China's Spring Festival Travel Season 'Chunyun' Officially Begins, Marking ...
http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-spring-festival-travel-season-chunyun-officially-begins-marking-largest-migration-history
Starting Saturday during this year's Spring Festival traveling period, also known as Chunyun, millions of travelers will be taking trains, planes and buses to various destinations all over the country. Transportation services are preparing for an ...
Spring Festival travel rush
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2013-01/29/content_16185666.htm
The first day of the Spring Festival travel rush, on Jan 26, saw 800,000 passengers traveling home by air, 5 million by train and about 80 million on highways and by water. But behind every ticket bought, this annual exodus from city to country ...
Spring Festival rental car travel gains in popularity
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-01/28/content_16178731.htm
"The part I like the best about renting a car is that you can pick a convenient city to pick up or return a car," said Liang Yu, an engineer in Beijing, who plans to use that mode of travel for the upcoming Spring Festival. The average cost for a ...
Snapshots of festival travel rush
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2013-01/28/content_27814124.htm
There are some memorable images from the opening day of the Spring Festival Travel Rush. Children of migrant workers are always thrilled to go home. It's the time of the year when these little "migratory birds" finally get to reunite with their parents.
Altitude Comedy Festival line-up announced
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9834442/Altitude-Comedy-Festival-line-up-announced.html
It was the brainchild of Marcus Brigstocke, a keen snowboarder and former contributor to Telegraph Travel, who ? as a non-drinker ? had become frustrated by the dearth of entertainment on offer at most ski resorts around Europe. This year's festival ...
Travel Blog: India Festival
http://english.cri.cn/7146/2013/01/26/2361s745444.htm
A Hindu festival which is thousand of years old is currently underway in India. Millions of people are gathering to dip them selves in the holy waters of the sacred Ganges River in the hope it will wash their sins away. But this year, new technology is ...
This winter's most exciting mountain festivals
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/this-winters-most-exciting-mountain-festivals-8462085.html
What's the attraction? A day on the ski slopes isn't enough to exhaust many young skiers, and, perhaps as a result, the mountain music-festival scene has blossomed. The majority take place during the final month of the season and there are now dozens ...
Hong Kong's dragon festival ? video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2013/jan/21/hong-kong-pokfulam-dragon-festival-video
The mid-autumn fire dragon festival in Pokfulam Village on Hong Kong Island is one of the territory's most colourful celebrations, with villagers taking part in a torch-lit procession and thrusting incense sticks into the model dragon's body ...
