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Flights to China
Capital city: Beijing
Popular destinations: Shanghai, Kunming, Shantou
Popular attractions: Cuises up the Yangtze river are very popular.
Other tourists will prefer the sights of Bejing, including Tiananmen Square
and the Forbidden City which originally excluded all but the Emperor, his
concubines and eunuchs. Then there is the modern bustling Shanghai,
China's largest city.
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Flights to China
Flights to Beijing, Shanghai and other major destinations in China are available from London Heathrow
as well as Glasgow, Manchester and other large British airports. Airlines such as
British Airways, KLM, Qatar Airways, Alitalia and Lufthansa offer return tickets to China from £320 to
£600 for a return ticket.
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Where to stay in China
Acommodation in Beijing and Shanghai (China's 2 main tourist centres) is both plentiful and of good quality.
Good, reasonably priced accommodation in Beijing includes the 4-star
Fortuneland International Hotel,
only 5 km from the Forbidden City, with rooms from £40 and the 3-star
Redwall Hotel,
which is less than 1 km from the
Forbidden City and has rooms from £30. In Shaghai, two good 3-star hotels are the Jin jiang Metropole Hotel and
the Manhattan Bund Business Hotel, both centrally located near the Bund (a famous Shanghai waterfront) and with rooms from £30 and £31.
For luxrury accommmodation there is also the Shangri-la China World Hotel in Beijing,
a 5-star treat with rooms from £137, or if you are in
Shanghai, Le Royal Meridien
is a superb choice, in the famous Bund, with rooms from £141.
Things to do and places to go in China
Tiananmen Square: huge open square surrounded by official building, popular meeting place for tourists and kite flyers.
Great Wall: iconic wall historically used to defend China from invaders. A popular part of the Great Wall is from Jinshanling to Simatai along which there are organised hikes.
Temple of Heaven: where the Ming and Qing emperors of China went to pray and offer sacrifices.
Sanlitun Bar Street: Popular area in Beijing for ex-pats to congregate, with good bars and shopping.
The Bund (Wai Tan): Old-fashioned waterfront area in Shanghai's port along the Huang Pu River.
Oriental Pearl Tower (Dongfang Mingzhu): Shanghai's most notable landmark, with excellent views of the city.
Nanjing Lu (Nanjing Road): the most well-known shopping street in China.
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