Beijing Travel

Last night, March 19th 2013, Beijing is in sleet weather. In the morning, the whole imperial Beijing city is covered with snow.

After a night's sleet in Beijing, this capital city of China covers with the white snow again, in the spring March. It is surprising, yeah?

Chinese food is really a kind of knowledge for foreigners. Different with the European western-style food, Chinese food is various, great and profound, which is just like the longstanding Chinese culture and history.

According to the U.S. Embassy report， extremely high pollution results in a peak level of PM2.5 - one of the worst pollutants - at 526 micrograms per cubic metre, which is more than 20 times higher than World Health Organization safety levels.

Many tourists traveling to Beijing for its imperial sites. Beijing has lots of these imperial sites like the imperial Palace, The Summer Palace, The temple of heaven, the Imperial College, Prince Gong Mansion and so on. What's more, The Great Wall also attracts lots of tourists come to visit Beijing every year. There are several sections of Great Wall in Beijing and the most famous of them are Badaling Great Wall and mutianyu section of the great wall.

Picked up by the guide and the driver in the hotel in the morning.

Then we went to the Mutianyu Great Wall, Summer Palace, Bird Nest and Water Cube.

This morning, visited the Tanzhe Temple, surrounded by nine peaks and secluded in the depth of forests, and the temple boasts magnificent buildings and screen environment. . After lunch, made a tour round the Xiangshan Park, which is one of the most favourite resorts in the citys outskirts...

Met local guide at Beijing Train Station and then proceeded to have breakfast. Visited Tiananmen Square and Forbidden city this morning. After lunch transfer to see Giant Panda House of Beijing Zoo and then went on to visit the Summer Palace. Enjoyed Peking Roast Duck as dinner...

Today we visited three World No.1 attractions: the world largest city square--Tiananmen Square;the No.1 permanent residence of the emperors among the world's Top 5 as well as the world's largest, most complete wooden structure of the ancient buildings--the Forbidden City; the world largest architectural complex for worshipping Heaven-- the Temple of Heaven...

Beijing local English-speaking tour guide welcomed us at Beijing airport. With hisescort, transferred to check in hotel by a private vehicle. After that, we had a rest to recover from jetlag and designed our own itinerary to explore this city by getting tips or adviced from the guide...