Hutong ( 胡同 衚衕 hútòng) are a type of narrow street or alley commonly associated with northern Chinese cities especially Beijing. In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The […]
Beijing World Park (北京世界公园 北京世界公園 Běijīng Shìjiè Gōngyuán) is a theme park that attempts to give visitors the chance to see the world without having to leave Beijing or China. The park covers 46.7 hectares and is located in the southwestern Fengtai District of Beijing. The park opened in 1993 […]
Tianjin is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern Chinaon the shore of Bohai Sea, it is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total population of 15,621,200 as of 2016 estimation. Its built-up (or metro) area, made up of 12 central districts (all but Baodi, Jizhou, Jinghai and Ninghe), was home to 12,491,300 inhabitants […]
The Yonghe Temple (雍和宫 Literally “Palace of Peace and Harmony”) also known as the Yonghe Lamasery or popularly as the Lama Temple is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles The Lama Temple is one of Beijing’s most famous monasteries – […]
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (SZGM) is a massive mosque (building measuring over 30 acres and can accomodate 40000+ worshippers) and an outstanding human engineering marvel built over 11 years between 1996 to 2007 designed by Syrian architect Yousef Abdelky with more than 3000 workers from many countries Affiliation : […]