{"id":9346,"date":"2012-06-25T02:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2015-07-21T05:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T21:30:48","slug":"best-beijing-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-tour-reviews\/best-beijing-experiences","title":{"rendered":"Best Beijing experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plan your Beijing tours<\/a><\/span>? Beijing\u00a0is an old and modern city, replete with\u00a0must see attractions, traditional and modern architectures, striking\u00a0landmarks, nice restaurants and bars. Here you\u00a0may narrow down your visiting in Beijing\u00a0with our guide to the best travel experiences in Beijing.<\/p>\n

1. National Center for the Performing Arts (\u56fd\u5bb6\u5927\u5267\u9662)
\n<\/span><\/strong>Add: To the west of the Great Hall of the People in the west of Tiananmen Square
\n<\/span>Admission:\u00a0CNY30<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening hours: 1:30pm – 5:00pm (Tue – Fri); 9:00am – 5:00pm (Sat & Sun)<\/span><\/div>\n
Last ticket selling: 4:30pm<\/span><\/div>\n
Transport: Subway 1 and\u00a0get off at\u00a0(Exit C) at Tiananmen Square Stop<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: 0086 10 66550989<\/span><\/div>\n
Bus routes 1, 4, 10, 20, 37, 52, 726, 728 and 802 all stop at Tian’anmen West<\/span><\/div>\n
Travel tips: How to visit National Center for the Performing Arts<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), is one of the\u00a0four most\u00a0outstanding landmarks in Beijing. The other three are new China CCTV Tower<\/a><\/span>, Water Cube<\/a><\/span> (Beijing National Aquatics Center) and Bird’s Nest<\/span> <\/a>(National Stadium). If\u00a0you\u00a0have a passion for modern contemporary architecture, the egg-shape theatre is absolutely worth your having a glimpse.
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National Center for the Performing Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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2.<\/strong> 798 Art District <\/strong>(789\u827a\u672f\u533a\uff09<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Add: Jiuxianquao Road and Jiuxianqiao North Road, Beijing<\/span><\/div>\n
Admission:\u00a0Free<\/span><\/div>\n
Opening hours: 10:00am – 6:00pm<\/span><\/div>\n
Transport: Take subway ride to Sanyuanqiao Station and change for Bus 401 and get off at the crossroad at Dashanzi<\/span><\/div>\n
Travel tips: How to visit 798 Art District<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
798 Art District, 798 Art Zone, or Factory 798, the Beijing “Greenwich Village” or “SoHo”, a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that is home to\u00a0a\u00a0large artist community. It is located in a 50-year old\u00a0disused and sprawling electronics\u00a0factory complex with a functional Bauhaus-influenced design.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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798 Art District (789\u827a\u672f\u533a\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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3. Poly Art Museum \uff08\u4fdd\u5229\u827a\u672f\u535a\u7269\u9986\uff09<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Add: Inside Poly Plaza,14 Dongzhimen Nandajie, Beijing<\/span><\/div>\n
Admission:\u00a0CNY50<\/span><\/div>\n
Opening hours: 9:30am – 4:30pm) Mon-Sat; Sunday closed<\/span><\/div>\n
Transport: Bus 42,115,118,701 and 823 and get off Dongshi Shitiao Stop or Subway Line 2 and get off at Dongshi Shitiao<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel:\u00a0(0086)10-65001188-3250<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Poly Museum is\u00a0the first museum\u00a0sponsored by a state-owned enterprise (Poly Group)\u00a0in the Chinese mainland. It has two parts of exhibition –\u00a0bronze and stone carvings. Most of the exhibits have been retrieved from abroad. In May 2000, the Poly Group retrieved three national treasures \u2013 the Cattle Head, Monkey Head and Tiger Head, all made of bronze. They were robbed out of China by western powers from Old Summer Palace (Yunamingyuan)\u00a0over 100 years ago.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Poly Art Museum \uff08\u4fdd\u5229\u827a\u672f\u535a\u7269\u9986\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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4. Nanluoguxiang \uff08\u5357\u9523\u9f13\u5df7\uff09<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Add:\u00a0just next to No. 108-2 Gulou Dongdajie ( East Drum Tower Street )<\/span><\/div>\n
Admission:\u00a0Free<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Nanluoguxian<\/a><\/span> means “Nanluogu” Allyway or Lane. It is an over-700 year old lane, one of Beijing’s oldest hutongs. This hutong area is strewn with bars, souvenir shops, boutiques, restaurants, hostels and lost the real Hutong touch.\u00a0 This is a great place to end up late at night and to have\u00a0some drinks when all the other bars are closed.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nanluoguxiang \uff08\u5357\u9523\u9f13\u5df7\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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5. Forbidden City \uff08\u6545\u5bab\uff09<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Add: No.4 Jingshan Front Street, Dongcheng District
\nOpening Hour: 8:30-17:00
\nlast ticket selling ticket: 15:00 pm
\nAdmission:\u00a0CNY 60
\nTake Bus\u00a0No. 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 52, 57, 22, 54, 120, 802, special No.1 bus and get off at Zhongshan Phongshan Park stop or Tian Am Men stop.
\nTake subway Line 1 and get off at Tiananmen Square.<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: 65132255<\/span><\/div>\n
Travel Tip: How to visit Forbidden City<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nFormer living place for the emperors in Ming and Qing dynasties, Forbidden City is the right place for you to start your Beijing tour by\u00a0opening its mysterious face. The palace is\u00a0composed of over 9,000 rooms.\u00a0\u00a0This large palace complex was built between 1406 and 1420, but was burnt down, rebuilt, sacked and renovated countless times, so most of the architecture you can see today dates from the 18th century and on wards during the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 19110.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Forbidden City \uff08\u6545\u5bab\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6. Temple of Heaven \uff08\u5929\u575b\uff09<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Add: on the east of Tianqiao, Chongwen District
\nOpening Hour: 6:00-21:00
\nlast ticket selling ticket: 15:30 pm
\nAdmission:\u00a0CNY 35
\nTake Bus\u00a0No.\u00a06, 20, 39<\/span><\/div>\n
Take subway Line\u00a05 and get off at Temple of Heaven<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: 65132255<\/span><\/div>\n
Travel tip:<\/span>How to visit Temple of Heaven<\/a>
\n<\/span>Temple of\u00a0Heaven has been one of the most holy places\u00a0in China\u00a0for\u00a0over five centuries. It used as a complex of sacrificial buildings for the Ming and Qing emperors, and is the largest one in Beijing among several royal altars to Heaven, Earth, the Sun, the Moon and other deities or symbolic forces of Nature. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Temple of Heaven \uff08\u5929\u575b\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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7. Gubeikou Great Wall Hiking \uff08\u5f92\u6b65\u53e4\u5317\u53e3\u957f\u57ce\uff09<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Add: Gubeikou Town, Minyun County, Beijing<\/span><\/div>\n
Opening Hour: 8:00am -6:00pm
\nlast ticket selling ticket: 15:30 pm
\nAdmission:\u00a0CNY 20<\/span><\/div>\n
Travel tip: <\/span>How to hike Gubeikou Great Wall<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/span>Gubeikou Great Wall is mainly \u00a0composed of two\u00a0sections \u2013 Panlongshan Great Wall and Wohushan Great Wall. “Panlongshan” literally means “Coiled Dragon Mountain” while “Wohushan” literally means “Crouching Tiger Mountain”. The two mountains faces each other with a valley in between from south to north, a strategic passage in the ancient times linking Inner Mongolia and Beijing. Now the valley has been turned into a fast developing Gubeikou Township under Miyun County of Beijing City.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Gubeikou Great Wall Hiking \uff08\u5f92\u6b65\u53e4\u5317\u53e3\u957f\u57ce\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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8. Beijing Night Food Market \uff08\u5317\u4eac\u4e1c\u534e\u95e8\u591c\u5e02\uff09<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Add: Donghuamen (east of Wangfujing Street)<\/span><\/div>\n
Opening Hour:\u00a06:00pm -9:00pm
\nAdmission:\u00a0Free<\/span><\/div>\n
Travel tip: <\/span>Beijing Night Food Market
\n<\/a><\/span><\/span>Wangfujing Night Snack Street is often\u00a0called by tourists while Donghuamen Night Snack Street by the local residents in\u00a0Beijing. They both refer to the same night food market in Wangfujing area. This 100-meter long snack street is open from 6:00pm to 9:00pm every day. The night market\u00a0is home\u00a0to about\u00a0dozens of\u00a0stalls selling over 100 snacks from all over China. For adventurous dinners, it\u00a0is a food paradise with such\u00a0unique\u00a0snacks as\u00a0centipedes, lizards, deep fried crickets available to eat on a stick.<\/div>\n
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Beijing Night Food Market \uff08\u5317\u4eac\u4e1c\u534e\u95e8\u591c\u5e02\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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9. Panjiayuan Flea Market\uff08\u6f58\u5bb6\u56ed\u53e4\u73a9\u5e02\u573a\uff09<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Add: No.18, Huaweili Road, 100 meters west of Panjiayuan Bridge in the southeast of Beijing<\/span><\/div>\n
Opening Hour:\u00a08:30am to 6:00pm (Monday to Thursday); 4:30am to 6:00pm (on weekends)
\nAdmission:\u00a0Free<\/span><\/div>\n
Travel tip: How to visit Panjiayuan FLea Market<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Panjiayuan Flea Market, or Panjiayuan Market, or Panjiayuan Antique Market, or whatever names you call, is a must visit for those who\u00a0are interested in\u00a0something really Chinese. It is a\u00a0big market place for selling and collecting Chinese folk handcrafts, maybe the largest in Asia! What you will see are jewelry, ceramics,calligraphy, teapots, ethnic clothing, Buddha statues, paper lanterns, Cultural Revolution memorabilia, PLA belts, Ming- and Qing-style furniture, old pipes, opium scales, and painted human skulls and etc.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Panjiayuan Flea Market\uff08\u6f58\u5bb6\u56ed\u53e4\u73a9\u5e02\u573a\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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10. Beijing Roast Duck \uff08\u5317\u4eac\u70e4\u9e2d\uff09<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
The local flavor of Beijing. Climbing the Great Wall, enjoying Beijing Opera and savoring Beijing Duck<\/a><\/span> are the three “musts” for those visiting Beijing for the first time, which you cannot miss. The traditional method of preparing Beijing Duck has a history of over a hundred years and boasts a great reputation to this day.<\/p>\n

If you ask which is the best Beijing duck house ( restaurant ) in Beijing, different people will offer you difserent answers. Actually it is quite a personal taste of which one is the best. However, the Beijing roast duck restaurants below are normally considered to be the top 7 in Beijing. <\/span><\/div>\n

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11. Beijing Opera Show \uff08\u4eac\u5267\uff09<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Beijing ( Peking ) opera<\/span> <\/a>is a national treasure with a history of over 200 years. It can date back to the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1790) when the four big Huiban opera Troupes entered the capital and mixed with Kunqu opera, Yiyang opera, Hanju opera and Luantan in Beijing’s thearetical field at the time. With over half a century of mixture and combination of various kinds of opera there came the present Peking ( Beijing ) opera, the most impressive kind of opera in China. It is very colourful bright and extremely noisy and bears absolutely no resemblance to western opera.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Beijing Opera Show \uff08\u4eac\u5267\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Add on:<\/strong>
\nTips for Visiting Tiananmen Square<\/a>
\nTips for visiting Summer Palace<\/a>
\nTips for Visiting the Temple of Heaven<\/a>
\nForbidden City Travel Tips \u2013 The Palace Museum Travel Tips<\/a>
\nTips for Visiting the Great Wall of China around Beijing<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Ming Tombs in Beijing<\/a>
\nHow to visit Beihai Park Beijing<\/a>
\nHow to visit Shichahai<\/a>
\nHow to visit Bird\u2019s Nest and Water Cube<\/a>
\nHow to visit CCTV Tower in Beijing<\/a>
\nHow to Visit National Grand Theatre in Beijing<\/a>
\nTop 10 Most Romantic Places in Beijing<\/a>
\nHow to Enjoy Beijing Nightlife<\/a>
\nTop 10 Beijing Souvenirs<\/a>
\nTop 10 Tourist Scams Beijing<\/a><\/p>\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/p>\n

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