Beijing Travel is an important category of this travel blog which includes over 15 sub-categories including Beijing Attractions, Beijing Excursions, Beijing Great Wall, Beijing Nightlife, Beijing Transportation…
If you are going to visit Beijing, it is advisable to come back to this category often to upgrade your travel information on Beijing.
Plan your Beijing hutong tour? Basically a glimpse of the old hutongs in Beijing will be crammed into a travel plan for most of the first-time visitors coming to Beijing. Why hutongs? In a sense, the modern Beijing was born from hutongs, the unique and vernacular buildings or architectures in Beijing. The hutongs in Beijing…
Plan your Beijing tour? Beijing has a strong gastronomic tradition and no Beijing tour is complete without getting a taste of some of its local foods. We’ve rounded up the top 10 must-taste foods unique in Beijing with pictures and descriptions easy for you to follow on your trip to Beijing. Some of the top 10 foods mentioned may…
Plan your Beijing tour? In Beijing, there still exist some places where you can see the old streets, the Northern Chinese vernacular buildings and authentic Beijing folk culture despite of the fast pace of the local urbanization and gentrification. Yandai Xiejie Street, or Smoking Pipes Byway ( Yandai literally “Smoking Pipes” ) is one of…
Beijing Badachu Park is a delightful escape from the modern concrete forest of skyscrapers. We’d like to share the beautiful moments visiting Badachu Park with you. The Eight Buddhist Temples and Nunneries “Badachu” here literally means”eight great sites”, which refer to the eight Buddhist temples and nunneries in the park, hence the name of Beijing…
Beijing top wetlands for bird watching and sightseeing Often compared to the “Kidney of the Earth”, wetlands are one of the three equally important ecological systems on earth with the other two being forests and the sea. One of the functions of wetlands are to provide a habitat for birds. Birds use wetlands for breeding,…
Mr. Liang Sicheng ( known as the father of modern Chinese architecture) thinks that “the Beijing central axis starts from Yongdingmen in the south and reaches the Bell and Drum Tower in the north. To this day, the Central Axis is like the backbone of Beijing, supporting the city’s continuous development and growth. However, as…
Tiananmen Square is oft-lauded as the largest public square of this kind in the world, a geological centre of Beijing as well as a political barometer of China. Apart from the historical events and myths related to the square, Tiananmen Square has much to offer in terms of the significant buildings and solemn red flag…
If you only have one full day in Beijing and would like to feel, touch and see the essential Beijing, you may check out this quick guide to Beijing one-day itinerary below, our suggested self-guide itinerary to plan your own memorable Beijing Day Tours. This itinerary takes you for a walk along Beijing axis from south to…