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Shengsi - a new seafood paradise

Feature | Travel
2010-9-6

FOR lovers of seafood and unspoiled scenery, there's a new paradise, just a three-hour boat ride away - Shengsi Island in Zhejiang Province. A Mussel Culture Festival is underway through October. Shengsi...

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Malaysia's marvels and magic moments

Feature | Travel
2010-8-30

THERE are few places where you can stand on the grounds of a colonial church, gaze out at Southeast Asian shores at sunset and hear the call to prayer from a nearby mosque at the same time. Malaysia is one of them....

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Back-to-back best bets in buzzing Beijing

Feature | Travel
2010-8-30

BEIJING is China's rapidly changing and endlessly exciting capital, a modern metropolis clinging on to the vestiges of a proud imperial past. Punishingly hot in the summer, numbingly cold in the winter, and often...

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Ghost cities mystical landscapes of the far west

Feature | Travel
2010-8-23

STRANGE landforms in the barren lands of Xinjiang, Gansu and Qinghai may look like abandoned cities, but they are really natural sculptures carved by the wind. Shi Lei and Si Ruo report. Scattered across the barren...

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Winter Down Under when it's hot in China

Feature | Travel
2010-8-23

TRAVEL in Australia in winter, say between June and August, is bliss for people living on the other side of the equator when mercury soars to its highest in a year. Pleasant temperatures, often around 20 degrees...

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Footsteps of 'Eat, Pray, Love'

Feature | Travel
2010-8-9

IN Bali, they are seeking guidance from a spiritual healer. In Rome, they are lapping up gelato. And in India, they are visiting temples. Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" have been...

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Ride the S. Korean wave

Feature | Travel
2010-5-30

IMAGINE when you climb the breathtaking mountains, trace the tracks of your favorite Korean drama, spot celebrities at nightclubs and go shopping with amazing discounts -- South Korea is well prepared to offer you...

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Make a Date for Ocean-focused Yeosu World Expo 2012

Feature | Travel
2010-5-30

WONDERING where to have fun after World Expo Shanghai? The answer could be Yeosu in South Korea, host city of World Expo 2012. The theme of the Yeosu World Expo 2012 is "The Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of...

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Relics of battles and Buddhism

Feature | Travel
2010-4-26

PROBABLY no other poet has been as inspired by the city of Yangzhou as renowned Li Bai, who visited five times in his life. But Li's first visit ended in disappointment, though not in the city. It was AD 727,...

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Ocean, wetland, garden and deer

Feature | Travel
2010-4-10

BINJIANG Forest Park has it all - majestic seaviews, protected marshlands, camphor and redwood thickets, flowers galore and now some deer - fawns are expected next month. Wing Tan reports. Binjiang Forest Park...

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Tibet's Everest climbers

Feature | Travel
2010-4-8

NEPAL'S legendary Sherpas dominate the Himalayan mountain guide industry but Tibetans are being trained in the latest techniques, technology and languages to scale the heights. Fei Lai reports. When the 2008 Beijing...

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If you can stand the heat, then the Turpan Basin is the place to be

Feature | Travel
2010-4-5

TO experience China at its hottest, move away from the coasts and head inland to the vast interior of the Eurasian continent. Records indicate that the Turpan Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the hottest...

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Why does the temperature get hotter as we go lower?

Feature | Travel
2010-4-5

THE air in the atmosphere gets denser as the elevation gets lower. As solar radiation (called short-wave radiation) makes its way through the atmosphere, some of it gets scattered and reflected, with the remainder...

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Festival celebrates fields of gold

Feature | Travel
2010-3-13

THE Fengxian Rape Flower Festival will be held from March 29 to April 12 and visitors can enjoy scenery, folk performances and home cooking. Fengxian also plans a city of the future on Hangzhou Bay. Pan Zheng and Tan...

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Cruising 2010: More ships, better shows, water parks, single-cabins

Feature | Travel
2010-2-9

CRUISING has weathered the economic downturn with flying colors. Most cruises are fully booked, more cruise ships are being launched, and they offer more sophisticated programs. Vessels range from hulking floating...