Pingyao is a Ming-era city that has the only remaining fully intact city wall in China (or so is its claim to fame). The six-kilometer city wall encircles the old quarter of the city that hasn't seen much change in 300 years. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
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- Pingyao's South Street is full of tourists and ancient architecture
- The Yide Hotel courtyard, one of the nicer accommodations in Pingyao.
- Coal heating causes a lot of the pollution in the area.
- Ming- and Qing-era courtyard houses renovated as hotels and restaurants.
- Pingyao by night is quite lovely with red lanterns blazing at every doorway.
- Old men playing a game on the side of the street.
- Pingyao claims to have the oldest free-standing city wall in China.
- View of the old city from the top of the wall.
- Coal smoke spewing from a local heating pipe.
- Pingyao's Taoist temple located at the end of West street near the city wall.
- Along the tourist streets vendors sell snacks.
- Dancers at the Wild Jujubes Dance Drama performance
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