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Pro
Easy weekend trip from Beijing (4 hours by train or bus)
Con
It's an Industrial town and there's plenty of pollution.
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We are all freezing!! ;-)
Willettsworld Says: This small Taoist temple is located just to the west on the other side of the road from the main entrance gate into the Mountain Resort Main Palace. It was first built in 1732 during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng and is dedicated to Guan Yu. It's a delightful little temple...
Willettsworld Says: This palace ruin lies to the east of the Main Palace inside the Mountain Resort. It was originally built in 1754 and contained the Qingyin Chamber, Fushou Garden, Diligent-working Palace and Hall of Quan'e splendors. It caught fire in 1945 and was never rebuilt.
Willettsworld Says: The Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex was built between 1767 and 1771, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1735-1796). It is located to the north of the Mountain Resort. Along with the equally famed Puning Temple, it is one of the Eight Outer Temples of Chengde. The...
Willettsworld Says: Pu You Temple is located next to Puning Temple on its eastern side. When putting down the rebellion of the Hui tribe in 1760, Emperor Qianlong ordered the construction of this temple. In the temple there is a Hall of the Heavenly King, which is the main building.Admission:...
Willettsworld Says: This hall is the most famous within the Puning Temple as its here that the world's tallest wooden sculpture of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (22.28 meters high and weighing 110 tons), is housed. The statue shows a thousand different eyes and a thousand different arms...
Willettsworld Says: The Puning Buddhist Temple was built in 1755, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1735-1796 AD) to show the Qing's respect to the ethnic minorities. It is located to the north-east of the Chengde Mountain Resort, and alongside the equally famed Putuo Zongcheng Temple,...
Willettsworld Says: The entire Mountain Resort complex, all 5.6 km² of it, is surrounded by a wall that is over 6 miles (10km) long. It can be seen from the top of the Yongyou Pagoda.
Willettsworld Says: This temple lies on the eastern side of the Mountain Resort with the resort walls. It was built in 1751 and means "Temple of Eternal Happiness and Blessing". The temple is dominated by a 9-storey, 67 metre-high octangonal pagoda which is modelled on the Liuhe Pagoda in...
Willettsworld Says: Having just come back from a trip to Mongolian, I was quite surprised to see these Mongolian Gers lined up as part of a resert. However, they look far more comfortable than the ones I stayed in as they look like they have air-conditioning and proper front doors. They're also...
Mountain Resort - Performance List
Willettsworld Says: Here's a list of musical performances that takes place at different scenic spots around the lake:At Canglangyu Garden - perform "Suzhou Folk Music" - 9:30-10:00, 10:30-11:00, 15:30-16:00, 16:30-17:00At Good Luck Island - perform "Peking Opera" - 9:40-10:10, 10:20-10:50,...
1 Review and 18 Opinions This hotel was confortable. The local guide and the people in this hotel were very polite and...
1 Review and 0 Opinions We stayed here for two nights in July of 2009. Chengde Hotel is rated as a 4 star hotel by CTRIP (a...
Dongpo Restaurant: Lots of food!
Willettsworld Says: I came here on the only evening I spent in Chengde and wasn't disappointed. This restaurant is located just over a bridge near the city centre. There are several large rooms to eat in upstairs. There's plenty of staff on hand as well. The food is good and plentiful, (I had...
It's all in chinese characters- sorry!: Great food & service in Chengde
greencargirl Says: Our hotel recommended a restaurant which we found to be fantastic. It's located on Nanyingzi Dajie, directly above the KFC Restaurant that's just down the road a few blocks and accross the street from Chengde Hotel. Chengde Hotel is located at 19 Nanyingzi. There are 2 KFC's...
Willettsworld Says: Contorary to what Lonely Planet (May 2007) states, buses to Chengde depart from the Liuliqiao bus station in the south-west of the city centre and NOT from the Sihui bus station in the east of the city. I learnt this the hard way by going to Sihui first and then being told...
greencargirl Says: The hawkers around the train station were very aggressive trying to get us into their hotels, their illegal taxis, etc. The driver for the official taxi we took told us that the illegal taxis take you to the hotels and attempt to earn commissions from those hotels. For the...
On the eastern side of Puning Temple is a Qing-style cultural and commericial street called Puning Street. Here you can find some arts and crafts shops housed in restored Qing dynasty shops.
Written Aug 29, 2009
Puning Temple - Musical Ceremony
Willettsworld Says: These guys started playing some kind of musical ceremony everytime someone came up the steps to the Mayahana Hall and gave them money. I have no idea what the significance is, though!Open: 8am-5.30pm. Admission: RMB50Take bus 6 from the Mountain Resort.
Willettsworld Says: I arrived at the main gate of the Mountain Resort Main Palace at about 8am and walked through, after buying my ticket, and saw a small crowd gathered inside a small courtyard watching some girls dancing in traditional costumes to loud music. I think the dancing was some kind...
We can't say this applies to every single one of them, but it seems that all the large tour buses stop at these restaurants lined up along the main road, a short drive coming back from the main Buddhist temples at the north end of town. We ate at one of them, and were disappointed with the quality of food as well as the high prices in comparison to some excellent food we ate in downtown Chengde. The shrink-wrapped dishes mean that the restaurant contracts out their dishwashing service to accomodate these large tour groups, we were later told. I think we would've done better to stick with the area in town where locals are on the sidewalk (none were present along this restaurant strip).
Written Jul 31, 2009
nepalgoods Says: A big garden is left of the former summerpalace. Chengde has a nicer climate than Beijing. So the Emperors with all their people went to Chengde for some months in summer in the 18th century.But after ashort time, Chengde was no longer used as summer palace, because one...
Beefy_SAFC Says: Chengde is a town north of the Great Wall and four hours train journey from Beijing. It is home to the Summer Resort, the retreat of the former Chinese emperors, consisting of an extremely large area of parkland, as well as the palace, through which most tourists enter.Also...
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