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Forbidden City   Beijing

Forbidden City, Beijing

 465 Reviews  A very serious advice: Pay attention to every detail of the explanation done by our guide (person or book), during the visit: that way you will find out that "peace and harmony" is the dominant... 

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Great Wall   Beijing

Great Wall, Beijing

 203 Reviews  In our way to Badaling we passed in another segment of the wall, with an interesting look - I think it was Nankou. Our guide took us further, to Badaling, I don't know exactly why. Maybe because the... 

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Tiananmen Square   Beijing

Tiananmen Square, Beijing

 345 Reviews  The square is so big that even the important buildings at each side seem irrelevant. At the southern side, an austere building flanked by statues in the typical Chinese revolutionary style is the... 

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Temple of Heaven   Beijing

Temple of Heaven, Beijing

 209 Reviews  A large (and discreet) platform was, in the old days, considered the center of the world. There is a long story about stone in circle, multiples of nine, and so on, but you will have to listen to it... 

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Great Wall - Mutianyu   Beijing

Great Wall - Mutianyu, Beijing

 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... 

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Lama Temple - Yonghegong   Beijing

Lama Temple - Yonghegong, Beijing

 80 Reviews  This is a Tibetian Lamasary. This is a beautiful example of Chinese temple. You can see the Green, Gold, and Blue of the Red Pagoda's. It was built in 1694 and inside you can see an 18meter high budda... 

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Summer Palace   Beijing

Summer Palace, Beijing

 182 Reviews  Summer Palace is the largest historical imperial garden in Beijing. It has 290 hectares of land, the Kunming Lake covers three quarters of the entire garden. Others include Longevity Hill on the North... 

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Hutongs - Bell and Drum Towers   Beijing

Hutongs - Bell and Drum Towers, Beijing

 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.... 

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Great Wall - Badaling   Beijing

Great Wall - Badaling, Beijing

 97 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... 

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Ming Tombs   Beijing

Ming Tombs, Beijing

 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... 

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Wangfujing Street   Beijing

Wangfujing Street, Beijing

 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…... 

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Acrobats Show   Beijing

Acrobats Show, Beijing

 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... 

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Beihai Park   Beijing

Beihai Park, Beijing

 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... 

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Zoo & Aquarium   Beijing

Zoo & Aquarium, Beijing

 36 Reviews  China has the exclusive of the remaining animals of this nice species, and that’s reason enough to include a visit to the zoo in all packages. Be prepared to see more heads and backs than pandas, and,... 

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Olympics 2008   Beijing

Olympics 2008, 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... 

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Shopping   Beijing

Shopping, Beijing

 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... 

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Peking Opera   Beijing

Peking Opera, Beijing

 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... 

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Confucius Temple   Beijing

Confucius Temple, Beijing

 21 Reviews  This china's second Confucius temple and is set amongst century old tree's. It was built in 1302 and is lined with rows of steles. those at the entrance immortalize the prize-winners in imperial... 

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Jingshan Park   Beijing

Jingshan Park, Beijing

 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... 

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Forbidden City - Imperial Garden   Beijing

Forbidden City - Imperial Garden, Beijing

 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... 

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Great Wall - Simatai   Beijing

Great Wall - Simatai, Beijing

 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... 

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Teahouses   Beijing

Teahouses, Beijing

 9 Reviews  If you are traveling to Beijing and want to combine both the traditional and new China, you cannot miss going to the Green Tea House Restaurant. Although I like the red lanterns and old architecture,... 

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Yuanmingyuan   Beijing

Yuanmingyuan, Beijing

 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... 

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Palace of Prince Gong   Beijing

Palace of Prince Gong, Beijing

 17 Reviews  Prince Gong's palace. This palace was built during the reign of the Qianlong emperor. It was originally built for Heshun who was a Manchu official and the emperor's favourite. The residence was... 

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Parks   Beijing

Parks, Beijing

 32 Reviews  Red leaves in Beijing Fragrant Hill, one of the most magnificent scenes in Beijing, enjoy the international fame and attract thousands of visitors annually. In every autumn period, crowds will cover... 

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Great Wall

by muddybok

UNESCO World Heritage: The Great WallLiaoning, Jilin, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Xinjiang, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Qinghai provinces, municipalities and autonomous RegionsDate of Inscription: 1987I wonder when Qin Shihuang (246 - 221 BC) building the Great Wall to prevent invading Mongolian is due to his kiasu attitude in building one of the most visible (possibly the greatest) Wonders of the World? Anyway, he never expects this can be a source of income for generations to come. Beside the crap, this is some history facts extracted from internet. No one can tell precisely when the building of the Great Wall was started but it is popularly believed that it originated as a military fortification against intrusion by tribes on the borders during the earlier Zhou Dynasty. Late in the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC),...

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Late Snow at Great Wall

by muddybok

I visited Great Wall 1st week of April (early spring) and snow still visible at Badaling Great Wall.Since I have been to some hill station (like Mt Fuji), some of my colleagues were surprised I didn't show any excitement seeing snow.Wrap yourself warmly, because the temperature can drop to 4 degrees Celsius at Great Wall in early spring.

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Hero? My A$$

by muddybok

The story goes if you climb the great wall to the top, then you are a hero. You can buy your certificate to prove that you’re in deed a hero.I won’t do that myself because I didn’t climb it. I mean from the base to the Great Wall, because we’re using the cable cars. I only climb the easy 400 steps or so. I will consider myself shameless to engrave/print my name on certificates for becoming one of the heroes.

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be carefull about girls in wangfujing street

by arashtmr

we went to beijing 2 month ago and took a hotel near wangfujing streetat nights shops closed at 9 pm, 3 girls talked to us in english and they said they want to learn more english language and wants to beside us to go to cafee or drink something, we accepetd and they took us to a bar near wangfujing (ktv bar) after one hour we drinked little and they want to pay money ourselfs, they closed the firstfloor door and wants we pay 2000 yuan for 5 bear in one hour??!!!!also after we struggled too much we paid 500 yuan and they open the door , very bad nightevery nights after the shops closed 2 or 3 girls together close to foreigns travelers and want to speak and learn more english language and go to a bar!!!be carefull and don't go with them especially at nights in wangfujing street

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Explore Qianmen

by sugarpuff

Qianmen area has always been of interest to me as it was one of the nearest parts to the Forbidden City (part of which is now Tian'anmen Square) that the Emperor would walk to/around. When leaving his 'City', the Emperor would walk south and out of Qianmen, which means 'Front Gate' and was used as an archery tower. He would then head a bit further south (about 50m) and walk out of Zhengyangmen. These two gates were first built in 1419. The gateway consisted of a gatehouse proper and an archery tower, which formed a large barbican. They used to mark the boundary between the inner and outer cities, but nowadays, Zhengyangmen stands isolated on a traffic island, facing its counterpart across several lanes of bus routes and cycle paths.When I first came to China, this area, known as Dazhanlan (but to the locals as Dashilar) was such a busy place bustling with fast food restaurants, Time...

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The Great Wall at Two Locations from Bejing

by JohnPaulla

From Bejing, in 1984, we visited the Great Wall at BaDaLing, which had mostly Chinese visitors; but in 2001, we were advised not to go to BaDaLing (which was too crowded), but instead we went to MuTianYu, which was less crowded. MuTianYu has a cable car that takes you up to the wall.

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Beihai Park & Forbidden City Moat

by victorwkf

When you are at the famous Forbidden City of Beijing, and if you have the time to wonder around, you should visit the big Beihai Park just next to the Forbidden City as well as the moat where you can actually take a ride on the water using small leg-paddle boats.Important thing to note is that the Forbidden City itself and Beihai Park are both very huge, so plan your time properly, and it may not be possible to cover everything. In general, the major attractions in Beijing are very very big since China is perhaps the biggest civilisation in the world.

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Cherry blossoms during Spring (Part 2)

by victorwkf

Here are more photographs of the beautiful flowers of the cherry blossoms taken during my visit to Yuyuantan Park in mid-April 2008. You should not miss this event if you are at Beijing during that time of the year as the flowers only bloom during a very short period before dropping to the ground.

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Cherry blossoms during Spring (Part 1)

by victorwkf

During spring every year, you can witness the blooming of the cherry flowers at the Yuyuantan Park at Beijing. The best time to catch the flowers is in mid-April every year. There is a section in the park where there are lots of cherry blossom trees, with different sub-species of pink or white flowers. Apparently these trees were gifts from Japan to China years ago, and they were planted in Yuyuantan Park for the local people and tourists to enjoy.More photographs are at part 2 of this tip.

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Yuyuantan Park (Part 2)

by victorwkf

Here are more photographs of Yuyuantan Park. It is a very nice park to visit if you have the time. There is no entrance fees but it is slightly off the city centre.Besides enjoying the plants (especially the willow trees by the lakes) and two huge lakes, there are some stalls in this park where items such as food, Chinese herbs are sold along the walking path. Overall, I enjoyed visiting Yuyuantan Park at Beijing as it is a good getaway from the busy city life.

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Q:  I have booked a tour which includes Juyongguan Great Wall. I heard it's a steep climb though my kids are already 10 & 12. Is this... 

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A: We did a day tour to the Great Wall. Unfortunately I don't remember the point where the tour started. But though it was an organised tour, we were not taken to those... 

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