HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – There are more than 50 earth heritage sites in China.
And a Hawaii delegation viewing the state just lately got a opportunity to see some of them — applying various modes of transportation.
Just one of the speediest ways to journey in China is by bullet prepare.
The 1 the delegation took in Xiamen went far more than 180 miles an hour. It is not as speedy as the Shanghai Maglev, which travels additional than 260 mph, generating it the swiftest train in the entire world.
More than 2,800 bullet trains link approximately 600 metropolitan areas in China.
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“This is good,” said HART CEO Lori Kahikina.
It was a leisure trip for Kahikina, who was amazed with the country’s all round coach functions. “There’s no way we’re going to go in Hawaii as rapid as we are below.”
The delegation took a crowded ferry to the next destination.
In Putian Metropolis, the additional than 1,000-calendar year-outdated Mazu Temple honors the Chinese goddess of the sea. It is a person of tens of hundreds of Buddhist temples in China.
“Built from just about 2,000 decades in the past by the to start with king of Fujian. His faith is Buddhism that is why he constructed this just one,” claimed Fujian resident Jack Zhang.
Yonquan Temple in Fujian is acknowledged as the invisible temple in the mountains and the invisible mountain in the temple.
Since of its architectural format, the place is lined in mist and clouds all through specific durations.
A person of the most visited internet sites in China is the environment-renowned Tulou.
You could have witnessed it in the Disney movie “Mulan.”
These historical constructions, created by the earliest Han settlers — the Hakka men and women — ended up first uncovered by the U.S. authorities in satellite visuals and assumed to be nuclear missile silos.
Some 28 tulou, like the one we visited in Zhangzhou, are now shielded globe heritage web pages.
The tulou’s walls are rock sound and challenging.
They have been manufactured out of cooked sticky rice, drinking water, mud, and lime, which is why these architectural miracles are also known as earth structures.
The Zhangzhou tulou stands 5 tales tall and was created about 700 decades in the past.
About 80 Hakka people when lived in the tulou. Today, only 5 remain. The younger have left for a superior education and learning. The elderly stayed guiding and tried to make a dwelling off tourism.
HNN’s Stephanie Lum and photojournalist Corbin Gregory traveled to China with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii not too long ago for this sequence: Journey to China — Hawaii’s Link.
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