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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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