Beijing Reviews

Beijing Continuing my oriental adventure, my next stop was China's capital city, Beijing. I feel at this point I ought to inform you of my bias, favouring Beijing over Hong Kong, and admit that much of this may have been due to my having recovered from the mystery illness. In stark contrast the compact and crowded Hong ...  Read the complete review

I recently returned from a trip to Beijing, which was the destination of our month long trip by train from Latvia. I loved every minute of my time there, it is a truly amazing city. There is so much to see and do, highly recommended are Tiananmen Square, Beihai Park on a Sunday, the Hutongs and the Temple of Heaven. However, my favourite part ...  Read the complete review

I visited Beijing for the first time fairly recently, during the month of June. On arrival at Beijing International Airport everyone on the flight from Heathrow, including myself were subjected to Swine Flu checks. It involved four government officials boarding the plain, sporting rubber gloves and face masks of whom were armed with temperature ...  Read the complete review

I arrived into Beijing by train from Mongolia via the trans Siberian express, sadly we arrived just after the Olympics had finished last summer, but the weekend we arrived was a national holiday - therefore there was lots going on. The train station we arrived was located in the middle of the city and was swarmed with thousands of people at the ...  Read the complete review

On part of my trip to Beijing I visited the Temple of Heaven or Tian Tan. The temple is located in South Beijing and as one of the main sights, pretty easy to get to. Tian Tan was built at the same time as the Forbidden City, and completed in 1420 by Emperor Yongle. The temple was built for the Emperor to pray and make sacrifices to ...  Read the complete review

Introduction Having lived in Beijing for ten years until recently, first as a student, then working, I wanted to give a more personal view of the city – all too many people go to Beijing with the wrong expectations and come home disappointed. I hope that this will help to guide anyone that is planning to visit Beijing in the near future. If ...  Read the complete review

A short summary This is a travelogue about the trip that my wife, Nikki, and I took to China (Beijing, Xi’an and Hong Kong) in the period from March 15th to March 29th 2003. We first spent 7 days in Beijing and we got to see the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and so on. From Beijing we took an overnight ...  Read the complete review

The Temple of Extreme Moisture In China the people say they will eat anything with four legs – except a chair and anything with two wings – except an airplane. Thus we were well prepared for our first evening in the capital of China, Beijing, as our local Chinese guide Jackie took fourteen exhausted UK Voyagers Jules Verne travellers ...  Read the complete review

Beijing today is a living museum of the Chinese cultural legacy. Its most famous sites ? the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Great Wall and Temple of Heaven ? have captured the imaginations of travelers ever since the time of Marco Polo. I visited Beijing on a business trip and found it to be an enjoyable trip. Beijing is a modern ...  Read the complete review

I was recently asked by two Canadian workmates for advice about Beijing. In light of a holiday I took there last year I was able to tell them two key points: firstly, never take the first price when you're approached by street vendors hawking goods. At any tourist site there are literally dozens of these people eager to sell you the usual ...  Read the complete review

'One of the world's greatest holiday experiences' ("Welcome to China, 1998, China National Tourist Office) - I couldn't agree more, although, I only visited Beijing for a few days on my way home from a trip to South Korea. For almost 30 years, China isolated itself from the rest of the world, free from foreign ...  Read the complete review

I was strangely pleased with the results of the Olympic bidding that placed Beijing in pole position....I am not Chinese but have recently returned from a tour of China including Beijing. Memories include sitting in Tienamen Square in 40 degrees of fierce heat without shelter, speaking with a young Chinese man who spoke excellent English and ...  Read the complete review

**2nd Time Updation** This is updated from the comments I have received. Seems like I have quite a bit of disagreement there that Beijing is fit for hosting the Olympics. I won't go on to the political side as everyone has different belief and I respect that; let's just talk about beijing itself and it's "human ...  Read the complete review

For some it might be the Maldives, for others a safari in Africa. Personally I always wanted to go to China. My great, great grandfather was Chinese, though I only knew him for a few years, so that makes me an eighth Chinese I suppose. But being in the Army for 14 years meant that I could not travel (easily) to a communist country. ...  Read the complete review

About Beijing, is the most beautiful city in China (in my point of view), and it is the Cultural centre of China, lots of places to view, and the GreatWall is passing it, and the Summer Palace, if you want to choose one city of China to travel, Beijing should be your single choice! I have studied in a university on Beijing, and that ...  Read the complete review

The first thing you notice upon arriving in Beijing is the unbelievable pollution. Now, having lived in London all my life, you'd think I'd be used to pollution, but not like this – it was difficult to see more than a certain distance down most streets due to the air pollution. Most of the cause of this pollution can be attributed to ...  Read the complete review

Beijing isn't all that I was made to believe it to be it has a touch of the oriental old style with areas such as the Summer palace and the Forbidden city, which are a must see for those who intend on taking back photos of the ancient dynasties. However those who have visited know of how metropolitan the city is it's streets are crammed ...  Read the complete review

Beijing/Peking is absolutely wonderful. It has culture, exotic smells, sounds and sights, and fantastic architecture. If you love chinese things, obviously you'll love it - watching people do t'ai chi early in the morning, the markets, the religious temples and shrines... Even if you don't, there's a lot of exotic things ...  Read the complete review

You must visit one place if you plan to visit China, that is The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest architecture in the world. I still remembered the feeling when I was on top of the wall. it was like the world was under my feet, the chilly wind blew my sadness and worries away, I suddenly felt that there was nothing to ...  Read the complete review

In fact, The Great Wall had been built earlier than 220 B.C, they were scattered along the mountains range and were joined together 220B.C. by the first emperor of China, Qin Shih Huang. It was strategically located on the mountains and difficult to access therefore it was a united defense system against invasions from the North. ...  Read the complete review