Beijing Things to Do

 202 Reviews  Jinshanling Great Wall is located about 130 km from downtown Beijing and in my opinion serves as the best portion of the Great Wall to visit for several reasons. For one thing its the least crowded... 

 346 Reviews  My initial impression of Tiananmen Square was how clean it was...remarkably free of blood which is always a good thing. But I guess I should of figured there wouldn't be any lingering blood stains,... 

 210 Reviews  One of the reasons that Beijing is such a special city is the way they have managed to perserve their diverse culture despite the modern growth of the city. Beijing is full of parks, ancient hutongs,... 

 183 Reviews  The Summer Palace is a example of royal opulence that would even make Marie Antoinette blush...though ever so briefly. Set just on the outskirts of the city the Summer Palace is like the Chinese... 

 77 Reviews  I learned that Mutianyu has less crowd than any other great wall. So, I decided to go there with great expectation of natural beauty surrounding the great wall with less tourist. I went there during... 

 81 Reviews  I have seen some pretty big statues of Buddha in my time but nothing quite comes close to seeing a statue of Buddha thats almost four stories high. The Llama temple is a Buddhist paradise, from its... 

 97 Reviews  Da Jiang Hutong is a preserved hutong district located east of Qianmen. A lot of the buildings are newly restored. They all have unique traditional architecture with the combination of east and west.... 

 96 Reviews  Great part of the Great Wall to visit. It's not in Beijing central so it will take an hour or more to get there by car. There are plenty of photo opportunities from high up. They have cable cars that... 

 50 Reviews  The liveliest street of Beijing is also the most commercial one. That means that, instead of one hour we would need… one week (or several...). In its beginning there are looooots of shops. … Well…... 

 110 Reviews  Loved this area - the old hutong shopping district was so quaint and the Lakes were amazing - Qianhai, Houhai and Xihai Lakes. Definitely should not be missed. We hired tuk tuks for a treat and... 

 29 Reviews  We enjoyed the Acrobat show so much that we asked Alvin to buy us some Kung Fu Show tickets also - this was even better than the Acrobat Show. 150rmbs p/ticket. The Legend of Kung Fu follows the... 

 89 Reviews  At the entrance of the tombs there's a small museum displaying some artifacts collected in the tombs, and description of their conception. The collection is not very rich, but some pieces are really... 

 40 Reviews  I love to hang out here at night. The tour bus from the Great Wall stopped here to end the trip. So, we had dinner and walked around here after the Great Wall trip. The shopping street has a lot of... 

 37 Reviews  What a letdown it is for me every time I go into a Panda Express in the United States and there aren't any Panda's to view or eat. Talk about false advertising! The good news is that at the Beijing... 

 28 Reviews  This sprawling stadium was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics and was nick-named the Birds Nest due to its unusual design. It can seat 80,000 people. Following the Olympics, it was used for other... 

 32 Reviews  The park consist of a large hill just north of the Forbidden City. The park gives great views of the Forbidden City, Behai Park and Beijing in general. The earlier picture overlooking the fordidden... 

 33 Reviews  We enjoyed an evening of "Opera" at Beijing's oldest tea house. The performances included both Farewell My Concubine and The Monkey King. The first is a classical dramatic performance with some tricky... 

 22 Reviews  While the Temple of Confucious may not be on as grand a scale at the Llama Temple or the Temple of Heaven, it arguably has the most name recognition. After all who hasn't heard of Confucious and the... 

 28 Reviews  We hired the driver Wang Ping (Private Beijing Taxi website), cost 900RMB. Wang picked us up from the hotel in Beijing at 2pm and we were dropped off at the Jinshanling entry point at around 4pm. We... 

 10 Reviews  This was one of our highlights but I am sorry to say that I can't remember the name of the place we went to. We learnt how to brew and drink various Chinese teas and out of 5 samples, I found the... 

 24 Reviews  Tantan Dandang is one of the historical site in Yuanmingyuan, further west. I found it very interesting as the ancient fish pond still remains. It was a very intelligent way to build such pond with... 

 19 Reviews  On the East side of Imperial Garden, I started from the North to the South. That way I could exit the garden to continue visiting Palaces on the west of Forbidden City. 1) Pavilion of Deposited Jade... 

 8 Reviews  Everyone recommends going to the Fragrant Hills to see the leaves turn in autumn, but no one mentions that the city's entire population will be there with you (That's ture). At off-peak times, this...