10 Days in Liaoyuan

Settle in and climb the in-city hill to the multi-storey Kuixing tower for the dusk skyline.

1. liaoyuan longshou hill
2. liaoyuan kuixing tower

The arc from Xi'an County of 1902 to the 1952 renaming after the East Liao River, then a quiet, factual hour at the memorial for miners who died under the 1931-1945 occupation.

1. liaoyuan city museum
2. liaoyuan miner memorial museum

Half an hour west into Dongliao county — wetland walks, forest paths, winter ski slopes by the water and orchard-farm lunches in season.

1. liaoyuan cilu lake

An hour east to the county designated a national home of folk painting in the late 1980s, thousands of farmer-painter works in the gallery.

1. liaoyuan dongfeng peasant painting

A slow reservoir-wetland day in Dongliao — reeds, herons and boardwalks — with county-town dumplings after.

1. liaoyuan julongtan wetland

The hosiery park with appointment-only showroom visits and the city's name as a home of the pipa lute; evening at the Kuixing tower quarter.

1. liaoyuan hosiery park

Honestly labelled neighbouring-city day — about 100 kilometres north to Changchun for the palace museum of the 1932-1945 puppet state, preserved with its court offices and gardens; sleep in Changchun.

1. changchun palace museum

The film-studio museum of the studio that anchored Chinese cinema after 1945, then a lakeside loop in the Jingyuetan national forest park before the road back.

1. changchun film studio museum
2. changchun jingyuetan

Honestly labelled neighbouring-city day — about 90 kilometres southwest to Siping for the battle memorial documenting the 1946-1948 campaigns, and the rebuilt Yehe heritage town of the clan that gave the Qing a dynasty of empresses.

1. liaoyuan siping battle memorial
2. liaoyuan yehe nara city

A last morning toward the source of the East Liao River that gave the city its name, then the connection toward Changchun airport for the flight out.

1. liaoyuan liaohe source