About a month or so before we went to the Forbidden City, we had a 3 day weekend. We were looking for a place to go that was close by where we could escape the oppressive air pollution and insanity of the Capital.
The original plan was to go to Tsingdao, the place where they make the Chinese beer "Tsingdao"…a a beer praised for its highly original name. After hearing that the train ride was 5 hours long, I said "bump that", there has to be somewhere closer that we don't have to sit on a train with potentially really annoying country folk for 5 hours.
Indeed there was! Just 2 hours east on the high speed rail, there is an ancient town called Qinghuangdao. It is the location of the "Heaven Sea Gate" and the place where the great wall meets the ocean. It's got a lot to look at. I'm not going to say too much about it. I'll just show you the pictures.
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| Ahhh…the country! |
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| It is good to get out of the concrete jungle! |
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| Although I feared trading the train in China, the high speed rail is a newish line and it is quite nice and modern. No complaints! |
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| After we arrived in Qinghuang, three wheeled truck! |
Very pretty.You must have loved seeing all the artifacts!
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