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Jinxing Hotel Chengde

Pule Road East Side Chengde, Hebei, China

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Finally, Some Nature!

A travel blog entry by josiahinchina

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... it as it is basically impossible to get anything like that in Beijing. After finally arriving at the phallic rock gasping and triumphant, the guy I was with and I were greeted by a whole school group of Chinese that decided they had to have pictures with the tall Waiguoren(Foreigners). A few minutes of pictures later the group decided they were good and ended the photoshoot. This left me free to examine the surrounding area for the first time. I was ...

"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao

A travel blog entry by czechone

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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

A travel blog entry by czechone

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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by czechone

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... 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

A travel blog entry by trivia

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... 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 ...

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