by Leslie Chang Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ABOARD THE MV EMPEROR ON THE YANGTZE RIVER — Shortly after our cruise ship set sail from the Sichuan town of Fengdu on its way down the Yangtze River, its hardworking crew began to entertain us. Four women in harem pants and navel-baring tops performed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
