Tagged: China
Mission Hills – Shenzhen and Dongguan
Mission Hills is China’s highest rated golf and leisure resort, and the world’s largest golf club according to the Guinness World Records. The 20-square kilometre golf complex features twelve 18-hole resort and championship courses designed...
Guilin and Yangshuo
After visiting very populous cities in China it was refreshing to see a more rural side around Guilin and Yangshuo. The area is well known for the karst (limestone) peaks rearing up from rice...
Chongqing – Gateway to the Yangtze
We arrived in Chongqing too late in the day to do much sightseeing, though we did manage to get a good look at it from the air and on the journey from the airport....
Xi’an – Home of the Terra Cotta Warriors
Best known as the home of the Terra Cotta Warriors, Xi’an is also remarkable for its strong Muslim influences due to its position at the start of the ancient Silk Road trading route. It...
Chinese Funeral Traditions
We are all familiar with the Ancient Egyptian practice of entombing servants with their Pharaoh to serve him in the afterlife. A similar practice was done by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of...
Golf Around the World
From France to China, from Morocco to the USA, and from Ireland to Thailand, see some of the great courses we have enjoyed. Naturally Hubby has played many fine courses in Australia, and I will...
The Yangtze River, 2012
Although we had been on boats in the Whitsundays we had never been on one with large numbers of people and never in a foreign land. Our four day river cruise on the Century...
