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Sūyùkǒu National Forest Park
This park is a good place to start exploring the Hèlán mountains. You can hike up the trails from the car park or take the cable car (up/down ¥50/30) straight up to cool pine-covered hills.
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Dōngbā Research Institute
The Dōngbā Research Institute is part of a renovated complex on the hillside north of the old town. Here you can see Naxi cultural artefacts and scrolls featuring a unique pictograph script.
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Custom House
The magnificent Customs House dates from 1925, capped with a clock face and ‘Big Ching’, a bell substituted during the Cultural Revolution with loudspeakers broadcasting revolutionary songs.
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Huánghuāchéng Great Wall Lakeside Reserve
Known as the Great Wall in Water, this lake park contains several sections of the Great Wall that were submerged under water with the damming of the Haoming Reservoir (灏明湖, Hàomíng Hú).
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Lu Xun Memorial Hall
An excellent museum, this modern hall charts the life and creative output of author Lu Xun with photographs, first editions, videos and waxworks. Detailed English captions throughout.
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Zhǐlín Sì
The largest preserved wooden structure in Yúnnán, this monastery was built during the latter stages of the Yuan dynasty; its distinctive design feature is the brackets between columns and crossbeams.
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Sebda Gompa
The main assembly hall at this monastery is impressive, but most surprising is the chapel featuring a huge 18m statue of Guru Rinpoche, with smaller statues of his various manifestations on either side.
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Museum of Guìdé County
This small museum houses a handful of interesting Ming and Qing artefacts recovered from the local area, but lacks English captions. Near the museum, a small shop rents out bikes for ¥8 per hour.
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Mencius Family Mansion
Just next to the Mencius Temple, Mencius Family Mansion exhibits the family’s living quarters, including teacups and bedding left by Mencius’ 74th-generation descendant, who lived there into the 1940s.
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Guǎngzhōu City Museum
Housed inside the red-walled, five-storey Zhenhai Tower (Zhènhǎi Lóu) in Yuèxiù Park, the museum has an excellent collection of exhibits that trace the history of Guǎngzhōu from the Neolithic period.
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Huángpǔ Park
China’s first ever public park (1886) achieved lasting notoriety for its apocryphal ‘No Dogs or Chinese allowed’ sign. The park today is blighted by the ungainly Monument to the People’s Heroes.
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Fángshēng Bridge
Of Zhūjiājiǎo’s quaint band of ancient bridges, the standout must be the graceful, 72m-long, five-arched Fángshēng Bridge, first built in 1571 with proceeds from a monk’s 15 years of alms-gathering.
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Old Shēnzhèn Museum
The old Shenzhen Museum in Litchi Park (Lìzhī Gōngyuán) has been converted into a museum of ancient arts that has less interesting displays of some 20,000 jade, porcelain and bronze artefacts.
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Bǐfēng Temple
The only sight of note in Jìnchéng is Bǐfēng Temple, which sits atop a hill close to the train station. The temple itself is newly built but the nine-storey pagoda dates back to the Ming dynasty.
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Young Allen Court
Young Allen Court is a distinctive brick building constructed in 1923. Walk down the side of the alley for views of its three-storey architecture and the rear of the adjacent church towards the end.
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Shànghǎi Duōlún Museum of Modern Art
Looking like a 1960s university physics block, the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art has a focus on experimental contemporary art, with a good range of art books and an empty cafe on the 6th floor.
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Treasure Pagoda
Yán’ān’s most prominent landmark, Treasure Pagoda dates back to the Song dynasty. For an extra ¥10, you can climb the very narrow steps and ladders of the pagoda for an unrestricted view of the city.
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Xílìtú Zhào
Across the main boulevard from Dà Zhào is this simpler, more peaceful monastery, the purported stomping ground of Hohhot’s 11th Living Buddha (he actually works elsewhere). Monks chant at 9am and 3pm.
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Pípá Mountain Park
For views of the city skyline, climb 345m Pípá Mountain Park, the highest point on the Chóngqìng peninsula. During the day, residents bring their songbirds to the park for air and group warbling.
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Hánwén Temple
On the east bank of the Hán, this is the oldest and best-preserved temple dedicated to the Tang-dynasty philosopher Han Yu, who was banished to ‘far-flung’ Guǎngdōng for his anti-Buddhist views.
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