2-Day Chengde Essence Tour

- Summer Resort / Temple of Universal Peace

Trip Highlights - Attraction in Chengde involved: Summer Resort, Temple of Universal Peace, Temple of Potaraka Doctrine. Chengde was the summer camp of the Qing emperors. Here, in a walled enclosure containing numerous palaces, pavilions, and pagodas as well as a vast hunting park, emperors escaped Beijing's blazing summer temperatures, entertained delegations from home and abroad, and practiced the mounted military skills which had originally gained them their empire. With the long history, there are numbers of attractions left. Three of them are on the list of our 2-day Chengde tour.
Availability: Daily.      Pick-up Point & Time: Your hotel, 8:30am.      Finishing Point & Time: Your hotel, 5:00pm.      Duration: 2 days.

Tour Itinerary: (B-Breakfast, L-Lunch, D-Dinner)
Day 01: Arrive in Chengde (L/D)
After picking you up from your hotel, we will take you on a drive for a few hours to the old resort town of Chengde. Upon your arrival, you will visit the Summer Resort, built in 1703 to 1792, that served as the second political center of the Qing Imperial Court. It is the largest surviving royal garden in China, occupying an area of 564,000 square meters, even bigger than the Summer Palace in Beijing. After a few hours of sightseeing, you will be brought back to your hotel.
Hotel: Yunshan Hotel 4 star (or similar class)
Day 02: Depart from Chengde (B/L)
You will be picked up from your hotel in the morning and will first visit the Temple of Universal Peace, built in 1755 to commemorate the Qing Dynasty victory over the Mongolians. Inside there is a huge statue of Avalokiteshvara. After spending some time at the Temple, you will next visit another temple, the Temple of Potaraka Doctrine, built in 1767, which is a smaller replica of the Potala Monastery in Lhasa. It is the largest temple of the Eight Outer Temples in Chengde City. The temple served more functions than just Buddhist ceremonies and festivals. It was also the location that the emperor would gather meetings of different ethnic envoys found throughout the empire.After visiting this temple, you will be sent to your hotel. (Service End)

Attraction Description
Summer Resort
Chengde Summer Palace is a fine example of China's royal gardens, which used various traditional ways to combine features of southern China and the grassland in nomadic north of China in an arrangement with more than 120 buildings.12 brilliant, palatial Lama temples built outside the...
Temple of Universal Peace
The Temple of Universal Peace is the best magnificent temple in Chengde.The Temple of Universal Peace (Puning Temple) Covers an area of 23,000 square meters (5.7 acres), which is the furthest north of the eight temples situated outside the walls of the Imperial Summer Villa and certainly one of the most impressive. Also known as the Big Buddha Temple, a reference to the huge statue of the... Temple of Potaraka Doctrine
The most conspicuous characteristics of this temple rely on its Tibetan style. Within the temple, about sixty flat-roof-house-like white platforms and Sanskrit white platforms lays freely beyond the axes to confront the mountainous terrain. The main buildings big red square-shaped platform at the top of the mountain is very attractive in contrast with the surrounding white attics. This platform was used...