Xiamen Travel Blogs

Xiamen is a lovely Place !! It is very different than the rest of China. It is a city, but it is along the beach, and although you will rarely find people actually on the beach during the day ( they are packed at night oddly enough), it still kind of has that beach-y mentality. It is a little more …

Being a coastal city, Xiamen is not as famous or as modern as Shanghai, but it has something unique and intriguing. Walking on the street, you can see all buildings and streets, even in the very downtown area, are small and delicate. It reveals the hospitality and nature-loving …

After I organised this trip, I realised that I could also visit relatives on my father's side in China too.  They lived at Chan Village about half-hour from Zhao An (which itself was four hours away by bus from Xiamen).  By the way, my surname is "Tian" in Mandarin which is quite an uncom…

So the potato chips in China are full meals ! We have barbeque chips, they have barbequed beef and pork ! Fried Chicken, Cucmber, basically all of your food groups can be found in chip form !! LOL I know people were staring at me in the supermarket as I was taking pictures and I am sure they w…

Xiamen is a good two days stop/arrival. Nice great temples, dozens of public garden, one large botanical garden with 5000 species, nice beaches. But very modern city located on one island. In front there is a tiny island called Gulangu Yu Island, a 10 minutes ferry travel. From N to S 2 kilome…

If you ask me which city I like the most in China, this would be the one.

Our cruise from Hong Kong to Xiamen, China

for our flight path's stop-over, we spent a day in XiaMen, China. the city proper is quiote charming and laid-back especially compared to my former new york city and my current residence of Shanghai! the island of Gulang Yu is home to a massive number of old French style colonial homes. many are…

It's an ominous sign that while waiting in an enormous line for my bus ticket to Shantou in Shenzhen, I somehow lose my passport.  I plan to replace it in Shanghai.  Not much in Shantou, but after a grueling bus ride from hell on some of the worst roads imaginable, I'm happy to be anywher…

Well, we watched Xiamen by night and have one more analysis (comparison with Shanghai area) to add. Up there, people have no qualms about going out to the malls in their pyjamas (ie those not wearing a suit). Over here, no one does that. The development here is phenomenal. The expressway is built …

Postcards I have received from around the world... a work in progress because this is my new (and addicting) hobby! I love sending/receiving postcards from my TB friends...and I've even gotten my family into sending me postcards too! :)

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Today we were pulling into our final port of call, Xiamen.  I had not heard of this location until looking at the cruise.  There were a number of tour options that we could take.  And as I was suffering from shopping withdrawal, we decided to take the tour option of visiting the loca…