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To be listed is a great privilege - below is a list of some of the most important sites in China.
Leshan, home to the 70-metre-high Grand Buddha statue that towers over the river, is an easy stopover en route to or Read More...
The Stone Forest is a creation of prehistory. Roughly 270 million years ago, the earth flexed its muscles, caused an Read More...
Lijiang is in north western Yunnan Province. Lijiang's Old Town was listed as a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO Read More...
Macau is one of the most unique destinations in Asia with its East-Meets-West architecture and culture which coexists Read More...
Calm and quiet Kaiping town is a popular tourist site as its landscape is sprinkled with a unique collection of Read More...
Noted as the world’s largest concentration of royal tombs, the Ming Dynasty Imperial Tombs is the final resting place of Read More...
Located 65 kilometres west of Chengdu – southwest of the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project – Qingcheng Shan is a brilliant Read More...
The Peking man Site at Zhoukoudian, is arguably one of the most widely known excavation sites in the world due to the Read More...
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