Korea To Liaoning – Gyeongui Railway

The Gyeongui Railway re-linking Koreas has been completed, according to Korea.net, a South Korea-based news website. The railway, which runs up the western side of the peninsula, physically links Koreas for the first time in half a century......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Korea To Liaoning-Gyeongui Railway to continue to read this article.

South Korea To Shandong - Ferry

Ferries connect Incheon, a major South Korean port, with Shandong’s Weihai and Qingdao. Travellers may check the ferry company’s website for updated schedule and fares......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click South Korea To Shandong-Ferry to continue to read this article.

Myanmar To Yunnan

Travellers in Northeast Myanmar may (or may not) get into Yunnan’s border towns Ruili and Wanding (both in the administrative region of Ruili, Dehong Prefecture)......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Myanmar To Yunnan to continue to read this article.

Lao To Yunnan

Travellers can head overland from Lao (Laos) to Xishuangbanna in Southern Yunnan. The border crossing on China’s side is Mohan in Mengla County......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Lao To Yunnan to continue to read this article.

Hanoi-Yunnan Train

Both Lonely Planet Vietnam (2003) and South-West China (2002) told their readers that there is an international train running between Hanoi and Kunming, the capital of Yunnan......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Hanoi-Yunnan Train to continue to read this article.

China’s Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites

China has six cultural heritage sites on ‘2006 World Monuments Fund 100 Most Endangered Sites List’......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click China’s Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites to continue to read this article.

Hanoi-Guangxi Train

The Hanoi-Beijing international train stops at Youyiguan (pronounced as you-yi-guan) or Friendship Pass in Pingxiang (pronounced as ping-xiang), Nanning (the capital of Guangxi), and Guilin (where travellers can head towards Yangshuo)......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Hanoi-Guangxi Train to continue to read this article.

Chaoyang Homestay

Family run B&Bs are emerging in Gaobeidian Village (高碑店村) in Chaoyang District, the East End of Beijing City, reported Chaoyang Daily......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Homestay In Chaoyang, Beijing to continue to read this article.

Shenzhen Airlines Becomes China’s First Big Private Airline (Does it?)

Two private companies in China recently bought 65% of shares in Shenzhen Airlines in an auction, which will turn it into China’s biggest private airline......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Shenzhen Airlines Becomes China’s First Big Private Airline to continue to read this article.

Clean Budget Hotels in China Boom

The Economist reported that China has more than 200,000 zhaodaisuo (招待所 / zhao-dai-suo), traditionally flop-houses with beds at around 80 Chinese yuan (US$10) in 'cheerless dormitories with shared toilets'......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Clean Budget Hotels in China Boom to continue to read this article.

Cultural Revolution Museum in Shantou: Dusk to Dawn

An innovative extension of the Thirty-Year Rule by the Communist Party officials: until recently, the disastrous Cultural Revolution which might have caused the death of million people (and even if the victims are ‘lucky’ survivor, many of them could not have escaped from the inhuman physical and psychological torture) has been a taboo subject in China......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Cultural Revolution Museum In Shantou to continue to read this article.

Goodbye Good Old Lonely Planet

A reader of Discover China told your blogger that she had not expected to read the review on Footprint Tibet (see this and this) in a travel blog, not least because the review was ‘so political’ and ‘not really relevant to travel’......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Goodbye Good Old Lonely Planet to continue to read this article.

Visit Lhasa In September, If …

If readers have a special taste of massive parade or ‘cultural performance’ organised by the Chinese Communist Party, they may want to mark their diary and visit Lhasa this September......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Visit Lhasa In September, If … to continue to read this article.

Is Footprint Tibet A Misguidance?

Discover China told his readers that he would vote for Gyurme Dorje’s Footprint Tibet should there be an election of ‘Misguidance on Tibet’......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Is Footprint Tibet A Misguidance? to continue to read this article.

Nepal-Tibet Coaches

A Kathmandu-Lhasa coach service kicked off in May 2005 according to Xinhua, the state-owned news agency......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Nepal-Tibet Coach to continue to read this article.

The Best [Mis] Guidebook on Tibet: Footprint Tibet

The Tibet Society’s review: [Footprint Tibet is] the best guidebook on Tibet I have ever seen......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click The Best [Mis] Guidebook on Tibet-Footprint Tibet to continue to read this article.

China's Top Ten Airports

China has about 130 airports (airports in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are not included). The top ten airports in China, ranked by number of passengers in 2004, are:

1. Beijing Airport
......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click China’s Top Ten Airports to continue to read this article.

Huizhou Vernacular Architecture in Hong Kong Heritage Museum – Dry Bone, No Flesh

Supported by the Anhui Museum, Huizhou (pronounced as hui-zhou) architecture (or, more precisely, the architectural components) is now on display at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Huizhou Architecture to continue to read this article.

First-Class Treasures, Second-Class Visitors - Hong Kong Heritage Museum

From Eastern Han to High Tang: A Journey of Transculturation, a splendid thematic exhibition is being staged at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, one of the ‘Top Five’ recommended by Lonely Planet Hong Kong (2004)......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click First-Class Treasures, Second-Class Visitors to continue to read this article.

Railway To Lhasa – Impossible Is Nothing?

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway will link Lhasa, the capital of Tibet and Golmud in Qinghai. The project of the 1,000 km railway crossing some of the highest mountain ranges in the world is ambitious, to say the least......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Golmud-Lhasa Railway to continue to read this article.

Visit Tibet? Great But What Do You Mean?

Tibet can be a rather tricky concept which may not be as straightforward as it might appear at first sight......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Visit Tibet? Great But What Do You Mean? to continue to read this article.

Fly to Lhasa from Chengdu

‘Bureaucratic obstacles to entering Tibet’ is ‘a potentially more insurmountable barrier than the Himalaya’. The Lonely Planet Tibet (2002) said......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Fly To Lhasa From Chengdu to continue to read this article.

Tibet or Xizang

Caveat emptor: The blogger of Discover China is going to write a survey of Tibet travel starting from today; he is a Hong Kong-born Han Chinese......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Tibet Or Xizang to continue to read this article.

Museums Without Muse

FC Barcelona might put the word ‘Beijing’ on the front of their shirts to promote the 2008 Olympic Games. The Catalan football club has never sold the rights to its shirts and not unexpectedly, Beijing may have to pay 100 million euro for the deal......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Museums Without Muse to continue to read this article.

Discover China Directory

My noble and learned reader wondered if Discover China had re-positioned as a directory – which might be conveniently (but perhaps rather misleadingly) defined as a website with a lot of links but no genuine content. The short answer is yes and no......

I have moved to my new home Letters From China. Please click Letters From China Or Directories From China? to continue to read this article.