I’m happy to introduce our new personal tour “To Be a Beijinger for a Day”. This 1 day tour focuses on the axis of Beijing. The tour will guide you through the various periods of Beijing’s history, from the 1400’s to present day.

The itinerary includes:

1. Temple of Heaven
2. Tian’anmen Square
3. Forbidden City
4. Olympic Park

Transportation: Taxi

Price: USD $60 per person, including transportation by taxi. I can pick you up from your hotel or meet at another rendezvous point. The price doesn’t include lunch and entrance fees to the attractions on the tour.

The price is on sale now, takes at 20% off, the promotion price is USD $48 per person, group price is also avaible, contact with me for further information.

Entrance Ticket :

Temple of Heaven: RMB 35 Yuan per Person;
Forbidden City: RMB 60 Yuan per Person.

Notes: There is about 3.3 miles of walking distance in the tour. You can have lunch around Di’anmen Street (Marked on the Map), as there are restaurants big or small, or if you like, KFC and McDonald’s are near by as well.

For more details of the tour, please check the Map and download the Brochure in PDF.

Preview of the PDF Brochure:

For booking please contact with me at: waddebye at gmail.com, or feedback me here:

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Until recently (just before the Game) a high-speed train system is built-up and links tightly Tianjian and Beijing. Now this high-speed train takes only 30 minutes, and departs every 15 minutes from both Beijing and Tianjin, from 06:15  (from Beijing) to 22:10 (from Tianjin).

The one way ticket costs 58 yuan for 2nd Class, and 70 yuan for 1st Class.

Beijing South Railway Station, which is the terminal for the high-speed train to Tianjin, and also to Shanghai in the future. But right now, as lots of construction is undergoing, if you try to walk into this building is really confusing, you will need the ferry bus to get into the station. The best way is taxi, or bus.

Inside the Beijing South Railway Station.

My first sight of the train.

Very comfortable and nice inside, and free water for the passenger. The highest speed so much as I noticed was 334 KM/H, but I can say its real high speed is more than this, and it even seems the distance is a little not long enough to testify it.

Here we are in Tianjin, Police women patroling at the Tianjin Station square.

A very interesting place called “China House”, which is about 30 minutes walk from the Station.

A view inside the House, from the ground floor to the top.

From 1920s to 1930s, part of Tianjin was occupied as foreign concession, some of the old buildings are kept, especially concentrated around 5 streets, (Machang Dao, Munan Dao, Dali Dao, Chengdu Dao, Chongqing Dao), most of these named after china’s city names.

This is better than walk around.

Our lunch place, a very fancy place, expensive. But this is not our room.

This place called “Cultural Street” is a combination of Beijing’s Liulichang and Panjiayuan market, get almost everything you need to buy. Of them, “Niren Zhang” clay sculpture impresses me the most, and in the shops it is not expensive at small pieces, 10-20 you can have a small but lovely pissing boy.

If you ever heard of Chinese Baozi (steammed Dumpling), then you should know “GouBuli” restaurant, it is just famous, and in the city you will many restaurants serve the Baozi and everyone seems to be the real one, with the help of a local friend, we locate this shop, and we were told here was the authentic restaurant.

We tried it, it tasts not bad, and it costs not bad either, 64 yuan for 8 pieces…, good luck, never come back again.

Before the train, I just took a picture of the beautiful bridge, on the left of the Haihe river, is the railway station.

A picture of the our train “Harmony”.

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Wuzhou Crowne Plaza hotel on the left, Beijing Continental Grand Hotel in the middle, and the International Conference Centre on the right, all of these building were built for the 1990 Beijing Asian Games.

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This is not a very good model, the yellow little one, size is too big, as I tried to put in some more detail, but it doesn’t show up…

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Preview looks very nice…

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The second room is given over to tropical aquatic plants, including water lilies and flowering taros.

The third room displays commercial plants and their breeding and propagation. Here there are specimens of the triple-leaved rubber plant, cocoa and coffee trees and the sugar producing sweet-leaved chrysanthemum which has been introduced into China from abroad.

There are rooms for demonstrating medicinal plants, aromatic plants and succulents. The exhibition of ornamental plants is spectacular with its countless varieties if flowers and grasses. There are over 300 different varieties of orchid, among them a rootless one relies on fine hairs to absorb water vapor and nutrients from the air.

Besides the hothouse, there is also a national plant specimen hall with a floor space of 11,000 square meters. Specimen houses, plant classification laboratories, research rooms and a lecture hall are arranged around a courtyard linked by arches and trellises.

The Peony Garden was open to the public in 1981. It covers an area of 10 hectares and is divided into three sections. The Peony Grove is the most important, covering an area of 3.5 hectares.

The plant collection includes many rare species. There is, for example, the met sequoia first discovered in the region of Hubei and Sichuan by a Chinese scientist in the 1940s. Since it was originally believed that it had become extinct during the Tertiary Period (65 million years ago), the discovery of living specimens in China came as a tremendous surprise to botanists.

Other plants in the gardens include specimens of the nepenthes or pitcher plant, which eats insects; the golden butterfly orchid with its lustrous yellow flowers; the American redwood; the Japanese blossoming cherry, and the famous botree, the tree under which Buddha sat when he gained enlightenment.

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The marble bridge has eleven arches, and measures 266.5 meters long and 7.5 meters wide. Altogether 485 Finely Carved Lions, in distinctive style, are on each baluster. They are most impressive. The bridge was described by poets as a place where people would send off their beloved ones, or friends. The best time to visit it is at dawn, when a Morning Moon is hanging over the sky. A Stone Tablet with an inscription by the Qing Emperor, Qianlong, says “Morning Moon Over Lougou Bridge” stands at one end of the Bridge.

Another historical incident that made the bridge famous is the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.This is when Japanese troops illegally occupied a railway junction outside Wanping. Then came the War of Resistance against Japan. Now a Memorial Hall is established there.

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old Beijing railway station

As now is not yet the tourist high season, here is not busy

A government poster

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