Dehui Hotel Chengde
No.62 Chengde Villa East Road Chengde, Hebei, China
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Finally, Some Nature!
... I felt like I had entered into some kind of video game arena. We first headed over to the emperor's lodging area and breezed through it because we had already seen countless Chinese buildings like it. I would have to say the most interesting thing we came across was a sign that said, "Area Where Emperor's Toilet Was Located." Apparently even the Emperor wasn't completely spoiled as this area was outside and I'm pretty sure it did not used to ...
"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao
... Putuo Zongcheng temple, which was constructed as a small scale replica of the very famous Potala Palace in Tibet. Although, as you'll be able to see from my pics, the windows are only painted on and many of the buildings are actually hollow shells ie. no roof, nothing inside, just walls. Deceiving perhaps, but it looked mighty impressive nevertheless, particularly when viewed from a distance. Lots of interesting rooms ...
Bishushanzhuang - Emperor's playground
... that were brought here for the Emperors "hunting pleasure" all those years ago ... I'm glad to see them free and alive as they are here now. Nice random, slightly weird sort of thing to see them wandering around here amongst temples and such.
Overall it was a pretty relaxing day, nice and quiet too being offseason which is really the best and most appropriate way to experience ancient Chinese gardens and temples.
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Travel day, onto Chengde I go ...
... busride so far in terms of "out of the window scenery", passed by some Great Wall sections too but wasn't on the ball with the camera to catch it.
It's times like this I wish I had a car here so I could stop off along the way and take in some of these places ...
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UNESCO World Heritage in Chengde
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 ...


