Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(4)by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-12-1 20:34:00 by amanda Tags: Chengde

15 June – Chengde

The visit program of the day included the Mountain Resort and two of the Eight Outer Temples. The visit of the Mountain Resort started with a pageant in imperial costumes, which take place every Sunday morning. It has been interesting. Then we started the visit.

The Mountain Resort is huge, with parks, forests, lakes, pagodas, and palaces ringed by a wall

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(3)by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-26 3:00:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong Chengde

13 June - Datong

We waked up very early and in less than an hour of flight we arrived in Datong. Datong is a city of 3 million inhabitants, important for its coalmines and therefore a polluted city, but it is famous above all for the Yungang Grottoes (literally "Cloud Ridge Caves"), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In airport we met our likeable guide, Joan and the driver with a

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(2) by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-20 21:25:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong and Chengde

11 June - Xian

We waked up very early because we had to catch the flight to Xian at 7.20 a.m.. The departure was from the new Terminal 3, constructed for the Olympic Games and planned by the English architect Foster. The terminal is spectacular and efficient. It’s enormous, but spaces are well organized and you can’t get lost inside. Our flight leaved nearly 10 minutes befor

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Trip report: Beijing, Xian, Datong and Chengde(1) by walter_ba21

Date: 2008-11-20 21:09:00 by amanda Tags: Beijing Xian Datong and Chengde

Hallo! I wish tell you about my travel in China, It’s my way to repay the internet community, for all helpful information I have found in internet when I started to planning this travel.

Planning the travel

Why China? Travel to China has been from long time my dream and now I decided at last. My wife and my son (sixteen), obviously have been enthusiast. Having only 12 days

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