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hi.. i would like to inquries if i can tour the badaling without a tour guide as i always like to enjoy a free and easy site seeing... what type of transport is the best way to get there from Beijing city..can someone pls provide me informations on the pricing and distance to get there ?
You can go to Badaling on your own by taking the train or the bus.
I can only speak of the train because that's how I got there, but the bus #929 (I think, double check that) leaves from Dengshenmen station (spelling?), by Jishuitan metro station.
Now, to take the train you need to go to Beijing North Railway Station, served by the circular metro line (Xizhimen station). The cost of the one way ticket was 17 RMB (adult, no discount) as of 2009, and you need to take the train towards Yanqing and get off at the station called Badaling. From there you walk about 700m, just follow the crowds and the signs. On the way to the Great Wall, if you take the train, you'll pass the bus station where you can take the bus back to Dengshenmen.
The train trip takes about 1 hour one way.
Hope it helps.
To take 919 to Badaling(八达岭).Take metro to Jishuitan(积水潭 the nearest station from the 919) and walk to Deshengmen(德胜门) to take 919(about 800 meters).
Here’s a pretty good all around site that gives lots of helpful information on Beijing. I have expanded on some of the places, like restaurants, in the tips section here, so check that out as well.
http://www.beijingtraveltips.com/
This is the Palace Museum, also known as the Purple Forbidden City. It is the largest and most well preserved imperial residence in China today. Under Ming Emperor Yongle, construction began in 1406. It took 14 years to build the Forbidden City. The first ruler who actually lived here was Ming Emperor Zhudi. For five centuries thereafter, it continued to be the residence of 23 successive emperors until 1911 when Qing Emperor Puyi was forced to abdicate the throne. In 1987, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognized the Forbidden City as a world cultural legacy.
For God sakes don't buy a sword and then check it as luggage when flying! Mail it! I know someone who checked his new sword and had it confiscated at the Korean airport. He can't get it back unless he gets permission from the local police detachement (and we live over 5 hours away from the airport).
Xiannongtan is the name of the Altar of Agriculture.
This was the place for the emperors of Ming&Qing to plant / farm here,perform ceremory of planting to call the peasants all over the country to undertake the farming work, cause China was big agriculture coutry. Even emperors need to do it, the field called the Land of One and Three-Tenth Mu for the empoerors.
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Now it is the place of the exhibition for ancient architecture, chinese wood architecture, without one nail in whole Building.
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