Jingshan Park (Yingshan Gongyuan) Beijing

Today's plan was to visit both Jingshan and Beihai Park. We started the day off right with the Cantonese restaurant located next to Red House Brewery and Pizza. I indulged on a duck with rice and plum sauce platter in the sweltering hot restaurant. It lacked proper ventilation and the rotating fans didn't help much.

Since it was so hot …

TravelPod encourages its contributors to come up with clever blog titles, but I'm starting to run out of ideas for Beijing (I’d considered "I Want You to Play with My Beijing-a-Ling" for this entry) which makes it good that I’ll be leaving tomorrow. It’s hard for me to believe my stay in China is almost over, but I got to see …

1^st October -National Day

Wandered around the vast amount of lakes and parks the city has to offer, it is very green and pretty and a thoroughly enjoyable place to hang out! We resisted the urge to get a pedalo but couldn't resist an ice lolly for 10p! Ooh and a steamed corn on the cob for 20p - yummy!! Beijing is a lot greener …

Entry containing 5 photos titled: View from the top of Jingshan park, 18m tall statue of Buddha in Lama Temple, Lama Temple, Temple of Heaven Park, View from the Round Altar in Temple of Heaven Park

April 28, 2012

Chinese Word for the Day: Chu'ar...although I haven't been able to have it yet, I've been told that this is a MUST eat while visiting Beijing. It's a meat skewer and I guess it's the easiest Chinese character to learn as it looks a skewer.

Well I'm off traveling again! This time a new experience as I'm really on my …

Today we met our guide Aileen. She was recommended to us by my cousin and his wife who used her when they were here. She arrived in the lobby at about 10.30 and we walked to Jingshan Park – about 15 minute’s walk through Beijing. We instantly all got on. She’s perhaps a little bit younger than me, speaks great English and has a …

I do not recommend the 3:15am flight from Delhi to Beijing, which was 2/3 full by the way. The sunrise was lovely and luckily, the kids slept. We arrive in Beijing after noon, completely jet-lagged. A quick tram ride to the main terminal leads to smooth sailing through customs, and we eat at a café for lunch. In the airport parking lot, a 30- …

Whew! We are wiped out after walking everywhere for the past few days. Now it is time to do a little bit of catching up!

Day 1 - Jingshan Park and the Forbidden City

We walked from our hotel to the north of the Forbidden City to see Jingshan Park. This was the Imperial park of the Emperors and Empresses who lived in the Forbidden …

What a day! The university didn't have anything planned for us today so we decided to explore the city a bit. Obviously the place we wanted to go first was the Forbidden City. We hoped in the sardine can, I mean the subway, and arrived in Tian’anmen east. This is not a place for camera shy people as many families tried to steal me. Oliver …

After the Forbidden City, we walked towards Jingshan Park (景山公园 Jing Shan Gong Yuan). It's a park that's very close to the Forbidden City, and they're very closely related in both history and style. A lot of the architecture in Jingshan Park mirrored that of the Forbidden City, though on a much smaller scale.

... has a gate on each side. Opposite the Tiananmen Gate, to the north is the Gate of Divine Might (Shenwumen), which faces Jingshan Park. The distance between these two gates is 960 meters, while the distance between the gates in the east and west walls is ...

... courtyard with buildings dotted about and looking through windows. But the architecture and weapons room are both quite impressive. Jingshan Park: This park is oppostie the Forbidden City. The hill was exacavated to create the palace moat and believed to ...

... wake up for the viewing of Mao's corpse. It was definitely a full day of walking, fighting the crowds and eventually ending up in Jingshan Park a welcome change of pace after the palace. Passing a few Utongs (old alleys) I was on a mission to find a ...

Not feeling to stiff from yesterday I went for a walk to Jingshan Park through plenty of Hutongs (old narrow alleyways criss crossing around the city) which it was hard not to do seeing as the hostel was located in one itself. The park gave some good ...

... route, but if you are particularly interested in Chinese History and architecture you could spend a week in this place. * Jingshan Park and Beihai Park Both good places to get away from chaos and stress of this big city. At Beihai Park we rented a ...

... ************************************* Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going - Paul Theroux · Beijing, China. · Prague time +7hrs · Days to get to Prague - 25 Beijing, part III Beijing. This ...

... of all the places I wanted to go to today I found them perfectly on my own by foot. My first stop was Jingshan Park.  I am so happy that I stopped there.  The park gate is across the street from the back gate of ...

... went for lunch on Qinhai lake (v. resonable restaurant called South Silk Road) and finally went up into Jingshan Park to try and catch the sunset over Beijing. We then walked through some food night markets (see photos), but so far have declined from ...

... , look it up on the internet ( we will be testing everyone on our return , especially you Joe and Holly). We visit Jingshan park, north of the Forbidden City ,and climb to the highest point. Great panoramic views of Beijing. We walk the 500 ...

... took a couple of hours to look around it though. Once outside at the other end we thought why not climb the hill in Jingshan Park behind for an overhead view. Whilst I'm sure the view is fantastic on a clear day, today was a typical smoggy, foggy ...