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| Qianmen, one of the ancient gates to Old Beijing. |
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| The Tianhecheng Restaurant where we ate several times while in
Beijing. It had excellent food, great service, and very reasonable prices. |
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Rural farmers working in the fields. This was taken from the train
window on the way to Chengde. A herd of goats also grazes on the land.
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| Also taken from the train, this restored section of the Great Wall
was an impressive site winding through the mountains north of Beijing. |
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| Besides farms and rural peasant villages, there were many factories
scatterred along the way from Beijing to Chengde. |
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| One of the many beautiful man-made rock gardens in the Summer Palace in
Chengde. |
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| This is the exterior of the noodle stand Mei-O and I ate breakfast in
on our last day in Chengde. |
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| Outside the Qiuxuanjiaozifang jiaozi Restaurant where we had a delicious
hot pepper and fish dish, shuizhuyu, along with
several types of shuijiao. |
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