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What should I see in Beijing?

ProdigalSon, Jul 23, 2006

You must see the Great Wall. If you can, take a bus a few hours outside of Beijing and check out the unrestored parts of the wall in places like Simatai. Whatever hostel or hotel you’re staying at will probably have tour groups arranged. Aside from that, check out Tiananmen Square and the surrounding stuff, but Beijing tends to get boring pretty fast for a large city in China, in my opinion. The National Museum is really disappointing, when I went most of the place was dedicated to an exhibit on Peru. What else…there’s a decent club there called Cargo that’ll have good shows on weekends.