where it is the great wall of china

The Great Wall starts from Shanhaiguan Pass of Hebei Province in the east along the Bohai Bay. To the west , it extends to the Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province in the west desert.

Length is about 6400 km, from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia.

Most of the tourist come to beijing to see the bada ling section of the Great Wall, Check our Private tours package for China Beijing Great Wall.

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Located at 23 rue Dongsishitiao, the restaurant seems Fujialou full lunch or evening. I must say it has an advantageous position in a business district where the places to eat can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

But given the popularity of Fujialou its simple lack of competitors would be reductive. The institution has established a reputation for several years due to the quality of its services.

Her kitchen hand, is excellent, mainly composed of Pekinese dishes, it also offers other popular recipes from different Chinese provinces. The prices are very reasonable, with 20 yuan per person, especially when compared to the quality of food.

In addition, the servers are showing great professionalism and the scenery in a traditional Beijing style, has something to attract tourists in search of exoticism. Moreover, Fujialou enjoys an excellent reputation with tour operators in Beijing, which regularly send groups of Western tourists there.

The product range of the restaurant offers a choice indeed broad enough to satisfy the tastes of Chinese customers as well as foreign, which is not always a foregone party in China.

The only snag: The Chamber Fujialou is relatively noisy, and this is part of folklore. The servers were indeed instructed to shout to welcome all new customers that pass the door of the establishment. If you need quiet, forget Fujialou So, if you want to feel old in Beijing, do not miss the place …

This is one of the best choice if you want the real taste of Chinese food quality at an affordable price.

Address:

23 Dongsishitiao (200 west of Poly Plaza), Dongcheng District

Beijing

Chinese characters:东四十条23号

Telephone: 010 8403 7831

Hours: 11am-14h, 17h-21h30

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Also, skyscrapers have their feet the most impressive ancient structures that reflect the past life of the emperors. I note that the Chinese capital is the city with more monuments declared by UNESCO as World Heritage.

The people love to Mao Zedong (or at least is the feeling you get the tourist). His embalmed body is admired daily by thousands of Chinese in a megahall in downtown Beijing. Upon leaving the compound is ironic to see how, in the resting place of most communist leader, capitalism invades the streets: watches, shirts, hats, pictures, medals, bags and other souvenirs with Mao’s face are sold in a kind popular market. The dollar-yuan is extremely favorable for the tourist, which (if the fare depart from Caracas) Beijing is an amazing city economy.

Curious street? Cameras everywhere, the Chinese spit a lot (a matter of culture, not bad habits), food is spicy! (Best Mexican style), cleaning of streets, immensity of the works, the traffic is hellish (but taxis ultracheap), the metro connects the entire city and is absolutely safe.

Required to visit sites: Tiananmen Square, before everything. It is the world’s largest square, and red power center. It is the mausoleum of Mao, Congress and the Museum of Chinese History. This place has always been the scene of the biggest events in American history, from creation of the People’s Republic when Mao introduced communism as a system of government, until the student protests of the eighties which ended when the army crushed with tanks the rebels.

Safety pins are also the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, the zoo and its giant pandas, Wangfujing shopping street, the huge train station (where cars start to cities as far away as Moscow), popular markets, malls that even the Americans envy and, of course, the Great Wall (The most famous and is visited by tourists at Badaling, about an hour and a half in Beijing depending on traffic)

Beijing is huge, beautiful, colonial and modern at once welcoming and safe. With 16 million inhabitants is one of the most interesting cities in the world.

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Getting there: Well take a taxi from any point and say that you are or Bei Hai Hutong. This park is almost behind the Forbidden City, which is immense, but that shall speak in another newspaper. The input (15 to 30 Kuai) entitles you to enter a temple, try going a full day to traverse as it is fascinating to complete, plus you can rent a boat, the other thing is that you can see the typical old writing poetry in Chinese with large brushes and ink instead of water, which obviously is fading in the course of the latter. Chinese families go way to Bei Hai weekend and enjoy a picnic all day. Across the Bei Hai packages are the Hutong, which are the old streets of Beijing with its typical houses that appear in the movies, take advantage of the visit because there are very few left in Beijing, since the new Chinese economy has led to destroy almost everything that was old and builds skyscrapers in small spaces.

Hutong – Trafficking recorrelos on foot or rented bicycle is cheaper than if you hire a guy to take you into the typical biciclietas (I made the mistake and we tried to get such money as is brought home to See more daily habits of pelkineses). You can enter one of these home for a small fee if you deseasm ceremonies and there are quite special. bicycle rent (APP 10 kuai – RMB) There are many pubs in this area (If you’ll eat anywhere everything is hot (SPICE) is asking BU LADA (or spice)) and in the evening is special to go and drink coffee (Starbucks is good .. West China is more than ever …. good that I’m complaining all the time …. I went beyond that with the illusion of seeing and knowing the historical past and millennial one country, and I became more consumerist than ever .. jajaja ..)

In Beijing there is much to learn and if you like walking better, since near Bei-hai and also hutones you can go to the forbidden city and tiananmen and wanfujin few blocks beyond. Taxi from Bei-Hai at Tiananmen – (20 to 30 Kuai, sometimes less) But sometimes the distances are exaggerated, so it is recommended but with time you go by taxi ….

China rather that Beijing is a special place in the beginning can not understand clearly, habits annoy you all to which you’re not accustomed (erupt-spit – not respecting the ranks – to push and have zero respect in some situations) but eventually came to love him … mmm good if!Bei Jing .. .. I’m missing

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Barring that, an exceptional hotel, mainly because they had hired a couple of female students of English (advantaged) that is bursting to help in anything. They indicated that combination we have took the Chinese bus to visit the Great Wall, which was the best opera theater in Beijing, or how to get to the Olympic venues.

Taxis in Beijing were worth just over € 2 per ride, but the distances are enormous. In Beijing we visited the walls (I think it is the bus 109 which goes up there for 10 & eur  , And entrance costs € 4 per person.

The Great Wall of China is impressive. In some passages is very steep, and you walk and walk until tired. But is full of Chinese, and many called for posaras to make a picture your child with you. Other sites of interest include Tiananmen Square (they say it still is full of undercover cops), the Forbidden City (entrance 6 € per person), the Palace of Heaven (3.5 € per person) and the Temple of the Lamas ( 2.5 € per person).

I can say little that is not in any tourist guide, but of course this is all to visit. The Chinese opera is curious. We went to Teatro Huguang (72 € for 4 of the cheap tickets). The environment is a refurbished old theater, where there are tables where they serve you tea and pastries while watching the performance. The music is deafening and very far from our musical canon. But the color, the acrobatics of the characters on the small stage, their faces painted (the monkey king, emperor & helli  and in general the atmosphere is worth seeing.

Ate in Beijing sometime in the Wal-Mart stores that were near the Hotel, and on whose top floor had a lot of places where limpísimos served wrapped in plastic dishes and Western aspect.

One day we come to lunch at 16:00 hrs and all staff were sleeping on the tables as children in day care (their working hours are very long and lose a lot of time displaced from their homes in the suburbs to downtown) . They got up to serve the poor.

In Beijing there to eat Peking duck Li Quin Roast Duck Restaurant. We could not go by that had a lot of tail. I have said little shopping. Under the suggestive name of Silk Market in Beijing is a huge building, type English court, with many small shops selling imitation watches, luggage, more or less typical souvenirs, papyrus, etc … But beware, sometimes you Timan (we had to return by a custom clock was broken: we changed it without problems). But the souvenirs are typical and not too pretty. There is a great country for purchases.

In the Metro Museum of Technology is also a market interesting, play games very cheaply. It seems that during the Olympics, the imitation clothes shops had been eradicated. If you approached according to areas, people had approached you and took you home individuals, where they taught you branded clothing at derisory prices. Not worth, however, much that was worth something outdated models. However, this enabled us to see the houses of the Chinese “on foot”, a single room with a bed, the dining table and TV (always with winning medals or Chinese soap operas), and very old dirty kitchens, staircases narrow and dark. We bought a couple of shirts and a pair of North Face jackets for 42 € all, with whom we spent a cold this winter you can not see. Small suitcases for € 15. Tiger Slippers for 12 €, scrolls, jade, imitation Breitling watches for 20 €

We returned to Shanghai by train, where we did the last shopping, the last places we visited and we made our farewell dinner at Simply Thai, to get back in the 17th back to Barcelona. I left a lot to explain. And although the trip was beautiful, I wanted it more responsive to daily practical sense, to help other travelers to face a country that seems so difficult and is not. Surely not a travel guide was not as efficient, and let me see something. But other things I saw and lived it could not have a guide. The trip took us to the four little less than 5,000 € (Internacinal and domestic flights, meals, hotels, tickets, souvenirs, everything), lasted 17 days and traveled 6,000 km . All information was the Internet and frankly, it was easy.

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Address:No. 76, Zhichun Road, Haidian District,Beijing, China

Direction: It is located in the center of Beijing’s Haidian District. It is 12 kilometers away from downtown area and only 30 minutes by car to reach Capital International Airport.

Customer reviews:

“I thought this was a very nice hotel. A few blocks from a couple of markets, and various alleys where local Chinese sell food and other items, etc. A friend and I ate at a couple of very cheap, but generally good local restaurants within easy walking distance. Breakfast at the hotel was very nice, with a very large assortment. Folks at the front desk were quite nice, as were the men at the front (albeit with more limited English). I tried the pool, which was large for a hotel, though seemed very chlorinated. The hotel also had a complementary bowling alley (!) which I didn’t try. The bed seemed really quite hard, but with a 12-hour time difference, I was pretty exhausted so didn’t bother me as much as I thought it would. Though this hotel was nice for purposes of the business trip, I did move to a very nice hotel closer to the Tiananmen Square / Old Beijing / Forbidden City area when I was done with work and switched into vacation mode.”

“This hotel was chosen for me by my Chinese host. In 3 or 4 vistis to Beijing, this was my favorite as a business hotel. The room was clean, the service was really good (if the phone operator did not understand, the person they sent to my room did, and got whatever fixed in less than 5 min.). I had problems with the hotel safe (never did work right) and getting the internet turned on in my room. However, this latter problem was fixed quickly. The restaurants looked good – I only tried one for dinner and it was excellent. CNN and HBO were available on the TV in English. Free tea and instant coffee in the room.

The location was great for what I needed (access to some scientific institutes), and would be a short 5 -10 min cab ride to the stadium for the olympics. I’m not sure what else is available in the immediate vacinity.

Breakfast was good, a mix of western and eastern styles. They even had toast – a first for me in China. The Chinese dim sum was particularly good. The coffee was actually brewed – as opposed to instant. However, the tea was very nice, and more consistent.

Expect a 1000 yuan deposit for the minibar at check in (excess returned when you check out). Find another source for bottled water – the 1/2 pints in the minibar were nearly $3 each.

Don’t rent a car- traffic is a giant game of chicken and accidents are common. I did not have to access the metro, so I’m not sure how difficult that would be from the hotel. Hospitality at the hotel was good. Changing dollars to RMB was easy – however, changing RMB to dollars (despite thre sign) is not possible at the hotel.

I’ve traveled around China a good bit (although not to typical tourist areas), and this is the best place I have stayed. I would stay there again in a heartbeat.”

“The Jade Palace Hotel was good quality with a decent sized room and plenty of facilities. Watch out, though, as the pool, gym, etc., are not included in the room price which was a bit of a surprise.

We had problems with getting wake-up calls so I have rated the hotel 3 instead of 4 or 5. It was hit or miss whether you got your wake-up call which could be disastrous if you had an early morning flight to catch. Also one morning somebody came into our room at 5am, switched the light on then off, and left. Apparently there was a mix-up and it was the bell-boys getting the wrong room for some early departures. Not impressed.”

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1.Visit a hutong complex
The hutongs are one of the unique features of Beijing; they can most simply be defined as the old city alleyways. There are thousands of hutongs surrounding the Forbidden City, most of which came into being in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Beijing’s hutong culture is a unique gem of Chinese culture. There is much to see, both from the historical and the personal perspective. The hutongs of Beijing reflect the lives of ordinary Beijing people – the opportunity to roam through Beijing’s old, narrow hutong streets is understandably attracting more and more overseas visitors.
2.See the Peking Opera
Peking Opera is a comprehensive art form that asthetically combines music, singing, dialogue, pantomime, acrobatics and martial arts. An actor or actress in Beijing Opera therefore has to meet more demands than that in other forms of performing art. Peking Opera contains the soul of Chinese national culture. Its unique charm inspires deep feelings in Chinese people.
3.Eat Peking Duck
Peking Duck, or Peking Roast Duck is a famous duck dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the Yuan Dynasty, and is now considered one of China’s national foods. The dish is prized for the thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and a little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook. Ducks are bred specially for the dish, which after 65 days are slaughtered and seasoned before being roasted in a closed oven or a hung oven. The meat is often eaten with pancakes, spring onions, and hoisin sauce or sweet noodle sauce.
4.Enjoy local snacks
Beijing has a time-honored history of producing various kinds of snacks. With strong local flavors, Beijing’s snacks fall into three varieties: Han, Hui and imperial snacks, which are generally prepared by steaming, deep frying, frying in shallow oil, and rapid boiling. Some people regard the snacks of Beijing as “social fossils.” Snack restaurants such as the Longfusi and Huguosi snack counters can now be found all over Beijing.
5.Walk through the Panjiayuan Market
Situated west of Panjiayuan Bridge and south of the East Third Ring Road, the Panjiayuan Antiques Market is Beijing’s most famous antique market, growing from its humble beginnings as a flea market in the early 1990s. All manner of antiques are on sale on the thousands of market stalls. Paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, furniture, coins, army surplus, “cultural revolution” (1966-76) memorabilia, Buddhist artifacts and much, much more. If you are not an expert, simply wandering around the 40,000 plus stalls is just as much fun!
6.Shop at Silk Market
Described as “the third best-known tourist destination in Beijing after the Palace Museum and the Great Wall,” Silk Street (aka Xiushui Market) attracts approximately 20,000 visitors daily (from 9am to 9pm) on weekdays and between 50,000 to 60,000 on weekends. This 35,000m² complex houses 1,700 retail vendors and over 3,000 salespeople spread over seven floors and three basement levels. Over the years many of the stalls have gained local and international notoriety for selling counterfeit luxury designer brands at relatively low prices. Some have continued this activity despite growing pressure from the management, the Chinese government, and famous name brand companies. Be prepared to bargain hard for the best price.
7.Biking in the city
Biking through the streets of Beijing is a cool way to see the city. You can cycle at leisurely pace from site to site, stop for a local lunch, explore old alleys (hutongs) and become one with the Chinese in the bike lane. People chat as they cycle, often carrying oversize loads. Traffic jams will have little effect on you. During the 2008 Olympic Games a bike may be the ideal way to get around in Beijing.
8.Worship at a local church
For many Christian visitors to Beijing, a downtown church provides not only a place of worship but also a good place to understand the religion’s history in this vast Asian metropolis. With the Beijing Olympics under way, the main Catholic and Protestant churches in the Chinese capital are expecting an influx of foreign visitors looking for the unique experience of going to a local church.
9.Visit the Exhibition of National Treasures
A rare gathering of some of the most splendid treasures illustrating China’s long history promises to delight visitors to the Olympic city at the Capital Museum. The exhibition has gathered 169 of the best pieces from 55 museums across the country. The exhibits are the pick of the crop, and rarely if ever leave their home museums.
10.Watch Kung Fu Show
One of China’s most famous exports is the myriad forms of kung fu. Meaning “attainment through effort”, kung fu is a western umbrella term that covers many martial arts. See many of them performed by the Shaolin-trained monks who play-fight their way through a mazy plotline filled with impressive stunts such as snapping iron bars over their heads in The Legend of Kung Fu at the Red Theatre – a Vegas-style show with English subtitles.
Red Theater 红剧场
Address:Workers’ Cultural Palace, 44 Xingfu Dajie, Chongwen District
Tel:010-67103671/72/73

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Known as the hardest-to-find bar in Beijing, Eje bar is also a Siheyuan bar like Free As a Bird with a comparatively complete structure. The owner “Ya Qian” (Toothpick) is an enthusiastic bicycle outdoor fan. If you are interested in bicycle sports, it adds another reason for you to visit here.
Business time: 2:00 pm to 0:00 am
Tel: 010-84044424
Address: No. 2, Houhai Jiadao, Gulou Xidajie, Xicheng District, Beijing

3. Passby Bar

“We are passerbys who need sincere communications and traveling is a means of in-depth communication.” Passby Bar is also a tourism-theme bar whose owner “XiaoBian’Er” is a famous character among the travelers. With an old fashioned residence style, Passby Bar is a typical Hutong bar in Beijing. The souvenirs from the different tourist sites are another feature of this bar. In addition, Passby Bar provides delicious Italian food with standard cheese and varieties of dishes.

Business time: 9:30am to 2:00 am
Address: No. 108 South Luogu Alley, Dongcheng District, Beijing

4. Bed Tapas & Bar
It is hidden in those Hutongs in Old Gulou Street, called “The Bed”. As its name indicates, there are many wooden Chinese style furnitures in the house of this bar with bed as the most distinguished one. Most of the customers visiting here are foreigners. And there are also a few local Chinese. Of course there are beautiful wines including the home-made Santa Rita120 Chardonnay from a valley in Chile, and the Two Oceans Cabernet Merlot from South Africa. What should be also specially recommended is Mojito from Cuba which tastes like a taste of mint and preferable for summer nights.

Business time: 14:00 pm to 2:00 am (16:00 pm to 2:00 am on Monday and Tuesday)
Address: No. 17 Zhangwang Hutong, Old Gulou Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Tel: 84001554
5. PASO

PASO is wonderful private venue for friends gathering, whose biggest weak point is the location is hard to find. Since the owner is a formal designer, this bar is very well decorated which takes some wild and aggressive style. The unadorned cement floor, silver sofa, white tables and scarlet leather couches all look really uncommon. Even the bathrooms look very artistic. There plays rock and roll all day long but is not very noisy.
Addrrss: No. 52, Baochao Hutong, Gulou East Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing,
Tel: 8610-64044478

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Shi Cha Hai is located situated in the west of old Beijing. It used to be part of the old Grand Canal of the Yuan Dynasty 600 years ago. And now it is a place with old Beijing traditional scenic spot and resident area with original folk culture in inner Beijing city.
Shi Cha Hai was once Banner Man’s settlement area in Qing Dynasty. The resident here is mostly the offspring of Banner Man. They are still keeping the traditional habits and customs and tolerant, gentle psychology of old Beijing so far.
When you walk around Shichahai, a sense of its history inevitably hits you. Composed of three man-made lakes, Qianhai (”Front Sea” Lake), Houhai (”Rear Sea” Lake) and the lesser-known Xihai (”West Sea” Lake) once formed part of a system of waterways that fed into the Imperial Capital. For centuries wooden boats carrying produce from the south would make the journey up the Grand Canal and enter the city via these waterways. Those days are long gone. After a period of decline, the lakes, are now a prime recreational destination. With overhanging willows lining its banks and cafébars tucked away in its many secluded corners, it is also a delightful area to relax over a drink while watching life on and off the water.

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