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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Forbidden City

by muddybok

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.

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Red Wall

by muddybok

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.

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Great Wall Sled lift

by urban4est

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.

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A Wall like a fort

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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.

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On and On and On and........

by urban4est

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.

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Climb the Great Wall

by urban4est

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.

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The Great Wall of China

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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.

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People madness in the capital!!!!

by sugarpuff

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!

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Crickets: The good, the bad and the ugly!

by sugarpuff

From the beginning of the Song dynasty (960 - 1278 A.D.), there are many historic references to the use of crickets within recreational fighting events. With the same popularity that football enjoys today, cricket fighting became a popular game and sport for all people, from adults to children. One day an officer from the local rice granaries saw a wonderful cricket, and exchanged it for his best horse. While he was away, his wife opened the pot to peek at the special cricket which promptly jumped out and was instantly eaten by a cockerel outside. The lady was so scared that she committed suicide. Her husband, upon returning and seeing his dead wife along with the missing cricket, also took his life.There are numerous tragedies and comedies associated with cricket fighting.Since the emperor's actions had direct bearing on people's lives, the emperor's interest was largely responsible for...

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Crazy Crickets (Part 2)

by sugarpuff

An elegant hobby?Most of the ladies of the palace were concubines to the Emperor. With emperors typically having three thousand concubines, their life was typified by a rich material life but starved emotional and cultural experience. A similarity can be drawn between the concubines and their captive crickets in their golden cages. Rather than enjoying the sweet chirps of the crickets, the concubines heard a reflection of their own sadness and loneliness in the cricket's chirp.A poem taken from the Tang Dynasty. 'Listen to the cricket' by Bei Ju-YiThe Singing cricket chirps throughout the long night, tolling in the cloudy autumn with its rain. Intent on disturbing the gloomy sleepless soul, the cricket moves towards the bed chirp by chirp.With the growth of adoration towards singing insects, people became more aware of their short life-spans ending with the onset of winter. According to...

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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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