Come to North Central for...
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Experience the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and quiet temples of worship in one dynamic city. Beijing is also becoming thoroughly modern – with contemporary buildings sprinkled among ancient ruins and pristine gardens.
Go for: Forts and Fortifications, Monuments & Landmarks, Castles & Palaces, Trains, Squares, Streets & Urban Spaces
20 experiences:
Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, The China Orient Express, Ming Dynasty Tombs, Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
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Go for: Tombs & Memorials, Archaeological Sites, Mosques
2 experiences:
The Terracotta Army, Great Mosque of Xi'an.
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Go for: Sacred Places, Art Collections, Gardens, Festivals
2 experiences:
Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang Peony Festival.
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Go for: Tombs & Memorials, Historic Cities &Towns
2 experiences:
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Ma, Qufu.
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Go for: Archaeological Sites
2 experiences:
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, Zhoukoudian: Resting place of Peking Man.
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The 51,000 incredible Buddhist statues carved into the sandstone of these caves and the exposed rocks of their cliffs during the 5th and 6th Centuries represent one of the greatest achievements in the first wave of classical Buddhist art. The...
Go for: Sacred Places, Tombs & Memorials
1 experience:
Yungang Grottoes.
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Built precariously into a sheer cliff face, the Bingling Grottoes/ Caves or Temples are a complex of caves into which Buddhist statues and murals have been carved over hundreds of years.
Carving began in 420 AD and was added to until the 17th...
Go for: Caves & Caving, Temples
1 experience:
Bingling Si: Buddhist grottoes.
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Stairway to Heaven: Mount Tai Shan, One of China's four sacred Mountains.
Tai Shan is not merely the mountain home of the Gods, it is considered a deity itself and has been venerated by the Chinese as their most sacred peak since at least the 3rd...
Go for: Mountains, Sacred Places
1 experience:
Mount Tai Shan.
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The archaeological site of Yin Xu, close to Anyang City, some 500 km south of Beijing, is an ancient capital city of the late Shang Dynasty (1300 - 1046 BC). It testifies to the golden age of early Chinese culture, crafts and sciences, a time of...
Go for: Archaeological Sites
1 experience:
Yin Xu.
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Built over the first 90 years of the 18th Century as a place for the royal family to spend hot summers, the Rehe Temporary Palace north of Chengde is graceful in it’s simplicity and contrast to the ostentation of the Forbidden City, the Imperial...
Go for: Castles & Palaces
1 experience:
Mountain Resort of Chengde.
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