"Old" Beijing
Mar 1, 2012, 10:24 pm
#1
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"Old" Beijing
Seems there's not much of old Beijing left these days.
This article includes a few spots but barely even mentions the hutongs.
http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/featur...d-Beijing.html
Pretty much all gone?
This article includes a few spots but barely even mentions the hutongs.
http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/featur...d-Beijing.html
Pretty much all gone?
Mar 2, 2012, 5:19 am
#2
Join Date: Oct 2007
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No, not all gone, but you have to get off the standard tourist track. Article mentions Fayuan Si which I try to get people to go see, but without much response. Ditto for the area around the Lu Xun Museum--which in broader terms encompasses the adjacent district known as Xisi. This is near the Geological Museum, and Guangji Temple and has a hutong area of its own and lots of neat places to wander and get more flavor of traditional Beijing.
I have a whole treatise on "Beijing's Secondary Sights" which I developed over the last 18 months but decided not to bother putting it up, since nobody seems to be interested in seeing much beyond the Forbidden City/Tiananmen, Summer Palace, Tiantan, and the Silk Market.
I have a whole treatise on "Beijing's Secondary Sights" which I developed over the last 18 months but decided not to bother putting it up, since nobody seems to be interested in seeing much beyond the Forbidden City/Tiananmen, Summer Palace, Tiantan, and the Silk Market.
Mar 2, 2012, 10:30 am
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Do tell. Going in November.
Mar 2, 2012, 10:47 am
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Mememe! I've been trying to suss out off-the-beaten track places and haven't had that much luck, and admittedly have been slightly too swamped to do a good job. With the weather warming up I am gearing up to explore more of Beijing.