China’s Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of the first lunar month, which is the last day of the Chinese New Year’s Festival. The Lantern Festival of 2010 is on the 28th February. It is more than just the last day of the New Year’s Festival, a very important festival in its own right. It is one of the best times in a year to travel to China, and an excellent occasion to see the most authentic and traditional Chinese cultures.
Lantern Festival Festivities and Things to Do
Eating Yuan Xiao – Yuan Xiao also called Tang Yuan are glutinous rice balls with stuffing of sesame, peanuts, vegetable, or meat. It is the must-eat food for the lantern festival, symbolizing heaviness, wholeness, and unity.
Yuan Xiao is the must-eat festive food for the Lantern Festival.
Lantern Fair - Lantern Fair, or Lantern Show is the most important event on the Lantern Festival. During the festival night, families with take their children to the event to appreciate the lanterns of in various designs. Many of them will be made in large sizes and demonstrate traditional legends and tales.
On a Lantern Fair, many sophisticated and detailed lanterns are displayed.
Solve Riddles – Except the large sophisticated lanterns in a lantern fair, there are often many simple small lanterns. Riddles will be written on the tags hanging or attached to the lantern. Riddle Solving is one of the most traditional festivities during the Lantern Festival.
Solving Lantern Riddles can be date back to as early as 2000 years ago of Western Han Dynasty.
Dragon Dance -The Dragon Dance is performed in the hopes that the dragon, the traditional supplier of rain, would ensure plenty of rainfall in the upcoming year. This dazzling display incorporates many men working in perfect unison to bring the dragon puppet to life. On the Lantern Festival night, the most enthusiastic style of Chinese Dragon Dance called Fire Dragon Dance is often seen during a Lantern Fair. The Fire Dragon Puppets are firing fireworks when they are being waved.
Dancing a Fire Drangon requires courage, skill, and cooperation.
Written by Travel News on February 25th, 2010 with no comments.
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On the last weekend of January 2010, the marketing team of China Odyssey Tours took a short break tour to Nanning, 4 hours dive from Guilin. Got soaked in the hot springs, and smelled the flowers.
The entrance sign of the Hot Spring Grain
Here we go. This is 1 of the 100+ pool in the Hot Spring Grain.
Next day to the Nanjing science technology museum. Let's do some science!
Check this out! The super machine integrated the manpower and natural force. No, just a game of moving the metal ball.
Faster, faster… Get the ball moving! Nice team work.
Nice food is always a good way to conclude a tour.
Written by Travel News on February 9th, 2010 with no comments.
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Written by Travel News on December 31st, 2009 with no comments.
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We suggest you bring some common medicines with you, such as: the medicines for flu, sore throat, coughing, diarrhoea, etc that you use at home. We strongly suggest you go to see your doctor and take his/her advices as well as the medicines he/she provides.
Written by Travel News on November 22nd, 2009 with no comments.
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Yes, we suggest you take your medical record with you in case that you need it in the event of an emergency, and please also take with you your doctor’s name, address and phone number, emergency contact name and phone number, and your insurance company’s name, address and phone number.
Written by Travel News on November 22nd, 2009 with no comments.
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While you travel to China with China Odyssey Tours, we always carefully select restaurants and hotels that are clean and safe in order to provide you with a safe and healthy environment. However, we do suggest you have sorts of vaccinations 4 to 6 weeks before your trip as the following, especially if you choose to go and visit those remote and /or rural areas.
- Hepatitis A or immune globulin (IG)
- Hepatitis B
(We suggest 11 to 12-year-old children who did not receive it as infants have vaccination of Hepatitis B.)
- Rabies, if you might have possibility to be exposed to wild or domestic animals.
- Typhoid, for visiting developing countries.
Written by Travel News on November 22nd, 2009 with no comments.
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China Odyssey Tours provides a limited insurance for all customers who have booked tour packages with us, including any tours for over half day, and pickup & transfer service. The insurance is not applicable for the non-tour bookings (i.e. only accommodation or airline tickets booked via China Odyssey Tours).
The type of insurance is China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty Insurance, of which the policy only covers accidents that occur within China.
China Odyssey Tours endeavors to make your tour in China delightful and worry- free. We highly recommend that all travelers should purchase comprehensive travel insurance from reliable insurance providers before leaving their home for the tour.
Written by Travel News on November 22nd, 2009 with no comments.
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We need following information:
1). The date of your entering China
2). How many days you plan to stay in China
3). Cities that you plan to visit
4). Name (must be the same as those on your passport)
5). Gender
6). Date of birth
7). Passport Number
8). Passport expiration date
9). Occupation
10).Telephone- fax number and your email address
11).Your address.
Written by Travel News on November 15th, 2009 with no comments.
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On November 7th, 2009, marketing personnel and tour consultants at China Odyssey Tours made an inspection on hotels in Yangshuo, Guilin, one of the most beautiful cities in China. The inspection, one of our regular activities for service improvement, aimed to provide comfortable hotels for our customers.
We had visited the newly opened hotels and our partner hotels. In each hotel, we had made detailed evaluation on check-in service, room facilities, dinning service, room service, recreational facilities and transportation. We attached special attention to those, which are most concerned by our customers, like comfort of beds, bathing conditions, staff’s English competence and western foods. We took many pictures of equipments and surroundings of each hotel, and handed out some questionnaires regarding services they could provide. All of these would be further discussed by our hotel expert team for deciding which hotel to co-operate in the future.
According to the inspection, we’d got a better knowledge of hotels and services in Yangshuo and would figure out those hotels with nice facilities and excellent services which could meet various needs of our clients.
Written by Travel News on November 15th, 2009 with no comments.
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Most people only need to apply for a single -entry visa, which is usually valid for 3 months after the issuing date and will permit you to stay in China for a maximum of 30 days.
Written by Travel News on November 12th, 2009 with no comments.
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