Location: Pingyao County
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Pingyao County is a county in Jinzhong Prefecture in central Shanxi Province, China. Pingyao, its eponymous seat of government, is a AAAAA-rated tourist attraction, preserving a great deal of architecture from the Ming & Qing dynasties. As of 2010, it had 502,712 residents.
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1. Pingyao Day Trips Private One-day Tour
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 70 reviews
Our purpose is making your trip is easy and great in Pingyao, Datong and All Shanxi Province. Our tours are good for traveling alone, couple, family tour with children and senior tourists. Our services include the followings: (1) Free Consulting Servcie, (2) Day Trip of Pingyao Highlights, (3) Day Trip to Mianshan from Pingyao, (4) Day Trip to Wang Family Compound and Shuanglin Temple from Pingyao, (5) Taiyuan Airprot/ Train Station Pick up/Drop off, (6) Day Trip to Qiao Family Compound, (7) Cycling tour (8) Night Walking Tour in Pingyao. (9) Train Tickets Booking, (10)Reliable Driver and Vehicle to all sights in Shanxi Province, (11) Hotel Booking with Better Price with Breakfast, (12) Private English Speaking Guide Servcie. Contact with us and find out the right tour for you and traveling with us, You will save the time and money, and know the local more and better. Welcome to book tour with us.
2. Zhenguo Temple
3. Ping Yao Temple of the City God
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 87 reviews
Reviewed By JoelK382 - Vancouver, Canada
This city temple has been beautifully restored. The temple itself is quite impressive but compact. The grounds are well kept and beautiful.
4. City Wall of Pingyao
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4.5 based on 393 reviews
Reviewed By JoelK382 - Vancouver, Canada
The city walls offer a perfect perch to look out onto the ancient city and the area surrounding the wall. There are also many interesting sculptures, military embattlements and equipment, etc.
5. Xietongqing Unincorporated Bank Museum
6. Ancient City of Pingyao
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4.5 based on 1,367 reviews
Reviewed By 413annp
Beautiful temples and walls to walk around, this was one of our favourite stops on our tour of China. If you are staying at a hotel in the old walled city, you travel by golf buggy at speed, down narrow alley ways, as no cars are allowed inside the walls. In the height of summer, I think it would be incredibly crowded as this is a well known historic city, and out of season is more manageable. We then travelled from the High Speed station in Pingyao to Xian, so you could do this as a day trip from Xian. The train journey is around 2 hours.
7. Pingyao County Government Museum
8. Qiao's Family Compound (Qiao Jia Dayuan)
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 258 reviews
Reviewed By KodoDrummer - Yekaterinburg, Russia
This 9,000 square metre, private residential compound was constructed in the last half of the 18th century. It has 313 room and 25 courtyards of varying sizes. The courtyards include a grand courtyard, five other large, and 19 smaller ones. Its most famous resident was Qiao Zhiyong (1818 to 1907), a famous Chinese financier of the 19th century. The Qing dynasty architecture, wooden carvings, brick and stone carvings, and many other features are spectacular. The compound is sometimes used in movie sets. The movie “Raise the Red Lantern” was filmed here. The property is now used as a folk culture museum of Qixian County
9. Shuanglin Temple
10. Pingyao Confucian Temple
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 155 reviews
Reviewed By book_of_dreams - Australia, null
I recommend getting the 3 day ticket to visit the many historic sites in Pingyao. This temple was expansive, with many beautiful structures and gardens. We walked around for an hour, and it was like a journey back in time, very atmospheric and beautiful
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