Courtyard 7 Beijing

... and courtyards. In a way that is correct, but it is the story, design, and history behind every single building and courtyard that make the palace complex so intriguing. If visitors do a little research into The Forbidden City before visiting it, it will ...

... first hostel in the entrance of Hell. After asking two people who continued to point us down the road, we locate Leo Courtyard Beijing. I immediately begin fighting the urge to self defend. On this terrifying road, in the apparent middle of nowhere, the ...

... it really is beef.. I think it's dog or donkey (serious!), but it tastes pretty good so I don't mind!! Naturally, being in Beijing I did plenty of sightseeing too. Today I visited the forbidden city, built in the 1300-1600's from the Mind Dynasty and ...

ARRIVAL IN BEIJING!! 3/30 -- AC 986 SFO 2:50pm to PEK 6:00pm (next day ...

... a little brighter, the courtyard surrounded by green columns and rooms and the shafts of the early morning light lighting up the courtyard, decorated with old Chinese calligraphy and artwork. We grew to like the place very much indeed.  We dumped our ...

From Jingshan Park, our tour continued to the Forbidden City which is just the north of the park. The Forbidden City was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, it is situated to the North of Tiananmen ...

... 27 RMB each tickets into town. It was an easy change at Dongzhimen station and soon we were at Qianmen walking toward the Leo Courtyard where we had made reservations. It was 11PM and they gave us one of the lesser rooms right off the lobby and we ...

... buildings that took 14 years to complete. It was way beyond what we were expecting.  You enter through a huge outer courtyard where the present military practice their marching routines, which is cool to watch.  Then you enter the Forbidden ...

... been in smack dab in the middle of the countyside. It's easily understood why the hutongs continue to thrive in modern Beijing, and why courtyard hotels exist, they provide a quiet and peaceful refuge from the hustle and bustle of one of the world's ...

... with old style brooms made out of branches.Great place, although the layout was a little similar to the Forbidden City. Courtyard, buliding with something in the middle, another courtyard, bigger buliding with something bigger in the middle. Until you got ...

... the streets of Beijing to a neighbourhood with drum and bell towers built centuries ago for telling time.  The courtyard separating the two lovely towers was surrounded by rickshaws for taking tourists through the Hatongs (back alley neighbourhoods) ...

... this place was quite spectacular and each courtyard and inner wall was gigantic but heading through another door only revealed yet another courtyard and beautiful building and so on. After a few hours of walking through this place we returned to the hotel ...

... nbsp;  Walking through to the Forbidden City itself was pretty hard-going, with the herds of market vendors lining the concrete courtyard. There was hardly any shade at all, and the heat started to get to us quickly. Looking around the Forbidden City ...

... narrow alley in the heart of old china it seemed. Anyway we checked in about 4.10pm. It was an authentic Chinese house with a courtyard in the middle. We both connected to the internet so that we could advise loved ones that we had arrived in Beijing then ...

... All these wee backstreets have doors off of them leading to courtyards with doors off of them and everybody lives in the rooms off the courtyard. The hostel is top rated on trip advisor and it's really lovely. Had a guy from Singapore in my room for a few ...