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Pingyao Slideshow
Top Hotels in Pingyao
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Pingyao Hongshanyi Hotel
23 reviews -
Yunjincheng Minsu Hotel Pingyao
26 reviews
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Zhongdu Hotel Pingyao
11 reviews -
Li Ze Yuan International Hotel Pingyao
11 reviews
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Zhong Shu Yuan Hotel Pingyao
2 reviews
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Juguangju Hotel Pingyao
11 reviews
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Beiguan Hotel Pingyao
5 reviews
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Yu Feng Heng Hotel Pingyao
20 reviews
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Jinjinglou Hotel Pingyao
7 reviews
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Hong Jing Lou Hotel Pingyao
1 review
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Hong Hu Hotel Pingyao
2 reviews
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Tong Tai Mao Folk Hotel Pingyao
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Xintai Hotel Pingyao
1 review
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The Old Cheng Jia Yard Folk Custom Guesthouse Pingyao
15 reviews -
De Sheng Lou Hotel Pingyao
7 reviews
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Haotian Xiangyue Hotel Pingyao
1 review
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Cuichenghai Hotel Pingyao
19 reviews
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Dianli Hotel Pingyao
1 review
Pingyao
Travel Blogs from Pingyao, China
Pingyao is lovely
This is a top pick! ... bus to Pingyao (after a visit the nost dubius toilets yet, think peeing in a trough with no cubicle doors...) We arrived in Pingyao about 4 o clock, it is beautiful. Such a polar opposite to Datong which was horrific. Also, big yes to the youth ...
Pingyao it up...
This is a top pick! Overnight train? Decent. Despite the snoring of an old man, I got a decent sleep. I arrived in Pingyao and was accosted by people selling their hotel immediately. I got a decent deal for this double room, so I took it. In hindsight, and even if I do ...
Iron Legs Zhao, the Abacus, and Cruel Torture
This is a top pick! ... it from those who wished they could afford it. Here, Iron Legs Zhao was one of the fearsome protectors of civilized Pingyao. For those civilized men venturing into the wild Taoist nature outside the city streets, these services were essential to avoid ...
Pingyao... walled city
This is a top pick! ... your name?" and "where are you from?" in broken English. The main gate guard towers and fortifications emphasised how important a place Pingyao used to be, it was a main financial city during the Imperial era. After the wall we wandered around town again ...
The Oasis!
This is a top pick! ... I had referred to Pingyao had really only been given a 1-2 page mention and nothing overly spectacular at that. I was pleasantly surprised though, Pingyao really deserves an entry of it's own, it deserves to be 'put on the map' so to say! Pingyao can ...
Stopping off in Pingyao
This is a top pick! ... , it was just a normal Chinese town - people spitting, farting and sh*tting in the street! We did find what looked like Pingyao football station though. However, on closer inspection, it was revealed that the inside of the stadium had been turned into a ...
Olympic torch and day tour in Pingyao
This is a top pick! ... a great deal of silver and gold. At 12:30PM I went for lunch and of course I had...NOODLES! In Pingyao for breakfast, lunch and dinner it is a bowl full of noodles drowing in vinegar. At 2:30PM I went ...
rain on red lanterns
This is a top pick! ... (14th or 15th century). it's famous in china for the degree to which it's still intact and self-contained...all of pingyao's modern, often ugly, development had taken place outside the old city walls. there are red lanterns hung all over, and against the ...
Trains and dust-storms..
This is a top pick! From Beijing we took a surprisingly comfortable sleeper train to Pingyao, 10hours west. We arrived at 5am to be met by the friendly owner of Harmony Guesthouse who ushered us into a waiting pedicab (m/cycle powered 4 seater) and off through the cold and ...
Ancient History, What Dynasty?
This is a top pick! ... paper. Stars can be deducted for unique circumstances, like people can see you from the street. Our nine hour train ride from Pingyao turned into an eleven hour trial. When we got into the train station in Xian it was raining and dark and the touts ...
Pingyao
This is a top pick! ... to take one trip before the cold really settled in, so I chose to visit Pingyao, which is the ancient capital of China. The famous thing about Pingyao is that it has an intact Ming dynasty city wall, the last one remaining in China. The city wall was ...
Pingyao: Walled Chinese town
This is a top pick! So I took the overnight sleeper train from Beijing to a little town called Pingyao, one of only a handful of places in China with original perimeter walls. I was told that the hard seat on the train was 'do-able', oh how wrong that information was! I had ...
Red-lantern-hung-streets
This is a top pick! ... in a courtyard, and saying hello to all Western tourists. If you want to escape the busy atmosphere of Beijing, then Pingyao is your place, So I did exactly that, I spent two days relaxing, reflecting, chilling and eating. Each day would ...
Pingyao
This is a top pick! ... and giz walked the city walls, much lie a smaller version of Xian's, while the others napped, i don't think they are appreciating Pingyao very much, probably due to the hard bed and bad nights sleep they're getting! ...
From Beijing to Pingyao
... Beijing was a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to stay there long. I was relieved to be getting on the train to Pingyao......... Nigel: So we boarded the night train ready to go down to Pingyao. The train cost about 17 pound which was cheap as it ...
A Cold Wang Experience
The rain looked distinctly sleety as we drove into the mountains. By the time we'd climbed as far as the town of Zhang Bi, snow was lying on the ground and the locals were remarking about the strangeness of the weather this late in the season. Our guide ...
Ancient Pingyao
... the main attraction, walking around the city wall. Although the city wall is a lot smaller that the one around Xi’an, Pingyao’s just felt a little more authentic, it hasn’t had the restoration work that Xi’an’s has, and this ...
Walls all around us
... often have derelict buildings, only a few dozen meters from a major tourist attraction or very expensive hotel. The funniest thing about Pingyao is the buggy things they drive around the narrow streets: they're like the ones you see in airports that ...
A Little Peace and Quiet in Pingyao
We escaped the Beijing madness to a small and relatively quiet town called Pingyao, west of the Chinese capital. It is an ancient walled city, left as is from several centuries ago (apparently it is the only one in China completely preserved). There are ...
Pingyao: Picture Perfect China?
Lisa: To break up our journey to Beijing, we decided to go to Pingyao. Our Lonely Planet guidebook claims this to be 'the China you had dreamed of' with its intact city wall and old cobbled streets. I was extremely looking forward to this, ...
Pingyao
... under-estimated the size of the country and have had to write off alot of locations (Tibet included unfortunately). But back to Pingyao. We arrived at 5am to Yamen Hostel. Its a great hostel with antique Chinese furniture a couple of hundred years ...
Shanxi province
... having found - to my utter amazement - a camera battery charger, I had almost no money left, and so had to leave Pingyao this morning (a day early). I'm back in Taiyuan, and will look around here tomorrow, before leaving for Wutai Shan by bus on ...
Encore un peu de verdure avant la capitale !
... Paysages splendides, impressionnant. Encore un endroit en Chine ou je me sens bien. Je vous laisse observer les photos… Luoyang, Pingyao, deux etapes que j’ai moyennement aimees… mais qui ont été le lieu d’une reflexion sur la ...
Very well. You must Kung Fu fight!
... good. There were lots of stalls selling summer dresses, trinkets, bracelets and assorted shiny things, but she resisted. Just outside Pingyao, we went to the Wang Family Courtyard. Its a collection of over 120 smaller courtyards, surrounded by a big ...
Ancient Walls and Courtyards
Pingyao is perhaps becoming famous for its international photo exhibition, this may only be on Chinese television though. What it has is an exceptional number of well restored historical buildings each with fantastic courtyards and mazes of rooms linked ...
Pingyao...last of the walled cities
... dozen museums. We dawdled round the wall, so were left to run around about 3 museums, including China's first bank. All too soon our relaxing time in Pingyao was over...now onto the hustle and bustle (and probably smoggy air) of Xi'an. Cheers ...