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Kathmandu Valley
The cultural heritage of Kathmandu Valley consists of seven groups of monuments and buildings that showcase all the historical and artistic achievements for which Kathmandu Valley is famous. These seven groups of monuments and buildings include Hanuman Dhoka Palace (Kathmandu), Patan Palace and Bhaktapur Palace, Swayambhu and Badanath Stupa and Pashupatinath and Changu Narayan Hindu Temples.
Pyu Ancient Cities
The Pyu ruins include the remains of three brick-walled, moated cities, Ha Rin, Bektano and Sriksettra, located on vast irrigated lands in the arid zone of the Irrawaddy River. They reflect the prosperity of the Pyu Kingdom for more than 1,000 years between 200 BC and 900 AD. The three cities are partially excavated archaeological sites. The remains include excavated palace castles, cemeteries and manufacturing sites, as well as huge brick pagodas, partially standing walls and water management facilities - some of which are still in use - that underpin organized intensive agriculture.
Sacred City of Kandy
This Buddhist holy site, popularly known as Senkadagarapura, was the last capital of the Sinhalese kings, whose patronage allowed the Dinahara culture to flourish for more than 2,500 years until the British occupied Sri Lanka in 1815. It is also home to the Temple of the Tooth (the sacred tooth of the Buddha), a famous pilgrimage site.
Badachu Park
Badachu Park is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, one of the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Beijing, and a boutique park in Beijing. It is located at the southern foot of Beijing Xishan Scenic Area. Badachu Park is a Buddhist temple garden with a long history and rich cultural heritage, and a modern urban forest closest to the city center. Badachu Park is surrounded by Cuiwei Mountain, Pingpo Mountain, and Lushi Mountain, the remnants of Taihang Mountains. It covers an area of 253 hectares, with the highest peak at an altitude of 464 meters and a vegetation coverage rate of 97.4%. The mountain is warm and windy in winter and cool and pleasant in summer. The eight ancient temples were founded in the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and have been rebuilt for generations. So far, the ancient buildings are still well preserved. The eight ancient temples and the famous "Twelve Scenes" carry the profound Chinese Buddhist culture and Chinese literati culture respectively, and also constitute the unique core tourism resources and tourist attractions of Badachu. Badachu Park is located at the southern foot of Xishan Scenic Area in the western suburbs of Beijing. The park is named "Badachu" because there are eight ancient temples (Lingguang Temple, Chang'an Temple, Sanshan Temple, Dabei Temple, Longquan Temple, Xiangjie Temple, Baozhu Cave, Zhengguo Temple). The eight ancient temples were first built in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, and were rebuilt in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Among them, Lingguang, Chang'an, Dabei, Xiangjie and Zhengguo Temples were all built by the emperor. The tooth relic of Sakyamuni Buddha was once enshrined in the Liaozhaoxian Pagoda of Lingguang Temple. Badachu Park was destroyed by the artillery fire of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Premier Zhou Enlai approved the construction of a new Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda. Badachu Park is surrounded by three mountains and is famous for its natural "Twelve Scenes". The ancients praised it as "Three Mountains are like a beautiful house, Eight Temples are like antiques in the house, and Twelve Scenes are like a garden outside the house". It is also said that "The beauty of Xiangshan is artificial, and the beauty of Badachu is natural, and its natural beauty is better than the scenic spots in Xishan." There are three most worthwhile places to visit in Badachu. The first is Lingguang Temple, where there is a towering Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda, a Thousand Buddhas Pagoda with ancient Liao Dynasty portraits, a goldfish pond with brocade scales playing, and the magnificent "Arhat Wall" and "Heart Sutra Wall". The second is Dabei Temple, where the famous Yuan Dynasty sculptor Liu Yuan sculpted the 18 Arhats in the Main Hall, which are lifelike. The third is the well-organized Xiangjie Temple, where Buddha statues and offerings are complete. Particularly noteworthy are the two dragon-headed turtle-seated imperial steles under the Main Hall, on which are engraved the writings of the three Qing Dynasty emperors Kangxi, Qianlong, and Jiaqing. Badachu Park is warm and breezy in winter and cool and pleasant in summer. The soil is fertile and the vegetation is rich. Among them, there are more than 80 kinds of trees, more than 400,000 trees, 18 kinds of precious ancient trees, 590 trees, such as the white pine in Chang'an Temple, the horse chestnut in Lingguang Temple, the ginkgo in Dabei Temple, and the Pistacia in Zhengguo Temple, all of which are over 600 years old and still full and beautiful. There are nearly 140,000 red-leaf trees such as Cotinus coggygria, Torchwood, and Acer truncatum. After the autumn frost, the forests are all dyed red.