Beijing
A broad historic core of imperial avenues, courtyard lanes, palace precincts, and surviving hutong neighborhoods.
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Featured walkBeijing's Spiritual and Traditional Heritage
You will wander through ancient courtyards, sacred temples, and the narrow alleys of old Beijing. This walk takes you from the scholarly silence of Confucian shrines to the rhythmic echoes of the city's great drums. It is a perfect way to feel the pulse of the city's imperial and spiritual past.See the walkHistory and monuments
3 walks
Sacred places
1 walk
Gardens and open air
1 walk
How a walk works
The guide starts talking when you arrive.
The pages here tell you where the walks go. The app takes you round them.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.