Beijing tour guide Cindy Zhang Beijing tourist destinations where to go and what to do in Beijing
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Index
00:00 say hello
03:47 itinerary design
06:37 Tips for weather & climate
08:13 Historic and cultural relics
Royal palace, gardens, Temples and cemetery
09:28 the Forbidden City
13:27 royal gardens
The Sumer Palace, Jingshan Park, Beihai Park
19:20 royal temples
The Temple of Heaven, Yonghegong Lama Temple,
Confucius Temple of Guozijian
29:46 Royal cemetery the Ming Tombs
The Sacred Way, Changling, Zhaoling, Dingling
34:49 the Great Wall
Badaling Great Wall, Mutianyu Great Wall, Jinshanling Great Wall
42:28 Tiananmen Square
44:48 local traditional residential areas
Shichahai
Beiluoguxiang(Beijing Drum and Bell Tower)
Nanluoguxiang
Xianyukou
53:31 shopping Streets
Qianmen Street area
Liulichang Cultural Street
Wangfujing street
58:40 Food streets
Gui/Ghost street, Wangfujing food street, Xianyukou Gourmet street
1:01:08 Museums and fashion blocks
China National Museum
Capital Museum
Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall
1:01:47 Modern areas
798 Contemporary Art District
Sanlitun Taikooli, the Place, Solena, Olympic Square
1:03:52 Famous buildings
The Great Hall of the People
the National Center for the Performing Arts
China National Library
1:04:12 Universities Tsinghua University, Beijing University
1:04:29 Surrounding cities Tianjin
1:05:21 Chinese culture experience activities
1:06:28 Night show
Beijing Opera, Chinese Kungfu, acrobatics
Description of the tour to the Yonghegong Lama Temple Beijing
Yonghegong Lama Temple is a good place to go in Beijing if you are interested in culture and religion. Why is it worth a visit? What can you see there?
Yonghegong Lama Temple is the biggest Tibetan Buddhist temple in Beijing. Built in 1694, it was once used as a prince palace, a royal pavilion and a temple. It’s different from ordinary temples in respect of functions. It was the head quarter to handle the matters of Tibetan and Mongolian affairs in the Qing dynasty. Once it played very important political function. All these make it have the regal splendor of royal temple.