通州大成街Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
十三陵的东北边9公里, S308Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
怀柔往北走红螺路10公里Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
After your ticket is torn, turn right through a bamboo grove to reach the main temple buildings, which really amount to little more than a giant tourist trap spun…
房山区: 京石高速 琉璃河口下往西走Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
This temple is extremely ancient, having originally been built in 631CE, although Japanese forces are blamed for its destruction in the 20th century. For the…
海淀区苏家坨镇北安河乡Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
In the summer of 1866, Dà Jué Sì superseded the Temple of the Azure Clouds at what is now Fragrant Hills Park as the summer retreat of the pompous British attaché…
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
The parkland here, an imperial playground since 1168 during the Jīn dynasty, was also renovated by the Yuán, Míng, and Qīng, and in 1745 the Qiánlóng emperor made further improvements…
石景山模式口东北Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
The point of visiting this temple, other than its rather pleasant quiet obscurity, is that it was completed in 1443 and, despite having lost some of its halls, has…
门头沟Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
The Ordination Terrace Temple is another very pleasant complex built up a leafy hillside but on an east-west axis, with views across assorted scenery. It has the best…
门头沟区东南部潭柘山Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
There’s an unpleasant start, passing the corpse of the Capital Iron and Steel Works, once Běijīng’s biggest polluter, and accompanying chemical plants and other…
天宁寺前街乙3号Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of West of the Imperial City
