Huating Hotel

... nice and there are some Buddhist temples and statues along the way that were very interesting.  Our next stop was Huating Temple, another Buddhist temple.  We're starting to become more familiar with the statues and meanings at the temples as ...

... the renovations of the temple.  Unfortunately, during the Cultural Revolution, many temples throughout China were damaged or destroyed.  Huating Temple fell into the former category, but has since been restored to its former glory (in fact, they ...

... we go).  We had the bus stop for us before it got to the amazingly huge and boisterous parking lot, at the first temple, Huating Si, and then walked up past the ancient 1600 year old banyan tree to Taihua Si to find its gardens full of ...

... some cool, ivy covered temples and stupas out back. Most authentic looking thing I've seen in China for a while. Huating Temple Taihua Temple Happily, between the two temples you could take the "Ancient Forest Trail", which didn't look very ...

... via lots of steps with loads of Chinese huffing and puffing their way coming up the other way and visited another temple called the Huating Temple. After this I decided to take a bus back to the cable car which was about 3km away and so waiting by a ...

... Jun a nobleman hero of the 3rd C BC Kingdom of Chu); Shencheng (city of Shen); Paris or Athens of the East/ Orient; Huating (751 AD Tang). 27th Aug -      Left early for airport -      Delay nearly 2 ...

Shanghai is where it's at.  This is the China that I wanted to see...skyscrapers, gargantuan shopping centers, ex-pat nightlife.  While Beijing feels immensely Chinese, Beijing feels much more cosmopolitan, like one of the great cities of the ...