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Park Hyatt opens in Ningbo

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Published: Friday, 13 January 2012 13:47

Park Hyatt opens in Ningbo

The Park Hyatt Ningbo Resort and Spa is set to open in the eastern coastal city of Ningbo. The hotel is the first Park Hyatt-branded resort in China, offering luxury services tailored to leisure travelers and high end meeting groups.

The property offers 236 contemporary guestrooms, including 17 suites and 10 free-standing villas ranging from 45 to 237 square meters (484 to 2,551 sq ft). The guestrooms feature a double daybed situated by large picture windows for in-room pampering and relaxation. The bathroom features a bathtub, vanity area, rain shower and dressing area.

Park Hyatt Ningbo Resort and Spa has been created in the style of a traditional Chinese water village to blend discreetly into the surrounding vista. The complex of low-level, standalone villas with simply plastered exteriors and tiled, gabled roofs resembles a hamlet that has developed organically over time. Multiple open courtyards and sky wells, punctuated with ponds and gentle landscaping, echo Chinese architectural principles. The interconnecting structures create a layered effect and an experience of gradual discovery for guests, unveiling new spaces at every turn.

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TengTou, a window into village life. 滕头，通向农村生活的窗口

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Published: Monday, 09 January 2012 15:37

 

Thank you to Mathew (AsiaEnglishOnline) who did post the following article on the

http://2011.nbtravel.gov.cn/matt/2012/01/06/tengtou-a-window-into-village-life/

website.

Please feel free to visit the site and comment on the posting.

Please also see below the details how to join the 2012 Chinese Spring festival Event in Tengtou village.

Dateline for registering by email to Evelyn is 15th January 2012

Well… the western New Year has passed. I could not blog about it because I spent this New Year with a friend in Hangzhou. I cannot very well write a blog about Ningbo from Hangzhou…. Can i?

So instead I’ll write about something a little closer to home.

Tengtou:

Tengtou is a unique Chinese village with a population of just under 900, when last I checked. What makes this place special is what the small group of villagers accomplished for themselves. A number of years ago, they collectively decided to push a unique “tourist” agenda, branding Tengtou as a window into china’s rural village life. While much of the Chinese population was gearing towards a manufacturing and metropolis lifestyle, slowly eating away at the small villages that used to dominate the countryside, Tengtou tried to maintain the village as a shining example of what used to be.

They do this thru some cool interactive attractions and nature based programs aimed at natural sustainability. For example… in one part of the village they have a beautiful expansive greenhouse erected housing some rare plants and focusing on new hydroponic growing techniques. While on the other side of the village they had me monkeying around with hoists, buckets and a devise I can only describe as an enormous exercise bicycle contraption rigged to a rotating system of buckets. The area is meant to interactively show you how villagers in the past manually transported water using old methods. Definitely not the rice harvesting village life I would expect, but in Tengtou, it is a mixture of old and new.

On top of the sites, which are fun and educational, there are the villagers themselves. Smiles abound and you can really see a connection with the people to the village. Everywhere you see that people are proud of what they have accomplished, and they should be. Tengtou is an important

landmark in Ningbo, and a window into a fading chapter of Chinese life.

CLICK the READ MORE for pictures gallery from 2011 event and MORE

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Book Reading at Shangri_la Hotel 17th January 7Pm

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 09 January 2012 15:24

letzte zuflucht

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On January 17, 2012 7Pm, German writer Stefan Schomann will give a lecture from his book „Letzte Zuflucht Schanghai“ (Last Refuge in Shanghai). It tells the true and highly unusual love story between Robert Sokal, a poor refugee from Vienna, and Chenchu Yang, a young lady from a well-to-do family from Ningbo. They met during World War II in Shanghai and, despite of all opposition and the dramatic circumstances in this “age of extremes”, they became a couple.

The lecture will be in English, with some samples in German and Chinese. It will start at 7 p.m.

On this occasion, Mr. Schomann will also give an introduction to his exhibition “Lost China”, which features historic photographs taken by Eugen Flegler, a German professor at Tongji University in the 1930s. The exhibition will be shown at the Ningbo Museum, opening on January 18 at 4 p.m.

Please see the announcement for the location of the reading/ lecture

Please register below

 

Name:
Email Address:
How Many People will Join with you ( including yourself)
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New Year party held in community

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 09 January 2012 15:21

On the afternoon of January 3, a New Year party organized by the citizens themselves was held in the neighborhood center of a community in Jiangdong District.

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