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Welcome to China 1 on 1, your resource for thoughtful insights into the who, what, where, when and why of purposeful and memorable individual and small group travel to China. The staff members here at Asia Pacific Travel, Ltd. have included their "recommended" activities based on their decades of practical experience in China travel. As you can see we are still putting the finishing touches on our website. It uses database technology rather than static web pages so it is actually further along then it looks. If you have any questions in the meanwhile, please feel free to contact via our toll free number: 1-800-262-6420. If this is your first visit to our site, please take a minute to read through the helpful information below before you begin to explore "our China" (Be warned! This is a thinking/reading person's site.) The purpose of this website is not to be encyclopedic about China, or China tourism. There are numerous sites on the web that already do an excellent job of this. Rather, we want to provide you with our personal recommendations of "what to see and do" and "how to do it". We are including some sample itineraries, so you have the most memorable visit possible. Our assumption is that you have already decided to visit China and now you need some help to identify the specifics of what to see and how to do it. If you are still not sure you want to visit China, once you have browsed through our various city and attraction pages we are confident you will have found more than enough reasons to convince you to go. Before you begin, however, please take a minute to note how our site is organized: first, by country, then by city and then by attraction. The buttons on the left panel normally relate to the level you are at. Thus, if you are on the China country level the buttons will refer to things on a country-wide basis. For example Cuisine will talk about national cuisine, and History will talk about national history, etc. If you are on the city or attraction level, the buttons will refer to things on the city or attraction level, unless there is nothing to show at that level. For example Cuisine at the city level will talk about significant local specialties, if any, and History will talk about significant local history, if any. In addition, the Itineraries button has a parallel system of helpful itineraries. At the country level the sample itineraries include summary daily itineraries of various lengths. There are hyperlinks from the country level itineraries to the specific recommended city pages. At the city level the sample itineraries include more detailed daily itineraries of varying length. There are hyperlinks from the city level itineraries to specific recommended attractions. Since tourism is primarily "sightseeing", throughout the site we have tried to include as many helpful photographs and maps as possible. The "thumbnail" photos at the top of each page are of the attraction, city or country you are viewing. Starting with the attraction level, we pick several of the best photos of each attraction and put these together for the city level. We then take the best photos from each city and put these together for the country level. You can click on any of these thumbnails and a larger photo will pop up for you to enjoy. Photos and maps used in the text or itineraries normally cannot be enlarged. In the future we plan to have a related photo gallery for you to view. And now you can ask, "What do they get out of all this?" The answer is we hope to make money from those viewers who, after reading all the relevant information, decide that they don't have the time and/or experience necessary to put together their own custom itinerary and would like us to do it for them. We request those viewers to contact us, preferably by telephone (although an initial email is fine), so we can "talk" to them about their specific requests. We ourselves don't sell "cookie cutter" tours. In over twenty-five years in business we have never sold the same itinerary twice. Everyone's needs are different and we want to cater to those needs to make every client's trip a truly memorable experience. Thanks for visiting! Walter L. Keats, CTC, CMP President Asia Pacific Travel, Ltd. P.O. Box 350 Kenilworth, IL 60043-0350 USA Telephone: 1-847-251-6400 Toll-Free: 1-800-262-6420 Fax: 1-847-256-5601 Email: Please click on the "Contact Us" button at the top or the bottom of this page to email us. You should have a pretty good idea of how our site works now, so to get started, please select a City or Attraction from the drop-downs above, one of the buttons in the left or upper panels, or if you need a little more China specific information, please continue reading below. China by the Numbers CAPITAL: Beijing; means "northern capital" AREA: 9,596,960 sq. km. / 3,705,407 sq. mi. Rank: 4th in World / 1st in Asia POPULATION: 1,298,847,624 Rank: 1st in World / 1st in Asia TOTAL ROAD NETWORK: 1,765,222 km. / 1,096,858 mi. Rank: 3rd in World / 2nd in Asia TOTAL RAIL LINES: 60,627 km. / 37,671 mi. Rank: 4th in World / 2nd in Asia AIR PASSENGERS CARRIED: 86,041,000 Rank: 3rd in World / 2nd in Asia TELEPHONE MAINLINES (per 1,000 people): 209 Rank: 53rd in World / 4th in Asia MOBILE PHONES (per 1,000 people): 215 Rank: 66th in World / 8th in Asia Source(s): World Bank, <> When historians talk about the great civilizations of the world, China is always amongst the elite. Few societies have been able to maintain their culture and traditions over the long haul as well as China has. It is a huge country geographically, almost as big as the continental U.S., and stretching for similar distances from North to South. If you want four seasons, China has it. If you want mountains and lowlands, China has it. If you want oceans and rivers, China has it. If you want people, China has it. If you want peace and quiet, China has it. And most of all China has history, culture and food, i.e. something for every interest and taste. From the wonders of the world such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, to the beautiful Huangshan mountains, to the mighty Yangtze River, to the modern international cities that have sprung up over the last decade or more, everyone will be thrilled and enchanted by the wonders of China. To get started, please select a City or Attraction button above, or one of the buttons in the left panel. Please note that if you would like to see all the photos related to this specific page, please click on the Photo Gallery button in the left panel. The Photo Gallery button will display on a new page all the photos shown in the Flash strip along the top of the page, whether a country, city or attraction page. You can click on any of the thumbnail photos to see a much larger version. |
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