Posts Tagged ‘Beijing Great Wall of China’

So many places to visit, so little time….

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

One of the great things about living in Beijing is that there is an endless number of interesting places to visit and sites to see in this amazing city. It’s not only because Beijing is an ancient capital city that it provides a wealth of worthy sights to see, but also it’s importance to China and the rest of the world throughout history. One can visit the Marco Polo bridge in southern Beijing, supposedly visited by the famous traveler himself, or travel even farther south to visit the Peking Man site, where archaeologists have uncovered evidence and bones of prehistoric humans that lived near Beijing. Fantastic and largely unexplored “wild” sections of the Great Wall of China lie scattered to the north of the city, making for great one-day or overnight trips to visit on of the “modern” wonders of the world (strange that something hundreds of years old would be considered “modern”.) I would recommend for anyone visiting Beijing to certainly take in all of the familiar “must-see” sites - The Forbidden City, Tian’anmen Square, and the Temple of Heaven, but if you can possibly spare one day to visit some of the more obscure places in and around the city, you can have a unique adventure that most tourists never get to experience. Beijing Discovery Tours can take you to these places. Just let us know what it is that you would like to see while you are in China, including ancient important Buddhist sites, temples, mountains, caves, horseback riding etc., and we will do our best to make it happen for you.

So many places to visit, so little time….

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

One of the great things about living in Beijing is that there is an endless number of interesting places to visit and sites to see in this amazing city. It’s not only because Beijing is an ancient capital city that it provides a wealth of worthy sights to see, but also it’s importance to China and the rest of the world throughout history. One can visit the Marco Polo bridge in southern Beijing, supposedly visited by the famous traveler himself, or travel even farther south to visit the Peking Man site, where archaeologists have uncovered evidence and bones of prehistoric humans that lived near Beijing. Fantastic and largely unexplored “wild” sections of the Great Wall of China lie scattered to the north of the city, making for great one-day or overnight trips to visit on of the “modern” wonders of the world (strange that something hundreds of years old would be considered “modern”.) I would recommend for anyone visiting Beijing to certainly take in all of the familiar “must-see” sites - The Forbidden City, Tian’anmen Square, and the Temple of Heaven, but if you can possibly spare one day to visit some of the more obscure places in and around the city, you can have a unique adventure that most tourists never get to experience. Beijing Discovery Tours can take you to these places. Just let us know what it is that you would like to see while you are in China, including ancient important Buddhist sites, temples, mountains, caves, horseback riding etc., and we will do our best to make it happen for you.