2009 Sep 16 Getaway! 10 Places You’ve (probably) Never Been in China
Looking to get out of town over the October holiday but afraid every Chinese tourist site will be swarming with several million others doing the same thing? Over at Lost Laowai Suzhou-based school teacher Glen has come up with ten “slightly off of the beaten path” China destinations – though he concedes finding a truly unbeaten path in a nation of over a billion people is a little unrealistic.
Nonetheless, Glen has come up with a decent little list. Pingyao will be known to many Beijingers, but other entries like Gansu’s Xiahe, home of the largest Tibetan Monastery outside of Lhasa, or Qinghai’s sleepy monastery town Tongren, will probably be less familiar.
It was also good to see Macau making the list. As Glen notes, China’s “other Special Administrative Region” is too often written off as simply a set of glitzy casinos. Head into the old part of town, however, and you sink into a very different Mediterranean-flavored world.
Yours truly is heading out to Xiahe over the break, so here’s hoping Glen’s recommendations are on target.
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