by Melinda Allman What's Cool: The Great Wall could stretch from Florida to the North Pole. China's Great Wall, stretching more than 4,500 miles (7,300 km) across the northern Chinese countryside, was built originally as a fortification to protect Chinese lands from invasion and to keep the nation's people from leaving the empire. In the centuries since, however, it has become both a symbol of tyranny – thousands of slaves were sacrificed during the building process-and a tourist attraction,  » Read more »

Edited by Nathan Lump, Reported by David Jefferys and Shane Mitchell 125 Travel Super-Agents They're the ultimate travel experts – the super-agents who can tell you the subtle differences between Amandari and Amankila, who know whether this is a better time to go on safari in Tanzania or Botswana, who can set up a private viewing of the Terracotta Army with a single phone call. For T+L's annual A-list,  » Read more »

Published on 12 August 2003 by Travel Age West & Travelagewest.com Although the Athens Olympics are less than a year away, many travel professionals are already ramping up for the 2008 Games in Beijing. "We plan for it to be a major part of what we do here for the next few years," said Gilbert Whelan, director of marketing for China Travel Service U.S.A. in San Francisco. By all accounts,  » Read more »

By Guy Rubin Centuries ago, in a cliff-face in the midst of China's vast Taklamakan desert, artists hollowed, sculpted and painted 492 caves, creating over 450,000 square feet of spectacular murals, or more than thirty times the mural area of the Sistine Chapel. But whereas the Sistine Chapel was painted over a few years, the works at the Mogao Caves began in the fourth century and were completed over the next millennium.  » Read more »

by Jacob Ulevich Businesswoman Nancy Kim lends her time, talent and energy to benefit Special Olympics China Nancy Kim, owner of Imperial Tours is a relative newcomer to the world of Special Olympics. Her involvement with the movement began during the summer of 2002 when she volunteered to serve as the Chair of the Special Olympics East Asia Benefit Committee. Her work on A Very Special Christmas: Celebrate the Spirit,  » Read more »