What are the must-visit attractions in Beijing in August?
What are the must-visit attractions in Beijing in August
Before traveling, make a plan to make the trip smoother. Below is my list of must-visit attractions in Beijing in August. Welcome to read.
Tiananmen
Tiananmen is located in the center of Beijing, the capital of the Republic of China, on the south side of the Forbidden City, across Chang'an Street from Tiananmen Square. The gate of Daihuang City. The scenic Tiananmen Square is 34.7 meters high. It consists of a city platform and a tower, with a white marble Xumizuo, 60 vermilion columns reaching the sky on the tower, and the ground is paved with gold bricks, which is as flat as a stone; the tall and richly colored wall platform has a two-story double eaves tower with yellow glazed tiles. , the room is divided into nine east and west rooms and five north and south rooms, symbolizing the "nine-five emperors" of imperial power.
Shidu
Shidu Scenic Area is a karst landform. It is a rare landform in North China characterized by canyons, peaks, and river valleys, and is dominated by karst landscapes and geological relics. A geoscience popularization park that also takes into account patriotism education for young people. The Juma River nestles between mountains and ridges, with nine winding roads, flowing through the district from northwest to southeast. It got its name because historically one had to pass through 10 ferry crossings upstream from Zhangfang to Shidu.
Badaling National Forest Park
It is a great pleasure to come to Beijing to enjoy the red leaves in August. The Red Leaf Ridge in Badaling National Forest Park is worth a visit. You can see the beautiful scenery of the forest dyed in bright red. The leaves reflect the ancient city wall and the blue sky. The scenery is very beautiful. In the Echo Wall Scenic Area, you can touch the ancient city wall and feel the vicissitudes of history. At this point, the red leaves, the ancient Great Wall, and the blue sky are presented in the same time and space. It feels very wonderful.
Hongluo Temple
Hongluo Temple is a top choice of tourist destinations in Beijing in August. It is located in Huairou County and is the largest temple in northern Beijing. It was planted in front of the main hall in the Tang Dynasty. The two male and female ginkgo trees are worth watching. It is said that the female tree only bears fruit but does not bloom, and the male tree only bears flowers but does not bear fruit, which is extremely strange. In Beijing in autumn, the sky is high and the clouds are clear. It is quite good to meet up with a few friends and go to Hongluo Temple to stretch your body and mind. You can stretch your muscles and bones on the mountain path, breathe in the fresh air, and enjoy a journey to purify your soul.
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Good places to enjoy flowers
See the blooming mountain flowers at Baiwang Mountain
Baiwang Mountain is a remnant of the Taihang Mountains and is known as the "first peak of the Taihang Outpost". It is also called Wang'er Mountain. In April every year, mountain apricot flowers and mountain peach flowers bloom all over the mountains and plains. From a distance, you can see a sea of flowers. In the golden autumn season, nearly a thousand acres of red leaves compete with each other in the mountains, and the mountains are covered with beautiful scenery.
Where to go when traveling in Beijing?
Xiaobei’s tip: There are no restaurants in the scenic area, so you must bring your own dry food and water. There is a parking lot nearby, and you can visit for half a day
Best flower viewing period: April to November
Address: No. 19, Heishan Hubeikou, Haidian District, Beijing
Fare: 6 yuan
Bus Route: Take Route 330 or Route 346 from the Summer Palace and get off at Baiwangshan Station; or take Route 651 from Xizhimen and get off at Heishan Hubeikou Station
Self-driving route: From Jingmi Road to the Huairou exit, follow the north of Huairou City to Qingchun Go north on Hongluo Road from Lubei Roundabout for 5 kilometers; or from Sanyuan Bridge along Jingmi Road to Huairou County, go north on Huaifeng Highway for 20 kilometers and you'll be there
A good place for outings
View peonies in Tanzhe Temple and Jietai Temple
In Tanzhe Temple, an ancient temple in the west of Beijing, spring is warm and flowers are blooming. Flowers are in full bloom. The peonies in Tanzhe Temple are in full bloom. The aura of the temple makes it even more graceful and luxurious. Peonies are in full bloom before and after. It’s so relaxing to visit ancient times and enjoy the flowers!
Tanzhe Temple and Jietai Temple are adjacent to each other. Jietai Temple, a famous ancient temple in western Beijing, is famous for its long history. It is famous for its history, the largest altar in the country and its unique famous pines. However, it also has a unique garden building that few people know about. It is the garden in the temple - the Peony Garden.
The Peony Temple is located to the north of the Qianfo Pavilion in the center of the temple (the only remaining ruins now). It was built as a palace in the Qing Dynasty and was originally called "Beigong". The architectural style of Peony Courtyard is a clever combination of Beijing’s traditional courtyard form and Jiangnan garden art. There are two entrances to the courtyard, inside and outside. The courtyard gate faces south. As soon as you enter the gate, you suddenly feel like you are stepping into a cave of heaven and paradise. The front door is a large rockery screen wall made of Taihu stones. Its base is a flower bed. The stones in the bed are red with flowers and green grass, giving people a sense of stillness amidst movement and movement amidst stillness. This ingenious design makes it not only function as a screen, but also form a scene of its own. To the west of the outer courtyard, you can take advantage of the mountains and rocks to create a scenic view, and there are winding stone steps that can be climbed step by step. Flowers and trees are planted on it, which makes it interesting. There are fourteen rooms with curved corridors on the east and south sides of the outer courtyard. They are quiet and elegant. They were originally the residences of the prince's attendants.
Route:
Tanzhe Temple and Jietai Temple are next to each other, and the driving route is the same.
Bus route: Get off at Pingguoyuan Metro and transfer to Route 931.
Driving route: Go west from Chang'an Street or Fushi Road, turn left at Shuangyu Roundabout in Mentougou District, go straight for 5 kilometers to Shimenying Roundabout, and drive more than 10 kilometers on National Highway 108 to get there.
Good place for barbecue
Ming Tombs Reservoir
For a happy outdoor barbecue, choosing a good place is the most important thing. Different scenery will bring different happy moods. The Ming Tombs Reservoir has beautiful lakes and mountains, a harmonious natural landscape of people and water, and it is also a good place for barbecue. Many people come here for hiking and kite flying. To enjoy the barbecue delicacies yourself, you can find a place to barbecue on a dry embankment near the waterhole, satisfy your cravings with a delicious meal, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the mountains and the water. Set up the grill, prepare meals, and light a fire. After this series of preparations, you can enjoy a barbecue feast with the smoke billowing and the aroma overflowing. After the meal, we walked along the embankment by the water. Kites of various styles and colors were flying in the sky, which was really beautiful. However, the water near the shore is full of silt and aquatic plants. If you want to enjoy fishing, you have to use a long sea pole to catch fish, or go to a specially opened fishing park. Opposite the dry embankment is the dam of the reservoir. Looking at the sparkling water from the top down, although it is a distant view, it is still beautiful.
Fishing: Use a sea pole to catch large crucian carp, carp, silver carp, and bighead carp from a distance. You can also fish close to grass holes. This is also the place where you are most likely to catch river fish.
Barbecue: Bring your own grill and other tools, just use it in the open space on the shore.
Bus route: Take bus 845 from Xizhimen or bus 912 from Andingmen to the reservoir; buses 1, 2, 3, 4, and 9 can also reach the reservoir.
Self-driving route: Drive north from Badaling Highway, exit at Changping Xiguan Roundabout, go north into the Ling District, and turn right when you see the road sign for the Golf Club.
Recommended tourist attractions in Beijing
1. The Forbidden City
Reason: The emperor stayed in a place where the emperor lived. If you don’t know the life of the emperor in the feudal dynasty, you are in vain as a descendant of China. Woolen cloth.
The Forbidden City in Beijing, formerly known as the Forbidden City, was the palace of 24 emperors of China's Ming and Qing dynasties. Now refers to the Palace Museum in Beijing. Located in the center of Beijing, it is an unparalleled masterpiece of ancient architecture and the largest and most complete ancient building complex with wooden structure in the world.
2. The Ming Tombs
Reason: rob tomb treasures and make a fortune, quack
The Ming Tombs are the tombs of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in China , located in Tianshou Mountain at the foothills of Yanshan Mountain in Changping District, the northwest suburb of Beijing. From May of the seventh year of Yongle (1409), the Changling Mausoleum was built here until Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was buried in Siling Mausoleum. During this period of more than 230 years, 13 emperors' tombs, seven concubines' tombs, and one eunuch's tomb were built. *** buried thirteen emperors, twenty-three queens, two princes, more than thirty concubines, and one eunuch.
3. Beijing Happy Valley
Reason: Play the game 10 times and feel the feeling of death in advance
It took four years to fall in love with Beijing Happy Valley It is a theme ecological park created by Beijing, which is the regional leader of Beijing's cultural industry and a classic of China's modern tourism. With its fashionable, dynamic, joyful and dreamy humanistic charm, it has become an important symbol of Beijing’s experience tourism.
4. Summer Palace
Reason: Learn the amazing secrets of Feng Shui and choose a good "home" for yourself
The largest and best preserved in existence in China The royal garden is one of the four famous gardens in China (the other three are Chengde Summer Resort, Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, and Suzhou Lingering Garden). Located in Haidian District, Beijing, 15 kilometers away from Beijing city, it covers an area of approximately 290 hectares. It is a large-scale natural landscape garden built using Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain as the base, based on the scenery of West Lake in Hangzhou, and absorbing some design techniques and artistic conception of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved royal palace garden and is known as Royal Garden Museum.
5. Prince Gong’s Mansion
Reason: Heshen’s mansion is the most complete preserved palace of the Qing Dynasty among the existing royal palaces in China
Understand Prince Gong’s Mansion: its predecessor was during the Qianlong period The residence of the powerful minister Heshen. In the fourth year of Jiaqing, Heshen was defeated. This residence was given to Prince Qing. In the early years of Xianfeng, it was given to Prince Gong and was called Prince Gong’s Mansion. It is now owned by the state! A Prince Gong’s Mansion contains half of the history of the Qing Dynasty!
.6 Bird's Nest
Reason: The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is also the place where the whole world gets to know China. "Over there", if you say you have been to the Bird's Nest, foreigners will definitely support you
The National Stadium is located in the south of the central area of Beijing Olympic Park and was the main stadium for the 29th Olympic Games in 2008. The project covers a total area of 21 hectares and a construction area of 258,000 square meters. There are approximately 91,000 spectator seats in the venue, including approximately 11,000 temporary seats. Held the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, track and field competitions and football finals. After the Olympic Games, it will become a large-scale professional place for Beijing citizens to extensively participate in sports activities and enjoy sports entertainment, and will become a landmark sports building and Olympic heritage.
Beijing Suburban Tourist Attractions
Qinglong Gorge
Qinglong Gorge is located in North Town, Huairou County, bordering Yanqi Lake to the south and Yougu Shentan to the north. 65 kilometers away from the city. Take the same route as Yougu Shentan, take National Highway 111 and cross Yanqi Lake north for 7 kilometers to reach it.
Yanqi Lake Amusement Park
Yanqi Lake Amusement Park is located in the north of Huairou County, 58 kilometers away from the urban area. Go out of the north of Huairou County and take National Highway 111 (Beijing-Jiajia Highway) for about 10 kilometers to get there.
Mutianyu Great Wall
Mutianyu Great Wall is located in the north of Bohai Town, Huairou County, 73 kilometers away from the urban area. Go around the Qingchun Roundabout in the north of Huairou County, go north, take Huaihuang Road to Bohai Town, and continue north along Mutianyu Road for about 5 kilometers.
Baiyangdian, the Pearl of North China
Baiyangdian has vast waters, beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. It is a summer resort in Hebei Province. The four seasons of scenery here are distinct, and the water, light and sky are so beautiful. In spring, the reeds come out of the water and the lake is full of green. Every morning, the red sun shines through the bottom of the lake, and the Baiyang Lake seems to be covered with green ribbons; in summer, the lake is full, fish jump on the water, green reeds sway, rhombus leaves are brilliant, and lotus flowers bloom. It is a water town scenery; in autumn, reed flowers are flying, rice is fragrant, ducks and geese are flocking, lotus seeds are everywhere, small boats are shuttled back and forth, and fishing songs are rising and falling; in winter, the ground is frozen and frozen, and a piece of jasper is like a huge picture. A bright mirror is embedded in the wilderness of Jizhong.
Baiyangdian is very rich in aquatic resources and is a famous freshwater fish farm. It is rich in more than 40 kinds of fish and shrimps such as salmon, carp, herring, shrimp, river crab, etc. In addition, aquatic plants are everywhere, and wild ducks and geese live in it. People here can fish You can hunt fish and shrimps, dig lotus roots, and hunt all kinds of waterfowl. It is busy all year round. Therefore, it is known as the cornucopia of "every day makes money, and all seasons are autumn".
Self-driving route: Beijing-Shijiazhuang Expressway→Jinbao Expressway→pass through Rongcheng, get off the expressway southbound at Xiongxian Baigou Exit (Xiongxian West)→Xiongxian County Town→Guolikou.
Lao Laogoumen Forest Nature Reserve
Lao Laogoumen Forest Nature Reserve is located in Lao Laogoumen Township, Huairou County, 96 kilometers away from Huairou County. Exit Huairou County, follow National Highway 111 to the north, pass Laogoumen Village and drive west to the vicinity of Sunzhazi Village.
Great Wall Jiankou
The Great Wall Jiankou is located in the west of Xizhazi Village, Yanqi Town, Huairou County. When you leave Huairou County, go north around the Yanqi roundabout and take the Fanqi Highway, pass through Badaohe Village and go west to Xizhazi Village, where you will reach the foot of the Great Wall. ;