Tianjin, China

Tianjin, although rich in natural and historical sights, is largely dwarfed by its titanic neighbor Beijing as a tourist destination. However, Tianjin boasts a history as long as, if not longer than Beijing. What's more, with less tourist crowd invasion, Tianjin can still be viewed as a traditional northern Chinese city because of both the well kept folklore and the historical sites without too many renovations.Tianjin is nicest for its varied and interesting buildings and makes an ideal long weekend trip for those bored of the more concrete Beijing. From the thousand-year-old wooden Temple of Solitary Joy to the beautiful Grand Mosque, architecture lovers will relish this trip. Historically the city also has a plentiful supply of interest, inhabited as it has been for over 2500 years. Most interestingly for Western tourists, parts of the town were ceded to Westerners in the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858, and the architecture in a small area of downtown Tianjin, south of the river and centered around Zhongxin Park still reflects this.

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