Atlas of China
Badachu 八大处Bādàchù
4A scenic area · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Badachu
Badachu, the 'Eight Great Sites', is a hillside park in the Western Hills linking eight Buddhist temples and nunneries founded between the Sui and Qing dynasties on three hills. The best known is Lingguang Temple, an active monastery where a Buddha tooth relic found in the ruins of an older pagoda is kept in a pagoda built in 1964. Old trees, including white-bark pines and ginkgos more than 600 years old, shade the paths between the temples.
How to get to Badachu
In Shijingshan District at the foot of the Western Hills, about 19 km west of Tiananmen and roughly 45 minutes by road.
Nearby
- Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 under 10 km
Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn - Summer Palace 颐和园 under 10 km
An imperial lakeside garden of painted corridors, temple-topped hills and a marble boat - Old Summer Palace 圆明园 10 km
Broken marble arches of Qing European-style palaces beside lakes of summer lotus - Marco Polo Bridge 卢沟桥 10 km
An 800-year-old stone bridge lined with hundreds of carved lions, by a walled Ming fort - Tanzhe Temple 潭柘寺 10 km
Terraced temple courtyards in the western hills, shaded by ancient ginkgos and cypresses
Also within 20 km: Fahai Temple 法海寺 (under 10 km), Cheng'en Temple 承恩寺 (under 10 km), Tuancheng Fortress 团城演武厅 (under 10 km), China National Botanical Garden 国家植物园 (under 10 km), Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park 石景山游乐园 (under 10 km), Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture 中国园林博物馆 (under 10 km).
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