Travel Notes

Independent tour guides or tour guides designated by a tour company?

Polite and knowledgeable tour guides are much sought after by foreign tourists who want to hire private tour guides to make most of their trips to Bei...

The Visits to Jinshanling Great Wall will double

With the closure of Simatai Great Wall, the volume of hiking Jinshanling Great Wall will increase greatly. To have a snowball effect, the local Jinsha...

Jingcheng Expressway

Duanwu Festival, June 16, 2010

Simatai Great Wall closed since June 17, 2010

On June 10, 2010, we got a fax from Simatai Great Wall Administration to the effect that Simatai Great Wall is going to be closed since June 17, 2010...

Beijing Commuters' Breakfast

Beijing dwellers have the longest average commutation time from work to home, 52 minutes commute on average. In other words, Beijing has a largest num...