BEIJING

BEIJING — A CITY WHERE EMPIRE AND MODERN POWER STAND SIDE BY SIDE

Beijing is one of the few cities where history is not a museum piece — it is the backdrop of daily life. You can walk through the courtyards of the Forbidden City and feel the weight of dynasties, then step back outside and see glass towers and government buildings shaping China’s present and future. Beijing doesn’t try to hide its layers — it lets them sit next to each other in full view.

If this mix of old authority and new ambition interests you, we can help design a Beijing journey that captures both.

This is a city built on scale:

– Tiananmen Square spreading wider than you expect
– The Summer Palace stretching across lakes and hills like an entire world of its own
– Temple of Heaven where locals still practise tai chi at sunrise
– Hutong lanes where life continues in tight traditional alleys
– And then the Great Wall rising across the mountains not far beyond the city — a sight that resets your sense of time

Beyond monuments, Beijing still lives as a capital: steaming dumpling houses, tea rooms hidden in courtyards, calligraphy shops, modern art districts in repurposed factories, night markets where the smells hit before the stalls come into view.

Beijing is not gentle — it is direct, monumental and unapologetic. It reminds you that you are standing inside a civilisation that never really stepped off the stage.

Tell us what you want from Beijing — imperial history, food exploration, Great Wall hikes, cultural immersion or a multi-city China itinerary — and we’ll shape it without forcing a standard tour path.

Click here to begin planning your Beijing escape — and let us turn the history you’ve seen in books into something you stand inside for real.