Complete Nanjing Travel Guide – China Travel

Halfway up the 500-meter stairway to [Sun Yat-sen’s] tomb, two guys beelined toward me with a brazen sort of shyness: furtive peeks and giggles while they all but ran me over. They were in their 20s, I guessed, trim, stylishly dressed. I met their flirty glances, and they asked in a smiling mime if they could have their photos snapped beside me.

That old expression about "pouring money down a hole" has been taken literally by a Chinese tourism company with listings in the United States.

The "Underground Grand Canyon" is located in the city of Linyi in the eastern province of Shandong, a region known for its smog, which is now figurative as well as literal.

Jutting out from a sheer cliff 1,430 meters high, the glass skywalk in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park offers sightseers terrifying thrills and clear view of the mountains below as they tread nervously across the 60 meter long bridge encircling the vertical cliffs of Tianmen Mountain in Hunan province.

Part of the Jiuzhai Valley National Park system, Zharu Valley offers tourists a completely different experience from the usual scenic area in China: Whereas the main valleys in the Jiuzhai Park feature wooden-planked, set paths accessible via a ride on a crowded bus, the Zharu pathways are small dirt trails not often trodden by tourists.