Another version of Disneyland, mostly it's a kids' favorite, but young adults love it too it seems. A show called Golden Mask worth watching.

One of the hightlights of the place is a wood buddha that is carved out from a single sandle tree trunk with 18 meters above the ground and 8 meters below the ground.

Gubei Water Town is good to see both in the day time and at night when it's led up, it's even more appealing when you can see Simatai Great Wall at the end of the town, what's more, the water town has natural hot spring. Book a tour with Julia Zhu, who knows the place better than anybody else.

There is a saying goes like Those who are benevolent are as stable as mountains, while those who are smart are as contributing as water. You can be the one who is both benevolent and smart here.

It's not an isolated lake in the middle of the city., water of the lake is connected to all the main water areas like lakes, canals, moats, rivers etc through underground water systems.

Olympic Forest Park is a man-made park with a hill serving as the back hill on the central axis of Beijing, significant for the Fengshui of the whole city. The park now is a popular place for jogging.

Ming Tombs is on the way to Badaling, you can put them together to make one day. But Badaling is very crowded even in the normal days, let alone in the holidays, better go to other Walls instead.

It's a very stylish hotel renovated from old brickyard and cottages in the same village where in the MIng Dynasty, people started to stay for the maintainance of the Wall.

It's one of the best hiking routes in the outskirt of Beijing that you can cover 18km for this part that is not restored, you will need to ascend the Wall by walking through a village, and take a bypss about half way to avoid milittary area.

If it's your first time in China, Baihuashan is definitely not one of the first choices, but good for locals to get away for the weekends.

Great Walls look very different from one another though some are more well known, Huanghuacheng is a less crowded part where you can see the merging of water ,mountain and wall.