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minhuang Says: Olympic Sports Park is really pleasant. If you are stopping in downtown Miyun, such as on your way back from Simatai or for whatever reason, if the weather is nice it is well worth whiling a few hours here, walking by the river. Signs in Chinese say don't walk on the grass...
mke1963 Says: 90 minutes NE of Beijing is the Nanshan ski resort - ten minutes from the city of Miyun. Open from around November until Chinese New Year (possibly longer), it relies upon a barrage of artifical snow-making machines and blowers, but it provides the urban rich in Beijing with...
mke1963 Says: Route S205 north of Miyun takes you into the deep contorted valleys and twisted gorges of the river that feeds into the Miyun reservoir (the huge dam that you see after taking off from Beijing Airport).These valleys are peaceful and beautiful - small villages, dusty tracks,...
Campground north of Miyun: Camping in the valley
mke1963 Says: A wonderful campground in one of the deep valleys north of Miyun. It is peaceful and clean, despite being close to a smal village/farm.The river valley opens out and a beach alongside a dam is planted with birch trees and orchards.There are absolutely no facilities, and you...
minhuang Says: We tried to go to Tianmen Shan in western Miyun County. Local villagers blocked the road to the ticket gate with stones and with farm implements as weapons. It turns out the villagers blocked the road to coerce more money out of the tourism development company (as though...
Heilongtan- ordinary park but has scam operators
minhuang Says: This place charges too much for entrance to the park. It is a nice park with a stream but nothing that special. At the back end of the park at Heilongzhentan there is a long-running scam which has not been shut down. It is a raft ride, pay in advance, which the operators...
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Route S205 north of Miyun takes you into the deep contorted valleys and twisted gorges of the river that feeds into the Miyun reservoir (the huge dam that you...
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Miyun - Gateway to the Mountains
Miyun is actually a fairly nondescript town, 70km north-east of Beijing, and with little of obvious merit to warrant stopping there. However, Miyun is the gateway to the eastern parts of the...
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