TIP: It gets really busy at The Great Wall so plan your trip for an early arrival.
Put on your most comfortable pair of hiking shoes too!
who lived there possessed the potion. Hence, BeihaiPark pool and three“mountains”.
TIP: Best time of the day to visit the park is in the morning where locals buzz about doing their exercises, singing and dancing!
THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN place for worship for emperors in the Ming and Qing Dynasty, The Temple of Heaven is cluster of Beijing’s most sacred buildings. Here, old temples and shrines are set out in two sections one rectangular and the other semi-circular to symbolise heaven and earth. Today, tt rificial compound is where locals come early in the morning to do their exercises and get together for song and play. One of its wonders is the brightly decorated Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests erected using traditional Chinese architecture of wood and entirely without nails featuring three-tier marble terrace aie: roof covered with 50,000 blue glazed tiles. Visit the Echo Wall, whi quietest of voices.
HUTONG BEIJING hutong is narrow lane in Beijing between traditional folk houses, and in the past, the city was filled with hundreds of them. Unfortunately due to city construction,
many have been replaced by today’s modern streets. Now, no more than 1,000 remain in the old town and have been transformed into commercialised tourist
attractions filled with street food stalls, souvenir shops, bars and few shops selling goods to the locals. Still, they are worth visit. Two main areas are the Shichahai and Bell/Drum Towers not far from The Forbidden City, and the Qianmen and Dashilar Area near Tiananmen Square. Take stroll along the twisted lanes of these hutongs
to explore the traditional homes for touristy thing to do which is to take
feel of what it was like, or you can opt for the
rickshaw to guide you for special tour.
TIP: Want different hutong tour? Rent the lanes.
bike and peddle your way through
MING TOMBS UNESCO World Heritage, the Ming Tombs is one of the best-preserved imperial mausoleums in the world with 13 tombs from the Ming Dynasty. At present, only the Dingling Tomb, Changling Tomb and Zhaoling Tomb (‘ling’ here meaning ‘tomb’) are open to the public to go into the burial chambers to view unearthed precious relics and imperial coffins. Because the area is so vast, it is almost impossible to visit all (or even two!). Our recommendation? The Dingling Tomb is ideal if you have no problem
with your knees as it requires some climbing down from the entrance while the
Changling Tomb is for those who have some difficulty in walking.
TIP: There are different ticket prices for each tomb so be sure to check ahead.
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Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2019 Sep-Oct, pages 25-30. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
