Shijiazhuang

Hebei Provincial Museum

This is a must see and contains expositions from two major discoveries of the recent decades: the tomb of King of Zhongshan 中山王 from the late 4th century BCE, and the royal tombs of prince and princess of the Han principality of Zhongshan Mancheng 满城 Han tombs from the late 2nd century BCE.

Pilu Monastery

Built in the Tang dynasty and underwent major restorations under the Yuan and Ming dynasties. The main hall Vairocana Hall; 毗庐殿; Pílúdiàn contains a stone pedestal with excellent Tang carvings as well as murals from the Yuan-Ming period, some of which are truly magnificent if you have the luck to visit when the sunlight is good enough to observe the details.

A great park to walk around in is the Chang'an Park （长安公园）. It's a great people-watching park. Chinese men get together and play games, woman dance, and there are lots of babies toddling around. The park is actually four parks in one with an underground mall near the entrance where the giant white statue of Mao Zedong is located.

There are quite a few parks in the city. It's nice to walk around different ones in a day or afternoon. Locals are quite friendly and very interested to know where you're from if you look approachable. Chang'an, Century and Zhongshan Parks are the biggest and most widely used.

Zhaozhou Bridge

Bolin Monastery

Large monastery, dating back to the Tang dynasty.

Cangyan Mountain

Really beautiful, picture postcard temples built on the steep hillsides. There is a pavilion built on a bridge over a gorge that was filed in the final scenes of the Oscar winning film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Looking down at the Cangyan Mountains, two mountains stand facing each other from east to west, and one chain of mountains lie across their back from north to south, with the Fuqing temple built in the valley formed by the precipices and cliffs. The mountains are more than one thousand steep high, so that it is cold in the valley with the wind blowing; There are jagged rocks of grotesque shape at the bottom of ravines and the stream is gurgling; In the valley the trees are verdant and the green grass is luxuriant; The old sandalwoods depend on the cliff, twisting and curling like dragons; The plank road is winding, and the temple is hung up in the air; The cloud and mist are surging under the bridge hall, and the red wall shines through the green clumps.

Shitou Village

A perfect example of Chinese stone architecture, with an excellent local temple Qingliang pavillion; 清凉阁; Qīngliánggé built in the late Ming-Early Qing period 16th-18th centuries. It may serve as an introduction to popular beliefs of the Chinese peasants.

Niangzi Guan

For those who really love old towns. The dusty coalminers' town has two major attractions: a small but impressive section of the internal Great Wall, separating Shanxi from Hebei, a site of major battles from the sixth century on; and a beautiful village built on a stream, with private watermills run by many villagers ask for Shuishangrenjia; 水上人家; Shuǐshàngrénjiā.

There are a number of sightseeing places in the area, both natural and historic. Most are not located within the city proper.