Helpful Tips for Your Travel in Beijing

Are you first time to travel in Beijing? Here, beijinglandscapes.com provides some helpful and practical tips to guarantee that you will enjoy a perfect Beijing travel. 

Tip 1: Beijing Weather and When to Go 

With distinct four seasons, Beijing characterized by a long hot summer, long chilly winter, and shorter spring and autumn.

With the mild temperature and clear and crisp days, the best time to travel to Beijing is autumn, usually jeans and a sweater are enough. Spring is also a good season to have your Beijing travel, but it is very dry and the sand storms always sweep into the city.

Tip 2: Visa

If you desire to travel to Beijing, you should get a tourist visas for China tour. The most convenient for tourists to get it is through the Chinese travel agencies. Tourist visas are usually good for two months, and can be extended for an extra month at the Foreigners Section of the public Security Bureau in each big city of China. 

Tip 3: Transportation

In Beijing, the transportation is convenient. Tourists travel Beijing can by subway, city buses, or taxies. Subways are the fast transportation in Beijing and they are good way to avoid frequent traffic jams. 

Tip 4: Credit Card

In large department stores of Beijing, major credit cards can be used to purchase goods, including, Master Card, Visa, JCB, American Express and Diners. However, they cannot be used in small restaurants or the convenient stores. 

Tip 5: Foreign Exchange

The best places for foreign exchange are the branch of a major bank, such as Bank of China, CITIC, or HSBC. All these operate with standardized government rates. You need present your passport to change money.

Tip 6: What to Bring?

Your packing should be light and compact, so that leaves more space to make your tour comfortable and pleasant. Here we list some tips on packing just for your reference.

Passport and Visa; Air tickets to China; Emergency Card with your detailed contact info; A guided Book with Chinese translation; Money; Debt Card; A water bottle; First-aid.

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Why You don’t Miss Travel to Beijing?

Thousands of persons can provide thousands reasons why they love tours to Beijing. Here we pick some reasons most tourists said. 

Reason 1: World-famous Tourist Sights

Beijing boasts a great number of places of scenic and historic interest, which enjoy a high reputation in the world because of their large sizes and outstanding positions, such as the Forbidden City, the largest complex of palace buildings in the world; the Great Wall, known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World; the Temple of Heaven, the largest temper for worshipping heaven in the world; the Ming Tombs, the densest imperial mausoleums in the world; and the Summer Palace, the largest imperial garden in the world. 

Reason 2: Conquer the Great Wall of China

As the saying goes" He who has never been to Great Wall is not a true man." So there are numerous tourists want to conquer the Great Wall of China.We could say that hiking and viewing the Great Wall is always the must-do for a trip in Beijing.

Great Wall is not only one of the Seven Wonders of the World, but also a man made architecture that can be seen from the space. Tourists can explore different sections of adventurous Great Wall, relax yourself in the charming mountain views, enjoy hiking time with your friends, taste the essence scenery and offer you a lifetime fascinating memory!

Reason 3: Kind Chinese People 

For those who had been to China, most of them said they were infected with Chinese enthusiasm and warmth. Most Chinese people are great, as are most nationalities and most people of the world. So if you come to Beijing, you will find that there are any real obstacles to getting along with Chinese people.

Reason 4: Post-Olympic Atmosphere

Beijing city as well as the whole nation geared up enthusiastically for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The city has become even more charming and the air cleaner as a result. A visit to the Olympic site will offer you an aftertaste of the glorious moments of this magnificent event, and a chance to view a couple of architectural marvels holding state-of-the-art sports facilities. 

Reason 5: Unique Local Culture

As an integral part of Beijing local culture, the zigzagging Hutongs can most represent the old life of Beijing. Like folk-custom museums, Hutongs presenting a window into a traditional way of life intertwined with the old architecture and maze of narrow streets.

With abundant tourism resources with profound connotation, no wonder more and more foreigners travel to Beijing.

Top 10 Things to do & Tourist Attractions in Beijing

1. Peking Opera

2. Beijing Roast Duck

3. Walking Panjiayuan Market

4. Silk Market Shopping Tour

5. Kung Fu Show

6. Cycling in Beijing

7. Worship at church

8. Visit the Exhibition of National Treasures

9. Enjoy Beijing Snacks

10. Hutong

Hutong Tour in Beijing - Traditional Courtyard Residences

For those who want to experience the life of old Beijing, Beijing Hutong tour will be suitable. This time we will take tourists to explore the old lifestyle of common people. You can choose one route you like best.

• 1 Day Tour: Badaling Great Wall, Hutong from US$ 43/pax
• 1 Day Hutong Tour (Rickshaw Tour) from US$ 57/pax
• 1 Day Tour: Forbidden City, Hutong from US$ 60/pax
• 2 Days Beijing Tour Packages from US$ 94/pax
• 3 Day Beijing Tour Packages from US$ 147/pax
• 4 Days Beijing Tour Packages (with hotel) from US$ 279/pax

Hutong

The term” Hutong” is used only in Beijing and a few northern cities in China. While touring in Hutong, tourists will find that what we called Hutongs are just small back streets or lanes of Beijing. However, Beijing’s history is preserved in the names of its Hutong. Some retain the names of some famous people who once lived there, and some are named for well-known craftsmen or shops. There are also lanes with names like Jinyu.

The most representative construture is quadrangle. A change in a contiguous dry quadrangles formation of a million of alley, alley plots linked plots constitute Beijing Cuba outlook. 

Badailng Great Wall

Great Wall is one of the world wonders and it is the only one man-made architecture can be seen from space. Among all sections of Great Wall, Badaling Great Wall is the most famous and the best preserved part of Great Wall.

Whenever hiking on Badaling Great Wall, it will never let you down. The wall threads its way through a jumble of mountains like a giant dragon. With dangerous mountain slopes, splendid scenery and distinctive four seasons, Badaling Great Wall is truly worth of visiting during your Beijing tour.

Forbidden City

“What most impressed me is Forbidden City”, many tourists said. In ancient China, Forbidden City is a forbidden area, common people can not entry. It was the place where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties handled court business and resided. This magnificent, solemn, and palatial complex is the largest wooden cluster in existence in the world today. 

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Beijing Hutongs are very special, which are part of traditional Chinese culture. So Hutong is worth of visiting during your Beijing tour.