San Yuan Jin An, Beijing

Advantages: Cheap place once you've got there
Disadvantages: the problems one experiances are basically due to the language barrier

...Beijing isn't all that I was made to believe it to be it has a touch of the oriental old style with areas such as the Summer palace and the Forbidden city, which are a must see for those who intend on taking back photos of the ancient dynasties. However those who have visited know of how metropolitan the city is it's streets are crammed full of people busy with city life, much the same as London or any other major city. There are towering offices that seem to travel miles into the sky, roads that weave in and out and to be honest leaves the best of us wondering where we are. The city is terrific there are more things to do here thatn in most cities around the world and whats more it's cheap. Areas for shopping are basically well established market places, these include the silk alley, San li Tun (otherwise known as the bar street... Read review

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Advantages: Near lots of tourist sites
Disadvantages: Very Busy

...Beijing is a very different to the all the other cities in the rest of the world. It has changed alot since the end or the Miao reign and has been influenced by western culture a lot. There are still alot of bycles around but not as many as there used to be. No longer are there the comunal toilets where you all share, there are now sperated tolets although some of the Chineese do not shut the toilet doors becuase they like the htought of comunal toilets. Beijing is a very hot place in the summer so keep to the shade. The driving is also very manic, you have do dodge the cars.... Read review

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Advantages: traditional attraction
Disadvantages: none

...Badaling Changcheng is in the countryside of Beijing City, it will cost you about 100-150 yuan to go there from the city centre of Beijing by taxi, which is worth about 8-12 pounds. The whole walk in Badaling Changcheng is normally take about 2hours, it does not count the time you spend to purchasing some product. But I highly recomend here, most of the goods selling in Badaling private stores are not real, so don't spend your money here, you will find some better products with a much cheaper price in other places in Beijing City. Accually Badaling Changcheng is only a small part of Great Wall, the whole Great Wall is thoughsand of miles, there are totally four parts of Great Wall open for tourism, two of them in Beijing, one in Shanhaiguang ( which is the begaining part of Great Wall), and another part is not that famouse, located... Read review

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