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Friendship Bridge
For a closer look at Russia, you can walk to the Friendship Bridge. Tourists pose for photos at the foot of the bridge connecting the two countries before wandering down to a hut to buy Russian chocolate and souvenirs.
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Three Natural Bridges
Towering above huge, hollowed-out karst formations, these natural bridges (you dont walk across them) are the highest in the world and utterly unique; you wont see anything like them anywhere else on the planet.
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Western Thousand Buddha Caves
Located 35km west of Dūnhuáng, there are 16 caves hidden in the cliff face of the Dǎng Hé gorge, ranging from the Northern Wei to the Tang dynasties. Take an afternoon departure to witness a glorious desert sunset.
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Southern Great Wall
The Ming-dynasty defensive wall, 13km from town, once stretched to Guìzhōu province. Take Bus 2 from Nánhuá Gate to its terminus at Tǔqiáolǒng bus station (土桥垅车站; Tǔqiáolǒng chēzhàn), from where you can catch a bus here.
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Island East Market
Hong Kong Islands largest farmers market, inaugurated in 2012, has dozens of booths of organic produce, local snacks, craft makers, and street musicians, all in a typically Hong Kong setting in a busy urban plaza.
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Héguì Lóu
This tallest rectangular tǔlóu in Fújiàn has five storeys and was built on a swamp. It boasts 120 rooms, a school, two wells, and a fortified courtyard in front of the entrance. The mammoth structure was built in 1732.
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Chóngwǔ Stone Arts Expo Park
A large park in the ancient stone city of Chóngwǔ. It is filled with 500 stone sculptures made by local crafts people, a small beach, a lighthouse and some seafood restaurants. You won’t miss much if you skip it.
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Báitǎ Gōngyuán
Circle Báitǎ Gōngyuán with the worshippers as they recite mantras and spin the massive prayer wheels, or join the locals just hanging out in the surrounding park. Turn left out of the bus station and just keep walking.
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Jǐnjiāng Action Park
If the kids are in mutiny against sightseeing, the roller coasters, rides and huge Ferris wheel at this amusement park may mollify them. It’s a bit out of town, but easy to get to, as it has its own metro station.
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Nekhang
A cave complex where pilgrims lower themselves down ropes and ladders into two sacred underground chambers. A Dutch traveller fell to his death here in 2006, and to prevent the same fate we advise avoiding this place.
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Húqìngyú Táng Chinese Medicine Museum
The Huqing Yutang Chinese Medicine Museum is an actual dispensary and clinic. Originally established by the Qing dynasty merchant Hu Xueyan in 1874, the medicine shop and factory retain the typical style of the period.
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Luómèi Lotus Cave
This 970m-long cave, once an underground river, shelters the worlds largest collection of lotus-shaped limestone formations, illuminated (too ambitiously) by colourful lights. The cave is 200m north of the bus station.
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Wǔcháomén Park
Peaceful but maudlin Wǔcháomén Park is home to the Ming Palace Ruins, and usually filled with locals practising ballroom dancing while saxophonists and other musicians gather in the resonant tunnels beneath the gate.
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Broadway Mansions
Looming over Sūzhōu Creek, this classic brick pile (resembling a Ministry of Truth) was built to great fanfare in 1934 as an apartment block and later used to house American officers after WWII. Today it’s a hotel.
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Yamalung Hermitage
It is possible to head up the valley directly behind Samye to the Yamalung Hermitage, around 20km from Samye along a dirt road. Pre-arrange this in your tour itinerary otherwise your driver will object to the extra mileage.
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Tseway Gompa
The renovated Tseway Gompa is one of the few Bön monasteries in Gānsù. Make sure you circumnavigate any holy site counterclockwise in the Bön fashion. There are great views of Bājiǎo from the ridge behind the monastery.
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Tagyel
This large lake has waters a shade of the deepest blue imaginable and is ringed with snowy peaks. With luck you can spot gazelles, wild asses and even the occasional wolf, hungrily eyeing the valley’s many fat marmots.
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Dōngyù Temple
On a bluff above the river, about a 20-minute walk from the old town, is this temple, home to a 9.5m-tall Buddha and some gruesome dioramas depicting various hells (impaling, scalding, having your tongue ripped out).
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Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
On the eastern edge of Hong Kong park, is the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, housed in the Cassels Block of the former Victoria Barracks. It supports local sculptors, printmakers and potters, and stages exhibitions.
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Zhārú Temple (Zaru Gompa)
The first official site inside the park proper is the Tibetan Zhārú Temple in the Zhārú Valley. The park bus doesn’t stop here, but it’s only a short walk from the ticket office; turn left at the first fork off the main road.
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