It’s hard to imagine life for 33,000 people in an area of 6.5 acres. Put into perspective, that’s like stuffing 1,600 people into an Olympic sized swimming pool. But that was a reality for many with limited running water, minimal plumbing, and dwellings so dense you could barely tell night from day. This was […]
When booking the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund through Imperial Tours, you will receive these special amenities: A glass of champagne or signature cocktail for two at The Long Bar Chef’s choice of a Waldorf signature cake for guests celebrating special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries In-room fruit amenity replenished daily Afternoon […]
(Imperial Tours is grateful to Amir for permission to publish this excerpt from his Phd research. ) China -today the nation with the largest fleet of bicycles in the world- is surprisingly underrepresented in cycle history: we know nearly nothing about Chinese cycle history, cycle production, cycling habits or other aspects of the bicycle in China. […]
Prophesied by the historic Buddha approximately 2,000 years before his birth, Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) was a child prodigy who went on to establish and inspire Tibet’s most powerful monastic sect. Dissatisfied by the intellectual, religious, and monastic indiscipline of contemporary orders, he reined his disciples and followers into a strict new order. The Gelug sect re-established […]
The Three Gorges were so named from the late Han dynastic period (23–220 AD). This nomenclature groups into a set of three the numerous shoals and gorges of the Yangzi River between Wanxian and Yichang. The Three Gorges are the Qutang Gorge (8km long), the Wuxia Gorge (45km long) and the Xiling Gorge (66km long). […]
