Water town-Qi Bao

There is a water town of Qi Bao on the edge of Shanghai. The town was first constructed by the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126) and prospered as a business center during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. It is very old with a history spanning over 1000 years (is the only part of Shanghai with a history spanning this long).

Gate of the Town

Water Town

Overall it was interesting to see something distinctively "Chinese," especially during the Spring Festival. Shanghai is a relatively new city so you don't see old style buildings and temples very often. For a couple of hours it was like I was back in "Old" China again!

Food vendors frying up some "Stinky" tofu. This stuff smells bad, but tastes wonderful!

Qi Bao is in its display of historical temples, shops, tea houses, and restaurants. It is considerably less commercial however as there were no Burger Kings, McDonalds, or Starbucks. In that sense, it seemed more authentic and retained a kind of old feel to it. The worse thing about Qi Bao was that it was incredibly crowded. I could hardly move. I'm not sure if this was because it is Spring Festival right now, though my guidebook did mention it is quite frequently very crowded. I noticed there were considerably less Westerners there than Chengheung Temple. In fact I only saw about 4 amongst the thousands of people there.

Jiuzhaigou deity pond

Introduction

Jiuzhaigou deity pond is the place of fairy's bath; the total area is approximately 300,000 hectare, 130 kilometers from Jiuzhaigou County.

Scenic area ticket: 398 Yuan (contain 45 kilometers sightseeing fares, to enter scenic area the storage battery fare, a meal expense, tour guide fee as well as insurance and so on.)

Position: Located at south Mt. Minshan sierra section in northeast of Sichuan

Transportation: It takes 45 minutes from Chengdu to Jiuhuang airport. Then hire bus (minibus or taxi) to Jiuzhaigou deity pond about 1 hour, 40 Yuan.

Hotel: After deity pond tour, may return to Jiuzhaigou for lodging. The resort named Jiuzhai heaven international conference resort center, which consists of a five-star hotel, an ultra five-star hotel, the ancient Qiang pagoda and the hot spring center.

Travel guide

The deity pond scenic area limits the population to enter at present, for the purpose of making an excellent ecology space for the tourist; every day only accepts 2000 tourists. Therefore the tourist does not need to worry that it is fully occupied like other scenic spots. The scenic area also provides the free fruit, coffee and so on for the tourist.

Global ten famous lakes (2)

6. Lake Baikal (Russia): The deepest and the most ancient lake in the world

Known as “eye of the Siberia”, Baikal Lake located at the Russian Siberia south, the total water volume is more than five great lake's sum total in North America. 1637 meters depths also cause it to reach in the world the deep lake throne. Although the water volume is only 1/3 of the Caspian Sea (salt water lake), it is actually the biggest fresh water reservoir in the world, the fresh water quantity approximately composes to the whole world 20%. Baikal Lake has 1700 kinds of zoology and botany, 2/3 are the locality unique. 250,000,000 year life also causes it to become the most ancient lake in the world. In 1996, it was listed as the world culture inheritance by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

7. Kakahu (Bolivian and Peruvian border): The world is highest may drive ship's lake

Kakahu located at Bolivian and the Peruvian border, the elevation is 3812 meters, is the world highest lake which can drives ship. The total water volume is the biggest in South America; the water source comes from rainfall as well as the peripheral plateau's iceberg.

8. The Caspian Sea (Russia): The world biggest lake

About the Caspian Sea, the world biggest lake, we may know through some data. Its water storage quantity, occupies the world lake water total quantity 40% to 44%, the waters area is 394299 square kilometers that is bigger than those six lakes listed after it.

9. Crater lake (US): World most limpid lake

The Crater Lake, as the name suggests, is the volcanic eruption forms by American Oregon Ma Zhama, looks like the Changbai Mountain Tianchi which we knew very well. Before approximately 7000 years, after Ma Zhama volcanic eruption, avalanche, has left behind the Crater Lake. After the lava cools, has sealed up the volcano bottom, thus has formed a large-scale bowl-shaped crater. Year after year, in the crater filled up 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons rainfalls and the melted snow, thus it also became the American deepest lake.

10. Kara Sea (Russia): the most seriously polluted lake

South the Russian western Ural sierra has a small lake named Kara Sea. From 1951, is used by former Soviet Union to piling up nuclear trash from the Orr Sika city. The international nuclear waste observation committee once pointed out that this lake is the most serious polluted region on the Earth; the nuclear radiation intensity is 4.44, while the nuclear intensity of site around Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station is about 5 to 12, and obviously the nuclear pollution here is quite serious.