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Browse 170 reviews, 2,353 travel blogs, 10,541 photos and videos about 108 historic and cultural things to do in Beijing. You'll also find some useful ratings and information so that you can get all of the unbiased information you need before filling your next trip with lots of fun things to do.

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Great Wall at Mutianyu Beijing

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  • May 27, 2006: ... full day in Beijing we made the journey out to the Great Wall at Mutianyu where the mobs of tourists were nowhere in sight. ...
  • Oct 30, 2005: ... up for an early breakfast and the trip to the Great Wall at Mutianyu. Getting there was actually half the adventure. I ...
  • Sep 29, 2006: ... ever going to compare to this again.   Visit the Great Wall at Mutianyu (see photos) which is the perfect ending to a ...
  • Aug 12, 2007: ... lake and the skyscrapers behind.  14/08 The Great Wall at Mutianyu was more spectacular than I had imagined. We ...

Great Wall at Simatai Beijing

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  • Mar 26, 2004: ... decided to go to the less touristy part of the Great Wall at Simatai (apparently elsewhere there's loads of tourists, it's ...
  • Mar 9, 2008: ... sweating a little bit, I highly recommend a hike on the Wall at SiMaTai. On a final note, if you ever have the chance ...
  • Jun 30, 2006: ... bank account - Seeing an acrobatics show - Seeing Great Wall at Simatai - Forbidden City - Clubbing for Jo's Birthday - ...
  • May 27, 2005: I thought that I had put in an entry already about the great wall but I mustn't have. Here goes.... The Great Wall. ...

Jinshanling Great Wall Beijing

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  • May 31, 2008: ... and very steep climbs and crumbled down hills, from the Jinshanling Great Wall to the Simatai Great Wall (which has been ...
  • Aug 26, 2006: ... wall open to visitors. We were brought to the Jinshanling Great wall which is less comercialised and not visited as much by ...
  • Sep 6, 2006: ... the highest position, from which you can see Beijing. The Jinshanling Great Wall is second only to the Badaling Great Wall ...
  • Feb 3, 2008: ... Hiking Trip Day 01: Downtown Beijing - Jiankou Great wall-Mutianyu Great Wall - Jinshanling Great Wall Pick you up from ...

Temple of Heaven (Tiantan) Beijing

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  • 10 reviews
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  • Sep 19, 2007: ... four days. i've been to the temple of heaven, a large walled park south of central beijing filled with temples from the ming ...
  • Nov 19, 2005: ... next morning (lunchtime) we walk the 5km to the temple of heaven. the main building is closed for renovation, a little ...
  • Jul 1, 2005: ... temple in the world dedicated to the worship of heaven. The so-called Temple of Heaven is not only a park of graceful old ...
  • Feb 13, 2006: ... some authentic market areas of Beijing whilst making our way down towards the Temple Of Heaven. Unfortunately, the main ...

Great Wall at Badaling (Badaling Chancheng) Beijing

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  • May 7, 2005: ... and Catholic school girls there. And then, we climbed the Great Wall at Badaling! This is an insanely steep section of the ...
  • Jan 8, 2009: ... explain how impressive the Great Wall is. We went to the Great Wall at Badaling, and spent about an hour and a half on the ...
  • Sep 18, 2007: ... and off to the Great Wall, but not to the Great Wall at Badaling as advertised.  It seems that the Badaling highway was ...
  • Aug 25, 2008: ... a very comfortable car to take us all out to the Great Wall at Badaling. This is the most touristy part of the Great Wall ...

Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) Beijing

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  • May 9, 2008: ... names were intriguing, todays were downright impressive!  The Summer Palace may have been the imperial retreat of the ...
  • Oct 23, 2007: ... at the base, Ben and I headed off to the Summer Palace.  It was incredibly relaxing after the mountain experience ...
  • Nov 19, 2005: ... were being sprayed, for hygenic reasons. we traveled to the summer palace, which was pretty spectacular, and took a long walk ...
  • Jul 26, 2005: ... to the Clothing." Just before leaving Beijing, I visited the Old Imperial Summer Palace with Yael from Israel. One of ...

Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) Beijing

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  • Oct 3, 2007: ... (So far, looks like Dan's going for bronze!) * Tiananmen Square obstacle course manoevering (The obstacles are all human ...
  • Aug 5, 2006: ... Starting with fight through the crowds on the impressive tiananmen square. Mao slightly smirking looking at everyone who ...
  • Sep 19, 2007: ... i've also spent time exploring beijing's 'communist' spots..tiananmen square and the surrounding monuments and buildings ...
  • Aug 1, 2006: ... This was the background to--and the tinder for--the Tiananmen Square uprising. Twenty years later the roles have been ...

Forbidden City (Imperial Palace) Beijing

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  • Oct 3, 2007: ... The obstacles are all human) * Selling Olympic memorobilia * Forbidden City photo-taking We're not just ...
  • Aug 5, 2006: ... entry) and a trip to the much built up and hyped Forbidden City. For myself, Bruce Campbell and Mike we would have preferred ...
  • Sep 19, 2007: ... (built 15th century-ish). far more interesting was the forbidden city which is a massive complex full of temples and living ...
  • Oct 23, 2007: ... a place as cool and as large as the Forbidden City is in the center of Beijing and is across the street from the People's ...

Beihai Park (Beihai Gongyuan) Beijing

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  • Jun 6, 2005: ... structures. We continued our exploration of Beijing park life with a visit to Beihai park, an ancient site located next ...
  • Apr 11, 2006: ... the same manner as I did the sights of Beijing on my first trip here: Beihai Park? poor man's summer palace (admittedly on ...
  • Mar 24, 2005: ... off! Please leave immediately after either Pissing or Shitting!' Beihai park has a large lake with a central hill crowned ...
  • May 31, 2008: ... after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. We strolled in the Beihai Park with a 36m high White Dagoba and passed the lively Qianhai ...

Hutongs Beijing

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  • Sep 19, 2007: ... are ancient temples, winding alleyways (called hutongs),and monuments to china's recent political history. 15 million people ...
  • May 9, 2008: ... end of this month, and that has been a part of life as Beijing has built the equivalent of NYC in the past five years... they ...
  • Oct 23, 2007: ... ; In the rush to prepare for the Olympics, the number of Beijing hutongs has dwindled from 6000 to 2000.  That's 4000 ...
  • Jun 14, 2007: ... in Japan. My hostel was in one of the aforementioned hutongs, but it was actually a great place with a pleasant courtyard, ...

Lama Temple (Yonghegong) Beijing

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  • 191 travel blogs
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  • Sep 19, 2007: ... place occupies, right in the middle of beijing no less. i've also been to the lama temple, which is probably the most revered ...
  • Oct 18, 2003: ... the million and one things to do and see here is the Lama Temple - although we were feeling templed-out (as the Lonely Planet ...
  • Apr 11, 2006: ... man's summer palace (admittedly on a cold and windy day) Lama Temple? decent, although the enormous statute of Buddha, ...
  • Aug 30, 2005: ... We managed to get completely lost only twice. There is a Tibetan Lama temple to the North of the City and we decide to ...

798 Space Beijing

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Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing

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Big Bell Temple (Da Zhong Si) Beijing

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Chairman Mao Memorial Hall (Maozhuxi Jiniantang) Beijing

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  • Aug 2, 2006: ... The Great Helmsman has been lying in state in the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall since 1977, and is probably number two in the ...
  • May 31, 2008: ... the people with police and TV surveillance everywhere. The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall is on the Southern side of the square ...
  • Sep 17, 2007: ... of the square no doubt is officially called "Chairman Mao Memorial Hall" but is generally called Mao's Masoleum.  Like ...
  • Apr 28, 2008: ... of the People and right in the centre is the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall which displays the pickled corpse of Mao Zedong. ...

Jiankou Great Wall (Arrow Nock) Beijing

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  • May 3, 2008: ... the mountain ridge of Xizhazi Village, Huairou County in Beijing, Jiankou Great Wall was an important section of the wall in ...
  • Sep 11, 2008: ... the mountain ridge of Xizhazi Village, Huairou County in Beijing, Jiankou Great Wall was an important section of the wall in ...
  • Oct 17, 2009: ... with faded Hello Kitty curtains and pictures of the Jiankou Great Wall. Dinner came standard with ambiance. There in the ...
  • Feb 3, 2008: ... Great Wall Hiking Trip Day 01: Downtown Beijing - Jiankou Great wall-Mutianyu Great Wall - Jinshanling Great Wall Pick ...

National Center for the Performing Arts Beijing

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  • Aug 28, 2009: ... the Forbidden City I walked over to the National Centre for the Performing Arts. I have noticed that all the new architecture ...

Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) Beijing

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  • Nov 29, 2004: ... now is great. We have visited these sites so far; The Old Summer Palace, the New Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, ...
  • Jan 13, 2007: ... The only big thing we'd not yet seen in Beijing was the Old Summer Palace, so we went. White man committed another pity ( ...
  • Mar 2, 2008: ... see it for yourself one day!   Day 28 - Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan park) We had another nice sunny day at ...
  • Aug 2, 2006: ... lecture for 2.5 hours, lunch, then toured the Summer Palace, the Old Summer Palace, dinner, and then an acrobatic show. we ...

Ancient Observatory (Guguanxiangtai) Beijing

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  • Aug 31, 2005: ... day I collect my passport and wander over to Beijing Ancient Observatory. This must be one of the oldest observatories in ...
  • Oct 27, 2007: ... On my way back to the underground station I stopped at the Ancient Observatory, an old building that was once located at the ...
  • Jul 14, 2009: ... and get some much needed sleep. Tomorrow we will go see an ancient observatory just down the street and then its off to the ...
  • Oct 24, 2007: ... During World War II Germany and France looted the observatory and each took half back to there countries. France returned ...

Dashanzi Art District / 798 Art District Beijing

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