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Baiyun Hotel Chengde

No.180 Cuiqiao West Road Chengde, Hebei, China

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Finally, Some Nature!

A travel blog entry by josiahinchina

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... vendors all selling the same exact nuts. Apparently nuts are the specialty of Chengde and so every single vendor there sells them. We just headed right past them too and after fighting off a lady offering tour guide services to us we got our tickets and headed in. After entering and looking at the map it was immediately obvious that this place was called a resort for a reason. The scale was massive. It had a mountainous area, a grassy area, and a ...

"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao

A travel blog entry by czechone

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... were, for the most part, quite different to the numerous temples I'd seen in China before as they were created to mimic temples of other areas such as a Tibet and not the typical Han Chinese style temples which often follow strict layout guidelines and architecture based on religious/confucian/dynastic guidelines and traditions).

Actually, each temple I visited was better than the last, peaking with the ...

Bishushanzhuang - Emperor's playground

A travel blog entry by czechone

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... back burning for fire preventition (or something like that) which means I missed out on seeing approximately 50% of the place but what I did manage to see in the few hours strolling around in the accessible area was pretty impressive and the parkland was really too big to cover in one day on foot anyway.

Worth a mention too were the deer roaming freely about the place. They are apparently the descendants of ...

UNESCO World Heritage in Chengde

A travel blog entry by trivia

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Previously known as Re He, situated northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden and palace formerly used by the Qing emperors as summer residence.

In 1703, Chengde was chosen by the Kangxi Emperor as the location for his summer residence. Constructed throughout the eighteenth century, the Mountain Resort was used by both the Yongzheng and ...

Biking, Shopping & A Waterfall

A travel blog entry by baphometdemon

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... both directions. The views of the valley were even more beautiful than the falls to me. Further up I ran into a Chinese woman who fancied herself and English speaker and quickly locked me in generic conversation. I did my best to humor her but she ended up thinking I was born in Tianjin, then asking me how I got here (bus or car). I said bike, she said no...

Anyways, past that little sub-adventure, above the falls there was a little stone ...