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Tours to China - Beijing, the capital city, is the nation ’s political and cultural centre. Beijing covers an area of 16,800 square kilometres with total population of over 12 million,of which about 6 million live in the city and the rest on the outskirts. As an ancient city with great splendour, Beijing is full of magnificent palaces and parks and has more than 50 museums. Among its most popular treasures are:
The Great Wall, one of the world ’s most popular tourist attractions, is 3,333 miles long and was built section by section between the 5th century BC and 16th century AD. The section we are going to visit is called Badaling, mainly built in Ming Dynasty (1368 –1644), it averages 7.8 metres in height, and is 6.5 metres wide at the base and 5.5 metres wide at the top.
The Temple of Heaven is the country ’s largest temple complex, which represents a Golden Age of Chinese architecture. The main hall consists of 28 carved wooden pillars supporting a 125-feet high tower of three conical roofs, all covered with blue glazed tiles to reflect the colour of the sky. Also found in the temple grounds is Echo Wall, which carries the smallest whisper.
The Ming Tombs - Located about 50 kilometres northwest of Beijing, the Ming Tombs cover an area of over 40
kilometres in circumference. Thirteen of the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) were buried here. At the gate of the tomb area stands a marble archway which leads to the Sacred Way lined by 12 pairs of stone animals followed by 6 pairs of stone civil and military officials on both sides of the way.
Tian’anmen Square - Located in the centre of the city, Tian’anmen, covering an area of 400,000 sq.m, is the largest public square in the world. In the centre of the square, stands the Monument to the People ’s Heroes. Chairman Mao ’s Memorial Hall is to the south of the monument. The Square is flanked by the Tian ’anmen Rostrum in the north, The Zhenyangmen Gate Watchtower in the south, the Great Hall of the People in the west, and the Museum of Chinese History and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution in the east. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 –1911), Tian ’anmen was the front gate of the royal city – Forbidden City.
Forbidden City - Officially known as the Former Imperial Palace or ‘Gugong ’, most foreigners prefer the name it was given to indicate that only the emperor ’s court and ministers – plus the occasional ambassador bearing tribute – were allowed into this small 'city ’ until the 1920s. The vast, exotic grandeur of the Forbidden City was brilliantly captured in ‘The Last Emperor ’ which was filmed there. It is an architectural masterpiece, with a breathtaking symmetry of palatial pavilions, courtyards, gates, treasure halls and gardens.
The Summer Palace is a former royal resort, which covers an area of 290 hectares. It mainly consists of a hill, the Longevity Hill and a lake, the Kunming Lake, with halls, towers, galleries, pavilions, bridges and islands dotted all over the land, hill and lake. Blending southern style garden architecture with northern national landscapes, the gardens are probably the best of their kind in Chinese garden architecture.
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