Yunshan Chengde
No.2 Banbishan Road Chengde, Hebei, 067000, China
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"Temple'ing" the Wai Ba Miao
... areas within all of the temples too.
Bit disappointing that I ran out of time to see all the temples as the day took longer than I anticipated as some of these temples were bigger than I expected (particularly Putuo Zongcheng), however I made it to 5 or 6 in total I think which made for a complete, enthralling day.
A couple parting comments too regarding Chengde ... the city itself was really nice, in ...
Bishushanzhuang - Emperor's playground
... or the snow of Winter to look travel brochure spectacular) as the flora was getting on the brown "Winter around the corner" side. Nonetheless, it was a pretty nice place and regardless of the lotus leaves in the ponds being dried up brown and wilted, the intriguing historic element remained and grabbed my interest as always.
The only letdown being that the hilly, forested area of the compound was closed off ...
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
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 ...
Hidden Gem - Guiness Book Of Records Rated.
We had a mission in mind to see two more UNESCO World Heritage sites in the vicinity of Beijing, and to see Tianniman Square (which we had missed last time in Beijing) before our departure in three days time for Mongolia and Russia by train. This meant a pretty tight schedule, so it was an early 5 am wakeup call on the first day, to catch a four hour train to the city of Chengde. China city names are so confusing in their similarities! ...



