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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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After 4 hours of walking the wall we zip lined down the last section over a large river.O'Neill is first to go...
Butler and Frob after walking for 3 hours with still another hour to go!
As you can tell Frob wasn't too impressed with the city...
It's a ideal place for travelers to experience the leisure time of Beijingers. And the performance is outstanding!
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.
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...
The entrance gate is magnificent and very famous for it's immensely large Mao picture.Everybody's get his picture taken there, so why should I be the exception that confirms....
You should have realised I love dragonsWell, here's another nice sweetheart
Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing Beijing
5 Reviews and 908 Opinions Well, unbeknownst to me when I booked our stay at the Park Plaza Hotel during the Olympics that it...
Beijing Huakun Manor Hotel Yanqing
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Shangri-La Hotel Beijing Beijing
6 Reviews and 1030 Opinions I stayed there in April of 2007 and was at first disappointed when the driver approached the...
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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...
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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