10 Days in Jinzhou

Tide-table timing for the 1,620-metre causeway; the island's six-storey stone Sanqing pavilion rises near 26 metres.

1. jinzhou bijiashan

The 2013 world horticultural expo spread its gardens across a reclaimed headland — pavilions, coastal lawns and a slow day by the Bohai.

1. jinzhou expo park

The 1948 campaign museum and its 16-metre, 122-metre-round panorama hall; the near-71-metre Liao pagoda of Guangji at dusk.

1. jinzhou liaoshen memorial
2. jinzhou guangji pagoda

Forested trails on the city's northwest edge, then barbecued skewers — the local specialty — in the evening market streets.

1. jinzhou beiputuo mountain

The 1020 great hall with nine bays and seven near-9-metre Liao Buddhas, first-batch national protection since 1961.

1. jinzhou fengguo temple

The Northern Wei grottoes of 499 above the Daling, plus the Liao-era Guangsheng pagoda in town.

1. jinzhou wanfo grottoes
2. jinzhou guangsheng pagoda

The 866.6-metre Wanghai summit and the cliff shrines along the routes — a full mountain day from Beizhen town.

1. jinzhou yiwulv mountain

The temple where emperors sacrificed to the mountain for centuries, and the 42-metre Liao twin pagodas in the old town.

1. jinzhou beizhen temple
2. jinzhou chongxing twin pagodas

An honestly labelled neighbour day — the Ming walls of Xingcheng, laid out in 1428 with about 3,200 metres of square perimeter and the stone arches of the Zu family, by the sea south of Jinzhou.

1. jinzhou xingcheng day

A second honest neighbour day — Panjin's red beach, where the seepweed turns deepest red in September along an 18-kilometre coastal corridor, then evening trains from Jinzhou for home.

1. jinzhou panjin day