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Assembly Hall
The recently renovated assembly hall has statues of the 16 arhats and two huge statues of Tsongkhapa (only visible from upstairs). Stairs lead up to the inner sanctum, the Golden Throne Room (Ser Trikhang), which houses the throne of Tsongkhapa. Pilgrims get thumped on the head her
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Guia Fort & Guia Chapel
As the highest point on the peninsula, Guia Fort affords panoramic views of the city and, when the air is clear, across to the islands and China. At the top is the stunning Chapel of Our Lady of Guia built in 1622 and retaining almost 100% of its original features, including some o
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Hotan Sunday Market
Hotan’s most popular attraction is its weekly Sunday market. The covered market bustles every day of the week but on Sundays it swamps the northeast part of town, reaching fever pitch between noon and 2pm Xīnjiāng time. The most interesting parts are the doppi (skullcap) bazaar, th
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King Tiger Hot Springs (Tagyel Chutse)
The Tagyel Chutse, or King Tiger Hot Springs, are a collection of gushing geysers, bubbling hot springs, puffing steam outlets and smoking holes that seem to lead straight down into the bowels of the earth. The best time to visit is during the Tibetan Bathing Festival, or Gama Rije
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Drepung Kora
This lovely kora climbs up to around 3900m and probably should not be attempted until you’ve had four or five days to acclimatise in Lhasa. The path passes several rock paintings, climbs up past a high wall used to hang a giant thangka during the Shötun festival, peaks at a valley
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Chapel of the Prefect
This small building was a private shrine for Tsaparang’s prefect or regent. The caretaker has named it the ‘Drölma Lhakhang’ after his own sculpture of Drölma (Tara) displayed here. The exuberant wall murals date from the 16th century, by which time the style evinced in other Tsapa
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Pak Sing Ancestral Hall
In the 19th century, many Chinese who left home in search of better horizons died overseas. As it was the wish of traditional Chinese to be buried in their hometowns, this temple was built in 1856 to store corpses awaiting burial in China, and to serve as a public ancestral hall fo
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Grand (Sunday) Bazaar
Kashgar’s main bazaar is open every day but really kicks it up a gear on Sunday. Step carefully through the jam-packed entrance and allow your five senses to guide you through the market; the pungent smell of cumin, the sight of scorpions in a jar, the sound of muqam music from tin
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Bājiăozhài National Geopark
This park is named after eight Dānxiá stone peaks that lie near the border with Húnán. Round, isolated, featuring ring-like troughs and leaning 45 degrees in the same direction, they resemble snails sunning themselves after the rain. The trail winds past steep cliffs, collapsed bou
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Lui Seng Chun
Hugging a street corner is this beautiful four-storey Chinese shophouse belonging to a school of Chinese medicine. A historic construction (c 1931), it features a mix of Chinese and European architectural styles – deep verandahs, urn-shaped balustrades and other fanciful takes on a
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Guìdé National Geological Park
In the stunning multi-coloured clay scenery of Dānxiá Canyon (丹霞峡谷, Dānxiá Xiágǔ), this geopark offers walking trails in among red and orange hills that have eroded into other-wordly shapes. Set against the contrasting blue Qīnghǎi skies and teal waters of the Yellow River, this is
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Tibetan Culture & Medicine Museum
Exhibitions at this excellent museum focus on traditional Tibetan medicine, astronomy and science, as well as traditional Tibetan life, homes and costumes. The highlight is a 618m-long thangka (Tibetan sacred art) scroll – the world’s longest – which charts most of Tibetan history.
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Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Relocation and expansion have turned this into one of the city’s strongest museums, with 15 well-curated galleries detailing over 2000 years of Chinese maritime history and the development of the Port of Hong Kong. Exhibits include ceramics from China’s ancient sea trade, shipwreck
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Tsim Sha Tsui East Promenade & Star Ferry
The resplendent views of Victoria Harbour make this walkway one of the best strolls in Hong Kong. Begin your journey at the old Kowloon-Canton Railway clock tower , a landmark of the Age of Steam, near the Star Ferry concourse . To your left is the windowless Hong Kong Cultural Cen
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Liangyi Museum
This private three-floor museum houses two exquisite collections – antique Chinese furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Chinese-inspired European vanities from the 19th and 20th century. The former is one of the world’s best. The 400 pieces of precious huanghuali and zit
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Jiāohé Ruins
Also called Yarkhoto, Jiāohé was established by the Chinese as a garrison town during the Han dynasty. It’s one of the world’s largest (6500 residents once lived here), oldest (1600 years old) and best-preserved ancient cities, inspiring with its scale, setting, and palpable histor
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Capital Museum
Behind the riveting good looks of the Capital Museum are some first-rate galleries, including a mesmerising collection of ancient Buddhist statues and a lavish exhibition of Chinese porcelain. There is also an interesting chronological history of Běijīng, an exhibition that is dedi
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Sili Götsang
A 4km drive north of the turn-off to Talung brings you to Sili Götsang, an amazing eagle’s-nest hermitage perched high above the main road. The monks at Talung have recently renovated the hermitage. Many of the chapels have murals of the main Kagyud teachers – Tiropa, Naropa, Milar
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Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Southwest of Sha Tin town centre, this spacious, high-quality museum gives a peek into local history and culture. Highlights include a childrens area with interactive play zones, the New Territories Heritage Hall with mock-ups of traditional minority villages, the Cantonese Opera H
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Bezeklik Cave Complex
This cave complex, which dates from the 6th to 14th century, has a fine location in a mesmerising desert landscape. Bezeklik means ‘Place of Paintings’ in Uighur and the murals painted in the 11th century represented a high point in Uighur Buddhist art. Sadly the site is now famous
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