Flights to Beijing – 800 years of turbulent history
Flights to Beijing depart from 21 UK airports including key hubs Manchester, Aberdeen, London City, Gatwick, Luton, Heathrow and Liverpool. Plus you can fly to China from Norwich, Humberside, Belfast and Glasgow. Who flies to China? The main airlines offering flights to China are British Airways, Air China and Emirates. But there’s a total of around 65 in all including Air France, Lufthansa, Japan Airlines, SAS, KLM, Finnair, Air Canada and EgyptAir. Beijing has been the centre of China’s political, economic and cultural activity for more than eight hundred years. There are stunning Yuan Dynasty buildings to see as well as the ultra-modern architecture created for the 2008 Olympics. Surreal yet gracious, this ancient oriental city is also a powerhouse of finance, commerce, fashion and art. Exciting stuff!
Cheap Flights to Beijing – Visit the Forbidden City
Take cheap flights to Beijing and visit Tienanmen Square, the planet’s biggest city square. Seeing is believing, it is absolutely vast! This is the site of countless historical events, some bloody and some peaceful. Around the edges you’ll discover wonders like the Great Hall of the People and Mao Zedong’s Memorial Hall. The magnificent Forbidden City has to be the highlight of any trip to Beijing; this is the biggest and best-preserved imperial palace in China and it’s a beauty. A vast place with 9,999 rooms, surrounded by a deep moat and protected by a wall ten metres high, it should rate as one of the wonders of the world.
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The Temple of Heaven is one of the biggest and most important ritual sites in China, where people worshipped the God of the Earth. The Forbidden Palace isn’t on the wonders of the world list – but this is! The Great Bell Temple, where past Emperors used to pray for rain, is one of the 8 Wonders of the World and also a World Heritage site. And the great wall, an astonishing feat of engineering, spans five huge provinces, right from the eastern Shanhaiguan Pass to the western Jiayuguan Pass. If you’re travelling to China on business or keen to explore this breathtaking country, you’ll find the best cheap airfares to Beijing right here. Just use our fast, comprehensive flight search facility and you’re there.
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