide”, so it means “huge desert” in the Uygur language. The whole desert is more than 1,000 kilometers from east to west, 400 km wide from north to south and with a total area of 337.6 thousand square kilometers, it is China’s largest desert, is also the world’s second largest desert, it is known as the “Taklimakan Desert,” and also the world’s largest the flowing desert. The western and southern part of Taklimakan Desert is 1200 ~ 1500 meters above the sea level, in the eastern and northern part is 800 ~ 1,000 meters above the sea level.

Taklimakan Desert, has an area of 330,000 square kilometers. When one driving in the desert highway just like boating in the sea. What make people feels regret is that the sun sets early in the Taklimakan Desert. However, when one climb up to the Qiaokatage Mountain (red and white mountain) in the Taklimakan Desert which is 1413 meters above the sea level and overlooking the Taklamakan Desert, one can see another kind of scene. One can feel the huge and boundless of Taklamakan Desert, it can give one a feeling of misty and singular power when standing between the dessert and the sky.

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The Most Beautiful Mountain of Taiwan,China:Mount Ali

November 25th, 2009 Hero No comments

Mount Ali locate in Taiwan Province, actually, Mount Ali is not only the name of one mountain, it includes totally 18 mountains such as Dawu Twin Mountain, Jian Mountain, Zhu Mountain, Ta Mountain and so on. Mountain Ali is famous for its Divine tree, cherry blossom, Cloud Sea and sun rise, spreading with the forest railway, becomes the Five Fantastic Scene of Mount Ali.

Mount Ali, with cherry blossom , is one of the Three Forest Management Areas, in this forest management area; Divine tree is the most famous one. The Divine tree stands in the main peak of Mount Ali, 52 meters high, tree circumference is about 23 meters, that means it needs tens of people to encircle it. The cloud sea is one of the Taiwan eight scenic spots. When climb up to the peak, one can see clouds rush up from the valley just like the sea flushing the mountains. The best place to see the sun rise is the peak of Zhu Mountain. On the top of Zhu Mountain, there is a Sun-seeing Tower, when you on the top of the tower, you can see the first sunshine of Taiwan Province. The forest railway is 72 km long, 30 to 2450 meters above the sea level, across 82 tunnels, is one of the three mountain railways in the world.

Besides the scenic spot mentioned above, there are still Sisters Lake, Kongque Creek, Ciyun Tempo, Shuling Tower and so on. Mount Ali is now attracting more and more travelers to visit.

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