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Plan your Pingyao Tour? Located in central Shanxi Province, about 100 km south of Taiyuan, Pingyao is a tiny ancient city built in the Western Zhou Dy...
Plan your Pingyao tour? If you are not pressed for time when visit Pingyao, a glimpse of Shuanglin Temple (双林寺) is highly recommended. Shuangling Temp...
Plan your Pingyao tour? A side trip to Zhangbi Ancient Castle (张壁古堡) is highly recommended. Unlike the touristy Pingyao ancient city, Zhangbi Ancient...
Plan your Pingyao tour? One day side trip to Wang Family Compound ( 王家大院) and Zhangbi Ancient Castle is high recommended. Wang Family Compound in Shan...
Plan yourPingyao tour? A short stay in the ancient city of Pingyao offers you a tentative escape from the ever revolving urbanized big cities and imme...
Plan your Pingyao tour? The Ancient City of Ping Yao with its associated temples of Shuanglin and Zhenguo has preserved authentically the elements and...
Plan your Pingyao Tour? At the time of my writing, there are 3 taxi companies operating in the city of Pingyao ( not operating inside the old town) an...
Plan your Pingyaotour? Pingyao is now easily accessible by high speed trains (apart from the regular trains) coming from Taiyuan, Datong, Beijing, Xia...
Plan yourPingyao tour? If you are an irrepressible bus traveller, and wonder how to get to Pingyao by bus. Well, Pingyao does has a long-distance pass...
Plan your Pingyao Tour? With the completion of the Taiyuan Xian high speed train railway, now people can easily reach Pingyao by highs peed trains fro...
While you are planning either Beijing tour or Xian tour, the two places sought after by most of the oversea first-time visitors coming to China, one g...