China Tours. Xiamen. China vacations

The color of the colonial times still gives the city a special charm, for all the "ultra-modernity" of the skyscrapers, which every port megalopolis aimed at in the future should have. Xiamen is a port city in China, located near Taiwan. If you think this is a small colonial town, then you were wrong. It is a decent sized metropolis with a population of over 4 million people. Despite the rather unhurried pace of life in the city of Xiamen, there are plenty of interesting places.

During the Han dynasty, the beautiful harbor of Xiamen served as a refuge for local pirates. One of the best places in Xiamen is Gulangyu Island, where the Sunlit Mountain, Shujan Garden, Haoyo Park and the Piano Museum are so intriguing for tourists. The historic Nanputuo Temple is located to the south, near the famous Xiamen University.

The island is warm throughout the year. The subtropical climate only helps to attract tourists, because what could be better than the bright sun and warm sea at any time of the year. Flowers on the island of Xiamen China bloom all year round, which gives the mountain landscapes of particular beauty. The whole flora of China has about 32 thousand species. There are more than seven thousand tree and shrub species alone, of which 2800 are tree species.

In this regard, it is quite comparable with the richest flora of the earth - Malaysian, which includes up to 40 thousand species; flora of India and Ceylon, where at least 30 thousand species are found; similar in number of species to tropical American (South and Central America) and less rich flora of tropical Africa. The flora of East Asia (with the marginal tropical strip adjoining from the south) can serve as an example of the richest, quite distinctive and basically autochthonous flora, with a very high number of not only endemic species and genera, but also a number of endemic families. The total number of endemic species in the flora of the described part of China in its individual sections reaches 40-50% of the total species number, and there are no less than 500 endemic genera here.

Xiamen has a very unusual location on an almost round island a kilometer from the Chinese coast. Xiamen traces the cultural influence of the British, Portuguese and Taiwan. The Taiwanese village is often called two districts located along the southeastern coast of the city - the Taiwanese traditional settlement and the Zengzang district. Colorful winding streets with snacks and souvenirs - an integral part of the tourist route.

About the hotel in Xiamen you better take care in advance. The city is especially popular with Chinese tourists at the beginning of the school year, as well as during holidays and weekends, so prices may vary depending on the day of the week. You should definitely buy the famous Fujian tea of various varieties, try seafood, mango desserts and local dishes - shachamyan noodles with seasoning paste with shrimps, sesame, etc., and oyster omelette.

The city has many restaurants and snack bars where you can find snacks for every taste. Seafood restaurants will surprise you with the speed and quality of cooking. Meals in Semen restaurants are distinguished by exquisite taste, freshness, originality in cooking. The Chinese attach great importance to food, its wholesome and taste. For them, eating is not just a vital necessity, but a ritual in which a philosophical meaning is embedded. Cooks in China have long been equated with prime ministers. Another ancient thinker and philosopher of China, Confucius, compared a well-cooked dish with a successful state in which everyone is in his place. The vast territory of China is divided into provinces. Each of them has its own nature and way of life, therefore, gastronomic preferences are different.

In the Yangtze River Basin there are important cultural and industrial centers of China (the largest seaport of Shanghai, the cities of Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu). Yangtze - the main inland waterway of China - shipping is possible to the foothills of the Sino-Tibetan mountains (2850 km from the mouth). Large ocean-going vessels can go to Hankou. Sea vessels with a displacement of up to 10 thousand tons rise to Wuhan. In the area of Ichan, the shipping area is interrupted by rapids and rapids. Some tributaries are also navigable. In total, the basin has over 17 thousand km of waterways. In the lower reaches of the Yangtze is crossed by the Grand Canal.

The middle (Sichuan) and lower (on the plain) Yangtze current is the most important agricultural region of China, the oldest centers of rice growing. Cotton, wheat, tea bushes, etc. are also grown. The waters of the Yangtze and its tributaries are widely used for irrigation. Hydropower resources are estimated at 217 million kW. The Yellow River is inferior in length to the Yangtze. Yellow River, the yellow river, one of the greatest in Asia, the second longest (4845 km) in China. It originates in the east of the Tibetan plateau, in the Bayan-Khara-Ula ridge, at an altitude of about 5000 m. Within the arid plateau, there is a calm river flowing in a wide (5-6 km) valley, with large lake-shaped extensions (lakes Orin-Mur and Jarin-Nur).

At the intersection of the southeastern spurs Kunlun and Nanshan, it becomes a mountain river with a rapid current flowing through gorges with a depth of 400-500 m and forming rapids and waterfalls. The width of the channel in this section is 10-50 m. In the middle reaches, the river crosses the North China and Mongol highlands; having no tributaries, it loses water for evaporation and filtration and forms a giant bend (Ordos loop); then it enters the vast Loess Plateau, accepting the high-water tributaries of Fenhe, Weihe, Lohe. On the Loess Plateau, the river valley is narrow, with steep slopes. In the channel there are rapids, streams, 17 m high Hukoku waterfall. The loess plateau is very eroded, due to the increased turbidity, the water becomes yellow. Further, in the narrow gorges up to 100 m wide, the Yellow River crosses the Shanxi Mountains. Over the past 700 km, it flows, often changing direction, along the Great Plain of China and flows into the Bohaiwan Bay of the Yellow Sea.

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