Mountain Villa Hotel Chengde
No.127 Xiao Nan Men Chengde, Hebei, 067000, China
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Move on to Chengde
Today was the transfer to Chengde. A city four hours train ride north of Beijing where the Emperors used to come as a winter retreat. For skiing I think :) It was an early start for what I was expecting to be a boring ride. In fact it turned out to be quite entertaining. We were put in first class which was not exactly as I'd describe first class …
Watch out for Temple Overload..
Coming from Beijing to Chenge was like a breath of fresh air. I can understand why the Qing Emperor decided to have Chengde as their retreat, the montain resort away from the hectic Beijing. I planned to have Chengde as a day trip, which was not only possible, but I could miss the charming and the relax attitude of the local. Chengde is well known …
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"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao
... 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
... 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 ...
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 ...
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