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Chengde itself looks, at first glance, like any other northern Chinese industrial town, but the dreariness is interspersed with beautifully sited old temples and an imperial pleasure-ground big enough to be protected by a wall 10 km (6 miles) long.
Two other major excursions from Beijing are the Peking Man Museum at Zhoudian and the vast imperial retreat and temples of Chengde.
A mile east, the Small Potala Temple (Putuozongshengmiao), the largest at Chengde, evokes the Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace in Lhasa and is so steep a climb (164 steps) that sedan-chair carriers do a brisk trade with weary tourists.
Chengde (Jehol)
The plain wooden corridors connecting the buildings contrast with the illustrated passageways of Beijing’s Summer Palace, which occupies but half the space of the Chengde retreat.