Beijing Shi Things to Do

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Forbidden City   Beijing

Forbidden City, Beijing

 466 Reviews  I always wanted to visit the Forbidden City because it was ...well...forbidden...but I never expected it to be taken so seriously! While back in the day it may have been forbidden for an average... 

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Great Wall   Beijing

Great Wall, Beijing

 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... 

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Tiananmen Square   Beijing

Tiananmen Square, Beijing

 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,... 

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Temple of Heaven   Beijing

Temple of Heaven, Beijing

 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,... 

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Summer Palace   Beijing

Summer Palace, Beijing

 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... 

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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

 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... 

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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

 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... 

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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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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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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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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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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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Zoo & Aquarium   Beijing

Zoo & Aquarium, Beijing

 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... 

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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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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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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

 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... 

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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

 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... 

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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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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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Fragrant Hills   Beijing

Fragrant Hills, Beijing

 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... 

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Parks   Beijing

Parks, Beijing

 33 Reviews  Beijing parks, like much of Beijing, have gone through a big metamorphosis. They used to be carpeted with dirt and sparsely populated with pine trees but all of that has changed. While you still are... 

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O'Neill Zip-lines down from the Wall

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After 4 hours of walking the wall we zip lined down the last section over a large river.O'Neill is first to go...

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Butler and Frob at the Wall

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Butler and Frob after walking for 3 hours with still another hour to go!

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O'Neill and Frob at the Forbidden City

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As you can tell Frob wasn't too impressed with the city...

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Lao She Tea House

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It's a ideal place for travelers to experience the leisure time of Beijingers. And the performance is outstanding!

Great Wall

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While you are on the wall you can buy drinks, fruits or have your picture taken and laminated thanks to these vendors who must carry all their goods up.

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Beijing: lion and cat

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Look at the marble steps leading from one palace to anotherand look how tiny my Catherine is in front of the lionAnyway, she is tiny...

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Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing  Beijing

 4 Reviews and 773 Opinions  Located centrally in the Wangfujing area, this hotel is close to everywhere you want to get to... 

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Shangri-La Hotel Beijing  Beijing

 6 Reviews and 223 Opinions  I stayed there in April of 2007 and was at first disappointed when the driver approached the... 

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Q:  is it ideal to book my train ticket on my arrival to beijing 3 days before departing to xian? or it has to be done online 15 days... 

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A: most of the online tickets are over-priced.You can just do it in Beijing when you are there...3 days before the departure will be fine for the Xian ticket 

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