7 Days in Liaoyang

The 70.4-metre Jin-dynasty pagoda, the temple tracing its founding to the Han era and reopened after the 2004 rebuilding, and the 1920s courtyard museum.

1. liaoyang white pagoda park
2. liaoyang guangyou temple
3. liaoyang city museum

Nurhaci's capital from 1621 to 1625, the early-Qing tombs nearby, and the river named for Prince Dan of Yan from the 3rd century BC.

1. liaoyang dongjing city site
2. liaoyang dongjing mausoleum
3. liaoyang taizi river

Han painted tombs known since 1918 and nationally protected since 1961, the Cao Xueqin memorial of the Liaoyang-ancestry tradition, and Qing scholar Wang Erlie's residence.

1. liaoyang hanwei mural tombs
2. liaoyang cao xueqin memorial
3. liaoyang wang erlie memorial

Honestly labelled neighbouring-city day — about 80 kilometres east to Benxi for the boat ride along roughly three kilometres of underground river held near 10 degrees year-round; take a warm layer.

1. benxi water cave

Honestly labelled neighbouring-city day — under half an hour to Anshan for the granite peaks of Qianshan, with hundreds of summits and old monasteries, then the palace built around a jade Buddha carved from a single 260-tonne boulder.

1. anshan qianshan
2. anshan yufuyuan

Forest gorge walking at Hehuogou in Gongchangling, favoured by painters, then an overnight beside the mineral springs with centuries of use.

1. liaoyang hehuogou
2. liaoyang tanghe hot springs

Morning by the Tanghe reservoir, the cold-hot ground curiosity at Gongchangling, a spring-side lunch and the HSR from Liaoyang station.

1. liaoyang tanghe reservoir
2. liaoyang lengredi park