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Tibet, isolated on the remote Himalayan Plateau, is every traveler’s dream. It draws millions of travelers each year to explore its old Tibetan culture and pure, untouched natural scenery.
Located on the largest and highest plateau in the world, Tibet is known as the roof of the world. People also regard Tibet as the third pole as its remoteness and harsh climate rival the Arctic and Antarctic.
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OurTravel Consultant Janet Chan spent 8 days to explore Shanxi Province inAug,2019. Traveling from north to south part and done the inspection to somenot so famous sites but found actually Shanxi Province is a land of treasures.Bellowing are our recommended trips after on-the-spot inspection.
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As the main attractions in Shanxi Province aremostly cultural relics, so anytime in the year is ok for traveling. But ShanxiProvince locate in the northern part of China, so since from the end of Nov,the temperature would go down till the end of Feb. And the weather starts toget warm after the mid of March. Jul and Aug are hottest summer time, also thepeak traveling season due to the student summer vacation, but there are not toomany tourists in the culture relics all in all as the scenic spots in ShanxiProvince is not so famous in Chinese except Yungang Grottoes and HangingTemple.
Hukou Waterfall is one of the importantnatural scenic spot in Shanxi Province which is good time for traveling only inMay to Oct. But as Jul and Aug are raining season, the scenic spot mighttentatively close to tourists if water volume is too large. And tourists couldappreciate the blossom peach flower in Apr and May.
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Picture Taking in nearly all thecultural relics
PictureTaking is forbidden in most of the heritage sites in Shanxi Province because ofbellowing reasons:
- Culturalrelic protection specially flash is forbidden
- Religion.As taking picture for the gods in the temple or grottoes or architecture is akind of disrespect.
- Copyright
So please bring your camera but keep most ofthe impression in the mind.