Highlights from the 2006 Tri Cities, TN Dragon Boat Festival. A team sport that promotes team spirit and camaraderie, dragon boating is heralded as "the next big thing," according to a Time magazine article. The 2007 race is scheduled for September 15, 2007.
Beijing's famous night market in the center of the city offers snacks from all over the country. Aming to please all tastes one can order fried noodles ot scorpion kebabs..
From aromatic dishes and cultural displays to remnants of 4000-year-old civilizations, enjoy a full Asian experience with South Of Egypt. As our guest you'll be chauffeur driven in modern motor vehicles and stay in superb First Class hotels such as the King Wing Hot Spring Hotel in Beijing.
Think Hong Kong is all skyscrapers and crowded streets? On the southwestern coast of Lantau, one of Hong Kong's outlying islands is a fishing village called Tai-O. It's one of the last remaining fishing villages with stilt houses built hundreds of years ago.
We take a boat ride around these houses built on water, get lost on the "boardwalk", and eat spicy prawns with an off-color Chinese name.
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If you got blindfolded and dropped on the corner of Mott and Pell, it would be hard to tell you are in downtown Manhattan. This short bit takes you through the sights, sounds, and smells of the United States largest Chinatown.