Mogao Grottoes is also called the Thousand-Buddha Grottoes of Dunhuang

Mogao Grottoes is also called the Thousand-Buddha Grottoes of Dunhuang. It lies at the foot of Mingsha Hill, 25 kilometers away from Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Mogao Grottoes is one of the three most famous grottoes in China. The others are the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang and the Yungang Grottoes in Datong. Mogao Grottoes is famous for its exquisite murals, beautiful sculptures, long history and large scale. Welcome to China, Chinatourguide.com is pleasure to provide service for your China tours, We also provide Thailand tour packages or Cambodia tour packages.

 
The Mogao Caves was discovered by accident. In 1900, a Taoist priest named Wang Yuanlu came across a door sealed by bricks. Upon opening it, he found a number of white parcels. Wang had no idea that he had opened a door that would shock the world and lay the foundation for a significant new area of study. The poor priest simply wanted to sell some scriptures and relics for money.

Two Song-dynasty paintings on its walls show Bodhisattvas on a journey. This is the latest evidence of use of the cave and from this it can be surmised that around the beginning of the eleventh century, when the Western Xia people invaded this area and conquered Dunhuang, monks at the Mogao Grottoes prepared to flee. They sealed the cave and never returned. For nine hundred years, the room was silently shut off from the world. In the year 1900, when the passageway was being cleaned of debris, this stone archive full of sutras, books, embroideries and sculpture was suddenly discovered. It had some 50,000 items in it and these were later found to include not only a large number of Buddhist sutras, but also Daoist works and works of the Confucian canon, in addition to historical records, poetry, literature, information on geography, population, business accounts, calendars and so on. It was discovered to be a full library containing material that documented some ten dynasties, from the Jin in the 4th century to the Song dynasty.

Dali Ancient City became a well-known tourist destination around the world

Dali Ancient Town is about 13km away from Xiaguan in Dali City and is one of Dali’s Three Ancients-ancient city, ancient pagoda and ancient steles. History of Dali can be dates back to 1382 during the Ming Dynasty and it has been listed among the top historic cities of China.

 
Experienced four thousand years history, the time-honored Dali City was the center of politics, economy, and cultures in Yunnan Province. During that period, Dali became a focal point for gathering cultural information of Bai People and ethnic minorities. For this reason, Dali has converged cultures of central plains, Nationality. A famous movie named "five golden-flower beauties" impressively displayed the typical Dali features, together with a novel "Heaven Dragon The Eight Episode," Dali Ancient City became a well-known tourist destination around the world. Welcome to China, Chinatourguide.com is pleasure to provide service for your China tours, We also provide Thailand tour packages or Cambodia tour packages.

According to descriptions of literature，Dali Old Town was a gateway to the Silk Road in Southwest China，and also served as a seat of government and a major military barracks for Yunnan Province in ancient times. It enjoyed magnificent scale，with a wall length of 6 kilometers，a height of 7.5 meters and a thickness of 6 meters. There were four city gates facing four directions，upon which sat gate towers. The city layout was uniform，with five main streets from south to north and eight main streets from east to west，while marketplaces were neatly arranged within the city，which has remained unchanged to this date.

Mt. Emei is the highest one among all the famous sight-seeing mountains in China

Mt. Emei is located in Leshan City, Sichuan Province. It is towering, beautiful, old and mysterious. Mt. Emei is like a huge green screen standing in the southwest of the Chengdu Plain. Looking its winding and beautiful figure, you will find that it resembles very much an eyebrow of a girl. It is the highest one among all the famous sight-seeing mountains in China. Welcome to China for Guangzhou fair. HRC is pleasure to provide Guangzhou hotels booking, China Tour guide，like Sichuan tour, Huangshan tour.

 
Mt. Emei is a sacred Buddhist haven. It is one of the four most divine Buddhism Mountains in China. This Buddhist legacy mainly contained in the numerous temples and the buildings bears witness to the unusual historical role of the mountain in Buddhism development since the religion was introduced to China over 2,000 years ago. The mountain enjoys great popularity among Buddhists in China. Every morning streams of Buddhism pilgrims armed with joss sticks conquer the steep stairs of the mountain and swarm into the countless temples.  

Today, Emei Shan is visited by thousands of Tourists and Pilgrims every year and during the summer month the easy accessible paths leading to the top can get really crowded.  Most people make it to the “Golden Summit” (Jin Ding) at 3’077 metres. A 1 hour walk along the mountain ridge leads to the Wanfo Peak, with 3’099 metres the highest point of Emei Shan. Wanfo Peak can also be reached via an overpriced monorail. The strenuous walk all the way from Baoguo village to the Golden Summit (Jin Ding) takes about 10 hours. Less keen hikers can take one of the frequent buses from Baoguo bus station to Wuxiangang, Wannian or Leidongping and start walking from there. There are many different paved walkways leading around and to the top of the mountain. Due to its location and altitude (over 3000m), botanists will find a unique biological diversity on the Mountain. Unfortunately, most of the original structures of the Temples and Monasteries where destroyed during time. Most of today’s 30 Monasteries have been rebuilt only recently. For those who do not want to spend the night on the mountain can use Baoguo village as a base to explore Emei Shan. The tickets cost between 100 and a 120 Yuan depending on the season and are valid for 2 entries into the park.

The Hanging Temple was built about 16 centuries ago

The Hanging Temple is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng, Shanxi province. It is 64km from Datong City. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it includes Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian elements. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure was hidden inside the bedrock.Welcome to China for Canton Trade fair. HRC is pleasure to provide Guangzhou hotels booking and China Tour guide .

 
The Hanging Temple was built about 16 centuries ago and believe it or not, its only support – small wooden poles still keeps the temple stabile and lean to the Hengshan mountain. The building hangs in height of 246 feet above the ground.

Monastery of the from the ground about 60 meters, the highest point of the three religions temple 90 meters from the ground, siltation of bed, now 58 meters remaining. The Kongsi development of China's architectural heritage and architectural style, the entire temple, upload cliff, overlooking the deep valley, back rock according to the niche, Terakado south, west is positive. The whole temple for the wood frame structure, in accordance with the principles of mechanics, semi-plug beam based on the pretext of rock dark prop, beam up and down one of the Gallery bar so tightly linked. Its architectural features can be summarized as "strange, suspended, clever words. Odd - the Monastery of afar, like a pair of exquisitely carved reliefs, mosaic climbed cliff, near to see the Monastery of great volley tendency to want to fly. Hanging - the whole Temple the total Diange 40, the surface appears to support their more than a dozen root sized thick wooden pillars, in fact, some poles is not bound by force. It is said that when they were built in the Monastery of the these stakes, people see the Monastery of seems to not have any support, afraid to walk up the Temple will fall, in order to have reassured the people in the Temple under the placement of these poles, so someone with a "Monastery of the half a day, three the horsetail air crane "to describe the Monastery of.

The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is one of Yunnan's protected nature reserves

Yulong ("Jade Dragon") Snow Mountain lies about 20 kilometers north of the city of Lijiang in the northwest corner of Yunnan Province. The mountain, which covers a total area of some 400 square kilometers, stretches about 32 kilometers in a roughly north-south direction, and about 13 kilometers in a roughly east-west direction. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain faces Haba Snow Mountain, with Tiger Leaping Gorge - and at its bottom, the Yangtze River, aka Jingsha River here in its upper reaches - barely separating them. Welcome to China, Chinatourguide.com is pleasure to provide service for your China tours or Cambodia tour, We also provide Guangzhou hotels for Canton Fair in guangzhouhotel.com.

 
The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is one of Yunnan's protected nature reserves, and it has attracted the attention of many scholars and travelers.
The first impression the River of White Water (Baishuihe, Black Water River) leaves on travelers is the limpid water. The source of the river is the melting snow on the nearby mountain, and after undergoing a process of filtration on the nearby rocks, the water pours into the river a gorgeous clear color. Trees grow along either side of the riverbed while a little further away snow-capped peaks stand imposingly against the sky. It is possible to travel upriver either on foot or by horseback from here.

A chairlift has been built up the mountain. The first section takes you about halfway up, near Love-Suicide Hill, where you can rent horses to ride to a large meadow. The second chairlift, the highest in Asia, takes you to a stunning 4506m, where walkways lead to awesome glacier views. Watch out for the symptoms of altitude sickness here-Chinese entrepreneurs sell bags of oxygen to chain-smoking Chinese tourists for around 30 RMB.

Wat TraiMit houses the world's biggest gold Buddha image

Wat TraiMit is located at the end of Chinatown’s Yaowarat Road near the Bangkok Railway Station (Hua Lam Phong). This temple is known for its famous Golden Buddha, constructed during the Sukhothai period. The beautiful image of pure gold is three meters high and weighs five and a half tons. Wat TraiMit houses the world's biggest gold Buddha image, persumably 700 to 800 years old. It is a valuable treasure of Thailand and of Buddhism. Local worshipers worship here and rub gold leaf on the wat's other smaller Buddha images to make merit. Indochinatourguide is pleased to offer great service in your Thailand Tour.

The actual temple has little architectural merit, but off to its side is a small chapel containing the world's largest solid-gold Buddha, cast about nine centuries ago in the Sukhothai style. Weighing 5? tons and standing 10 feet high, the statue is a symbol of strength and power that can inspire even the most jaded person. It's believed that the statue was brought first to Ayutthaya. When the Burmese were about to sack the city, it was covered in plaster. Two centuries later, still in plaster, it was thought to be worth very little; when it was being moved to a new Bangkok temple in the 1950s it slipped from a crane and was simply left in the mud by the workmen. In the morning, a temple monk who had dreamed that the statue was divinely inspired went to see the Buddha image. Through a crack in the plaster he saw a glint of yellow, and soon discovered that the statue was pure gold. There is also an excellent museum that follows the history of the Tha Chinese that is highly worth visiting.
Traimit’s temple building comprises four levels. One of the levels contains a museum, which explains the origin and history of The Golden Buddha. When I visited Traimit, the museum was displaying an exhibition about Chinese immigrants in Thailand.

Ta Som is a Buddhist temple

Ta Som is a Buddhist temple, built during the reign of King Jayavarman VII in 1186 and dedicated to the memory of his father. Ta Som is located just east of Neak Pean and in the north east of Angkor Thom.

 
In the past one of the significant features of Ta Som was the growth of fig trees the faces at the entrance towers. These have been cut from the east tower but they are still visible at the west one. Many people like it in Cambodia Tour.
The temple is oriented towards the east, although the modern tourist entrance is from the west; its towers are arranged in quincunx around the platform. Most have collapsed, and this, the east tower, is the only one left standing. It is seen here from the east, which was the original entrance to the temple.
The inner gopura has one entrance door top with a tower but not the face tower. Just like the second gopura, the inner gopura has its wings as small rooms decorated with delight Apsaras. The fronton of this inner gopura also has standing Alovaketesvara with devotees paying respect as praying, however, the fronton is now placed on the ground nearby.

Hiking along Tiger Leaping Gorge

Tiger Leaping Gorge is a contender for the world's deepest river canyon, depending on the exact definition used. It stretches from the Qiaotou village through the Zhongdian County and eventually ends at the Daju village, Lijiang City.

 
Hiking along Tiger Leaping Gorge, except viewing the wonder and unique sceneries, you can also visit some local Naxi People’s family and stay overnight at some halfway lodge. The inhabitants of the gorge are primarily the indigenous Naxi people, who live in a handful of small hamlets. Their primary subsistence comes from grain production and foreign hikers (as well as Chinese).　Welcome to China, Chinatourguide.com is pleasure to provide Yunan tour for you, we also provide other China tours and indochina tours with local guide.
Tiger Leaping Gorge is no doubt an independent hiker's first choice in China. This magnificent gorge holds several peaks at both sides up to 6000 meters. 4000 meters vertically down from the summits flows the roaring Yangzi River (the longest river in China).
Standing beside the Tiger Leaping Gorge, you would be overwhelmed by the roaring torrent and impressive spectacle. The numerous tiger leaping rocks lurked beneath to prevent the torrent and creates the thundering surges, which makes itself a great getaway for hiking-lovers. With its unbeatable charm, the tiger leaping gorges attracts uncountable adventure-addicts to pay a visit annually.

Except getting a wonder view from Tiger Leaping Gorge, some of tourists are like hiking along theTiger Leaping Gorge. The hiking trail runs along the base of the Haba Peak providing spectacular views of 7,000 foot cliffs yielding to the jagged pinnacles of Jade Dragon Mountain that rise another mile above them. Overall, it’s about 13,000 feet from the river to the top of Jade Dragon. The Gorge is only about ten miles in length if you were swimming, but by foot it’s a rigorous twenty-plus mile hike.
But hiking in Tiger Leaping Gorge is not so easy; even there is some good physical shape. The path is constricts and crumbles, therefore, you’d better take well prepare before you begin your hiking. The other thing should care about is raining. When it’s raining (especially in July and August), there are landslides, swollen waterfall which can block the paths. Therefore, before you go to hiking along Tiger Leaping Gorge, you need to learn well about the weathers of your hiking days.

Bayon Temple is a temple which is very famous

Bayon Temple is a temple which is very famous with its very old and there are many wonderful sculpture. Located in the North to South and East to West of Angkor, in Cambodia. This temple was built in the 12th century and was built in the late 12th century or early Mahayana Buddhism as the King Jayavarman VII, the Temple stands at the Centre of the capital Jayavarman’s, Angkor Thom. After the death of Jayavarman’s, and modified and augmented by the Kings of Hindus and Buddhists. Bayon Temple is famous for the great stone face, with one facing out and maintain at each point. And most typical feature set is a collection of rock faces and a massive tower that led to many of the top terrace and cluster around the Summit. Indochinatourguide is pleased to offer great service in your Cambodia Tour, like 5 Days Cambodia Classic Tour, 8 Days Cambodia Exploration Tour.

 
As part of the Angkor Archaeological Park, Bayon Temple has been famous for its amazing collection of Buddha large, serene, smiling stone faces found on each towers. I have learned that there are about 54 towers which represent the Khmer provinces in the Great Khmer Empire period. I have also learned that there are about 200 faces which symbolize different Buddha smiling faces such as beautiful smile, glad smile, sad smile and charming smile. And, these different stone faces in the walls surely amaze each tourist.

The Bayon's most distinctive feature is the multitude of serene and massive stone faces on the many towers which jut out from the upper terrace and cluster around its central peak. The temple is known also for two impressive sets of bas-reliefs, which present an unusual combination of mythological, historical, and mundane scenes. The current main conservatory body, the Japanese Government team for the Safeguarding of Angkor (the JSA) has described the temple as "the most striking expression of the baroque style" of Khmer architecture, as contrasted with the classical style of Angkor Wat.

Pha That Luang is an impressive gold-covered Buddhist stupa in the centre of Vientiane

Pha That Luang (or That Luang Stupa or Stupa Luang) is an impressive gold-covered Buddhist stupa in the centre of Vientiane, Laos. First built in 3rd century, the stupa has undergone several reconstructions until the 1930s due to foreign invasions to the area. Pha That Luang is considered the most important national monument and officially a national symbol of Laos. Indochinatourguide.com is pleased to offer genuine Laos tour for you, like 8 Days Laos Classic Tour, 4 Days Laos Highlights Tour.

 
The architecture of the building includes many references to Lao culture and identity, and so has become a symbol of Lao nationalism. The stupa today consists of three levels, each conveying a reflection of part of the Buddhist doctrine. The first level is 223 feet (67 metres) by 226 feet (68 metres), the second is 157 feet (47 metres) along each side and the third level is 98 feet (29 metres) along each side. From ground to pinniacle, Pha That Luang is 147.6 feet (44 metres) high.

The area around Pha That Luang is now gated, to keep traffic out. Previously visitors could drive around the whole complex. The encircling walls are roughly 279 feet (85 metres) long on each side and contain a large number of Lao and Khmer sculptures including one of Jayavarman VII.