The Regent Beijing

Regent China Tours is a travel company established in Florida, USA and has office in Beijing, China. With over 20 years experience in travel business and high qualified personnels, Regentchina can meet all you needs in China. Website: www.regenttour.com ...

Beginning February 8, 2011, we will sail on three segments of the Regent Seven Seas World Cruise aboard the Seven Seas Voyager. In the course of the 60 day cruise, we will visit 26 ports in twelve countries starting in Auckland, New Zealand and ending in ...

... and agreed to meet up in a couple of days to take us to some authentic Peking duck.  When we finally arrived at the Regent Beijing hotel after the 12hr flight and instantly, we instantly walked into the lap of luxury.  We were staying at this ...

... the end of a cruise segment.  Plus, almost everyone continuing on the next segment also disembarked to spend two days in Beijing (compliments of Regent).  It was a cold, cloudy day with temperatures in the high 30's to low 40’s.  The ...

... we got by on 3-6 layers of clothes; suffice to say we had loads of laundry to do after. First impressions of Beijing: -very modern, -loads of interesting modern architecture, -very wide streets -saturation of very high end name brand stores (not ...

We got an express overnight train (which still arrived late) to Beijing then walked to Tianamen Square, which was bigger than I expected, a multi lane highway runs along each side within the square.  We tried to get a virtual cache at the monument ...

On day 3, we went to Beijing South Railway Station to purchase tickets for the fast train (departure 0900) to Shanghai on 14Dec. We tried and enjoyed a simple but nice breakfast of pancake with sunny side-up on one side (yummy!) from a street vendor ...

... 's most powerful women.  Having borne the Xianfeng emperor's son as an imperial concubine, Cixi later seized power as regent to both the Tongzhi and Guangxu emperors (her son and nephew respectively).  Cixi prevented Guiangxu from implementing ...

... . The room was large and great view to the bustling streets below. The next morning, decided to see some sights around Beijing. Armed with a mandarin phrasebook, I caught a cab to what was meant to be Summer Palace, ended up being at Jingshan Park. ...

... stad grofweg zo'n 16 miljoen mensen. Deze moeten natuurlijk ook vervoerd worden. Iedereen kent het liedje nine million bycicles in Beijing. Tegenwoordig gaat dat eerder op voor het aantal auto's. Dat heeft dan wel nog lang niet de negen miljoen bereikt. ...

... last full day in Beijing we headed out to the summer palace, supposedly one of the more beautiful places to visit in Beijing.  I was a little leery since the Forbidden City didn't live up to my expectations; however, the Summer Palace was great ...

... and don't allowed freedom for everyone (so now if I disappear you'll know why).  It really is a conundrum for me since Beijing looks so clean and new with all its modern architecture and the lighting at night puts Vegas to task.  But at the ...

Rainy day in Beijing which helped clear up the air a bit.  It was nice to have cooler air that day too.  Decided to try the subway system since we had another soccer game that night and didn't want to hassle with taxis again.  ...

... ;     That night we met up with Yi for dinner and she took us to Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, a touristy place but supposedly the best Peking duck in all of Beijing! And then we capped off the night with a beer at the FIFA ...

... Buddha’s and is quite small). The statues featured anything from tablets listing the accomplishements of emperors or famous Beijing citizens to statues goats, dragons and dragon descendants. Mischa told us a great story about the dragon ...

... treaty of Humen gave Britain settlement rights. Soon the French joined in and a joint British-French force occupied Guangzhou, invaded Beijing and burnt down the Summer Palace (Second Opium War). Two treaties later (Tianjin 1858 and Beijing 1860) gave ...

... Qing Emperor Qianlong. In 1918 it was developed as a park. The Park contains most of the important religious sites of Beijing, including the Circular Mound (for worshiping Heaven). Inside the Temple complex is the beautiful circular triple gabled Altar of ...