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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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I am not too sure whether the King will actually walk on this. It's not flat with those engraved on the stone, but definitely gives good traction. Of course ordinary people will not get the chance to step on them (except sweeper may be) because there are images of most sacred creatures were engraved on them. It also partly symbolise the King is above all else, that he can step all over them.
Tiananmen Square is located at the center of Beijing City, and is a must visit for everyone who are visiting Beijing for the first time. Beside the Square, you can visit Tiananmen Tower, Great Hall of the People, Monument to the People's Heroes, Mao's Memorial Hall and of course access to Forbidden City via the Tiananmen Gate.Of course everyone who is visiting Tiananmen Square (especially foreigners) will definitely curious about what was actually happened to Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. There are debates about bloodbath, some claimed that no one was killed in the square. One thing for sure is Chinese government did conducted widespread arrests to suppress the remaining supporters of the movement after the protest.
The Forbidden City is located at the exact center of the City of Beijing; it was the imperial palace for many dynasties after the Ming. You will not see the name Zijin Cheng (literally "Purple Forbidden City") written anywhere, but it's now being called Palace Museum or Gugong. Forbidden City covered extensive grounds of 720,000 square meters, 800 buildings and 9,999.5 rooms. (it must not more than 10,000 rooms as compare to mythical Jade Emperor's Palace). The Forbidden City is listed by UNESCO with largest preserved ancient wooden structures in the World, and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987.
I think everybody must be aware that walls painted in red will be most well represented Greater China. These walls were previously speak about authority (of course now still), close world (now open) and lots of bureaucratic and corruptions. But now it represents new order, economy, and opportunities.
Finally after feeling satisfied that I had climbed the Great Wall we headed back. Be careful those steps are steep going down.The final descent uses the sled lift that brought us up onto the wall. This is great fun dfor the kids. You don't have to worry because the sleds go down in groups with a park guide in the lead so the kids can't speed.You have control of a lever that can slow the sled too.
Here you can see how the wall is actually like the outer wall of a fort or castle. It is all made of cut stone. Throughout the legnth of it it is built to hide from the enemy and lean out to use a bow. Because the stone walk way would be unusable if rain flooded it there are stone spills to drain it off.
As you look at the nearby mountains you will see the wall snaking over the crests. Some areas repaired and others have missing stones and grass growing on them. All of these stones had to be carried and put in place.
When they say climb they mean climb. Everywhere I went in China I found steps. The worse were at the Great Wall. High Stone Steps it seemed as far as I could see.And they weren't much easier coming down then going up. Imagine the soldiers with all of their gear running up them to reinforce a section under attack.
The wall is a must see as one of the most famous man made wonders in the world. The wall is called The Long Wall by the Chinese. The difference in name seems to reflect the difference in how westerners and Chinese regard the wall.The wall has been added to over the centuries but was almost always was used to prevent Northern Barbarians from entering China, at which it failed.In the 1940's the Kuomintang repaired sections to use for moving troops.Today many parts are being preserved as a tourist attraction. At the gate there are even old style soldiers and performers. Be sure to get your I Climbed the Great Wall T-Shirt.
Where you'll find it? Everywhere! When you'll find? Everyday!!! When best to avoid it? Chinese New Year (Jan-Feb), Worker's holiday (May 1st) and China's National Day (October 1st)...that is of course if you want to be PART of it!!!!I personally LOVE seeing so many people in the capital as you can feel there's something exciting in the air...but on the downside, having so many people walking around with maps and getting in your way is a real pain!
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...
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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