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Outside the city in Nanjing
Outside the city in Nanjing
QiXia Temple (栖霞寺), (From Nanjing, take a bus from the small bus station west of the Railway Station subway stop, leave from exit 1 and head 100m past the KFC. The bus doesn’t have a number, instead look for the () characters on the front. The fare is Y3 and takes about 50mins. Enroute the bus passes through a bucolic village then back onto the highway. Get off when it gets to a second village and stops on a bridge. QiXia Si is back toward the village centre.). A one time retreat for Emperor QianLong, the temple at the foot of maple forested hillside now draws hoards of less exulted visitors to clamber along the network of trails connecting fancifully named pavilions, ponds, tombs and natural stone features. The temple itself is not extensive, having only a pair of identical looking bell and drum towers in front of an austerely large hall, embedded with elegant lacquer-red window frames, containing a relatively contemporary, yet gracefully benevolent looking gigantic Buddha seated on a golden lotus. At the rear of the hall is a pair of intricately carved cabinets of a more impressively authentic vintage housing stone Buddha and Guanyin statues. The temple allegedly has an ancient bone relic purported to be from the historical Buddha, though it is kept well hidden. Further up the hill is a cluster of stone formations bifurcated by a steep canyon, believed to have been split in antiquity by mystical forces, that enables accent up a stair way to a pavilion and a high view over the valley. Higher up the hill are the crumbling remnants of group of buildings used by Qianlong’s army. The best time to visit is during autumn when the maple trees are radiating orange or Spring when the peach blossoms are loaded with pink and white flowers. ¥20. �
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