Beijing Exhibition Hall - Beijing Zoo - Beijing Observatory - Purple Bamboo Park - Summer Palace

Beijing Exhibition hall

There are several places for you to rent a bicycle. You can rent one at the North gate of the Beijing People's Hospital. The address of the Hospital is No. 11, South Street, Xizhimen. You can take bus No. 21, 387, 694 from Beijing West Station and get off at the South Station of Xizhimen. And also, you can take bus No. 44, 800, 618, 650 and 392 to get there. You also can rent a bicycle at Jishuitan or Deshengmen, if so, you need to ride firstly along the Deshengmen Street towards west to reach from Xizhimen Wai Street.

Take bicycle from Xizhimen Wai Street towards west for about five minutes, on the north side of the road, locates the Beijing Exhibition hall, which was built in 1954 with display hall, the theater and Moscow Restaurant, is a complex of buildings of Russian Style. Many large-scale domestic and abroad exhibitions related to science and technology, economy and trade, culture and civilization, military affairs, etc are held here every year. Famous for its Russian and western style cuisine, the Moscow restaurant attract many clients each day. Exhibition Hall meets the Beijing Zoo in the west. For this part, you need to ride for about 5 minutes. Beijing Zoo is one of the largest zoos with the maximum kinds of animals. If you are interested, you can stop there and go to the panda house to visit the national treasure, the lovely pandas playing with bamboos, the admission fee is CNY20.00.

National Library

Beijing Observatory locates at the south of the Xizhimen Wai Street. It is the first observatory open to public in Asia. To explore the mysteries of the universe is the eternal topic of human, if you have any doubts about the universe or mysterious astronomical phenomena, here is an extremely good place for you to visit and experience, the admission fee is CNY15.00.

Continue your cycling to the west until Baishi Qiao (White Stone Bridge) for about 2 kilometers, it also meets the Zhongguancun South Street, you will see the Capital Gymnasium. It is the biggest gymnasium with the most modern facilities. Opposite to the Capital Gymnasium, is the Purple Bamboo Park, which is a very large garden with lakes and more than ten kinds of bamboo. Being tired with cycling, this park may be a good choice to have a rest and power saving and it is free of charge. The National library is next to the Purple Bamboo Park in the north. The National library is the one of the largest libraries in the world and it is the largest in Asia either because of its collections' quantity or the numbers of librarians.

Summer Palace, Beijing

Cycling along the Zizhuyuan Road towards northwest and across Xisanhuanbei Lu (the North 3rd Ring road), you will pass the South Landianchang Road and North Landianchang Road, then cycling across the Beisihuanxi Lu (the north 4th Ring Road) to reach Kunminghu Road. The distance from Zizhuyuan Road to Kunminghu Road is about 5 kilometers. Haidian Park is on the east side of the road, which locates at the northwest corner of the crossing bridge of Wanquan River, meets the Summer Palace in the west, you may visit the royal park at leisure. The admission fee is CNY30.00. And today's cycling trip is coming to an end.

For the scenic spots mentioned above, you can not finish them in one day if you want to visit each of them very carefully, just pick several sites in what you are interested and visit, we believe it is a worthwhile trip.