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Chengde

Introduction

Chengde is a city in the Chinese province of Hebei and has about 500,000 inhabitants. The city is a great place for a daytrip from Beijing, especially via the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall. Chengde is only 1 hour past Jinshanling.

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Neighbourhoods

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Sights and Activities

The Putuo Zongcheng Temple is a large temple complex that is a "mini" version of the Potala Palace in Tibet. The Ticket gate closes at 5:00pm but the complex doesn't close until 6:00/6:30pm.
The Puning Temple is an active temple with its resident monks maintaining and wandering the grounds. The front half of the temple is built in the traditional Chinese style, however the back half of the temple is built in the Tibetan style. The temple houses the largest wooden Buddha statue in the world standing at 22 metres.

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Events and Festivals

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Weather

Chengde has a humid continental climate with cold winters and hot summers. Temperatures from June to August are around 30 °C during the day and around 20 °C at night, while during the winter months from December to February temperatures are around zero during the day and below -10 °C at night. Winters see snow, but most of the rain concentrates in the warmer summer months.

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Getting There

By Plane

By Train

By Car

By Bus

By Boat

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Getting Around

By Car

By Public Transport

By Foot

By Bike

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Eat

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Drink

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Sleep

Property	Address	Type	Popularity
Ming's Dynasty Hostel	Chezhan Lu Zhongzhuzhai Lu Bei	Hostel	100

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Work

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Learn

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Keep Connected

Internet

Phone

Post

China Post (中国邮政) is the official postal service of the People's Republic of China, operated by the State Postal Bureau of the People's Republic of China (website in Chinese only), and has more details about price to send letters, postcards and parcels, both domestically as well as internationally. The Chinese postal service is very good. Remember that in more remote places usually only one post office in a city can handle sending international boxes or letters. Also many times it might be worth having the name of the country you are trying to send to in Chinese characters. Post offices have a striking green logo and can easily be found everywhere in the cities. They are mostly open every day (including weekends!) from 8:00am to 6:00pm, though small offices might have shorter opening times, while the bigger ones in central and touristic areas are sometimes open during evenings as well.

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