Chici Heping Temple is an ancient temple in north China. Chici means that the temple’s name was given by the emperor of that time, and Heping means peace. The Chici Heping Temple, which is also called Huata Temple, was built in the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty had inscribed the name Chici Heping Temple in person. The temple is known as an activity center for the Buddhist ceremonies of Beijing in the past dynasties.

With a constructed area of over 7,000 square meters, it has in total 99 rooms. The temple consists of two courtyards---the east courtyard and the west courtyard. The east courtyard has Amitabha Buddha Hall, Sakyamuni Hall, Boundless Grief Hall and Heavenly King Hall, while the west courtyard is composed of Forefather Hall, Medicine King Hall and Goddess Hall.

Features: Chici Heping Temple has many rare precious ancient trees. An old Japanese pagoda tree with a history of more than 1,300 years is still growing well inside the mountain gate of the temple. Two exuberant maidenhair trees with rich fruit grow in front of the main hall. In addition, there is also an old white skin pine tree about 30 meters high and shaped like a sleeping dragon. The temple fair held at the temple has offered a very good chance for people to know more about the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

Take Bus No. 357 to Nankou town and take a minibus there.

Chunhui Spa Resort is located by the riverside of the beautiful Wenyu River in Shunyi District. It is very large and covers over 600 acres. The resort is a charming area with hot springs for your leisure vacations. There is no fake jungle or garish music at this Shunyi hot spring, which instead is classy and stylish. Go for the outdoor pools, which give you the option to bathe while peeking up at the stars.

All the pools – of various sizes, temperatures and bubbliness – are filled with different remedies, including flora, rose, red wine and milk. Make sure to also search out the lakeside hot spring, where views over an expanse of water are prettily lit by the opposite buildings. The hot springs of the Chunhui Spa Resort were built 1,800 meters underground, like Beijing’s Xiaotangshan Hot Spring. The temperature of this spring perennial is maintained at 60 degrees. It is a sub acidity sodium bicarbonate mineral hot spring.

Features:

Scenery: The outside areas are replete with wooden trellises, and the intimate indoor hot stone beds are perfect for lounging in small groups.

Facilities: In addition to a large indoor pool, the complex offers a series of saunas (rated low, medium and hot); two hot stone areas; clean, comfortable and spacious changing rooms; and a dining area (with options ranging from hotpot to cheaper snacks).

Luxury factor: This is discreet comfort rather than out-and-out luxury – however, the emphasis on outdoor springs in chic surroundings and the serene atmosphere makes it a perfect retreat for couples.

Take Bus No. 942 to Yuzhuang, and go along the path of the village for about 10 minutes to the gate of Resort.

Beijing Country Golf Club is on the west bank of Chaobai River in Shunyi District. It is 35 km away from the center of Beijing. It covers over 3,600 acres and was founded in 1988, opening in 1990. It has developed into an international standard golf-course which was, and is, solely designed, built, managed and administered by the club. It is a 54 hole course, with 18 holes, a 72 Par, a Length of 21,016 yards, and it is the biggest golf course in Beijing.

The view of the golf course is wonderful. There is a dark green shadowed lake, an island for fishing, an exquisitely wrought jade bridge, a green lawn and a fruit forest for you to appreciate. Since 1997 the club has been continuously reforming its golf course, adding some facilities including a bar, golf store, multi-function restaurant, bathroom, sauna, swimming pool, bowling alley, body-building facilities, tennis court, and massage parlor etc. The clubhouse is well-decorated and receives a great reception from locals and overseas tourists. It also has a completely sealed 2-storied, 42 ball exercise-court within its driving range outside the clubhouse.

Bus No. 634, Chang 56 to Changping Reservoir Station.

The China Stone Sculpture Park is a great sightseeing area that is located within the Fangshan District. It was created in 1999, covering over 100,000 square meters. Now it is the biggest stone sculpture park in Beijing. Most of the artworks here are large white marble sculptures and reliefs of exquisite style. Some are art works composed with a combination of both traditional Chinese and western styles and they reflect the essence of the Chinese and western culture.

Features: There are some Landmark Sculptures in the park, such as the Lotus Bridge, the Happy Bell Pavilion, and the Totem Pillar. Tourists can also visit a 120- meter spouting spring and an artificial lake. For visitors, the whole park is an ideal place for touring, leisure, entertainment, and an exquisite stone carving art show.

Fuheng Sightseeing Agricultural Garden is located by the side of Jingshi Highway and the No. 107 National Highway in Fangshan District and covers an area of 1,200 acres. Fuheng Sightseeing Agricultural Garden adopts the newest form of tourism and agricultural tourism, combining the best of agricultural bounties with sightseeing picking, leisure vacation, dining, angling, performances, business meetings and exhibitions, organic farming and the development as well as an extension of high-tech technologies and logistics.

Features: Visitors can pick and taste fresh cherries, apricots, plums, prunes, peaches, apples, pears, dates, walnuts, grapes and persimmon. Visitors can claim all these fruit trees. Buyers can pick from any of the fruit trees planted, as well as be involved in the other operations that take place in the garden. Main roads of the resort were built with trellises with environmentally friendly bio-material, and along the streets, many types of vegetables were planted to popularize agricultural knowledge in its visitor group and serve as both ornamental plants and food. The resort integrates countryside-style wooden houses and recreation with entertainment and a new center for exhibits and conventions. Children will certainly enjoy the scenes from the famous CCTV kids show at the resort.

Take Bus No. 67 or 301 to Liuliqiao Beili Station and go towards the West Third Ring for 90 meters, take Bus No. 901 or 616 to Liangxiang Ximen, and then transfer to bus Fangshan No. 35 to Jiaozhan. Continue for 40 meters to the garden.

Beijing Tiziano Golf Club is a multi-functional golf course including facilities for sports, entertainment, traveling and business meetings. With a perfect combination of modern technology and a marvelous landscape, it is enjoyable to play golf here.

Features: There are nine holes in the golf club, covering a total land mass of 35 hectares. The length of the fairway is about 3,550 yards, with 36 parts. Three huge landscaped lakes cover nearly 50,000 square meters in total. The club has two high-quality areas replete with warm and thoughtful service from the staff. You can switch between two clubs if you prefer different styles. Thanks to its originality, it integrates Chinese and western restaurants, bath and relaxation spa facilities, regular golf and additional commercial space.

There goes a famous song which praises the Chinese Communist Party for its greatest contributions to New China. The song is still sung today by many people because of its inspiring melody and historical significance. The name of this song is "There Would Be No New China without the Chinese Communist Party".

This memorial is located in the Xiayunling Forest Park, Fangshan District, where the song was created by musician Cao Huoxing in 1943. The historical site, Xiayunling, used to be part of the Pingxi Anti-Japanese base.

Features: The memorial covers about 6,000 square meters, of which the exhibition hall covers over 1,800 square meters and the "great stage" about 4,000 square meters. Within the memorial visitors can see over 800 pictures and dozens of reliefs, wax sculptures and stone sculptures. In 2003, the Memorial for "There Would Be No New China without the Chinese Communist Party" was appointed as the "base for patriotic education." If you are a patriotic Chinese National or if you are interested in the Chinese Communist Party and the revolutions that have occurred throughout China, then this is the place for you to gain an experience that you will never forget. Name of Attraction: Memorial: "There Would Be No New China without the Chinese Communist Party"

Take Bus No. 917 zhi to Fangshan and then take Bus No. 25 to the museum.

Silver Fox Scenic Area is the largest limestone cave within northern China. It is said that Silver Fox Cave is more than 10 kilometers long, though, up to now only five kilometers has been opened to the public. The inner space of the cave is very large with a capacity of about 200,000 cubic meters. The main cave, side caves, horizontal cave, vertical caves, water caves, dry caves and many kinds and different sizes of caves make up the whole scenic area. According to the flow of caves, it is divided into ten major scenic divisions with over 100 attractions.

Features: The only underground water system which is open to the public is also located 106 meters underground in Silver Fox Cave. With the total length of over one kilometer, this is the first underground river which was discovered in northern China. Tourists can experience the amazing creation of this underground water system on boats. Throughout the journey, visitors may find that the river is wide but the next moment, it would be very narrow; sometimes visitors can hardly see the top of the cave but sometimes visitors need to bend down 90 degrees in the boat in order not to bump into the rocks above. Known as one of the Karst wonders of the world, in which it is common to see stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone flags and stone shields, there are also large amounts of stone chrysanthemum, stone pearls and crystal clear calcite etc. in the silver cave. After all, the most significant wonders would be the needle like and filamentous "Silver Fox" which is rarely found in the world. It is also revered as one of the top karst wonders worldwide and one of China's National Treasures.

Xiaolongmen National Forest Park is located at the foot of Lingshan in Mentougou District, which is about 114 kilometers away from Beijing. It is not only a good scenic spot for vacations but also a research and teaching venue. The park covers an area of 15.95 square kilometers and the softwood forest and hardwood forest covers more than 6.67 square meters. Visitors can also see various trees with different colored leaves and numerous nameless wild flowers.

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There are 844 advanced vascular plants of 107 families, which include the Sorbus discolor and Sorbus pohuashanensis, two special species in Beijing and the western mountainous area, as well as the Needle fir and Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr, a species indigenous to Northern China.

The park is also a paradise for wild animals. Its inhabitants include more than 700 kinds of animals such as Aquila chrysaetos, and Crossoptilon mantchuricum, the national first-class protected animals, Nemorhaedus, the national second-class protected animal, and Prionailurus bengalensis, a Beijing protected animal. The mountains, rocks and forests in the park show a great variety of shapes and forms, and the Phasianus colchicus Hill, Boar Forest, Rhododendron Valley, and Potherb Land can be found one after another making for a beautiful vision, which constitutes the park’s great charm.

Take Bus No. 929 at Pingguoyuan to the park.

Lianhuachi Park is located in Fengtai District, not far from the Beijing West Railway Station. With an area of 44.6 hectares (110 acres), the park is a modern garden and is well-known for its splendid lotus scenery. The park was built on the site of a place of historical interest—the Lotus Pond. The pond is regarded as the birthplace of the city of Beijing, and bears a history of over 3,000 years. The capital of the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) was built to the southwest of the Lotus Pond in 1153 and the pond provided most of the water for the capital at that time. Therefore, the park is of great significance to the study of the location and landscape of the ancient capital of the Jin Dynasty.

Features: It is an exquisite, elegant and classical park, and various pavilions, rockeries, ponds, bridges, stones, fragrant flowers, luxuriant lawns and trees are can be seen there. On both sides of the biggest pond, there are verdant Chinese pines, cedars, ginkgos, locust trees, white waxes, and magnolia trees. About 80,000 lotuses with 250 species are planted in the clear pond. The most stunning is the lotus scenery. In summer, all kinds of lotus flowers are in full bloom as if they are competing for the title of most beautiful. As an ancient poem wrote: “The Lotus leaves stretch to the sky a boundless green; the lotus flower in sunlight with unusual red to glow.” A breeze ripples with the surface of the hectares of the Lotus Pond, resulting in a wonderful picture. A delicate white marble statue stands at the bank of the pond, telling a beautiful love tale between a Lotus-flower Fairy and Lotus-root Man. Next to the pond, there is an outdoor theater with a stage in a 'T' shape and music fountain pools on both sides. The pools are full of water lilies blooming with different floral colors of summer. Besides the lotus scenery, there are many activities to join and great scenery to enjoy within the park. For example, the Exercise Square, Outdoor Dancing Area, Fishing Area, Children's Playground, Peacocks and Drovers' Garden, a lotus Propagation Place, Wind and Lotus Pavilion. Every year, the park will hold a traditional style temple fair, making the park an ideal place to enjoy Chinese folk arts and food.

Take Bus No. 1, 4, 300, 309, 730, 830, 845, 937, te2, yuntong201 to Liuliqiao Beili station.