Hotels in Chengde - Prices and Reviews

So i just got back from the best weekend of my stay in China and my maybe my life. Well this weekend I decided to take a trip by myself to Chengde, China (dont really need the China part but still.) NO! not Chengdu which is the city most people have heard of but Chengde, a smallish city 4 hours north of Beijing. Well my trip started very early o...

Today we got up at 7am to have plenty of time to watch temples. We started at Puning Temple, which in my opinion was just another temple. After that we continued to the mini Potala Palace (the real Potala Palace, if anyone shouldn't know, is in Lhasa in Tibet and it is the former residence of the Dalai Lama before he fled to Dharmsala in norther...

The earliest tourist trip I remember. I was 6. My parents took me to Chengde and stayed in a resort for 2 days. We did a lot of hiking, which was tiring for me. We visited the huge 5-story high wooden Buddha statue in Puning Temple, the two big Tibetan style temples built to mimic the home monasteries in Tibet of Dalai and Panchen Lamas, and cli...