Beijing

A small two-storey market selling clothes, T-shirts, luggage, purses, wallets, some souvenirs etc. They have nothing you can't also buy at Yashow, but they are much smaller and calmer, so more relaxin...

This enormous museum near Olympic Green is a comprehensive science and technology museum with regular and short-term themed exhibitions. Of special interest are the historic scientific and technical a...

Tian'anmen Gate, and its large portrait of Chairman Mao, dominates the northern end of the square. This was originally the main gate into the Imperial City, and is the only one of the four gates that ...

The academy was the highest level college and location of examinations for the civil service in Imperial China. Very much related to the neighbouring Confucius Temple in that the studies and exams wer...

A Ming-era defensive fortress next to the Lugou Bridge. Shell-holes made in the 1937 Japanese attack are still visible. Take subway line 14 to Dawayao. Then walk 500m south on the Jing-Shi Expressway ...