Day 1 Meal(s) (L) Beijing / Chengde
Transfer via: by train for soft seat N211 (07:16-11:15) or similar

Program:Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples 

Meet you at the railway station and transfer you to your hotel, and then visit Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples.

Chengde Mountain Resort: The Mountain Resort (the Qing dynasty´s summer palace), the city in Chengde in Hebei Province is a cool and scenic summer resort 250 kilometers northeast of Beijing. More than two hundred years ago Emperor Kang Xi (1662-1723) discovered this rare scenic spot during a hunting trip. It took eighty-seven years to complete the construction of a temporary palace in what used to be called Rehe (Jehol), also known by the quaint name "Mountain Hamlet for Escaping the Heat." The palace is enclosed by a wall over ten kilometers long, which rises and falls with the mountain ridges. It is the largest and best-preserved imperial palace outside of the capital. Temples of various architectural styles and imperial gardens blend harmoniously into a landscape of lakes, pastureland and forests. In addition to its aesthetic interest, the Mountain Resort is a rare historic vestige of the final development of feudal society in China.

Meet you at your hotel and then transfer to the railway station

Day 2 Meal(s) (L) Chengde / Beijing
Transfer via: by train for soft seat N212(14:40-18:38)or similar

Program: Puning Temple, Putuo Zongcheng Temple(Lesser Potala Palace), Transfer you to railway station.

Puning Temple: Covering an area of 23,000 square meters, the Puning Temple (with its popular name Big Buddha Temple) is located in the north-west of Chengde city. The main attractions inside the temple are Bell and Drum Towers, Pavilions, Heaven King Palace (Tian Wang Dian) and the Daxiong Baodian. Built in 1755 A.D (QING Dynasty), the temple shows the Qing Dynasty¡¯s respect to the Minorities.

Putuo Zongcheng Temple: Located to the north of the Imperial Summer Villa (Bishu shanzhuang), the Temple for Potarka Doctrine (Putuo zongshengzhi miao), was built in 1767. And it is a most resplendent and sweeping one, covering an area of 220,000 square meters. And the temple itself was designed as a replica of Lhasa's Potala Palace, in miniature. Most of the 60 or so halls that make up the complex are kept to this Tibetan style, and apart from the dark red main building, most of the buildings are with white walls and flat roofs.

Be met at the railway station and then transferred to your hotel.

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