Beijing History and Culture

Great Wall at Mutianyu Beijing

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1102 reviews 58 travel blogs 133 photos

Distance: 1.8 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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Aug 2, 2011 nice section of the great wall
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 ...
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 ...

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Great Wall at Simatai Beijing

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144 reviews 11 travel blogs 8 photos

Distance: 67.4 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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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 ...
Jul 18, 2010 ... on killing a great many of its inhabitants. Sunday was Great Wall at Simatai, about 4 hours out of the city and thus less ...
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 ...
Jun 30, 2006 ... ' bank account - Seeing an acrobatics show - Seeing Great Wall at Simatai - Forbidden City - Clubbing for Jo's Birthday ...

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Jinshanling Great Wall Beijing

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75 reviews 14 travel blogs 73 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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May 31, 2008 ... scary and very steep climbs and crumbled down hills, from the Jinshanling Great Wall to the Simatai Great Wall (which has ...
Oct 11, 2011 ... this was Muyin and the right place to change for the Jinshanling Great Wall, which he assured us it was, so off we ...
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 ...

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Temple of Heaven (Tiantan) Beijing

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855 reviews 998 travel blogs 2823 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Feb 8, 2012 Another of Beijing's "must see"attactions. Gardens were also lovely and would have been great to see them in the spring.
Feb 13, 2006 ... some authentic market areas of Beijing whilst making our way down towards the Temple Of Heaven. Unfortunately, the main ...
Jul 1, 2005 ... largest temple in the world dedicated to the worship of heaven. The so-called Temple of Heaven is not only a park of ...
Jun 19, 2008 ... , long corridor that was beautifully painted. Like the Temple of Heaven, the corridor bent 90 degrees along the way to ...

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Great Wall at Badaling (Badaling Chancheng) Beijing

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3188 reviews 42 travel blogs 51 photos

Distance: 3.4 miles from city center

Category: Sightseeing

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Feb 8, 2012 Fantastic experience! Highly recommended to actually walk along the wall as far as you can get.
Dec 1, 2011 Great
Jul 1, 2011 The Great Wall at Badaling, Chancheng was an experience of a lifetime. The day was humid and hot. Walking the 64% gradient ...
Feb 26, 2011 ... of people with 2 fingers up! So we finally arrived at the Great Wall at Badaling. Our guide reckons that this is a ...

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Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) Beijing

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1916 reviews 1259 travel blogs 4691 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Nov 23, 2010 best attraction in the winter (ironically enough), everything else was repetitive and gloomy but I had a good time there
May 18, 2011 ... the metro didn't take very long though and we were at the summer palace before long. When you buy your tickets at the ...
May 9, 2008 ... names were intriguing, todays were downright impressive! The Summer Palace may have been the imperial retreat of the ...
Jan 17, 2008 ... struck on the ox soup... On Sunday we visited the Summer Palace, which was a vast and beautiful park containing stunning ...

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Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) Beijing

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641 reviews 1102 travel blogs 1680 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Jan 31, 2012 Also highly recommended for all travellers coming to China. Again, the size of it is incredible. Very well organised for ...
Jun 28, 2011 Large, crowded but quite fun as they were ramping up for the Party's 90th anniversary celebration!
Mar 9, 2011 You must know a little bit of history to appreciate the place. Otherwise, itll be just another concrete park with tons of ...
Oct 4, 2007 ... (So far, looks like Dan's going for bronze!) * Tiananmen Square obstacle course manoevering (The obstacles are all ...

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Forbidden City (Imperial Palace) Beijing

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2080 reviews 2620 travel blogs 9083 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Jan 31, 2012 An absolute "must-do" for anyone checking off their bucket list! Pretty awe-inspiring to say the least! The one figure that ...
Jul 6, 2011 This is my favorite place in Beijing. Tons of history, an expansive complex, and plenty of resources to learn while there. A ...
Mar 9, 2011 You must know a little bit of history to appreciate this place. Otherwise it would seem like another concrete park with ...
Nov 23, 2010 I was bored. Maybe its because I've already seen so many palaces, and was cold and alone and in pain in my visit, but it ...

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Beihai Park (Beihai Gongyuan) Beijing

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474 reviews 141 travel blogs 583 photos

Distance: 4.7 miles from city center

Category: Beaches, Water Sports, Lakes & Rivers

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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 12, 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 ... City) after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. We strolled in the Beihai Park with a 36m high White Dagoba and passed the lively ...

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Hutongs Beijing

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42 reviews 631 travel blogs 307 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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May 9, 2008 ... the 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... ...
May 8, 2008 ... The ride back brought us winding through some sweet hutongs, which are small traditional neighborhoods that wind around ...
Jul 4, 2005 Surrounding the Hutongs is the new Beijing--the concrete skyscrapers, the neon advertisements, the glitzy hotels. Like most ...
Jul 26, 2005 ... "Daily Life of a Family Restaurant" is a daily event in the Beijing Hutongs. Or is that the actual name of the restaurant? ...

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Lama Temple (Yonghegong) Beijing

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295 reviews 351 travel blogs 801 photos

Distance: 3.2 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Jan 17, 2008 ... we visited the Temple of Heavenly Peace and went on to the Lama Temple, were 130 monks still live and work around an 18 ...
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 ...
Apr 12, 2006 ... man's summer palace (admittedly on a cold and windy day) Lama Temple? decent, although the enormous statute of Buddha, ...
Aug 31, 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 ...

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798 Space Beijing

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483 reviews 2 photos

Distance: 7.5 miles from city center

Category: Museums

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Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing

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1 review

Distance: 1.1 miles from city center

Category: Museums

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Big Bell Temple (Da Zhong Si) Beijing

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29 reviews

Distance: 1.9 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Chairman Mao Memorial Hall (Maozhuxi Jiniantang) Beijing

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43 reviews 24 travel blogs 18 photos

Distance: 1.5 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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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 ...
Feb 1, 2011 ... . His body is preserved and laid out at the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Tiananmen Square. We took a taxi ...
Sep 18, 2007 ... centerpiece of the square no doubt is officially called "Chairman Mao Memorial Hall" but is generally called Mao's ...

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Jiankou Great Wall (Arrow Nock) Beijing

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6 reviews 3 travel blogs 20 photos

Distance: 1.1 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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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 ...
Sep 11, 2008 ... the mountain ridge of Xizhazi Village, Huairou County in Beijing, Jiankou Great Wall was an important section of the wall ...
Oct 17, 2009 ... with faded Hello Kitty curtains and pictures of the Jiankou Great Wall. Dinner came standard with ambiance. There in the ...

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National Center for the Performing Arts Beijing

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64 reviews 13 travel blogs 16 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Nov 25, 2010 Right after the visit to the National Centre For The Performing Arts, we were taken by coach for lunch. We arrived at this ...
Aug 28, 2009 ... nbsp; After the Forbidden City I walked over to the National Centre for the Performing Arts. I have noticed that all the new ...
Nov 25, 2010 Just a few streets away, is the National Centre For The Performing Arts. We walked here all the way from Tiananmen Square ...
Jul 17, 2010 ... nbsp; First stop is the famous Beijing Opera house, or The National Centre for the Performing Arts. It is also knows ...

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Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) Beijing

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362 reviews 31 travel blogs 99 photos

Distance: 4.1 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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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, ...
Sep 10, 2007 ... during the Anglo-French allied invasion of 1860 (with the Old Summer Palace also ransacked at the same time), and also ...
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 ...
Feb 3, 2011 ... so we thought, was that it was on the grounds of the Old Summer Palace. On the way to the festival, we figured that if ...

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Ancient Observatory (Guguanxiangtai) Beijing

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8 reviews 12 travel blogs 8 photos

Distance: 4.1 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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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 ...
Jul 18, 2011 ... the legs I made my way, rather proudly to the ancient observatory (the Chinese having a rich history in astronomy) and was ...
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 ...

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Dashanzi Art District / 798 Art District Beijing

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483 reviews 5 travel blogs

Distance: 4.9 miles from city center

Category: Sightseeing

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Jun 7, 2011 I would recommend spending couple of hours here.

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Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tian'an Men) Beijing

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253 reviews 103 travel blogs 121 photos

Distance: 3.6 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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Jul 14, 2010 ... Park after a few hours. We climbed up into the Gate of Heavenly Peace from which a huge picture of Chairman Mao hangs, ...
Feb 16, 2008 ... to mention massive portrait of Mao Zedong adorning the Gate of Heavenly Peace, where Pat proclaimed we were here "looking ...
Jun 27, 2011 ... throughly enjoyed spending a day strolling round and relaxing. Gate of Heavenly Peace: Built in the 15th Century the ...
May 6, 2006 ... ever seen. After the Square, I went through the Gate of Heavenly Peace to Beijing's Forbidden City. This City was off ...

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Beijing Language and Culture University

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2 reviews 30 travel blogs 1 photo

Distance: 6.3 miles from city center

Category: Education Sites and Libraries

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Jul 3, 2011 ... driving us for over an hour, we arrived at Beijing Language and Cultural University’s south gate. I thanked Xiao Wang ...
Jul 8, 2011 ... the sales lady was so beautiful and so persuasive, I capitulated. I also bought a framed Beijing Opera emperor character. ...
Jun 25, 2007 ... Literature and is graduating from BLCU (Beijing Language and Culture University). Alison actually has me over for ...
Jul 7, 2011 ... bowls of delicious macaroni and cheese, topped off by a fruit parfait. After some trying language classes yesterday, I'm ...

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Gu Gong (The Palace Museum) Beijing

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2080 reviews 7 travel blogs 2 photos

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Museums

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Jun 19, 2008 ... Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and ...
Jun 17, 2008 ... Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and ...
Aug 29, 2009 ... looked ever so slightly like an elephant's trunk! The Forbidden City (or Gu Gong as it is known in Chinese) is in the ...
Sep 7, 2006 ... were allowed in. Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong, in Chinese, was the imperial palace ...

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Changanjie Beijing

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5 reviews

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Sightseeing

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Bell and Drum Towers Beijing

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29 reviews 21 travel blogs 3 photos

Distance: 7.5 miles from city center

Category: Historic sites

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Aug 26, 2007 ... including the lake and the Hutong area including the Bell and Drum Towers. Stopped at a fav restaurant on the lake ...
Jun 23, 2007 ... Melanie and Jeff took a quick side ride and saw the Bell and Drum Towers - two magnificent structures. After returning our ...
Jul 11, 2006 ... to the Lama Temple, through some hutongs along to the Bell and Drum towers then to the Silk Street Market and then the ...
Jun 1, 2011 ... took us on a tour of the Houhai district and to the Bell and Drum Towers. After our Western lunch where the kids ...

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Great Hall of the People (Renmin Dahuitang) Beijing

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17 reviews 87 travel blogs 75 photos

Distance: 4.1 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Aug 31, 2005 ... centre of Beijing and walk across Tianamen square to the Great Hall of the People. Its hard to be here without remembering ...
Dec 20, 2005 ... a couple of very large revolution statues (top centre), the Great Hall of the People (naturally difficult to get in to for ...
Mar 1, 2009 ... of the People: $12,000 Administrative Bureau of the Great Hall of the People (Beijing) 6/06Percentage of Chinese who say ...
Sep 19, 2007 ... to the south (both closed for olympic renovations). and finally the great hall of the people to the west...which i went ...

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Fayuan Si - Buddhist Temple Beijing

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8 reviews 1 travel blog

Distance: 1.2 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Dec 29, 2009 ... Yonghe, cunoscut si ca Templul Lama. La fel ca si la Templul Fayuan si aici am prins o zi de sarbatoare. Templul este ...

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Baiyun Guan Beijing

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5 reviews

Distance: 7.5 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Central Radio and Television Tower (Zhongyang Dianshita) Beijing

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44 reviews

Distance: 2.6 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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Lugou Bridge Beijing

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19 reviews

Distance: 10.6 miles from city center

Category: Buildings and Structures

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