A new delicacy is swimming in the crystal clear, snow-melt streams of Yunnan's historic Lijiang region. Pauline D Loh tests the waters
A new luxury resort opening at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida boasts air-conditioned suites with televisions and a water park, but this resort is a bit different -- it's for dogs and cats.
Catch the watery views at Zhouzhuang, only 50 kilometers from Shanghai, Wang Bian reports.
Temperatures have hit the searing 30s, construction sites drone, spewing dust into the air, and families descend on shopping malls for quality weekend time with free air-conditioning.
Fancy some mashed potato wrestling? Or what about the world's largest chicken dance or an Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition?
The Japanese are the most holiday-deprived nation in the developed world, taking an average nine days off a year, while the French enjoy the most, averaging 34.5 days off annually, a survey found.
The Shanhai Pass of the Great Wall in Hebei province is the perfect place to catch a glimpse of life in China some 600 years ago.
Plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks have touched off a firestorm among New Yorkers nearly a decade after Muslim extremists linked to al Qaeda slammed planes into the World Trade Center.
New Orleans tourism officials have canceled an advertisement that poked fun at the nationality of BP Plc, the company responsible for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, after receiving complaints it was "anti-British."
As the oldest and most easterly city in North America, St. John's is a city with a harbor carved out of 500-year-old rock and downtown streets filled with multi-colored houses.
From the giddy heights of romance and commitment to the best places to be miserable and lonely, Lonely Planet has compiled them in all in one list.
Wenzhou, a historic coastal city in southeast China, is a fascinating place to visit.
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