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.
When you arrive at Beijing Capital Airport, just ignore anyone who is approaching to you for offering taxi service. Usually these touts charge you a ridiculous taxi rate of RMB 300-400 for the normal ride from Beijing airport to the city center of Beijing, which costs about RMB 100. Most of the black taxi drviers don’t…
Today I receive an email by a traveler named Karen. In her email, she tells me of her family’s bad experience in Beijing and hopes to have her suffering posted in my blog to warn potential travelers to avoid the same frustration. Below is what she says: ————————– Dear Daniel Li Thanks…
The month-long 2010 World Cup “destroys” my routine life. But one thing I still keep on doing is reading. I’ve been reading a 410-page novel “The Great Wall” written by John Man. He is a great storyteller as well as a historian. John Man is an expert on the Great Wall of…
Both Tripadvisor.com and Virtualtourist.com are my favorite travel review sites. If I’m going abroad, I would go on the two travel review sites to check the online information on the country I will visit – where to stay, dine; what to see and do; travel tips and tour traps, etc. Tripadvisor and Virtualtourist…
Polite and knowledgeable tour guides are much sought after by foreign tourists who want to hire private tour guides to make most of their trips to Beijing China. So, how to find these helpful and resourceful tour guides? Usually foreign tourists rely on the following channels to locate private tour guides: 1) Travel Forum and Travel Review Websites: like Tripadvisors.com, Virtualtourist.com…
With the closure of Simatai Great Wall, the volume of hiking Jinshanling Great Wall will increase greatly. To have a snowball effect, the local Jinshanling adminstration stipulates that travelers can use one ticket for multi-day hiking at Jinshanling on the condition that they stay overnight at Jinshanling Hotel. Jinshanling and Simatai are the only…
On June 10, 2010, we got a fax from Simatai Great Wall Administration to the effect that Simatai Great Wall is going to be closed since June 17, 2010 for the local government is going to rebuild Simatai Scenic Area and the opening date is unknown. We were all shocked at the disappointing news….
Beijing dwellers have the longest average commutation time from work to home, 52 minutes commute on average. In other words, Beijing has a largest number of commuters in China. Each day people get up around 6:00am. Some bike into work; some ride the subway; other either take a taxi or driver a car to…