Beijing Travel Guide
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To the first-time visitor, Beijing seems a vast and sprawling city. It is characterized by long, wide boulevards and a labyrinthine network of overpasses and freeways that comprises the six ring roads. Fortunately, there is order in the chaos. At the heart of Beijing lies the Forbidden City , the absolute center of the capital, from where the ring roads … Read Beijing introduction
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Summer Palace (The)
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The Summer Palace was the royal summer residence during the Qing Dynasty. The palace grounds cover an area of 290 hectares, three quarters of which is Kunming Lake. Within the grounds there is a diverse collection of gardens that together …
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Introduction
If your visions of Beijing are centred around pods of Maoist revolutionaries in buttoned-down tunics performing exercise in Tiananmen Square, put them to rest: this city has embarked on a new millennium rollercoaster and it's taking the rest of China with it.
Not to miss
Forbidden City The Forbidden City, so-called because it was off-limits to most of the world for 500 years, is the best preserved cluster of ancient buildings in China. The old world of beautiful concubines and priapic emperors, ball-breaking (and broken) eunuchs and conspicuous wealth still …
Facts for the Traveller
Population : 13000000 Area : 16800km² Longitude / Latitude : 116.388038635 / 39.9061927795 Currency : Yuan Renminbi (CNY) Weights & Measures system : Metric
Getting there & Getting around
Getting there Beijing has direct air connections to most major cities in the world and many travellers make use of the direct Beijing-Hong Kong flights on CAAC or Dragonair. Guangzhou and Shenzhen are both near Hong Kong and have direct domestic flights to Beijing (Hong Kong is treated as an …
History
Recent History Beijing's undertaken an image makeover in recent times, which has included the abolition of the last of the city's official off-limit areas, established in the 1950s to quarantine the Cultural Revolution from foreign influences, and the successful pursuit of the 2008 Olympic …
Weather
Autumn is lovely, with clear skies and breezy days. Arid spring is ok, apart from the (worsening) sand clouds that sweep in from Inner Mongolia and the ubiquitous static electricity that discharges everywhere. Spring also sees the snow-like liuxu (willow catkins) wafting through the air like …
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Overview of Beijing
If you can see only one city in China, it should be Beijing, because many of the capital's bests are also China's bests. The authors of this book are all former residents of Beijing, and our choices below reflect our approach to selecting the contents for this entire guide. We've included the …
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Beijing's historic, cultural, and political preeminence dates back nearly six centuries. Yet, in spite of devastating urban renewal, modern Beijing continues to convey an imperial grandeur. New temples to communism -- the Great Hall of the People, Chairman Mao's Mausoleum -- convey the …
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