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Hou Hai

Hou Hai is a must to go place for who interest on old traditional Beijing architecture, which is also one of representatives of Chinese traditional architectures.This area used to be a home area for wealthy people, so there are many famous people’ former house. The most famous ones are Qingling Song and Moruo Guo. Nowadays, Hou hai becomes a popular place for hung out. There are lots of bars next to the lake and food in Hutongs. The most famous hutong in Hou hai area is Nanluoguxiang.

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Admission fee: free

Bus: 635,5,82,124,60

Subway: line 2 and line 6

Tian'an Men Square

This place may not as famous as others, but it is the most important place for Chinease culture. Tiananmen Square is in the center of Beijing, and where the Republic of China announced to be independent and witness some important event of China, like celebration of the foundation of the country. When visitors visit Tian’an Men Sqaure, they can visit Tiananmen tower, Monument to People’s heroes, Great Hall of the People and National Museum of China by the way. Because these places of interests are all around in the square, visitors can walk just few minutes to there.

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Admission fee: Free

rmb15 for Tiananmen tower

Subway: Line 1 and line 2Bus:1,5,10…

Open hours: all day

Great Wall of China

The Great Wall is one of the preventatives of Chinese culture, so this is a must visit place in China. The most famous part of the Great Wall is built in Qin Dynasty in 206 BC, which original function is using on military defense. Some series of walls were built trace back to 7th century BC. It built of stone, grass and wood. The walls are enlarged and rebuilt from that time, and most of the exist part are built in Ming Dynasty. Other than military defense, the Great Wall is also used as border controls, transport goods along Silk Road and control immigration and emigration. According to the database, the Ming walls is 5500 miles and the entire walls are around 13171 miles long.

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Admission: 45RMB

Hours: 6am-10pm Summer 7am-6pm

WinterTrains: S2(From north station) 6per day takes 1 hour

Bus: 919

Taxi: rmb400

Phone: +86 10 6162 6022

Bei Hai Park

Beihai Park, one of the oldest and best-preserved imperial gardens, is located in the center of Beijing, and is very close to the famous Forbidden City. Beihai Park boasts a history dating back more than a millenium and existed throughout the dynasties of Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing. It was first opened to the public as a park in 1925.Beihai Park covers an area of more than 68 hectares, more than half of which is covered by its lake. It is composed of Beihai Lake and Qionghua Island, and the White Dagoba was built on the top of Qionghua Island, the principle landmark of Beihai Park. In addition, Beihai Park is considered an ancient Chinese art form, with different features, such as artificial hills, bridges, pavilions, halls, temples and lakes.

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Admission: rmb 10 (Apr.1 to Oct.31)

rmb 5 (Nov. 1 to Mar. 31)

Subway: Line 4

Bus: 5, 13, 42

Summer Place (Yiheyuan)

Summer Palace used to be a seasonal imperial relax place with lake and gardens, which is the largest royal park in China. Most part of which is lake. It is built in 1750, but destroyed in 1860 in the war and restored in 1886.Summer Palace is an outstanding works of Chinese landscape garden design and combined with hills and open waters.

Type:Parks, Bodies of Water, Landmarks/ Points of Interest

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Admission fee: rmb 30 (Apr.1- Oct.31)

rmb 20 (Nov.1 – Mar.31)

Phone: +86 10 6288 1144

Opening hour: 6:30-18:00 (Apr.1 – Oct.31)

7:00-17:00 (Nov.1 – Mar.31)

Subway: line 4

Temple of Heaven (Tiantam)

In the old times of China, emperor would pray to the heaven. Tiantam is where emperor makes wishes. The emperor would pray on the behalf of the whole country, for the peace of the country and harvest for farmer. In Qing and Ming dynasty, Tiantam is only open to emperor or emperor’s family; other citizens are restricted to pray there. Tiantam is not only famous for the special use and beautiful architecture. The architecture also applies with mechanics theory, acoustics theory and geometry, so it has a great value.

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Admission fee: 35RMB

Opening hour: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm

Subway: line 5

Forbidden City

Forbidden City was imperial palace from Ming Dynasty until to the end of Qing dynasty. It is in the center of Beijing city, and now is known as Palace museum from 1925 and displays collection of artwork and artifacts. Forbidden city is consists of around over 900 buildings, which shows Chinease and East Asia culture and architecture. Over 500 years, there are 24 emperor’s lived there.

Admission fee: 40RMB (Nov.1 – Mar. 31)

60RMB (Apr 1. – Oct.31)

Subway: Line 1 and line

National Stadium (Bird's Nest)

The National Stadium, affectionately known as Bird's Nest, is situated in Olympic Green Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing. It was designed as the main stadium of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Olympic events of track and field, football, gavelock, weight throw and discus were held there. Since October, 2008, after the Olympics ended, the National Stadium has been opened as a tourist attraction. Now, it's the center of international or domestic sports competition and recreation activities.The design of this large stadium was accomplished together by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and Chinese architect Li Xinggang and the others. The designers didn't do any redundant disposals to the look of the stadium. They just exposed the steel structures entirely and let them become the most natural appearance. The form of the stadium looks like a big nest which embraces and nurses human beings. Also it looks rather like a cradle bearing human beings' hope of the future. The construction of the National Stadium started on December 24, 2003. On July, 2004, the project was stopped temporarily due to the amendment of the design. On December 27 of the same year, the construction was resumed and finished in March, 2008. The gross cost of the whole project is 2,267 million Chinese yuan (about 33 million dollars).

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Admission: rmb 50

Open hours: 9:00 - 18:00 from March to October

9:00 - 17:30 from November to next February

Bus: 82, 538, 611

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