Plan your Beijing tour? If you are interested in Buddhism, you may consider including Yunju Temple, or Cloud Dwelling Temple on your travel plan. Yunju Temple is located in Fangshan District, about 75km in the west of Beijing. It is well known for its storage of a total of 14,278 well-reserved stone scriptures – Buddhist…
Liugou Village ( Liugou Cun 柳沟村 ）is located in Jingzhen Township, 15km southeast of downtown Yanqing County and 92km north of Beijing city proper. “Liugou” literally means “willow ditch”. Liugou Village lies on a spacious north-south ditch (valley). But unlike the name of Willow Ditch, Liugou Village doesn’t have many willow trees, instead Chinese scholar…
Traveling with your kids? To plan a Beijing kid tour, one of the children friendly things to do in Beijing is to visit a local zoo. Basically Beijing has three zoos – Beijing Zoo, Badaling Safari World and Beijing Wildlife Park. Beijing Zoo is the oldest, originally built in 1906 and named Beijing Zoo in 1955. Though smallest in…
Plan your Great Wall Tour? Currently the Great Wall of China is actually not a continuous wall unlike many people think. The Great Wall now exists in bits. For historical or tourism promotion reasons, these bits of the Great Wall are given numerous names. For the Great Wall around Beijing, people are most familiar with Juyongguan Great…
The Ming Great Wall at Bolitai Village Bolitai Village is nestled in a flat valley surrounded by the high mountains and dense forest with a zigzag highway passing from north to south in the valley, linking the village to the outside world. It is a beautiful village, looking like a paradise on earth. There are…
Today is Feb 17, 2011, the day for the Lantern Fesitval, also the last day of the two week Chinese New Year Period 2011. Though eager to return home for the family reunion on this special holiday, we all expect to visit Jiangjunguan Village and hike around the Jiangjunguan Great Wall, our last inspection spot…
Jiankou Great Wall is the greatest and most photogenic section of the Great Wall around Beijing. Jiankou Great Wall is wild and totally unrestored. The tumbledown and crumbling brickwork snakes along a narrow mountain ridge. So it is dangerous and treacherous to hike this section of the Wall. At the time of my writing, it is…
Plan your Beijing excursion? Jingdong Karst Cave, is popularly known as Jingdong Big Cave or Big Karst Cave in Pinggu. It is located in Heidouyu Village at Pinggu District, 90km east of Beijing city proper. “Jingdong” literally means “East of Beijing”. Jingdong Karst Cave have existed ever since 1.5 billion years before, hence the name…