Beijing – a touch of amazing history!

05Feb
by Kamila Pala

Capital city of CHINA has long unique history back 3 millennia but on the other side is modern, cosmopolitan city with more than 21 millions inhabitants! That is real reason discover a little bit some of its world famous place. We spent fantastic long weekend and enjoyed every minutes!

HERE IS 5 TOP – MUST SEE PLACES:

  • FORBIDDEN CITY – It is really magic and impressive place – Chinese imperial palace from MING Dynasty to the end of the QING Dynasty (1420-1912). And City was almost 500 years political center of Chinese government. Now, is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world! No wonder, this special place has over 14millions visitors annual!!!
  • SUMMER PALACE – Largest and most well preserved Royal Park (1750) and popular tourist destination. Park is masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.
  • TIANANMEN SQUARE – is a really large city square and contains the monuments to the heroes of the revolution, National Museum of China, The Great Hall of the People or Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
  • TEMPLE of HEAVEN – this is an amazing and unique temple that Emperors visited during the Ming and Qing dynasties to pray for a good harvest.
  • MY TIP – THE BEST is GREAT WALL of CHINA – (1987 was listed as a WORLD HERITAGE in UNESCO) in which is one of the greatest man-made projects on earth and more than 2.300 years old…most of today’s relics are the Ming Dynasty. The best time for to visit is in autumn and when you are lucky you have cool and clear weather and impressive scenery view from the top of the Great Wall (the highest place is about 14m – in BADALING area and the average height is almost 8m)! I have to say that was unforgettable and wonderful trip, if you are in China – must simply see it! The GREAT WALL is part of Chinese culture and one of the greatest wonders of the WORLD.

 Another interesting places are also MING TOMBS (close to the Great Wall), NATIONAL MUSEUM of CHINA, original HUTONG area, or if you need relax in the heart of noisy city (my tip) you can go to the BEIHAI PARK! This charming and unique place is oldest and most authentically imperial gardens in China. It has history of 1000 years. Especially in the early morning is really peaceful and you can see local people doing morning exercises, dancing, singing or playing games.

The Chinese are infamous for eating “everything” and there are plenty of street snacks or special night market where you can try what you want – for example deep-fried scorpion! GOOD TO KNOW that Beijing has long rich tradition of imperial cuisine with big influence of Mongol, Muslim or Buddhist vegetarian recipes. But definitively I recommend you for dinner go to the special restaurant and eat fabulous – PEKING DUCK, JIAOZI boiled dumplings or MONGOLIAN Lamb HOT POT and drink local beer!

City has of course varied and long-colorful nightlife! There are many concerts hall, karaoke clubs, teahouses, original Beijing opera, plenty of special performances and we decided and visited special and breathtaking performance of KUNG FU – which is now very popular traditional sport (fighting) – but has a long history in China. It was really good decision. Warmly recommend. Beijing, no doubt, has really unique history and vibrant present!

HAPPY NEW CHINESE YEAR – the year of MONKEY is coming J

 

 

65 thoughts on “Beijing – a touch of amazing history!”

    1. Kamila Pala

      Thank you! Beijing is really mega-city and the history is so impressive. Temple of Haven I like as well, original and stylish architecture and colors 🙂 Bye. Have a nice weekend. K

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      1. equinoxio21

        haha! Merci. Right now all I’m focused on is my trip (back) to Paris this summer. (Back and forth) Ticket is bought. Counting the days. 🙂
        A bientôt. (With a ^ before they forever are banned)

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  8. Bama

    It looks like the weather was fairly nice when you went — I’ve seen images of Beijing covered in thick smog! This is a part of China I have yet to visit, but if I do return to the country one day I would love to go here.

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    1. Kamila Pala

      Unfortunately, the smog is really problem in these period and we were happy with a couple of sunny days 🙂 ! I visited many interesting places in Asia and I must say that Forbidden City and Great Wall were the best historical and unique places!

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  15. Dalo 2013

    A great series of shots Kamila, you have covered one of my favorite cities in the world…and what an experience it was. The Forbidden City is my favorite, as you say it had such power and mystic about it. Wish you safe travels in the great Year of the Monkey ahead, 新年快乐！猴年大吉！

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    1. Kamila Pala

      Thank you for nice comment and wish you also the same in this “Monkey” year!!! I still remember the specific atmosphere inside the Forbidden City…and my question was – how they did organize everything without the mobiles? 🙂 🙂 No, seriously, it is really impressive place! Have a nice week. Kamila

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      1. Dalo 2013

        Ha, ha…yes, the mobile is amazing – be lost without it! Just think how efficient and dazzling the Imperial Court would have been with today’s technology. An amazing place, thank you and wish you well Kamila.

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  29. LaVagabonde

    Great photos, Kamila. In a few weeks, I’ll be passing through Beijing for a couple of days. The Great Wall is definitely on the agenda. I’ll keep Beihai Park in mind as well. I like less touristy places. 🙂

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