Tour Beijing Journal
Field notes from Beijing and beyond: routes, photos, small cautions, and practical ideas for travelers who like to know the road before they go.
The Location of Meidaizhao Temple (美岱召) If you are planning Inner Mongolia tour, a side trip to Meidaizhao either from Baotou or Hohhot is highly reco...
Plan your Inner Mongolia Tour? Inner Mongolia is large and extensive, covering an area of 1.183 million square kilometers , three times the size of Ja...
Plan your Inner Mongolia tour? Hulunbuir ( or Hulunbeier ) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia. Hulunbuir was once a league unti...
Plan your Inner Mongolia tour? On the west of Inner Mongolia lies Alxa League (阿拉善盟), also known as Alashan League. It is one of the 12 prefecture-lev...
Xanadu, also known as Yuanshangdu in Chinese, literally means "Upper Capital", which was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty (1274-1364)...
plan your Inner Mongolia Tour? Ergun, or E'erguna (额尔古纳市) is part of the prefecture-level city of Hulunbuir in Inner Mongolia. The 200-km road trip fr...
Plan your Inner Mongolia tour? 500 km north of Beijing, Ulan Butong is a typical hilly grassland perched on the high lands (Bashang) between the remai...
Deshengbu Fortress (得胜堡) was one of the 52 fortresses built along theDatong Great Wall in Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644). Deshengbu, literally "Victory For...
Plan your Hebei Tour? Located in the northwest of Hebei Province, the low profile and often neglected Zhangjiakou (张家口) is now in the limelight, which...
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