The BEST things to do in BEIJING CHINA

[@gazwrighttravel]

China itinerary 🇨🇳 Day 1 - Pearl Market / Hongqiao Market 🛍 - Temple of Heaven 🏯 - Fasting Palace 🔮 - Imperial Vault of Heaven 🥽 - Circular Mound Altar 🔘 - Wangfujing Street market 🍱 - Wangfujing 3D billboard 🐇 - Tiananmen Square 🛵 Day 2 - Great Wall Trip and night out at Houhai Lake 🐟 Day 3 - Lama Temple 🛕 - Hutongs 🏘 - Drum tower and Bell tower 🗼 - Jingshan Park 🏞 - View of the Forbidden City 🌆 - Beihai Park + the White Pagoda 🕊 - Cross Yinding bridge 🌁 - Summer Palace 🌅 - National stadium / Olympic park 🏋🏻

[@adrienking5594]

I’m going to Beijing in September!

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@adrienking5594 It's an unreal place, but make sure you are well planned ahead of time on where you are going and how you are getting there. Apple Maps work and Bing as the search engine. Whats app also works but everything else is banned. 100% do the Great Wall - my favourite single place in the world. Is there anything else you want to know?

[@andrewnguyen7201]

Which chinese club did you go to!?

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@andrewnguyen7201 For drinks we went to Houhai street and I think the club is Been. I didn't make a note so just flying through Google now having a look for you. Elements, Mix, Destination and Vics are all next to eachother. Who are you going with? A girl we met knew the promoter so I think thats the best way to get in :)

[@Daniboi971]

Nice vid Gaz. The wall is insane!

[@gazwrighttravel]

Hey mate - really appreciate you taking time to comment and engage :) enjoy the rest of your weekend.

[@seangittarius]

Thanks for all the information. Very comprehensive

[@gazwrighttravel]

I am glad it was useful - main things are to download the search engine bing and apple maps :)

[@dicky-duck6632]

Like first, watch later

[@gazwrighttravel]

Love that - hopefully we can instil that approach in a few more people

[@brycedickinson9647]

Social media ,Google maps etc will work fine with an esim. Make sure your phone is capable with an esim. The option is use your normal data provider and pay for roaming.

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@brycedickinson9647 google maps and social media don’t work at all for us. Maybe you mean a VPN rather than an eSIM? I deffo didn’t want to chance using a VPN in China 😂

[@brycedickinson9647]

I'm here right now in Beijing. Works fine. I'm using an esim from Nomand. There is also Holafly. My wife is using her home provider from New Zealand...but this is abit more costly . Her phone can't use esim. By the way your review was very good. Very helpful.

[@gazwrighttravel]

@ oh wow that’s actually really interesting, so thanks for the heads up. I’ll deffo be doing that next time we go. Appreciate it matey. Class place. Just a little difficult when you have no idea where you are going or can’t use your phone 😂

[@garethmorgan3987]

Did You pre book anything and if so what websites did you use ? love the videos

[@gazwrighttravel]

Hey matey! we did NOT pre book anything and just went around ourselves, but its extremely difficult. Most things on your phone wont work so I would download Apple Maps and the only search engine that I have had work is Bing. Have the places pre planned in order of where you want to go and have the english name and the names in Mandarin incase you ask someone for directions. The metro there is really good and quick to get around, but you need to know where you are going or it can be difficult! The only thing we pre booked is the Great Wall and you need to do this AT LEAST 24 hours before to ensure you are on an English tour. I made that mistake the first time in China and ended up on a Mandarin tour... deffo useful to get all the info in English :) How long are you going to China for?

[@Mogzyy7]

​@@gazwrighttravel Going for 5 days whilst on my way to Thailand

[@C10udStrifw]

Where do you recommend the duck burrito? Is there a name for the food market thanks!

[@gazwrighttravel]

Yeah the duck burritos were really nice (minus the nuts for me). Wangfujing Food Market is where you need to head to find them :)

[@antoniawright7099]

so informative

[@BB-yi6qn]

I heard that Westerners eat burgers, fried chicken, French fries, Coke, coffee, sandwiches, steak, pizza, pasta, cereal, and milk for three meals a day. Is this true? Or do Americans and Europeans have different diets?

[@gazwrighttravel]

I always struggle in Asia as I’m severely allergic to nuts, so I have to be super careful what I eat. In terms of the UK we try and eat the best things from every country. I love Japanese and Italian the most! Love cooking as well. I’m not a huge fan of fast food, but have it from time to time. I’ve not been to the US for a while, so not to much insight there. Florida when I was 6 and New York at 16… a long time ago now 😂 What’s your top 3 favourite foods/ cuisine?

[@BB-yi6qn]

@@gazwrighttravel I like to eat Chinese food, Korean barbecue, Japanese sushi, and sashimi. Sometimes I eat Western food, such as burgers, French fries, fried chicken, steak, and pizza.

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@BB-yi6qn Asian food is so much better than 'western' food in my opinion. We only have Italian that can come close :) pizza and pasta - the dream

[@Daniboi971]

Only fat people would eat like that. More typical - eggs/toast for breakfast, a chicken salad or sandwich for lunch, yogurt, and dinner might me fish and rice or meat or pasta. Something like that.

[@minty69420]

It definitely depends, in the Eu we definitely eat more healthy than in America but that also depends on the financial status of the family and area, because usually wealthy people are more health conscious.

[@okok72277]

My man dancing with death and "it was a rough hour and a half" is all to say about it, what a guy

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@okok72277 haha it’s the price I have to pay to travel to these amazing places. I’ve been pretty good avoiding nuts - apart from in Cambodia where I ended up in hospital 💀

[@pamelatom3190]

Thanks for these great highlights. I'm going to China with my adult daughter for the first time in October and these tips are super helpful. How many days do you recommend staying in Beijing to see and do all this?

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@pamelatom3190 it depends what visa you are on. We did the transit visa so had 5 nights and 4 full days. 1 day is the Great Wall trip and then the rest exploring Beijing. I think 3 is plenty 👨🏻‍💻 I would advise getting a detailed plan locked in before going as most apps on your phone won’t work. Apple Maps do work and bing is the only search engine that works. I would note down where you are going along with the Chinese word for it. It will make it easier to search and navigate when there. If you have any other questions just give me a shout

[@lingfengge6666]

October is a great time to visit Beijing except for the first week of the month, when there are lots of tourists coming from every part of China

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@lingfengge6666 Hey - thank you for taking the time to comment and welcome to the channel. Why is the first week so busy? Is it a Chinese holiday? 🤝

[@lingfengge6666]

@@gazwrighttravel Yes, it's the National Day holiday from 1st to 7th Oct. There'll be a tremendous number of tourists in big cities like Beijing during that week.

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@lingfengge6666 oh wow that’s great information to know. Is it a time to visit the countries major attractions or more a time to spend at home with your family? I guess both maybe 😃

[@李海燕-m8c]

Hello, I am a Chinese girl named Petal who has lived in Beijing for more than one decade I saw the video you posted to introduce Chinese tourist attractions on KZbin, and I guess that you might be a travel expert or a travel company. If I didn’t offend you, could I ask you that do need a local tour guide in Beijing or China to assist your team when traveling to China. If you have this consideration, we can cooperate. If not, we can also be friends, and you are welcome to travel to China again. Feel free to Email to me if you have any question!

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@李海燕-m8c Hey. I am just travelling the world and sharing my experience via KZbin. We absolutely loved China and we’ll be back in the future. My mum and dad are heading to China in 5 weeks with a tour company as well 🤝

[@李海燕-m8c]

@@gazwrighttravel OK。I got it. Thank you

[@weiguoshen]

Worth to visit other cities in China. Not only in Beijing

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@weiguoshen where else would you recommend for our next trip? My mum and dad are in Shanghai at the moment 😃

[@weiguoshen]

@@gazwrighttravel Come to Zhejiang. three days in Hangzhou and two days in Shaoxing, another two days in Ningbo. Only 1~2 hours by train from Shanghai. Come to Ningbo and let me know. We can have dinner together. Bill on me.

[@golinlim2221]

Your from AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 ??

[@gazwrighttravel]

Hey - no I am from the UK. I travelled through Australia in August and might move there in the future. Where are you from?

[@janetleeadams7287]

Nice, positive video. Maybe check with some English speaking locals to get the pronunciation right.

[@gazwrighttravel]

Hey - thanks for the message. Thats the hardest part of making travel content - getting the pronunciation right. I usually just go with how they are spelt and then people can at least look them up for theirselves. Which one did I pronounce the worst?

[@janetleeadams7287]

@@gazwrighttravel I DID like your video. Transcription of Chinese into English phonetics has a few problems. To begin, Beijing. The 'j' is a hard sound like 'Judge.' I hear it pronounced both ways, but in China, the people use the hard j. Q is a problem. Roughly, Q is pronounced like our 'ch.' So, Ching or China or Chin. There is actually a need to curl the tongue sometimes for Q, other times to make the sound with teeth almost closed. But don't worry. I spent two years in Chinese class and three years in China and I still make mistakes.

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@janetleeadams7287 my language skills generally are pretty shocking, but Chinese in particular is like something off a different planet. Props to you for learning :) I have another China video going live tonight, this time on the Great Wall. Check it out and I'm sure I will have miss pronounced some more things on there haha :)

[@janetleeadams7287]

@@gazwrighttravel I will watch it. And don't worry about pronunciation. Have fun. People laugh at my Arabic pronunciation so I make them happy.

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@janetleeadams7287 Arabic and Chinese - any other languages in the arsenal?

[@terryyeung7470]

The subtitles on your video cannot be translated into Chinese language😅

[@gazwrighttravel]

Awww nooo :/ is there a way I can activate than on my side? We loved our time in Beijing and want to come back to explore more of the county. Where else would you recommend we travel to next time?

[@markylon]

Anyone that says "get cooking baby" with that dumb hand gesture, is enough for me to EXIT THE VIDEO WITH a DOWN thuMB

[@gazwrighttravel]

@@markylon really, why?