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Shenghua Chengde

22 Wulie Rd Chengde, Hebei, 067000, China

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"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao

A travel blog entry by czechone

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... 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

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 ...

One Billion Star Hotel

A travel blog entry by robmichelle

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... like rock climbing then walking. The views from each towers was AMAZING!! We walked to a total of 14 towers and the view never got dull.

Atleast 400 photos later and some shakey legs we had made it to our finishing point.

We were still in shock that we had finally made it so something so great and historical. The Wall was started in 710BC, continued throughout the Dynstaties and still be worked on today.

It was mind blowing and we had it the ...

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