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To travellers and culture fanatics, Shanxi is a rare paradise. The delicate area of 156, 000 square meters should collect lots of Buddha temples, grottoes, pagodas and villas of ancient commercial tycoons, receiving millions of overseas Buddhists and architecture fans per year. It's also home to the once-flourishing Shanxi Commercial Group (Jinshang in Chinese), one of the four famed commercial groups in modern China. Those who are interested in the history of Jinshang can get what they want in well-preserved Pingyao Ancient City. Cultivated by the magnificent landscape of Shanxi are plentiful celebrities, the most famous being Guan Gong, the top hero of the Chinese ancient novel Romance of Three Kingdoms. Guan Gong has been respected as the incarnation of loyalty and justice, military saint compared with civilian saint Confucius. So touring hometown of Guan Gong is the best way to understand how great worship Guan Gong enjoys for thousands of years in Chinese culture.

Top Shanxi Attractions

  • Pingyao Ancient City: The ancient city of Pingyao in central Shanxi Province has retained the look and feel of ancient times and serves as an outstanding model of a traditional Han city.
  • Yungang Caves: With a series of 53 caves and over 51,000 majestic sculptures, it's a treasure trove of grotto art that combines Chinese ancient Buddhist art and superb skills of the craftsmen.
  • Hanging Temple: Perched precariously on a near-vertical cliff in the Jinlong Canyon of Hengshan Mountain, the Hanging Temple is one-of-a-kind and is one of China's most remarkable feats of architecture.
  • Wutai Mountain: No.1 among the Four Sacred Mountains in China Buddhism, No.1 among the Ten Summer Mountains in China, one of the World's Five Buddha Mountains and World Heritage Site).
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Within the brief 2-day tour you'll fully understand why Pingyao is entitled to UNESCO world heritage. The all-vintage streets, elaborate compound of ancient commercial tycoons, temples boasting exquisite paintings and sculpture as well as the featured hotels will feast you to the utmost.
Stay away from on-the-go metropolis life and enjoy 3 days of thorough relaxing life in Pingyao Ancient City. Let the adorable Pingyao small town convince you that things good can stay gold.
It's most beneficial to come to Pingyao during Pingyao International Photography Festival. You'll not only happily wander about the time-honored Pingyao Ancient City but have fun watching various profiles of Pingyao in the wonderland built by the camera.
Look what it takes to make the UNESCO world heritage Pingyao Ancient City and rich-in-Buddha-art city Datong. Well-maintained ancient streets, once-glorious exchange companies, lofty ancient government office, ever-standing city wall and unbelievable temples and Buddha caves show their charm to the utmost in front of you.
The tour is to show you a delicately carved cultural landscape of Shanxi Province. Three famous tourist cities, Pingyao, Taiyuan and Datong of the province come together, unfolding their vast stock of standout works in architecture, carving, history...Buildings and folklore are so vintage and well-maintained that you can't help wowing again and again.
This is a full-of-fantasy tour. All the attractions we show you among four cities in Shanxi Province are beyond your imagination. You'll see how strong the ancient buildings can get, how delicate Buddha carvings and paintings are and how splendid an ancient city can stay.

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