Around Beijing

Beyond the Third Ring Road: 58 Běijīng sights, 11 background stories, and two Great Wall walks, all from A Better Guide to Běijīng

Introduction

SUMMER PALACES

Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng

Note that much of what’s listed below is within the Fourth and Fifth Ring Roads, and sometimes barely beyond the Third, and reachable in half an hour or so for ¥20 to ¥30 by taxi, or for much less still by metro or public…

Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond

The hills west of Peking are the Switzerland of Northern China. They are not very high nor extraordinarily beautiful, but there are some very pretty gorges and…

Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng

The beekeepers from Huáng Shān in Ānhuī Province and elsewhere arrive in Běijīng’s leafy west from the late spring, when the scholar trees that cover the hillsides start to flower, and you may well see them sitting at…