FORMAT: MULTI-REGION What's this?BUY THIS BOXSET AND SAVE 20%Our best-selling Globe Trekker DVD titles makes a perfect trip planning guide, or an armchair introduction to this powerful and ancient nation.
China is the third largest country in the world and, with more than a billion people, it is home of 20% of the world population. While one of the oldest civilisations, its future will undoubtedly shape the 21st century.
Traveller
Justine Shapiro explores the traditional South West China, the autonomous region of
Guangxi, and the provinces of
Guizhou,
Yunnan and
Sichuan.
Meanwhile
Megan McCormick journeys though
Central China, from
Shanghai to the
Yellow Mountains, and from the
Yangzi River to
Xian, the ancient capital of China.
Zay Harding completes the tour of China travelling through the 4 provinces of
South East China from
Guanzhou to Nanchang.
Megan then takes a trip around
Beijing, starting at the infamous
Tiananmen Square, the former stage of the Cultural Revolution rallies. From here she travels to the
Forbidden City, kept out of bounds for 500 years. She ends her journey at Beijing's
Ice Lantern Festival amidst a colourful fiesta of ice and light.
Along the way...
- Admire the beautiful gardens and stunning frescoes of the Lama temple
- Try scorpion from a local street vendor
- Take a hike along the Great Wall of China
- Attend a traditional Long Horn Mio ceremony and listen to their amazing singing
- Visit the Huangguoshu Waterfalls, the largest in Asia
- See the endangered Giant Panda
- Walk among the 8,000 terracotta warriors built to guard to tomb of China's first emperor, Emperor China
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