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Fenghuangling 凤凰岭Fènghuáng Lǐng
4A scenic area · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Fenghuangling
A scenic area of about 9.7 km² of rocky hills in north-west Haidian, named after a huge 'Fenghuangling' inscription carved on a cliff and nicknamed the 'Little Huangshan of western Beijing'. Three hiking routes follow the valleys past cave shrines carved in the Liao and Jin periods, the Daoist Taoyuan Temple, a 53-step 'Heavenly Ladder' cut almost vertically into the rock, and Longquan Temple, an active Buddhist monastery at the foot of the hills.
How to get to Fenghuangling
In Sujiatuo, north-west Haidian District, about 35 km from Tiananmen and roughly an hour by road.
Nearby
- Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 10 km
Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn - Summer Palace 颐和园 20 km
An imperial lakeside garden of painted corridors, temple-topped hills and a marble boat - Old Summer Palace 圆明园 20 km
Broken marble arches of Qing European-style palaces beside lakes of summer lotus - Tanzhe Temple 潭柘寺 20 km
Terraced temple courtyards in the western hills, shaded by ancient ginkgos and cypresses - Ming Tombs 明十三陵 30 km
Stone guardians on the Sacred Way and an emperor's underground palace to walk through
Also within 20 km: Dajue Temple 大觉寺 (under 10 km), Luanzhou Uprising Memorial Park 辛亥滦州起义纪念园 (under 10 km), Gushan Village 谷山村 (10 km), China National Botanical Garden 国家植物园 (20 km), Leduogang Holiday Plaza 乐多港假日广场 (20 km), Tuancheng Fortress 团城演武厅 (20 km).
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