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Date of Travel: JUNE 2018 Airline: Cathay Pacific Livery: Cathay Pacific standard Route: HKG-YVR-JFK Aircraft: Boeing 777-300ER Registration: B-KQA Flight Number: CX 888 Miles: 8835 Airborne time: 18h30m Notes: Eleventh of 25 legs, round the world Cost to book: 140,000 Avios plus £44 fees
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1,400-Year-Old Gingko Tree Sheds a Spectacular Ocean of Golden Leaves
Once a year, this towering 1,400-year-old tree showcases a transition into fall in a spectacular way—its thousands of leaves change into a radiant shade of gold. Located within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in the Zhongnan Mountain region of China, this brilliant autumnal display attracts tourists from all over the world. As the leaves fall and create a vibrant ocean of gold, visitors leap at the opportunity to capture photos of the colourful carpet.
Thought to be planted for Emperor Li Shimin, the founding father of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), this famous tree draws in people from all over China. The gingko tree — also known as a maidenhair tree—is an ancient species that is native to China. Besides the magical yellow colour that it adopts in the fall, this particular species of tree is also wonderfully useful, serving as a source of food and equipped with various medical benefits that are recognized in traditional Eastern medicine.
This particularly impressive millennia-old Gingko tree is certainly popular, but as a species this tree is also widely respected for its wealth of benefits and ancient ties to the region.
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A journey from Hong Kong West Kowloon to Beijing West on train G80, 2,441 km (1,516 miles) in 8h56, showing the stations, train, classes, on-board food, scenery. For schedule, prices & how to buy tickets see https://www.seat61.com/hong-kong-to-b...
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Taizhou is a city in the Jiangsu Province in Eastern China. Until recently, and unbeknownst to the people of the city, one of its streets has held a 700 year old secret. A secret that would eventually be unearthed...
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Date of Travel: JUNE 2018
Airline: Jetstar Asia
Livery: Jetstar standard
Route: SIN-HKG
Aircraft: Airbus A320
Registration: 9V-JSQ
Flight Number: 3K 695
Miles: 1595
Airborne time: 3h40m
Notes: Tenth of 25 legs, round the world
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While I don't agree with their politics and government, their culture is one of the world's most richest and oldest. In fact, you can say that they were the Romans and the Greeks of East Asia where they civilized most of east and SE Asia.
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I'd also like to add that they're the most tolerant to foreigners of all the East Asian peoples in contrast to Koreans and the Japanese. We Arabs had relations with the Chinese for over 1400 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Arab_relations
I also love their cuisine, rofl.
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