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Tianyun Scenic Area
Beijing Great Wall contains several sections among which Jinshanling Great Wall is very popular. Jinshanling Great Wall is one of the most representative sections of the Great Wall, located in the junction between Miyun County and Luanping in Hebei Province. Jinshanling Great Wall east to Simatai Great Wall and west to Gubeikou Great Wall with magnificent scenery. The dense of watch towers is rare beyond other sections. It is not too difficult to climb Jinshanling Great Wall, so it is a good place and a paradise for photographers.
Besides Jinshanling Great Wall there are some other attractive places situated in Miyun County including Tianyun Scenic Area. Tianyun Scenic Area is located in Miyun County, 140 kilometers away from Beijing Dongzhimen. The main peak in Tianyun Mountain is with the elevation of 1149 meters. Standing on the main peak, just like the blue sky overhead, satisfy clouds, overlooking the peaks around: from the east could enjoy the snow in June of Wuling Mountain, to the west tourists could watch tower cloud stood, majestic ancient Great Wall meandering east and west side of the mountain peaks above. The Great Wall along the “Dianjianglou” stretching about 2500 meters from east to west. The city is full of white birch forest and pine shade, fragrant flowers and birds’ contention, like a beautiful picture tile on top of the mountain, which is regarded as a rare natural park. Tianyun Mountain Scenic Area is a beautiful picture with dangerous, strange, quiet, cool in one place, giving the joy of beauty for all the travelers.
Steep cliffs and mountain valleys, peaks and rolling plug of ancient terraced rice paddies cloud, beyond the Great Wall within the sceneries scenery and customs together, the contrast is so strong, while the integration is so harmonious. Natural landscape is not only magnificent, but also hardness and softness side by side. Because of this strange scene, it created this colorful world and attracts large numbers of tourists every year. This area south to Yunxiu valley hunting area, east to Wuling Mountain, west connected with Bailingguan with very convenient transportation and fast communication, and has become the first choice for leisure in recent years. During this visit, tourists could both climbing on foot and riding up to the top of the hill.
Jinshanling Great Wall and Tianyun Scenic Area both enjoy very magnificent scenery so every visitor will enjoy the time and leave an unforgettable memory during the trip.
Yunxiu Valley Scenic Spot
Jinshanling Great Wall enjoys the beautiful scenery all the year round and it is a very popular viewpoint of Beijing tour. When traveling to Beijing, you should not miss the attraction of Jinshanling Great Wall. And during the tour to Jinshanling Great Wall in Beijing Miyun County, travelers could both enjoy the magnificent scenery and its history. And also not far from Jinshanling Great Wall, there are also some other attractive places.
Yunxiu Valley Scenic Spot is located in Miyun County, 132 kilometers away from Beijing downtown. It enjoys the superior natural environment, a vast mountain-area, with the vegetation coverage rate of 95% or more. East to Wuling Forest Park, West adjoin Simatai Great Wall, Yunxiu Valley Scenic Spot is the center for traveling.
The highest peak in Yunxiu Valley Scenic Spot is 1,700 meters high. With the vegetation coverage rate above 95%, the annual average temperature of 12 degrees, it is a good place for summer. Besides 400 meters sliding cable allows you to experience the feeling of flying at high altitude. Peaks, rocks, pools, waterfalls all in one, in particular, the red stone of ancient geological phenomena and gravel of Quaternary glacial lake are still rare in the country rock group, and the expedition with a high value. Yunxiu Valley Scenic Spot is full of flowers and verdant, beautiful scenery, and also the preservation of the depths of forests. Rocks, valley, cave, river, scattered orderly, and there are beaded Lake, seven cents waterfall, pillar, etc. more than 40 scenic spots in the area. Besides there are also multiple cultural landscape, such as Liu Bowen’s house, the Great Wall beacon towers and folk castles where live more than 100-odd officers and men of future generations from the Ming Dynasty. Mongolian village offers a variety of special folk services for the tourists from all over the world.
Enclosed an area of six thousand acres of hunting grounds, hunting grounds open nearly 100 square kilometers, over 20 kinds of animals; with modern shooting range, with electric launchers, exposure to which you can flourish. In addition, there are scenic folk hotels and peasant families can live, travelers could taste the farmers’ meal and enjoy the farm fun.
During the tour to Jinshanling Great Wall, tourists will amaze at its large scale and the beautiful scenery, and after visiting Yunxiu Valley Scenic Spot, tourists will feel closer to nature. The good experience will deeply impress you.
Miyun Reservoir
There is a popular saying: “Having not been to Beijing Great Wall is not a true man” which now is a proverb popular among foreign tourists. Beijing Great Wall contains several sections among which Jinshanling Great Wall is very popular. Jinshanling Great Wall is one of the most representative sections of the Great Wall, located in the junction between Miyun County and Luanping in Hebei Province. And not far from Jinshanling Great Wall, there are also some other attractive places.
Miyun Reservoir located 13 kilometers north from Miyun County, is among the peaks of Yanshan Mountain, across the Chao and the White two rivers. Miyun Reservoir is the largest artificial lake in Asia which is called the “Yanshan Pearl”. It is the main commercial source of water for industrial of Beijing. In summer the average temperature is 3 ℃ lower than the downtown, so Miyun is a summer resort.
Miyun Reservoir was started in September 1958 and finished in September of 1960. The main buildings are White River with 66 meters high and 960.2 meters long; Chaohe main dam with 56 meters high and 1100 meters long; five Vice-dam, 2 water tunnel, three large Spillway, two power stations, a pool and a large adjustment to the Beijing Miyun aqueducts. The whole area of Miyun Reservoir is 188 square kilometers, 137,000 acres of water surface with the depth of 40 to 60 meters. The Reservoir is divided into three parts with a total storage capacity of 4.317 billion cubic meters, equivalent to 67 Ming Tombs Reservoir and 150 Kunming Lake.
With beautiful hills and thousands of images Miyun Reservoir attracts tourists from all over the world and become one of Jingdong famous tourist scenic spots. When you come to the reservoir, you will meet the dam at first sight. Reach the top of the dam, the vision suddenly become clear and vast. Little fishing vessels, boundless scenery, all kinds of buildings hidden among the mountains, just like Sin Temple Joan Tower all of which are really attractive. With so comfortable environment, Miyun Reservoir is the ideal place for you to tourism, fishing or rest.
After visiting Jinshanling Great Wall and Miyun Reservoir, you will be amazed at the beautiful scenery and the large scale. Also the excellent experience both in Jinshanling Great Wall and Miyun Reservoir will leave you a wonderful memory during your Beijing travel.
Beijing Miyun
Beijing Miyun is well known for its Great Wall scenery here; Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall is located inside of the Zone of Beijing Miyun County and the location of Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall is very close to Beijing Simatai Great Wall. Tourists in Miyun County cannot miss the good sections of Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall and Simatai Great Wall. Jinshanling Great Wall scenery in autumn is very beautiful; tourists can have a good tour here because of the good related tourism facilities in Jinshanling Great Wall scenic area. Here is some information about Miyuan County for tourists in Beijing as follows:
Miyun has a long history of about 10 million years, there has been human activity in 10 million years, according to Yan Chai relics off the research, in 6000 years ago, and there are human settlements into the Miyun village. Also according to the research of many underground cultural sites such as Xiajiadian, Miyun has entered the slave society at that time, the Shang Dynasty territory. Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, Miyun belongs to Yan Kingdom. Miyun County is named to Yuyang in the period of Yan Kingdom. 227 years BC (Emperor two years), based Yuyang County, which is the oldest institution of Miyun district administration records. 207 BC (Qin Dynasty Dynasty) Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Yu Yang guarding here is Today’s Miyun County. AD 379 years (two years before the Northern Wei Huang) set Miyun County. 15 km south drom the county, there are mountains, perennial misty, mountain called Miyun, Miyun this is the origin of its name.
Miyun County folk tourism rely on tourism or tourist attractions, the ancient stone castles, ancient villages, the ancient residents of heritage as a foundation for folk culture for the content, live folk households to paste grilles, firecrackers, sleep kang and eat corn pancake, millet porridge, pancake stalls, collapse Dunyu other local features for the enjoyment of eating, Miyun of Beijing Folk Village attracted a large influx of tourists. At the same time with a lot of Miyun large resort, hold a meeting, Miyun Wuling Mountain Village is one of them, beautiful scenery and the art meeting facilities, the tourism industry for the Miyun bring greater vitality.
If tourists want to have a Miyun County, maybe it is a good choice to book one Beijing car rental for the tour online. Also Beijing car rental for Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall tour; tourists are welcomed to book online. Beijing Jinshanlinga and Simatai Great Wall in Beijing Miyun will make people satisfied with the tour. A lot of good tourism resources in Miyun are waiting your coming!
Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall Tour
Beijing Jinshanling Great wall is a famous and popular section of Beijing Great Wall in Beijing tour and many tourists would like to choose the section of the Jinshanling Great Wall to start a Great Wall tour in Beijing. The Jinshanling Great Wall is located in Beijing Miyun County and is close to Yanshan Mountain. The existing Jingshanling Great Wall was built in 1570 and was rebuilt several times later. Jinshanling Great Wall also is very popular in Beijing tour and many Beijing Great Wall tour lines including the Jingshanling Great Wall such as the Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall tour line.
The Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall Tour is one day group Beijing tour and tourists will visit the Jinshanling Great Wall and Simatai Great Wall during the one day Beijing Great Wall tour. The price of the Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall Tour is 288 RMB (45 USD) per person for the coach tour. Tourists of the Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall Tour will be picked up from their hotels positions around 5:30am to 7:00am in morning. People in Beijing are welcome to re-book the Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall Tour one the internet and people will have a good day through the wonderful Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall Tour.
Beijing Simatai Great Wall
Simatai Great Wall is located in the northeast of Miyun County of Beijingcity. Simatai Great Wall is the essential part of The Great Wall; it has been identified as “world-class treasures” of human super cultural heritage by UNESCO.
Simatai Great Wall is the only one that no modification among many great walls and it still retains the original style of Ming Dynasty buildings. Simatai Great Wall is strange and risk, the famous Professor, Luo Zhewen praise it as follows: “Great Wall of China is the highest in the world; the Simatai is the most of China Great Wall”.
Simatai Great Wall and Jinshanling Great Wall are both located in Miyun County, so many tourists of Jinshanling Great Wall would like to visit it after the Jinshanling Great Wall. The distance is not far from Jinshanling Great Wall to Simatai Great Wall, it will cost you 30 minutes from Jinshanling Great Wall. So if you have enough free time after you visit Jinshanling Great Wall, maybe Simatai Great Wall is a good place to go on your Great Wall tour in China. It will give a different feeling with the feeling in Jinshanling Great Wall.
Beijing Wuling Mountain Villa
Beijing Wuling Mountain Villa is located in Xinchengzi town, Miyun County, at the foot of Wuling Mountain National Forest Park with elegant environment and pleasant weather.
Beijing Wuling Mountain Villa was built in 1987, under the leadership of Miyun County Government Offices Administration. In front of the building is 200 thousand square meters of lake for fishing. There are air boats, motor boats, rowing hand, the water and other recreational water activities. After your visit of Jinshanling Great Wall, you can enjoy other entertainment in the villa. Beijing Wuling Mountain Villa has more than 160 guest rooms, 3 villas for 400 people on accommodation. Banquet hall can accommodate 500 people. You can also enjoy barbecue flavor and green food. There are 21 meeting rooms for 500 people. Beijing Wuling Mountain Villa provides KTV, bowling, swimming, sauna and other recreational activities.
Jinshanling Great Wall is located in Luanping, Hebei Province, not far from Beijing Wuling Mountain Villa. After your Jinshanling Great Wall tour, you can turn back to the hotel. Jinshanling Great Wall began to be built in 1368 with difficult terrain. Many tourists would like to visit Jinshanling Great Wall for its famous appearance. In 1991, Jinshanling Great Wall was listed as state-level scenic spot.
Chengde Huanyu Hotel
Chengde Huanyu Hotel is located east of Tourist Bridge, Chengde city with beautiful environment and convenient transportation. It is 1 km away from the downtown business district. As a domestic designated hotel, Chengde Huanyu Hotel is also politic activity center of Hebei Province.
Chengde Huanyu Hotel has luxury suites, standard rooms, economy rooms with total 260 beds. All rooms are equipped with air-conditioning, color TV, private bathroom. Chengde Huanyu Hotel is a three star hotel. You can reach the world’s largest imperial garden “Mountain Resort” on the foot. The hotel is near Chengde railway station, with beautiful scenery. The hotel also provides free broadband Internet access. One conference hall can accommodate 100 people for conferences and events. A large open-air car park is supervised all day.
Jinshanling Great Wall located in Luanping, Hebei Province, near Chengde Huanyu Hotel. After your Jinshanling Great Wall tour, you can turn back to the hotel. Jinshanling Great Wall began to be built in 1368 with difficult terrain. Many tourists would like to visit Jinshanling Great Wall for its famous appearance. In 1991, Jinshanling Great Wall was listed as state-level scenic spot.
Wangjinglou Tower
Wangjinglou Tower firmly stands on highest place of Jinshanling Great Wall, for its high and risk Wangjinglou Tower seems quite unique among more than 100 watch towers on Jinshanling Great Wall.
Looking from a far distance, Wangjilou Tower is like a straigt cone standing highly into the sky and this image made people don’t dare to clime it. However, tourists visiting Jinshanling Great Wall all want to visitor Wangjinglou tower. From Wangjinglou Tower, visitors could see the outline of Beijing city and the spectacle scenery offered by super wide horizon. The beautiful scenery will wipe out all your tired feelings away.
According to heritage workers’ research, the main usage of Wangjinglou Tower is to observe the enemy from far distance, once there is an enemy action; the soldiers will release fireworks or bit the drum to convey this message, and immediately mobilized the soldiers in the city into the battle.
General View on the Imperial Summer Villa of Chengde
The Imperial Summer Villa of Chengde is located in the city of Chengde, northeastern Hebei Province. It is the largest Imperial garden in China, which is the twice size of Beijing’s Summer Palace. It was began with the Emperor Kangxi in 1703 and continued to construct till the Emperor Qianlong’s reign which was lasted for about ninety years. The Qing Dynasty had spent much of the year in the garden. It was added into the World Heritage site in 1994.