The Great WallBeijing is an absolutely fascinating city for most foreigners and the Great Wall should be on any "must-see" list, just as when visiting Egypt and its Pyramids of Giza. More than six hundred kilometres of the 8,851.5km long Great Wall, stretching from Jiayuguan (Pass) iin Gansu Province on the west to Hu Shan (Mountain) in Liaoning Provice on the east, snake through northern Beijing. As Chinese assert:"He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man".

Forbidden CityThe Forbidden City (Gugong), the largest remaining ancient palace complex in the world, was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It's perfactly placed in the heart of Beijing, and it now houses the palace museum, which owns a massive collection f delicate Chinese artefacts, ranging from ceramics to jade, from traditional paintings to sculptures. But the complex itself is also a museum in addition to being a historic marvel.

Temple of HeavenAs is the world's largest structural complex dedicated to the worship of heaven, emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests every year at the Temple of Heaven, an icon of Beijing and a masterpiece of ancient architecture.

Summer PalaceKnown as the grandest imperial garden in China, the Summer Palace, in northwestern Haidian District, was once an imperial retreat. It remains a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic values with its man-made pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges elegantly combining with the area's graceful natural landscape of hills and open water.