Explore NileGuide.com
Articles Tagged ‘China’
Ping-Pong Paddle Hotel To Be Built in Huainan, China
April 13, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Holy ping-pong paddle batman. Go ahead, use that one next time you’re in China if this planned hotel is finished being built. Construction has yet to start on the ping-pong paddle shaped hotel in the city of Huainan, China. It will be built as part of a $45.8 million sports complex which will also...
Travel Ban Marks the Third Anniversary of Tibetan Anti-Government Protests
March 23, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Thinking of visiting Tibet anytime soon? Keep your eyes peeled on the current situation. According to the Daily Mail, all travel to Tibet in March is banned by the Chinese government, and this could possibly extend into April (and potentially could last up to three months). This ban coincides with the...
China Plans 45 New Airports As Travel Booms
March 3, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Even though 130 of China’s current 175 existing airports lost money last year, they will be going ahead with plans over the next five years to add 45 more airports, according to Yahoo! News. The new airports will be expected to meet the rising tourism boom in the country of over 1.3 billion people.
Li...
Chinese Train Hits 300 MPH, Proves It’s Not About The Journey
December 28, 2010 | Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Travel News | Read More
The view on travel is that sometimes it’s about the journey, and sometimes it’s about the destination. In China, transportation officials are pushing the latter, with a new train that can hit more than 300 MPH without breaking a sweat.
According to the Daily Telegraph, that’s the fastest...
Chinese Moms Take the Term “Dorm Mother” to Heart
September 29, 2010 | Travel News | Read More
Think your parents are overbearing and overprotective? This story at metro.co.uk might make you feel a little better (although don’t let your mom read this, or she’ll have the “at least I’m not like this” excuse to fall back on).
A University in Wuhan, Hubei province, has...
Fake Booze Alert: Knockoff Aussie Wines Found in China
September 2, 2010 | Australia, China, Travel News | Read More
Emanuel Skorpos runs a small winery in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges. When he heard from Hong Kong’s Wine Protection Group that counterfeit versions of his wine and other Australian wines were being sold in China, he jetted off to investigate. Sure enough, Skorpos found knockoff versions...
Longest Human Chain Falls Like Dominoes
August 23, 2010 | Around the World | Read More
With well over a billion people living there, China — the most populous country in the world — certainly has the manpower to pull off record-breaking stunts. A group of 10,000 Chinese recently broke the world record for the longest chain of human dominoes.
The group of 10,267 people were...
Grecian Grapes Find Their Way Into Chinese Vineyards
August 17, 2010 | Travel News | Read More
Creating a stir lately in the wine industry world has been the recent announcement of a grape-bound cooperative between Greece’s privately-owned Kir Yianni winery in Naousa and China’s state-owned Mogao winery in Wuwei, in central China’s Gansu province.
Decanter.com reports that the...
China to Develop Car-Straddling Bus – Finally
August 6, 2010 | Travel News | Read More
One of the largest and most noticeable side-effects of a large population is, expectedly, larger amounts of traffic congestion. With China’s population climbing towards 1.5 billion, issues with transportation are top of mind. Though some people expect China’s population to level soon, transportation...
NileGuide 5 with Farryn Weiner, Editor of Jetsetter.com
July 28, 2010 | NileGuide 5 | Read More
This week, we are super psyched to feature Farryn Weiner, Editor of Jetsetter.com, and known to most of you as @jetsetfarryn. Raised in Miami, Farryn got the travel bug after a Semester at Sea. This, combined with her rapier wit, dashing charm, and natural ability to connect with people led her to the...
Indulge your inner explorer
Get local insight, insider knowledge and the latest deals from our wanderlusting crew around the world.
We won't do anything dodgy with your email, promise.