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The small city of Chengde (formerly known in the west as Jehol), 250 km (155 miles) northeast of Beijing, requires an overnight stay for visitors based in the capital.
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.
The palaces and gardens of Chengde provided summertime escape for the imperial courts of the Qing Dynasty, beginning with Emperor Kangxi, who created the halls, lakes, and hunting grounds here as a second summer palace in 1703.
Chengde’s other main attractions are the temples in the hills outside the park Many of these “Eight Outer Temples” have a strong Tibetan flavor.
In summer the trip to Chengde, about 250 km (150 miles) northeast of Beijing, might well be one of the prettiest anywhere in China.