Pearl Market (Hongqiao Market) Beijing

16 Hongqiao Lu Beijing , China - Phone: 010/6711-7429
  • Traveler Rating 4.00
    72 reviews 254 travel blogs 49 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Flea/street market

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    1of 169 attractions in Beijing

TravelPod Member ReviewsPearl Market (Hongqiao Market) Beijing

  • another big Chinese market

    3

    freya.hopper 2 contributions China Mar 7, 2012

    If you want to go shopping, the Pearl Market is another enormous Chinese mall to visit, except with lots of pearls on the top floor. Comparing initial prices with ones in smaller cities, it's about three times as expensive, but they were very easy to haggle down and an accomplished haggler could probably get goods for a very cheap price.

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  • 1

    The journey begins

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    Well, I am touching wood and crossing fingers and looking out for four-leaf clovers, but, so far, I seem to be surviving by myself.

    The day started in Hangzhou, in what was called the Hangzhou Airport Hotel. It wasn't so much at the airport as in a little suburb perhaps 15 minutes away. Still, transportation to and from the terminal was …

  • 2

    Busy times in Beijing!!

    75 photos

    Where to begin, where to begin....
    As our classes were reaching the final week we all began preparing for the forthcoming Beijing field-trip. I hadn't put much thought into it yet as I had been cramming the last few days trying to finish up our super-intense five week course on Chinese.

    I talked to my adviser and I started coming …

  • 3

    Off to China!

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    I've always wanted to visit China. I have studied the Orient and Japanese and Chinese Mandarin languages, so this was a dream come true for me.

    Beijing is a very crowded city (both people and automobiles). The people were very friendly, but there are many beggars, as well as aggressive salesman selling their souvenires and knock off …

  • 4

    Last Day in Beijing!

    17 photos

    This morning the entire delegation left Beijing at different times. My group was the last to leave so we had the wonderful opportunity to do some additional sight seeing around Beijing. We started off the morning at the Temple of Heaven.

    The Temple of Heaven is located in the
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  • 5

    Last Day/ The Insect Market/ First Sleeper Train

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    It was our last day in Beijing so we decided to have a look at the Insect market- type street, as we head it was pretty grim and wanted some photos. It was actually worse than I imagined.. live scorpions, sea horses, star fish, cockroaches on sticks.. literally any foul insect on a stick. There was monkey meat too, touching raw chicken kebabs - …

  • 6

    Great Walls and Great Feeds

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    Hello all! Thanks to everyone leaving comments. It's Simon - having let Rosie write the last few entries I felt I should contribute.

    We decided after a couple of days that we would definitely want to spend more than the 4 nights we had initially booked in Beijing. For one thing, we really liked the place, but it was also extremely busy …

  • 7

    Welcome To Beijing

    21 photos

    At immigration in Beijing airport, Yan was pulled to one side. They barked questions in Mandarin and expectantly looked at her for a reply. Answering in English did not seem to help matters, what did help was Asif sauntering over nonchalantly asking what was wrong. We guess at that point they must have realised this was a true tourist with a real …

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  • 1

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    ... If he didn't feel safe, what hope was there for the rest of us!? We did survive and finally got dropped off at the "Pearl Market". This sells everything, not just pearls! I purchased a new rucksack as mine had split on the handle and I was struggling ...

  • 2

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    ... Just a side note before I leave.  After visiting the Temple of Heaven we walked across the street to the Pearl Market.  It's a highly entertaining shopping experience in which you will see millions of wonderful things that are not useful ...

  • 3

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    ... too much to see. It consists of some old buildings and courtyards that have been reconstructed. We headed to the Silk Market and Pearl Market in the afternoon which are well known for selling copies of famous designer brands. It was fun haggling with ...

  • 4

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    ... to pass. Overall it was an OK experience but definitely not the great shopping we were expecting.   Then we headed to the pearl market. This place was also massive, it had 5 floors of goods and the top 3 were dedicated to only pearls. Having no ...

  • 5

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    ... to escape. regardless, we found some great deals (perhaps not in hard dollars, but certainly in cultural experience. It was behind the pearl market in some seedy back alley that we found the the kabobs. although early in our trip, raye and i seem ...

  • 6

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    ... is that Mao was 70% right and just 30% wrong in his leadership of the country. The pressure was on us at Beijing's Pearl Market.  All our souvenir shopping was to be carried out there in a single day.  The experience was ...

  • 7

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  • 8

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  • 9

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