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Imperial Palace
 Tucked
away in a valley 155 miles northeast of Beijing, the
mountain resort at Chengde, formerly known as the Jehol
Summer Palace, is one of the biggest and most celebrated
former imperial gardens in China. Opened in recent years
to foreign tourists, the imperial garden is far less
well-known than Beijing's Forbidden City or Summer Palace---despite
the fact that it is bigger than both of them combined,
3,16 sq. miles to be precise.
 Park-laying
and palace construction started in 1703, and the resort
reached its present dimensions in 1970.
With four clusters of magnificent halls, palaces and
pavilions nesting among the wooed slops inside a meandering,
six-mile, red-painted wall, the area is a superb blend
of traditional architecture and landscape gardening,
mixing the courtyard styles typical of north China with
the soft, misty landscapes of the south.
Qing emperors regularly spent several summer months
at the resort, and it was there that Emperor Qian Long
received an emissary from England--- the first Western
envoy to visit the Qing court.
 Outside
the palace wall are the "Eight Outer Temples"
built to celebrate birthdays of emperors and their mothers.
They include elements of Han, Tibetan and Mongolian
architecture. One is a replica of the Potala Palace
at Lhasa in Tibet, and another house a giant standing
Buddha statue 70 ft. tall
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No.9 Sun Moon Lake
The
beauty and peace of Sun Moon Lake's emerald waters set
amid jade mountains have made it Taiwan's most popular
honeymoon resort. Attractions include a panoramic view
of the lake from the massive Wen Wu Temple (dedicated
to both Confucius and the God of War), a peacock garden,
butterfly museum, a small aborigine village, hiking
trails and spectacular views from the Tsu En (filial
devotion) Pagoda