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Protestant Church
On a street of German buildings, this copper-capped church was designed by Curt Rothkegel and built in 1908. The interior is simple and Lutheran in its sparseness, apart from some carvings on the pillar cornices. You can climb up to inspect the clock mechanism (Bockenem 1909).
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Central Police Station
Built between 1841 and 1919, Hong Kong’s oldest symbol of law and order is this now-disused, police-magistracy-prison complex modeled after London’s Old Bailey. The large compound is being redeveloped into an arts hub with cinema, museum and boutique shopping mall, due to open in 2
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Yúnnán Nationalities Museum
On the northeast corner of Diān Chí (Lake Dian), the Yúnnán Nationalities Museum is reputedly the largest minorities museum in China, even if it doesnt have a whole lot on display. But the ground-floor exhibition of costumes is comprehensive and comes with proper English captions.
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Possession Street
Just before Hollywood Rd meets Queen’s Rd West is Possession St, where Commodore Gordon Bremmer and a contingent of British marines planted the Union Jack flag on 26 January 1841 and claimed Hong Kong Island for the Crown (though no plaque marks this birthplace of colonial Hong Kon
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Jade Buddha Hall
Inside the Jade Buddha Temple, follow the right-hand corridor past the Hall of Heavenly Kings and the Guanyin Hall to arrive at the Jade Buddha Hall. The absolute centrepiece of the temple is the 1.9m-high pale-green jade Buddha, seated upstairs. Photographs are not permitted.
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Huā’è Lóu
The 400-year-old ‘house of calyx’, 20km south of Méizhōu, is the largest circular earthen castle in Guǎngdōng. It comes complete with three rings and stone walls more than 1m thick. Theres no public transport to Huā’è Lóu. A taxi from Dàbù costs ¥100 and takes about an hour.
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Lamma Fisherfolks Village
This 2000-sq-metre floating museum and theme park on a raft showcases the fishing culture and history of the fishery industry in Hong Kong. Fishing tools and model vessels are on display, including a real 60-year-old junk. You can also try your hand at angling and rope weaving.
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Sangok Podrang
The other main building, to the right, is the Sangok Podrang, used for Tantric practices. To the left of the main entrance is a famous ‘speaking’ mural of Guru Rinpoche. Flanking the left wall is a huge thangka that is unfurled once a year on the 18th day of the fourth lunar month.
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Dadren Ritrö Hermitage
A 40-minute hike from Tashi Chöling climbs northeast up the ravine to the cliffside drubpuk (meditation caves) of Dadren Ritrö. You can see the hermitage from the trail. From here, hardened trekkers can follow trails across the ridge for an hour or two to Sera Monastery or Sera Üts
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Xīlāmùrén
This grassland area has dozens of faux concrete yurt camps that cater mainly to the Chinese market. Nearby mining operations have accelerated infrastructure development, so don’t come this way if you are looking for a true wilderness experience. About 110km north of Hohhot
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Western District Community Centre
NGO offices and amenity rooms occupy this red-brick Georgian house at the junction of Western St and Third St. The listed building was opened in 1922 as the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital to offer obstetrics and gynaelogical services and to train midwives for the British colony.
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Tán Gōngguǎn
Just north of Wuyanghe Bridge (Wǔyánghé Dàqiáo), the splendid Tán Gōngguǎn (谭公馆) is sadly shut, inaccessible and unrestored. Festooned with Mao-era slogans, the building is a remarkably solid piece of historic architecture and remains unconverted. Note the carvings on the door pill
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Shūxiàng Temple
A 10-minute walk south down the road from Yuánzhào Temple, Shūxiàng Temple can be reached up a steep slope beyond its spirit wall by the side of the road; the temple contains Wǔtái Shān’s largest statue of Wenshu riding a lion.
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Beacon Tower
Seven kilometres north of the Yúlín bus station, on the outskirts of town, are some badly eroded sections of the Great Wall and this Ming-era four-storey beacon tower that dates to 1607. Bus 11 (¥1) runs here from Changcheng Nanlu, about 200m west of the main bus station.
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Three Pools Mirroring the Moon
From Xiǎoyíng Island (小瀛洲; Xiǎoyíng Zhōu ), you can look over at Three Pools Mirroring the Moon (三潭印月; Sāntán Yìnyuè ), three small towers in the water on the south side of the island; each has five holes that release shafts of candlelight on the night of the mid-autumn festival.
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Zhōng Pond
Eight (the number mirroring the eight trigrams of the bāguà) lanes radiate from this pond at the heart of the village. The fēngshuǐ symbol of the Zhūgě, the circular pond resembles the Chinese twin-fish, yīn-yáng taiji diagram, half filled in and the other half occupied with water.
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Yùquán Temple
Ascending in layers up the hillside above Qínchéng, this Taoist temple has been a place of worship since the Tang dynasty. Most of the buildings have been restored in recent decades, but this is still a pleasant, green and rambling shrine with a number of ancient cypress trees.
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Refreshing Terrace
The vantage point for watching the Huángshān sunrise, five minutes’ walk from Běihǎi Hotel. Lucky visitors are rewarded with the luminous spectacle of yúnhǎi (literally ‘sea of clouds’): idyllic pools of mist that settle over the mountain, filling its chasms and valleys with fog.
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Mo Tat Wan
The clean and relatively uncrowded beach at Mo Tat Wan is a mere 20-minute coastal path walk east of Sok Kwu Wan village. Mo Tat Wan is OK for swimming, but has no lifeguards. You can also reach it by kaido (small open-sea ferry) from Aberdeen, which continues on to Sok Kwu Wan.
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Chéngtiānsì Tǎ
The most impressive site in Xìngqìng Qū – climb the 13 storeys of steep, narrow stairs for 360-degree views of Yínchuān. The pagoda is also known as Xī Tǎ (西塔, West Pagoda) and dates back almost 1000 years to the Western Xia dynasty, though it has been rebuilt several times since.
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