Sansa Village at Mutianyu, Beijing
Today’s post will be about a wonderful boutique hotel that we stayed at on our recent trip to Mutianyu’s section of the Great Wall of China. I don’t usually dedicate a post to a hotel, but I’m doing it in …
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Great Wall of China at Mutianyu, Beijing
Mutianyu is about a two hour drive from Beijing and includes one of the most famous sections of the Great Wall. When I last visited, there was a bit of a carnival environment around the entrance with sketchy shops selling …
Hutongs at Qianmen Part 2, Beijing, China
Continuing the series on Beijing neighbourhoods started with the Hutongs at Beilu Guxiang and the first foray into the vast Qianmen area, today I’d like to take you back to the Qianmen area with a focus on regular day to day …
Hutongs at Qianmen, Beijing, China
Continuing the series on Beijing neighbourhoods started with the Hutongs at Beilu Guxiang post, today I’d like to share some images taken over two trips to the Qianmen area of central Beijing. This neighbourhood has some of the most expensive …
Hutongs at Beiluo Guxiang, Beijing, China
Having lived in Beijing for eight years now, I’ve started to take things for granted. There are amazing neighbourhoods to explore in this 3,000 year old city, but the familiarity creates indifference. For the next few months, a friend and …
Tonghui River, Beijing, China
With the weather warming up, I thought it was time to go out for a long walk. A favourite spot is to walk along the Tonghui River in downtown Beijing. I rarely use the Leica M10 these days, so I …
National Museum of China, Beijing, China
This post is mostly images taken from the National Museum of China, located in Beijing, near the Palace Museum and Tiananmen Square. The purpose for visiting the National Museum was to get a glimpse of the Moon soil that China …
Staycation in Beijing, China
Even though I live in Beijing, I spend a lot of time travelling to other cities around Asia for work and for fun. A rare opportunity recently came up to be a tourist in my own city and so I …
Jingshan Park, Beijing, China
This post will be a short one. If you travel to Beijing, a must visit location is the Forbidden City or Palace Museum as it’s called in China. However, there’s a small park just north of the Palace Museum that …
Gubei Watertown, China
Beijing is known for a lot of interesting things like its stunning historical architecture, or its concentration of a handful of people who provide oversight and direction to 1/5th of humanity, or more recently, the high levels of pollution that …