Saibeicun Hotel Chengde
No.12 Nanyingzi Street Chengde, Hebei, China
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Chengde Sightseeing WHU
tour of a few Chengde's sights including the Summer Palace Resort and the Tibetan Monastery, a small replica of the Potala Palace in Lhasa
Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde ...
"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao
... what I could tell it is in a valley totally surrounded by mountains on three of the four compass directions, also had a big clean'ish river running through it as well - and the city was less dusty than many others I've been too in China as well. I always like cities like this with a mountain backdrop, looks spectacular (as much as modern blocks of concrete can look spectacular anyway).
Also, it's great on ...
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
... with gold and the emperor worshipped in the Golden Pavilion. In the temple itself was a bronze-gilt statue of Tsongkhapa, the Reformer of the Gelugpa sect.
Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. There are total 8 outlying temples, the ones we visited are Puning Temple, Puyou Temple, Putuo Zongcheng Temple (also known as the Little Potala), Xumi Fushou ...


