Travel Information
Here are some tourist attractions in
city of Beijing:
Tian'anmen Square
Tian'anmen Square is one of the largest city squares in
the world. It is situated in the heart of Beijing.
Tian'anmen was built in 1417 and was the entrance gate
to the Forbidden City. Now the square stretches 880
meters from north to south and 500 meters from east to
west. The total area is 440,000 square meters. That's
about the size of 60 soccer fields, spacious enough to
accommodate half a million people.
The Palace museum
Beijing Palace museum is a royal palace of the Ming and Qing
dynasties in China, which was formerly known as the
Forbidden City. It is located in the center of the central
axis of Beijing and it is the essence of Chinese ancient
palace architecture.
The Great Wall
The majestic Great Wall touches the billows of the Bohai Sea
in the east, and traverses the vast expanse of the Gobi
desert in the west. It leaps over the boundless land of
China like a soaring dragon. It was built with the blood and
sweat of the laboring people of ancient China and is a
symbol of the brilliance of China's ancient culture and a
pride of the Chinese nation.
Sanlitun
Sanlitun is located in the middle and western part of
Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is famous for Sanlitun Bar
Street, which is one of the most prosperous entertainment
streets in Beijing nightlife.
Yuanmingyuan
Yuanmingyuan is a large royal palace in the Qing Dynasty.
The Qing emperors came here every summer to deal with
political and military affairs, so it is also called the old
Summer Palace. It is renowned for its grand geographical
scale, outstanding building skills, rich cultural
collections, and profound national cultural connotations. It
is hailed as "a model for all garden art".
Summer Palace
The Summer Palace landscape, dominated mainly by Longevity
Hill and Kunming Lake, covers an area of 3.08 square
kilometers, three quarters of which is under water. Its
70,000 square meters of building space features a variety of
palaces, gardens and other ancient-style architectural
structures. Well known for its large and priceless
collection of cultural relics, it was among the first group
of historical and cultural heritage sites in China to be
placed under special state protection.
Beijing Zoo
The Beijing Zoo lies west of Xizhimen and is in the western
part of Beijing. Like many of Beijing's parks, areas of the
zoo have the distinctive look of classical Chinese gardens.
The grounds combine cultivated flower gardens with stretches
of natural scenery, including dense groves of trees,
stretches of grassland, a small stream, lotus pools and
small hills dotted with pavilions and halls. The Beijing Zoo
mainly exhibits wild and rare animals of China, including
the Giant Pandas, the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey,
Manchurian tigers, white-lipped deer, and so on.
Olympic Green
The Olympic Green, at the north end of the central axis of
Beijing, houses a forest park and the Olympic Common Domain
(OCD). The OCD, where the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube and
the National Indoor Stadium are, is open to the public from
Monday to Sunday.
