The Tour We Join: Guilin Bus Day Tour: Longji Terraced Field

Starting our trip at morning early from the airport directly after we arrived, travelled by van to Longji terraces. We picked great time for come, on May 2013, warm climate. Longji Rice Terraced also known as Dragon's Backbone due to the mountains ridges that can be seen from the top with beautiful rice terraces everywhere.

Start our climb on a small path, we need to climb up through terraced rice paddies and gradually climbs higher into the mountain. It was so interesting to experience how the rice paddies looked from closer.

We climbed higher and higher. Over here, there are also quite a few western tourists around. It is about an hour's climb to reach the top, and get some very beautiful scenes.

Everything was worth it. The views of the paddy-covered hills that we can see below and the surrounding mountains were awesome.

After got some amazing pictures of the terraces from the summit, we did have a refreshing drink at the snack shop, had a rest for a bit.

For about 15 minutes having rest to get our energy back, then walked back down again. We are really tired but extremely satisfied from what we got. I think stay overnight nearby Longji terraced would be great experience, far from the city, very peaceful. I am looking forward for that time.

The Tour We Joined: Shanghai Half Day Bus Tour

I stayed in Shanghai for about 4 days for work and in the middle of it, I would like to travel city. After my work finished, exactly at the last day in Shanghai, I did explore that modern city by local travel agency help. The tour was relatively organized and cheap. For me who travelled alone, this is the best choice.

Start my trip from the famous Yu Garden. From the picture above, it will explain mostly buildings that I look inside the garden.

Besides old and impressive architecture buildings of Yu Garden, here visitors are also able to enjoy stunning view of one best preserved classical garden of China.

After a short trip to Yu Garden, its time moved to the Bund, a symbol of the city. I went out to the Bund to have a look at the amazing views of Pudong. Luckily, I had perfect weather so I was able to get an incredible view of the beautiful city.

The majority of Shanghai sites have been spent exploring areas like Pudong, Peoples Square, Nanjang road, the Bund, the French Concession. Above one spot when I was in French Concession, a fabulous complex filled with beautiful houses with European architecture.

Then to the Xintiandi, entertainment center area in Shanghai where young people commonly hang out. The picture of Xintiandi also can be seen here. Overall, although time that I had very limited, but I like the atmosphere of Shanghai, the place where old and modern China meet. I have completely fallen in love with this city and am extremely excited to see more parts of the country and further explore Shanghai in the next vacation.

The Tour We Join: Xian Terracotta Warriors Private Day Tour + Xian City Wall

Since I did come to Xian, then there is a must do list, visit Terracotta Army. The here is our pictures during one day Xian private tour that we could capture along our way. Our tour began with a short visit to a large complex of Terracotta Army.

The pit where we can see the large complex filled with hundreds terracotta sculptures with different facial expression and gestures. Every detail looks so magical and incredibly amazing! Everyone should personally come to this site to feel its sacred atmosphere.

There is no better experience for have a close look to those terracottas. All we could experience by visit this famous world heritage site. Amazed by its beauty and you will be realized why Terracotta Army even regarded as the biggest archeological finding till now.

Next, after visit Terracotta Army, the time moved into the other famous landmarks of Xian called Ancient City Wall. Above is a picture of one spot in Xian City Wall we did capture before we hike up to the Wall.

People could stroll around the Wall in fact, same as we do. The weather might a little bit cold so because of that, we did not see so many travelers above. Whatever, we still enjoyed our trip by the way.

On this spot on the picture above, we could see a little bit more visitor here. People could have a sit, have rest, takes some pictures etc on the Wall.

Our last stop during this Xian day tour is a visit to Xian Muslim Quarter, a biggest Muslim community in Xian. According from our guide explanation, here located 10 famous Muslim mosques, one most popular called Great Mosque. Not only for the mosque, the street also offers plenty kind of Muslim foods and snacks on both sides of street. All in all, the whole day gave us very interesting experience. A short day but much more things that we can get!