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1. Hutong , Beijing
A maze of historic alleyways and old single storey traditional courtyard houses, now fast disappearing. Dotted around the hutong are the Drum and Bell Towers, Kindergarten, Tea House, and local people’s houses. Your tour includes a visit with a local family, a primary school (10 yuan per person, not included in the quotation), and a local flea market. .
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2. Beihai Park, Beijing
The park locates at the center of Beijing, behind the Forbidden City. It is now one of the best preserved royal gardens with nearly one thousand years’ history. The White Pagoda (Baita), the lamaist pagoda, is the peak of the park. Standing at the pagoda, you can have a magnificent bird’s view of the whole Forbidden City, especially on fine whether.
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3. Hall of Clocks and Watches, Beijing
It sits in the northeast of the Forbidden City, there are more than 200 clocks and watches belonged to the 18 century on display. Mostly made in Switzerland, England, France, the U.S and Japan, those clocks and watches have been working over 200 years, but they are still working quite well. They are stylish, sophisticated best represents the technical standard at that time. Some Chinese made timepieces are on display as well..
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4. Juyongguan Great Wall, Beijing
In the District of Changping, 60 kilometers north of central Beijing Juyongguan has always been a pivotal pass on the 10,000 miles Great Wall and it was a crucial defense project to safeguard Beijing in the ancient time.
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5. National Aquatics Centre, Beijing
The National Aquatics Centre is now open to the public. This magical cubiform aqua-blue structure does give you a spectacular picture. The proposal of the design is from the idea of "Water Cube ([H2O] 3)". The outside of "Water cube" looks like a blue box, and its wall was shaped as irregular hubble-bubble. It lies in two sides Axle Wire of Beijing with "Bird’s Nest", and both formed the City Symbol of Cultural and Historic Beijing. Be sure to take some pictures..
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6. Panjiayuan Market, Beijing
This weekend market is a huge, eclectic mix of goods from all over China: old, new, curios, antiques, fakes, craft and treasure, with some amazing items for sale. It's fascinating just to wander, even more fun if you can find a bargain. It‘s well-organised, full of life and colour, the 3000 stalls are under cover, open-air, and in shops, and mostly closed on weekdays.Open from Thurday to Sunday..
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7. Xiangshan Park, Beijing
Xiangshan Park, also known as the Forest Park, is located on the eastern sides of the Western Hills, approximately 10 kilometers to the west of Beijing. Due to its high elevation and dense cover of trees, spring arrives late in the area and summer days are always pleasantly cool. The best time to visit the park is late fall, when the smoke tree leaves turn red.
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8. The White Cloud Taoist Temple/Baiyunguan, Beijing
It's the largest Taoist Temple Architecture of All-True (Quanzhen) School existing at Beijing. The temple was initially built in Kaiyuan Year 27(739) of the Tang Dynasty. The architecture is magnificent and pretty and decorative mainly with the Taoist patterns such as glossy ganoderma, Eight Immortals, Eight Diagrams, red-crowned cranes, full of the features of Taoism. The Chinese Taoism Association is established there..
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9. Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall, Beijing
It is designed to introduce the long history of Beijing, display the great achievements of modern urban planning and development, and exhibit the splendid future of Beijing's urban development. The 16,000 square-meter floor space is distributed on 4 floor levels in the Hall, with 8,000 square meters for exhibits..
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10. Mutianyu Cable Car(One way), Beijing
This less-crowded section of the Great Wall is a pleasant drive 90km NE of Beijing. A one way cable car takes you to a good section (avoiding a very steep climb), where you can walk along the wall, through the watch towers and enjoy superb views as it snakes across the hills and mountains. .
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