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"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao
After visiting the Mountain Resort yesterday, today was all about serious temple hopping ie. going to the temples around the perimeter of the Mountain Resort, ie. the Wai Ba Miao, Eight Outer Temples : http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attract ion/hebei/chengde/eight_temple.htm
Today was a combination of jumping off and on city buses and long'ish walks between/to the temples.
Really enjoyed today as the ...
Bishushanzhuang - Emperor's playground
Today was spent in Chengde's Qing dynasty Mountain Resort : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengde_Mo untain_Resort
Chengde was one of the more anticipated destinations for my journey so I was hoping it would live up to my hopes - and thankfully it didn't fall short.
Admittedly it wasn't the absolute picture perfect time of year to visit the gardens of the mountain resort (it either needs the green of ...
Travel day, onto Chengde I go ...
Today was a bit of a nothing day as it was basically a 4-5 hour bus journey from Qinhuangdao to my next destination, Chengde.
I did however take a few photos from the bus along the way as the mountainous countryside was of much appeal to me, probably the ...
UNESCO World Heritage in Chengde
... The site is currently an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since the seat of government followed the emperor, Chengde was a political center of the Chinese empire during these times. The city of Jehol reached its height under the Qianlong Emperor 1735-1796 (died 1799). The great monastery temple of the Potala, loosely based on the Potala in Lhasa, was completed after just four years of work in 1771. It was ...
One Billion Star Hotel
... br> This area was only opened to the public in 1956 and to this day only one of the thirteen tombs has been opened. That was our next stop. We walked down 6 flights down of stairs- each tomb is buried 27 meters underground. This Emporer was from the Ming Dynasty. Pretty much all the artifacts were ruined when the tomb was opened as they had no idea how to store it. Luckily for us they had it filled with imitation props but had the real thrones.
Back at the top we ...



