What is your favourite part of Beijing? Ask anyone Chinese and I bet a fiver they’ll say the Houhai area. And，I daresay for many foreigners this park and lake is also considered the ultimate hangout.

The best destinations during the transition from autumn into winter are campsites that can offer visitors the opportunity to enjoy the cool weather and count the stars. Here are three campsites especially for travelers who love outdoor recreation.

Appropriate Clothing when Touring in Beijing

As the yuletide season fast approaches, people start planning their vacation trips and holidays thinking of different ideas on where and how to spend Christmas. As usual Christmas around the world is almost the same but if you want to have an unforgettable December filled with some oriental feeling, forget about the worries of the past, pack your bags and come and experience a unique Christmas celebration touring China and its many beautiful cities.

At the northeast of the Temple of Heaven lies a well-known pearl market. Every day it attracts a great many people from home and abroad. Recently I paid a visit there, and was greatly impressed with Fanghua Pearl and Jewel, the largest shop in the market. If you want to find a beautiful natural pearl necklace, and give yourself a more elegant and nobler look, don’t miss this shop.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have family in nearby proximity on Christmas, so making your 2010 Christmas dinner in Beijing count is essential. This Christmas Eve promises to be filled with food and holiday cheer with a range of options to suit your dietary cravings, style and budget.

What are the traditional xiaochi (“small eats” or snacks) that Beijingers have been enjoying since an emperor was ensconced in the Forbidden City? There are three types of traditional snacks – imperial, Han, and Hui. Aiwowo, an imperial candy, is a sugar-filled ball of glutinous rice and a favorite of the Empress Cixi, while tangshaobing (brown-sugar biscuits) was the granola bar for Hui Muslims on the road. From Han kitchens, luzhu huoshao is the cheap folk version of slow-braised pork belly. These snacks have been around for at least one to two hundred years; at one point there were over 300 varieties to tempt city folk. The number has dwindled drastically, and waning popularity has meant fewer and fewer shops sell authentic Beijing-style xiaochi.

BeijingHoliday.com is proposaling and promoting the Beijing Guilin tour, and Guilin is one of the most visited tourist destination of China. Li River Cruise is the must-to-do activity for any Guilin traveler, and hereunder is one of our custmers’ impression about his Li River cruise.

Beijing is a throbbing nerve center of ring roads, highways and subways connecting local spots, railways stations and airports.

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