Beijing travel guides & articles
All 8 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Beijing — newest first.
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Inside Beijing's Forbidden City Without Wasting a Morning
The Palace Museum has no door ticket, a hard daily cap and a passport check. Here is how the booking, the walk and the quieter ground around it work.
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Where Beijing's Emperors Prayed at the Temple of Heaven
Beijing's imperial sacrifice ground is best walked south to north, early in the day, and the hall everyone comes for is shut on Mondays.
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Watching the Flag Rise on Beijing's Tiananmen Square at Dawn
The dawn flag-raising lasts three minutes. The passport booking, the checkpoint queue and the empty half hour afterwards are what take the planning.
The best Mutianyu Great Wall tours for first-timers in Beijing
From door-to-door private cars to the honest no-shop bus and the toboggan run every first-timer secretly wants — how to pick the right Mutianyu trip in 2026.
Beijing's Day-Trip Duel with the Crowds: Conquering the Great Wall at Mutianyu
Which Great Wall section actually rewards the two-hour drive out of Beijing — and how to walk it without the coach-park scrum.
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Walking the Bird's Nest Plaza and Beijing's Olympic Green
What ¥100 buys you on the Bird's Nest roof, and how to walk the rest of Beijing's Olympic Green in 2026.
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Walking Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake in Beijing
A full day on foot: in at the East Palace Gate, up the stair flights of Longevity Hill, then out along the West Causeway, with the tickets, the boat seasons and which halls shut early.
Behind the Grey Bricks: Beijing's Hutongs and the City That Predates the Ring Roads
A calm, walkable route through Beijing's grey-brick lanes — where to arrive early, which alleys reward a detour, and how to read the old city before the ring roads swallowed it.