The life of purple rice, pumpkins and peanuts 紫米南瓜的一生 …

Home of the Dai ethnic minority ...

Join Trevor James, the 'Food Ranger', on an epic culinary journey ...

HuangShan lies in AnHui province, east China, to the west of HangZhou.

WuZhen is an ancient water town. It can be easily reached by bus or train from SuZhou or HangZhou. It is famous for its blue-dyed fabric.

ZheJiang province.

Filmed in the summer of 2010.

PingYao (平遥) is a county in ShanXi province, central China. PingYao is located approximately 700 kilometres (400 miles) southwest of Beijing and 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the provincial capital TaiYuan. PingYao is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city, founded in the 14th century.

Near / on the border with Vietnam ...

Sailing along the Li River and YuLong River, among beautiful karst mountain peaks ... Bonus films - starting with 'Let life be beautiful' ... Sung by Alu Azhou and the Mountain Wind Group 阿鲁阿卓, 山风组合 生如夏花. Inspired by Stray Birds by famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, 1916 (生如夏花之绚烂，死如秋叶之静美 --飞鸟集, 泰戈尔, 1916).

A great film of the Great Wall north of Beijing, including 'wild wall', accompanied by great music (踏古 (Ta Gu) by Lin Hai, 'Walking into Ancientry', with Chinese lute (pipa)). We [mum, dad - videographer - and son and daughter, from Singapore] hiked 3 sections of the Great Wall in winter, without any guides after studying blogs and posts by fellow hikers.

Good scenes from around BeiJing ...