Most people know how to protect the heart, but do you know how to care for your kidneys? The kidneys’ job is to help remove various toxins (drugs and food wastes), and expel them through the urine.As we grow older, our kidneys will also start to age. A problem with kidney disease is that majority of patients have no warning symptoms.Some time ago, we interviewed Rd. Elizabeth Montemayor, a nephrologist at the Philippine General Hospital.

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With a long history of its arts, pure, beautiful, ancient and plain, Fenghuang batik is an exquisite article in Fenghuang’s folk arts and crafts.Thanks to its bountiful patterns, elegant tue and unique style, batik is applied to making apparels and various living utilities. When looking a piece of batik, you feel its simplicity but no lack of freshness and pleasure to your eyes, especially with ethnic features. At the same time, as a folk art in the ancient time, batik has a history of over 1,000 years. Its unique ethnic style and bountiful national identity are poplar among tourists.

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Situated at Zhuzhou, Hunan, the east of You county, Jiubujiang National Geo-park stretches 193 square kilometers.It features in geographical heritage sights such as karst caves, underground rivers, natural holes, gorges, natural bridge, waterfall, lakes and fossil specimens, supplemented by cultural and ecological sights, which is a large-scale comprehensive national geological park combined with scientific and aesthetic value.There are 156 discovered karst caves, considered as the biggest karst cave group in Hunan or the most east area of China. Speaking of cave’s density, scale or unusual sights in it, it worth to be called “a world of Karst caves”or “Karst cave museum” Southern ormosia fir, a rare and endangered plants of national level 1, is another wonder in the geo-park.Rare and endangered Southern ormosia firBy Emma

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The common aspiration for many tourists traveling in Fenghuang, xiangxi is to stay for several days in Diaojiao buildings by the side of Tuo River. Listening to the whispers of stream, appreciating the beautiful scenery of the river sides, watching water rafting flowing in Tuo River and hearing Hmong’s songs lingering in your ears, all of these invite you to have a journey by yourself. Here are several cautions of staying in Diaojiao buildings.

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Location: Feitian Mountain, situated in Qiaokou Town, Suxian District, Chenzhou City, is about 20km away from downtown of Chenzhou City where traffic is convenient and Dongjiang River and Chenjiang River converge here. Characteristics: Nine stockade villages, four walls, three temples, two rivers and one village make a heaven on earth. Natural scenery like red hills and blue water, green mountain and hilly stockade village, bizarre rock and odd cave, historical visions like villages and allies, stone Buddha and temples, tombs and suspending coffins and human landscape like holiday villa, Mongolia custom and water park make the Feitian Mountain scenic zone a charming tourism resort, which has given a laudatory title “Bright Pearl in Chenzhou, Guilin in Southern Hunan”. Charging Items: Entrance fee is 30RMB/each. If fishing, 30RMB/each is charged. If guide needed, 50RMB will be charged. If partner tent, 40RMB. If barbecue, 8RMB.If through ticket (including ticket and boating ticket), 70RMB. There are also two policies for preferential ticket. Ticket for children under 1.2m and military officers is free. Preferential ticket price for children between 1.2m to 1.4m and aged people over 65 years old with an older certificate is 15RMB. Traffic: You can take scheduled bus at South Bus Station of Chenzhou City to Qiankou Town. The departure interval of regular bus is usually 20 minutes. Opening Time: 8：00—18：00 By Patricia

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As a traditional dish in Hmong’s cuisines in Fenghuang, Xiangxi, the taste of peach blossom worm is delicious with the function of nourishing yin and tonifying yang, and it becomes the great treasure among Hmong’s dishes.

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There are three major specialties in Fenghuang,Hunan: Ginger candy, silver-ware and rice wine, of which the two former can be purchased in many places across the country, but the last one that made by Fenghuang people themselves with rice can not be reproduced.

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There is a habit of fuming cured meat in the next year in Xiangxi. Every year, when approaching the end of the year, people always kill pig and then slice its meat to three or five jin. Kneading salt and other spices into the meat and corning for three or five days, then after these ingredients soaking into the meat, people dangle the meat with bamboo stripes or rattans on the fiery pit for continuous fume.

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“Zhangjiajie, People over the entire world come…We share culture together. We share soul together. We shine together from country music to rock….”, Nobody would guessed that the song named Zhangjiajie was delicately created by South African Band. A staff from the committee of Zhangjiajie Interational Country Music Week introduced that the song composited by South African Band to welcome the festival. It will be sung at the open ceremony of the music week on August 31.By the name of South African Drum Art Troupe, it is a very famous country music art troupe that are good at perform various ethnic songs and musics, full of strong ethnic flavor of South African and very interactive. It participated many domestic art festivals like China International Folk Art Festival. Besides, it performed at South African Pavilion, receiving warm reception from audience at home and abroad.Since the host of the festival in 2009, many countries from five continents took active part. in particular for South African. Renowned for the rainbow’s country, it various music styles won widespread influence in the first term, customer impressed by its will beauty. In the second term, the South African king Jungle Band showed its original dance culture. The public are wondering what the South African Drum Art Troupe will bring to us. Let see and wait what will happen.It is said that the 2013 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week will be held from August 31 to September 4. In the period, travelers can not only enjoy the world natural heritage, but also attend to the shows performed by 32 bands at home and abroad for free.Previously held Zhangjiajie International Country Music WeekDrum dance in South AfricaBy Emma

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Regarding to commercial secrecy and property rights protection, many commercial areas and shops also prohibit photo taking. Thus tourists would better be prudent in above places in case of unnecessary misunderstanding.

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