Beijing World Park

Beijing World Park is a good choice for touring Beijing in a day. Opened in 1993, it is one of the largest miniature landscape parks in Asia and occupies an area of 46.7 hectares. It was designed and built based on the territories of the five continents and four oceans. One can visit, in a day, more than 110 cultural landscapes and historical interests either in their original sizes or in miniature copies from almost 50 countries around the world.

Located in the Beijing suburb, it is only 16 kilometers to the city center and 8 kilometers to Beijing West Railway Station. Transportation to the World Park is very convenient. You can either take any one of the public buses T7, 937, 944, 967, 480, 692 or 959, or special tourist buses that run every 40 minutes from 7:00am from the southeast side of Tianningsi Bridge. The journey takes about 40 minutes and it costs only CNY2.00 for the ride.

The Park's opening hours are from 0730 to 1700 hours in the summer and from 0800 to 1630 hours in winter. The entrance fee is CNY65.00.

Let's commence our mini round-the-world trip now. Upon entering the park, the famous Italian Terrace Garden greets all visitors. On the left is the Asian Landscape Area, where you can find the Japanese Katsura Imperial Villa, the Chinese Garden, the Great Wall, the Mogao Grottoes and Yingxian County Wooden Pagoda, as well as other famous sites of Iran, India, Iraq, Burma, Cambodia and Thailand.

One corner in the park

Crossing the Sydney Bridge will take you to the Australian Landscape Area where you will find the Maori huts and Sydney Opera House. Africa, the golden desert, African tribes, Egyptian Sphinx and pyramids follow next. Passing through the Bosporus Bridge will lead you to the European Landscape Area, where you will discover familiar places once learned only from books, such as the Trojan horse, St. Sophia Cathedral, Athen's Acropolis, Roman Colosseum, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Triumphant Arch, German Castle, Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame de Paris and Big Ben, etc.

The last attraction here is the London Bridge, which connects Europe with America. Following this route will take you to NASA, then the Lincoln Memorial Hall, Washington Monument, Capitol, the White House, the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge and even the Grand Canyon of Colorado, etc.

All these attractions were built with certain accuracy in designs and vivid sculptures. They are such good works of art that even a person who have seen the originals cannot tell the difference.

It is everyone's dream to travel around the world but time and money pose the main constraints. Hence, an alternative would be to visit the World Park where one can see the world in just one single day.

After your little trip round the world, it is time to go to the International Street for shopping and a rest. You will find lots of food and snacks, and all the flavors from different parts of the world.