The Tank Museum in Beijing

      The sole tank museum in Asia is situated between the beautiful Summer Palace and Badaling Section of the Great Wall. In front of the museum, there is a tank with Chinese characters bayi (August 1, the foundation date of the PLA), which makes the tank look majestic. Entering the spacious and bright exhibition rooms, you will find nearly 1,400 materials, photos, pictures which tell you the development of China's armor cause and the efforts world military powers have made to build strong tank  forts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     11 exhibitions rooms inside the museum respectively display the development history of China's armors, tank armored cars, tank training simulators, and weapon imitated models.                                                                                                                            Address: The 88372 troops, nanyang road, yangfang town, changping district, Beijing

Get there:

By Subway: take line 1 from wangfujing station going to sihui east direction, get off at dongdan station, transfer to line 5 going to tiantongyuan north direction, get off at lishuiqiao station, transfer line 13 going to xizhimen direction and get off at huilongguan station, then exit through entrance A and walk (140 meters), take bus NO:887 going to nankou northstation, get off at Tanks museum and walk (26 meters) 

By taxi(150RMB): Distance: 47.3 kilometers, Approximate Travelling time: 70 minutes