A vast imperial garden around Kunming Lake, the retreat of the Qing emperors and Empress Dowager Cixi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Walk the painted Long Corridor, climb Longevity Hill to the Tower of Buddhist Incense, and see the marble boat.
Take a dragon boat across the lake. In winter the lake freezes for skating. Allow half a day. It's in north-west Beijing, on metro line 4.
The vast imperial palace of the Ming and Qing emperors, home to 24 emperors from 1420 to 1912, with nearly a thousand buildings inside its moat and r…
A Ming dynasty complex where emperors prayed for good harvests, with the circular, triple-roofed Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, a masterpiece of C…
A restored section of the Great Wall about 70 km north of Beijing, with 23 watchtowers along a forested ridge, less crowded than Badaling.
One of the best-preserved walled towns in China, with Ming and Qing dynasty streets, courtyard houses, temples, and the first banks in China, a UNESC…
More than 2,000 caves and niches along the Yi River with around 100,000 Buddhist statues carved between the 5th and 10th centuries, from tiny figures…
Thousands of life-sized clay soldiers, archers, horses and chariots, each with an individual face, buried to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's…
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