Hefei
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Hefei (合肥; Héféi) is the capital city of Anhui Province in China.
[edit] Get in
[edit] By plane
Hefei Luogang Airport (IATA: HEF) has regular flights from Beijing and Shanghai with China Eastern Airlines.
[edit] By train
[edit] By bus
[edit] Get around
Taxis start at ¥6 and you will find that you can get to most attractions for ¥6-15.
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Hefei does not have many attractions, but if you are using it as a stopping off point for other places then there are some pleasant places to see.
- Lord Bao's Tomb (包公园; Bāogōngyuán). This a combination of a very pleasant park with tea houses, gardens, a lake, a tower and of course the restored underground tomb of Lord Bao himself as well as the tombs of his family. The park is worth walking through. The park is free, the attractions can be accessed for a through ticket of ¥50, you can also buy indivudal tickets for each attraction for ¥5-35. edit
- Shushan Mountain (蜀山; Shǔshān), (In the western part of Hefei). The mountain has a Television Tower on the top and can be seen from far away places. You can get there by taxi (around ¥25) ot by bus (any bus, which goes to the end of Changjiang Road (长江路) or Huangshan Road (黄山路)). The place is crowded on weekends and holidays, mostly younger people go there, because you have to make a long and difficult way up the mountain, climb thousand of steep stairs. You get the top when you are out of breathe and power, and feel you can not make any more step upwards. A beautiful scenery of modern Hefei opens up to your eyes from the very top and you can make a deep breathe of the stairs conqueror. edit
- Walking Street (步行街). A kind of shopping place with supermarkets of cheap clothes on both sides of the street. Parkson Central Place is a small iceland where you can feel that Europe has not disappeared yet. Here you can find a KFC, McDonald's and a very nice Korean Restaurant inside. edit
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There is a Carrefour supermarket in the city.
On most weekends, the Huizhan Center (会展中心) has a market of locally produced Chinese products, including painting, wooden sculptors and furniture, jade and tea pots. This is a fairly tourist free zone so expect to be able to get deals you might not be able to get in bigger cities.
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Local specialties include:
- Fish Bites Lamb - fresh mandarin fish stuffed with lamb
- Li Hongzhang's Combination - prepared with fresh water prawn, snails, chicken, sea cucumber, abalone and shark's fin.
- Clay Pot Fish - fresh fish from Changjiang River cooked with ham
- Pigeon and Mushroom soup - Yellow Mountain fungus, baby pigeeon slowly cooked in a clay pot
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[edit] Splurge
- Holiday Inn Hefei, 1104 Changjian East Road, (hihfe@mail.hf.ah.cn). edit
[edit] Get out
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