Tourism in China - Famous Sites

Famous Sites

• Changbai Mountains, an important nature reserve home to the rare Siberian Tiger
• Grand Canal of China
• Great Wall of China
• Silk Road, abandoned cities along this famous ancient trading route.
• Hong Kong cityscape, especially the skyline of Hong Kong Island from Tsim Sha Tsui
• Huangshan, Anhui
• Mount Jiuhua, Anhui
• Mount Tianzhu, Anhui
• Forbidden City, Beijing, once the center of the 'Chinese imperial universe' and off-limits to the masses - now open to all
• Summer Palace, Beijing
• Temple of Heaven, Beijing
• Dazu Rock Carvings, Chongqing
• Three Gorges, Chongqing and Hubei
• Xiamen, Fujian -- Gulangyu Island, famous for its colonial architecture
• Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu these 1,000-year-old man-made caves on the old Silk Road contain some of China's most impressive Buddhist heritage
• Guangzhou, Guangdong where the finest of the classic Cantonese breakfast dim sum is tried
• Li River, Guangxi, where boat trips are taken to see the contorted peaks that have been immortalized in Chinese scroll paintings
• Caohai Lake, Guizhou, where many experience being punted along this shallow lake to see many of China's varied birdlife
• Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Harbin, Heilongjiang, where extravagant and bizarre sculptures can be seen from life-size ice castles with rainbow lighting to fantastical snowy tableaux
• Yabuli Ski Resort, Heilongjiang, the country's largest ski resort where many Chinese take their skiing holiday.
• Longmen Grottoes, a parade of Buddhist figurines and reliefs, near Luoyang, Henan
• Wudang Mountains, Hubei
• Mount Lu, Jiangxi
• Old Yalu Bridge, Dandong, Liaoning, a half-demolished bridge to North Korea is still an important relic of the Korean War.
• Terracotta Army, Xi'an, Shaanxi, the former ancient capital, these 2,200 year old life-size soldiers guard the tomb of China's first emperor.
• Confucius Mansion, Qufu, Shandong, home to nearly eighty generations of the great sage's clan.
• Mount Tai (or Tai Shan), Shandong, a holy peak home to immaculate temples and pavilions
• The Bund, Shanghai, an elegant parade along the Huangpu River of colonial architecture juxtaposed with Shanghai's skyscrapers
• The Hanging Temple at Mount Heng, Shanxi is a temple clinging to a precipice and a series of grottoes containing a panoply of Buddhist statuary
• Yungang Grottoes, near Datong, Shanxi is a renowned Buddhist site.
• Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan
• Leshan Giant Buddha, Sichuan, the world's largest carved Buddha
• Mount Emei, Sichuan
• Mount Qingcheng, Sichuan
• Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet originally built by King Songtsän Gampo in 637 to greet his bride Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty.
• Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, home to one of China's most unique minorities - the Dai people
• West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang