Fujian
Fujian is located on China’s
southeastern coast and faces the island province of Taiwan.
Its landscape is usually described to be “eight parts mountain, one part water,
one part farmland”. Fujian has exemplary
southern China
natural scenery and the World Heritage Site of Mount Wuyi is a popular retreat
for many locals and foreigners.
In Fujian’s
countryside travelers can also find the unique tulou dwellings of the Hakka
people. The houses are circular and earthen and go back to an age when banditry
was a way of life. Still today they are inhabited by the aboriginal people.
Earthern
Round House (Tulou)
The unadorned tu lou are either round or
square, and huge (10-17 meters' high); and were designed as a fortress and
apartment building in one. The structures typically had only one entranceway
and no windows at ground level. Each floor served a different function - the
first hosts a well and livestock, the second is for food storage and the third
and higher floors contain living spaces.
Hakka people still live in the houses,
you can see the everyday scene of the residents: elderly and children alike, full
of life: chicken, ducks and dogs, and people cooking, washing clothes and
working in the houses. The houses are nestled in beautiful villages and
landscape (rivers, rich trees and blossom and very pleasant weather.
Xiamen City is one of the
top ten most advanced cities in China
and a famous seaport city. Vehicle-free Gulangyu, a few minutes away by ferry,
is all pleasant strolls and quiet back streets full of best-preserved
collection of colonial mansions - brilliant bougainvillea.
Gulangyu
Xiamen is a well-known tourist port city in the Southeast coast of China.
It is one of the Cleanest Cities of China,
the Garden Cities of China, the National
Environmental Protection
Model Cities,
and the best sightseeing cities in China. Not only being wealthy with
travel resources, Xiamen
has also temperate weather, fast and convenient transport and communication,
and complete travel establishments.
In the old times, there were "Eight Major Landscapes" and "Eight
Minor Landscapes" "Landscapes Beyond Landscapes" in Xiamen and altogether 24
scenic spots were included in the three general terms. Some of the 24 sights,
such as "Wonderland of Gulang", "Five Old Gentlemen Reaching the
Clouds", "Watching Sunrise on Hongji Summit", "Night Moon
by Tiger Brook", "White Deer Spurting Smoke", still can be
traced today.
By reorganizing old landscapes and developing new sceneries, Xiamen has formed five main Tourist areas--
Gulangyu Island Tourist Area, Nanputuo Temple Tourist Area, Wangshi Rock
Tourist Area, Huangcuo Tourist Area and Jimei Tourist Area. Beside its richful
travel resources and pleasant weather, Xiamen
also provides fast and convenient transportation and communication, and
complete travel establishments. All makes Xiamen
one of the most suitable cities for investors and tourists in China.
Wuyi
Mountains & River and Rock Tea
The Wuyi
Mountains are a mountain range located
at the northern border of Fujian province with
Jiangxi province, China. The mountains cover an area
of 60 km². In 1999, Mount Wuyi
entered UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites, both natural and cultural. The Wuyi Mountains
are the largest and most representative example of Chinese subtropical forests
and South Chinese rainforests' biodiversity.
The landscape is characterized by winding
river valleys flanked by columnar or dome-shaped cliffs as well as cave
systems. Its tree-covered granite mountains and caves of various shapes, its
bustling waterfalls and tranquil mountain streams, and its abundance of plant,
flower, animal, bird, and fish species caught the attention of a Chinese
emperor in the eighth century
A visitor to Mount Wuyi
today can flow down the 9,500-meter-long Nine-Bend Stream on a bamboo raft, for
a spiritual or therapeutic experience.
Wuyi Yan Cha (Wuyi Rock Tea) has a
distinctive taste of sunburned mountain rocks, Numerous types of tea are
produced around Mount Wuyi, it is the origin of the real Da Hong Pao tea
(most expensive tea in China)
and Lapsang souchong, further described in Wuyi tea. Wu Yi Tea is the most
powerful natural weight loss solution available to the public today. It is a
unique combination of ingredients working sunergistically for efficient weight
reduction when combined with healthy diet.