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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
... 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 ...
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 ...
One Billion Star Hotel
... Wall we got to have muesli, bananas, green tea and coffee! Was a brill change from bread and jam!
Left Mr Wong and we were on our way. We had the Wall to ourselves again for the second day! Day trip tourists don't arrive untill 10:00am so we made the most of having people free photos.
Half of this section of the Wall has been left unrestored and in its original form. Which meant that some of the steep, so called stairs, was very slow going. It quiet often ...



