Zhangjiakou, Hebei

May 2018 - The final leg of our trip to Hebei .

We reached Zhangjiakou and we enjoyed a good stay in this noisy hotel. The car park for our coach was a bit further away. That evening the guys went around, looking at things. The weather was not too bad for May.




There is a Parkson in this town! And of course we made a bee line for it. But there were not many things which attracted us. We were mostly interested in eating and tasting local food and flavours. And most of us were not interested in buying souvenirs.



Zhangjiakou is in Hebei, not far from BEijing.  Chinese: 张家口; also known as Kalgan.

It is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southwest. At the 2010 census, its population was 4,345,485 inhabitants on 36,861.56 square kilometres (14,232.33 sq mi), divided into 17 Counties and Districts. 

 Due to its position on several important transport arteries, it is a critical transport node for travel between Hebei and Inner Mongolia and connecting northwest China, Mongolia, and Beijing.

Zhangjiakou will be one of the host cities at the 2022 Winter Olympics.