Beijing Things to Do

 10 Reviews  White Cloud Temple. This is a still working Daoist Temple, which is said to be founded in the year 739 of the Tang-Dynasty. The buildings, which you see today, are mainly from the Qing-Dynasty. It is... 

 29 Reviews  China Railway Museum (Zhengyangmen) is located south of Tian'anmen Square, east side of Qianmen Street. It is a colonial style building with four levels of exhibition halls. It starts with the... 

 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... 

 10 Reviews  When you reach the Nine-Dragon Screen, this is just the beginning palace in the far-east of Forbidden City. You will pass the Gate of the Norms of Government (Huangji Gate) to see Gate of Peace and... 

 7 Reviews  Beijing Homestay - Live with Chinese Family, study Chinese Hi foreign friends! We promote the Chinese education, languageand culture exchanges with west countries. According to your requirements,... 

 20 Reviews  The collections of the Palace Museum are based on the Qing imperial collection. According to the results of a 1925 audit, some 1.17 million items were stored in the Forbidden City. However, some of... 

 12 Reviews  The main area of this temple is called the Hall of Prayer for good harvest. Dominated by a high building atop a round staircase, this wide temple was built in the 15th century and carefully restored... 

 5 Reviews  This is theatrical show about a young boy (Chun Yi) who enters a monastery and the rigorous, hard training he undergoes to become a warrior monk. It's not all martial arts fight scenes though they do... 

 10 Reviews  The Marble Boat is also called Qingyanfang Boat, is located in the northwest of Kunming Lake. It was first built in 1750 with a Chinese-style wooden superstructure on it. Unfortunately in 1860, the... 

 11 Reviews  Apparently they eat everything in China. If you're out and about at night and want a quick bite, make sure to pop over to Donganmen night market. You can get anything your heart desires here -... 

 13 Reviews  The Haidian District is famous for its universities and colleges and one of the best to visit is Peking University. You can wander the grounds and find a peaceful respite from the traffic and... 

 8 Reviews  This museum has been formerly located in the Confuzius Temple. Now it has a spectacular new buidling at Fuxingmen Wai road. The architecture is very interesting and modern. Inside you find an... 

 7 Reviews  The Circular Mound Altar is the altar proper, located south of the Imperial Vault of Heaven. It is an empty circular platform on three levels of marble stones, where the Emperor prayed for favourable... 

 9 Reviews  This temple is a complex construction, where we start to be dominated by its main and central building, and keep on discovering new strange details, whose purpose it's impossible to understand without... 

 5 Reviews  In the large complex of the Temple of Heaven, all the eyes go to the Hall of Prayer, but facing it, there's a smaller structure with similar architecture, and where the crowds are not so dense,... 

 10 Reviews  This Observatory was built in 1442 and is one of the oldest in the world. It is located in part of the old Ming Dynasty city wall that once encircled Beijing, on a raised platform. It served the Ming... 

 4 Reviews  Liulichang Cultural Street is an ancient cultural street since Emperor Kangxi's and Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty. Before that, it was a famous street to produce glazed tiles that built the... 

 3 Reviews  I did not know this Art Theater before I came to Beijing. My friend told me about this. So we visited this place before we left Beijing in the afternoon. The first time I saw this building, I was in... 

 8 Reviews  The Hall of Supreme Harmony is one of the largest buildings that built on a three-tiered white-marble base, which takes a "土" shape . I saw this impressive building with a big square from the... 

 9 Reviews  This is a real man's museum! Everything you can possible think of to do with warfare is exhibited here in this huge museum located in the west of the city centre. You're greeted by a large status of... 

 9 Reviews  The Palace of Heavenly Purity is where the emperors lived and important political and ceremonious site. During Ming and Qing dynasties, all the 14 Ming emperors and 2 Qing emperors , Emperor Shunzhi... 

 3 Reviews  Wenchang Gallery is next to Wenchang Tower. This is one of the sites that required package ticket to get in, or you can buy the ticket at the entrance. This compound has buildings that displayed... 

 7 Reviews  The Meridian Gate is the main south entrance to the Forbidden City. This should be the starting point to see the Forbidden City. It is the tallest building in the Forbidden City with maximum 38-meters...