Use paid leave to ease holiday crowds

If you were traveling during the just-concluded May Day holiday, you are sure to have encountered one thing wherever you went — traffic jams.

In Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, so many tourists went to try camel-riding that the city reported a "camel jam", with more than 100 camels ferrying riders at one point.

A photograph from Qomolangma in the Tibet autonomous region showed some 30-40 tourists queuing up to climb the mountain on April 27, indicative of how the holiday rush set in early.