Trip in Melbourne

Melbourne is one of the most international cities in Australian. Today, two years after a five days tour in Melbourne, Its historic free trams in the city, art work surprises hidden in corners are awaiting to be discovered and more laid back life style are still fresh in my memory.

Gallery

A very eye-catching building

Graffiti street

Copper three

Galleries and museums are places you can not leave without visiting. Small and big galleries presenting wide range of art works such as modern paintings, sculptures flood the whole city.  

Free city tram

City circle tram provide a free service to take you look around  whole central Melbourne and they sometimes offer tour guide introducing the history of some famous spots. 

State library

Inside of State library

Victoria state library is another must go. Its outlook is Medieval style, low pitch roof line supported large rounded columns imitates in the design of Greek temple. Its inside is not only ancient and super spacious for use, but also does provide exhibition of historic information and antiques.

Twelve Apostles

Twelve Apostles

The Great Ocean Road

Philip Island

If you feel more like enjoy in nature, The Great Ocean Road, Twelve apostles and Philip Island are there for you to visit. Views at the former two are absolutely breath-taking and spectacular. At Philip Island you can see a cute little wild creature, penguins. Please note for their protection, taking photos is prohibited.

wollongong

This blog also record my travel within the Australia. This time I will write Wollongong.I think it was my first travelling in Australia.
In a weekend, we decided to go to Wollongong, we can go to there by train, consider we might go back lately, finally we drove to there.
The first destination is Nan Tien Temple, it was my first time visit foreign country temple, it seems no difference with China.
After visited, we went to the mountain near the Temple, and there has a big bell.everyone tolled it.

And then, we went beach side.(It seems to I always go to beach side,because I live  in China, don't have too much chance to go to beach.)

It was winter, but sunshine made us warm.

And we sat on the big gun, took this funny picture.Wollongong has too much differences with Sydney. It tranquility, peace and serene.It look like Sydney's backyard.

Travel in mount Wutai

This place I’m going to introduce is a famous buddhistic landscape in my hometown. Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province is located in northeast China, 230 kilometers from the provincial capital Taiyuan. Emei Mountain in Sichuan, Jiuhua Mountain, Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang are collectively called "the four famous mountains of Chinese Buddhism." Buddhism and the Chinese tourist destination, famous summer out of China's top ten first.

I visited there before I came to Australia. The most impressed one I remembered is called Bulmo hole, which is a small hole in the mountain with a small entrance just can squeeze through by one person. The most amazing thing is that no matter how fat or how thin you are, there is only one person can squeeze through. The other interesting thing we tried is mook food. All the progress are followed as what the monks do everyday, we chanted sutras before eating, finish all the food in the plant, and chanted sutras after the meal.

It was really a special journey.


                                    front door of Wutai Mountain

                                                                        Bulmo hole

                                                                                  white tower

Gold Coast

I had the happiest time in the Australia Last year during the Christmas holidays because I had been to the gold coast which gives me a deep impress.

Gold Coast is located in the south of Brisbane, at about 78 km which is famous for its sun, surf and sand. You can reach there at about one hour by car. You also have another choice to reach there, by bus or by train. There are a large number of highly interesting theme parks, more well-known Warner Bros Movie World, Sea World, Wet'n'Wild Water World and Dream World. Surfing is a popular and attractive sport for visitors in the Gold Coast. In addition, you can go to Paradise Country which is an Australia traditional farm where you can experience the most primitive way of life, enjoy drinking tea outdoors and watching local shearing performances. Gold Coast is Australia’s holiday pleasure resort, where there is bright sunshine, white sand beaches and clear blue water, romantic palm trees, people come here to enjoy the sunshine and enjoy life.

                                                        Sea world

                                                Movie wold

Surfers Paradise is the center of Gold Coast, with beautiful scenery and tourist facilities, where you can either swim in the Pacific Ocean or play volleyball on the beach, or just take a look at the scenery lying on beach.

Trip New Zealand(Ian)

If I was feeling so tired of all the crowds and noises of city life and wanted to find a place to cool down and get recharged, I would probably bring myself to South island of New Zealand, a place can be scenic, natural, relaxing and exciting at the same time.  In South Island, plains, mountains, glaciers and fiords are spectacularly scenic and natural. Its lifestyle is absolutely relaxing and the outdoor activities can be educational and exciting. Moreover, it is suitable for both kinds of travellers who like to stay at a place for a few days and move to next one, and who want to dash around to see as much places as possible.

In this post, I would like to share some of my personal experience about travelling in South Island. First of all is about planning, in general, people always start trips from Christchurch and go around the Island. There are a variety of ways to travel. By bus, with a round ticket which is always a better bargain with no time fixed, so it provides a degree of freedom for us to decide how long to stay in a town and when to leave. However, in a day, there is only a limited number of buses coming and going.

Pros: a room of choices for planning, no long distance driving and relatively cheaper.

Cons: relatively less mobile after arriving in a town (need to be on foot or by taxi)

If you are keen in more mobility, car travelling will be the best choice. Car hiring charge is in the range of 40-60, if it is a small sedan (1600cc-1800cc). Distances between famous attractions can be from 4-6 hours driving.

The train trip between Christchurch and Greymouth is also one of the most spectacular panoramas in the world. It is definitely worth seeing and it only costs for 110 Australian dollars.

Activities: there are also a lot of exciting activities for adventurers, such as one of the highest bungy jumping in the world, near Queenstown, sky diving at Queenstown where a lake within it and is surrounded by mountains, fabulous view, seeing from sky, cave exploring, hours riding in the scenes of the lord of the ring and glacier climbing.

photos

A conner of Chrischurch





Milford Sound




Some where I cant recal.



It may seem familiar to you,becos its one of the scenes of the lord of the ring

Such beauty still stands under my old dying camera

??!!What is this? Not pretty only bold mountains, but its high!!!

Would you believe? If i say i was not scared.

Yeah hoooo

Yeah

clouds under my feet

clawing cloud

flying

Fox glacier

 
 

Glacier climbing2

It was an incredible trip. If you have time, spend a week there and make it memorable. 

newcastle

I want to  posting some blogs to show my travel within the Australia.
Last year mid-term break i went to Newcastle with my friends, it is near to Sydney, we drove to there, about 3 or 4 hours.
The first day we went to beach side, i have to say Australian environment is pretty good!
I took picture for them.The fat gay is my boyfriend.

We bought seafood as ours dinner and took it to accommodation, cause we have a mini kitchen.That was a nice dinner!
Second day was a big day. We book a small boat for fishing!

Finally we didn't get any thing.-_- Whole day！
But we saw beautiful scenery,the photo i took like a picture lol

Third day, we rid horse.But we wore inappropriate clothes, like shorts or vest, so we were badly bitten by the mosquitoes.

And then, we drove karting ,it is an exciting and dangerous game. So we must wore   safety helmet, even that we hurt leg. And staff is really rude!! I don't want to go there anymore.

Anyway, that was a good trip.

Travel in Yunnan-Xishuangbanna

The other place I want introduce in Yunnan is Xishuangbanna.

Xishuangbanna is called animal and plant kingdoms; there are more than 20,000 types of plants and many types of rare animals.

In my memory, the most impressed place for me is a primitive forest park.

I still remember the feeling of the moment when I came into the park even I was just 10 years old. I never seen a forest which as huge as this one and covered by such rich green color. Every place you look is big lush crown and boundless. When I working into the forest, there are stones covered with moss, streams flowing under the single-log Bridge and smell of wild grass.

Not only the forest, but also the food, there is a famous food which called cross bridge rice noodles. The noodles are made by rice and are poured by hot rich chicken soup.

There are also other places and nice food, such as Meng hebron botanical garden, Banna Wild Elephant Valley or the Dai flavor barbeque.

xishuangbanna primitive forest park

Dai flavor BBQ

cross bridge rice noodles

West Lake

An old Chinese word says that, “There is heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below.” My hometown is located in Hangzhou which is well known in the world for its beautiful West Lake and also attracts more and more tourists both China and abroad.

There are numerous historical sites and fascinating scenes around West Lake.

                                                               Viewed at Leifeng tower

West Lake Scenic Area in Hangzhou is located in the southwest of the city which is around 60 square kilometers. There are 4 sections around the whole West Lake, including the Outer Lake, North Inner Lake, Yue Lake and Little South Lake.

There are various names of West Lake, such as Wulin Water, Mingsheng Lake, Jinzhong Lake, Longchuan, Qianyuan, Qiantang Lake, and Shang Lake, etc. These names are taken before the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, a Chinese famous poet wrote a poem to praise the West Lake and compared it to Xizi who is one of the four ancient beauties of China. Therefore, the West Lake has another beautiful name—Xizi Lake.

Dawn on the Su Causeway in Spring

                                                      Fish Viewing at the Flower Pond

                                          

As we all know, there are ten scenic spots around West Lake, which are known as “Ten Scenes of West Lake" Ten of the most beautiful sites include: 1. Dawn on the Su Causeway in Spring. 2. Curved Yard and Lotus Pool in Summer. 3. Moon over the Peaceful Lake in Autumn. 4. Remnant Snow on the Bridge in Winter. 5. Leifeng Pagoda in the Sunset. 6. Two Peaks Piercing the Clouds. 7. Orioles Singing in the Willows. 8. Fish Viewing at the Flower Pond. 9. Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon. 10. Evening Bell Ringing at the Nanping Hill

                                                       Leifeng Pagoda in the Sunset

                                                            Orioles Singing in the Willows

                                                                           Music spring

I think if you plan to visit China, West Lake in Hangzhou is one of most beautiful place you would not like to miss.

Jiuzhaigou of China

The most breathtaking place I have been to is the Jiuzhaigou nature reserve which is an amazing natural place that gives me a deep impression.

There are the primitive ecological environment, the spotless crisp air and the snowy mountain. The forest and the lake combines wonderful the serene and beautiful natural scenery. There are five-character in Jiuzhaigo, including the peak of Jiuzhaigou, the color forest, the green jade sea, fold the waterfall and the Tibetan national minority character and style.

Jiuzhaigou is Located in the north of Sichuan Province, Jiuzhaigou County which is part of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. Because the transportation is not convenient, Jiuzhaigou has become a secluded place from the world. In previous years, it had been difficult for visitors to get to Jiuzhaigou due to its isolated location. However, this is no longer a concern because of the construction of the Jiuzhaigou Ring Way which links the reserve with Chengdu and the Jiuhuang Airport, and makes easier access to the park.

Jiuzhaigou preserves the primitive style natural scenery and has own special landscape. There are some of the most beautiful and inspiring scenery on earth and some of the reserves scenic spots in Jiuzhaigou. A number of mysterious legends surround the wonderful landscape of Jiuzhaigou. Many people come to this area for these reasons.

Four seasons is all lovely in Jiuzhaigou. When spring comes with green, the waterfall flows livelily. When the summer comes, the hawk flies the swallow dance. When Fall comes, there are color forests everywhere; The winter comes with the snow, ices in the waterfall look like jade.

Jiuzhaigou has been praised as some of the most captivating landscapes on earth.