Bai Ta and Baita.
March 5th 2008 Sharing the same name, one ancient and one brandnew, I decided to visit both locations in one day with a friend.
One's a 7-storey octagonal tower, built in the Liao dynasty, the other's an airport branding the same name and only finished it's first expansion recently.
Bai ta, also known as 'the white pagoda' is 18 km's east of Hohhot, or some 4 km's east of the airport.
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