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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Travelling outside of Beijing is difficult right now, so we set out to discover what the city has to offer, without leaving the province.
Beijing has many sides to it, but on the steep slopes of Yunmengshan we were shocked to find epic peaks, thick forests and some seriously lairy weather so close to the city.
This is - Away From The Sprawl - Exploring Beijing's Secret Mountain
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This is amazing, still haven't been to beijing but this just makes me wanna book the flight there. Great video again
Thanks a lot! Hopefully you get a chance to come soon. Where are you right now?
always enjoy watching your videos
Is amazing place thanks for sharing this video enjoy travelling take care
Yes it was lovely I just wish we could have seen more haha
Absolutely beautiful...!
check out Tianjin city which is 200km away from Beijing.
Very beautiful place Nico.
I completely agree with you Nico and because exactly for the same reasons. Organized tours are a calamity, ha, ha, let's live them just for a few occasions. Cable cars, yes, I love them and they are expensive everywhere.
Good video as always.
Love this one Nicola! I'm all for mechanical assistance on mountains if its for snowboarding, totally get the no escalators thing!
Aww thanks Alex, yeah it was fun to actually do a sort of travelling video even if essentially we couldn't see anything or go far. Yeah I think maybe it's just because I'm used to cable cars but I just find outdoor escalators bizarre haha
That was such a pleasant outing it brought back nostalgia of fun primary school day trips many moons ago. :D
hahahah yeah it was a bit like that, especially with the packed lunch haha
I saw u every China-travel film. According to ur picture, u r totally a Chinese fan I guess
Stunning place, I love the nature, thanks Nico
Glad you enjoyed it it was very beautiful!
I've been on many cable cars in China and I think 160 RMB is pretty standard, especially for a long / high ride. I actually think entrance tickets for most Chinese attractions are pretty pricey compared to the income level and other expenses. I remember how shocked I was about the entrance tickets to Harbin snow and ice festival...
Thanks for sharing that is super interesting! Yeah I think somethings can be really expensive usually we wouldn't pay but I didn't really have a choice as I'm still in recovery 😭
Seeing you outside, climbing the mountain and enjoying the spectacular scenery and views in my hometown really makes me happy. Anyway, as a Beijinger and considering your condition of the leg that you have mentioned in your video, I'm highly recommended that you can go to Xiangshan park (Fragrant mountain) adjacent to Beijing Botanical Garden.
On the other hand, if you fancy hiking, you do not enter the park and just walk through a path which can reach the top of the mountain (Hao Han Po 好汉坡). The scenery and views are far more different than Peak District next to your hometown. The same things, however, the hares, squirrels, many birds and the variety of wildlife can be found.
Apart from that, you can plan to visit Yanqing district by train S2, at which the 2022 winter Olympic Game will be hosted. In Yanqing, the Haituo mountain and Song Shan National Reserve are worth to see, which are fewer tourists than Badaling.
Thank you very much for all the tips! I will do some research and check them out!
First, I want to say I really love your hair color. Second, I really look forward to visiting China's mountains someday! I can see the skyline of Xiamen from Taiwan's Kinmen Island and I'm so impressed by the massive mountains in China. I hope you recover from your injury soon :)
Aww thank you I had just dyed it again. Wow that is so cool you can see the mountains! I haven't been to that area of China but I hope to soon. Thank you that is so kind I hope so as well it's been a looooong time in recovering but hopefully one day haha
@@Nicofilms are you a natural blonde? I'm just so impressed that you've achieved that color. And if you ever come to Xiamen and travel is open, you're always welcome on Kinmen, I can show you around this weird place.
@@KaylaCosmos No definitely not haha I have been dying my hair since I was in my teens I have no idea what I am anymore haha. I've been this grey colour a while I get it done at the hairdressers then dye it myself after a few weeks when it starts to go yellowish. Awesome I look forward to it!
@@Nicofilms hahahah I feel that. Well, the grey really suits you 😊
@@KaylaCosmos Aw thank you!
It is also good time to go out! No many people is travelling now. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
Thank you very much! Yes it is much quieter at the moment.
Hi Nico, thank you for shedding light on beautiful natural landscape of Beijing. BTW, it's a great time to observe Perseids and milky way on the top of Baihua mountain this month, which can be very hardly seen at other places in Beijing.
Oh wow I didn't know that, thank you!
Yes it's usually misty like that because Yunmeng Shan means "Cloud Covered Mountain" www.thebeijinger.com/directory/cloud-covered-mountain-yunmeng-shan
hahaahah yup it was certainly that!
So happy to see your new video Nico ~ it really makes me miss my hometown after been quarantined in London for several months ...... I hope you enjoy your time in Beijing and, stay safe !
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm sorry to make you miss it, I hope you can come back soon.
Great video(normally I don't comment for travel video :) )
Thank you for watching and for the comment!
the most west part of Mentougou, there is the highest mountain in Beijing, Lingshan, really beautiful.
Oh thank you, I will take a look!
Wow Beijing seems to be diverse, ❤. All I uses to think was urban .
Right! But it's surrounded by amazing mountains!
Great video, as always! Escalator and elevator are more for family with elderly, kids and people with physical difficulties. This kind of facilities make trip to top of hills available for everyone.
Thanks for watching! I know I do understand why they are there but I just feel like the ruin the scenery a bit, but it's better that it's accessible. A cable car doesn't seem quite as imposing though.
Same here, we're not big fans of organized fun either! But, just like you, I do agree that it can be an easy way to get out of the city. I'd love to go to Baihua and Longqing Gorge, they look very pretty (also organized 😜).
Yeah sometimes I just can't be bothered to think for myself. We have been to Longqing but rented a van it was a fun day!
WOW,GREAT VIDEO!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video as always! And I feel sorry that you can't travel far this year. Usually, my family will go to Hainan or Yunnan for summer vacation. it seems that we can't go either. I miss DaLi and LinShui(a small town in Hainan) so much!
Thanks for watching! I know it is such a shame I'm sad that I missed out visiting Hainan this year but hopefully we can go somewhere at some point.
There are different art museums in Beijing that you could explore
YAH!! Nice video and cable cars are also so expensive in other national parks usually above 100rmb for one trip only omg
Ooosh! Thanks for the warning I think that is pricy.
Love your style! GREAT video!
Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
meet u again！long time not to use YT...great one！
Welcome back! Thanks for watching!
high quality of content as usual :)
Much appreciated! Thank you!
In the us, it is more expensive. In Lake Tahoe California, it costs about $40 dollars and it is shorter.
Ouch that is so expensive!
You can go to BeiWu park(北坞公园) or YuDong park(玉东园), which are together landed to the west of Summer Palace. There you can see massive rice paddies inside the city park, which is also very well designed to be merged with the views around. It is quite unique to see rice paddies in Beijing, within the distance of a taxi ride. Or you can take the metro to go there, by line 10 and transfer to West-suburban Line(西郊线) and take off at the station called Summer Palace West(颐和园西门), or Cha Peng (Tea Shed - 茶棚) . Then you can simply walk there in 10-15 minutes. Remember, go there in the middle of September, then you can see the best blended color of green and golden yellow.
Ohhhh amazing, thanks for the tips I will do some research!
Love the extra humour. 😄
hahaha always have to laugh in these situations!
How I wish it was a sunny day. There are many incredible forest parks around Beijing, such as Badaling forest park, better go to there in autumn🍁🍁.
I know me too! haha It was refreshing but we couldn't see anything 😭 Awesome! Thanks for the tip.
The Red Leaf Festival is hectic up there!
Yunmengshan is a nice place in northern Beijing, if you looking for place like this, there's a beautiful canyon just on the west side of Yunmengshan in Yanqing District, it's called Bailihualang (百里画廊). White River flow through the canyon, villages under the hill. Definitely has good scenery and easy for tour!
In Western Beijing there's some good mountains too, if you like culture, I recommend Xiangshan Biyun Temple (碧云寺) in Haidian District & Jietai Temple (戒台寺) in Mentougo District. Not far from city and has some good views too. If you looking for nature, you can go to Lingshan (灵山) near west border of Beijing. Mountains are like 2km high, and the views always remind me of The Lord of the Rings sence. bit of diffcult to trip tho, since is pretty far from town. Need to have prepared.
Thank you, that is awesome I will do some research!
Hey Nico,
How about visiting Beijing's bookstores and the ever excited students who gather to chat and practise English with the odd Westerner who wanders in. ? Plenty of students seemed to be reading quite a bit of the texts too before purchasing. The two or three storey bookstore on Wangfujing Street is fun. Pretty sure there was food in the basement level too. The store's down the end where the tourist food night market is. Anyway I loved it to soak up some local interaction and meet some "newest bestest friends".
Thanks for the tip! I've actually not been to a bookstore here in Beijing. There was an amazing one in Nanjing which I used to love, maybe I need to go and visit.
Nico, have you been to Huangshan? It probably ranks first for its incredible sceneries amongst all of China's mountains and you must not miss it!
No, not yet we hope to this year maybe though.
Nico there is a famous saying: after you see Huangshan, you will not want to see the other five most famous mountains in China, which refer to TAISHAN, HUASHAN, 2 HENGSHAN and SONGSHAN.
，Stunning scenery makes me wanting to go there,may be after the covid 19 is over.
Yeah it was really lovely!
Imperfection makes everything memorable.
hahaha yes exactly! I will remember this trip because of it!
Nice video, i like all your videos. Enjoy your life in China.
Thank you very much!
Hey my lovely, next year i will come to china to study, your videos made me know a lot of thing,, i love your hair , accent, videos.. I just love u, i watched all your videos, i hope if you have an information of studying in china please show us in a video ❤ by the way i am lina and i am from algeria..
Hi Lina nice to meet you! Thank you so much that is very kind. I hope you have an amazing time when you come to study here, what city will you go to? I'm afraid I haven't studied here so I don't really know what it's like, sorry.
@@Nicofilms I am thinking in shanghai! I want to study in fudan's university, what do you think? Is it a good choice?
Yunmengshan is beautiful. I had the same problem as you guys; it was super foggy the day we went and I would love to go back on a clearer day. I think, from memory when I was in the Yellow Mountains last year the cable car two way was about 140rmb during peak season (summer). But in my experience that's common; they will have different prices in different seasons. Have you done the walk from Fragrant Hill through to the Botanical Gardens? It's a nice, easy hike and very beautiful. There are heaps of ruins and stuff along the way; a few temples.
Thank you that is great to know, no we haven't been to Fragrant Hill yet! Oh no haha at least we aren't the only ones!
@@Nicofilms I do recommend it. The Botanical Gardens are behind Summer Palace and they are beautiful all year round. But you can hike from the back of the gardens through to the top of Fragrant Hill. It's a great way to spend a day. Just do it before Autumn..they have a "red leaf" festival and its beyond crowded.
Also just wanted to say thank you for continuing to post in Beijing. It's giving me so many more things to explore when I get back.
@@passport-to-palate4680 Aw thank you that is so kind! I appreciate the support! That's great, thanks for the recommendations we will take a look!
Hi nico , I suggest that you could visit some of the top universities in Beijing like Tsinghua or Peking uni. It should be fun.
Don't think that will be possible for a while as the universities are shut.
I like listening to your accent! Your videos of course!
Yes. China is an amazing country! I wish the world was back to normal so everyone can go travel to China freely
Thanks for watching! I know, I hope to show others so when we can travel again people will come and see for themselves.
Nice!
Thanks!
Hiya, great video. How far out into the country can you go with the metro?
Pretty far, it depends which side you want to go to. Generally the busses go further though or people get private transport to the wall and things.
Nico, next time you may try Beijing UFO glass skywalk or a glass bridge walkway. They should be eye opening...
Oh yes I have seen that. I have been on a glass bridge before and honestly I was terrified haha
Surprisingly, they have a decent cup of coffee on top. Unsurprisingly, they have sausages on sticks. ;)
haha I find sausages on sticks everywhere haha
@@Nicofilms Oh I thought you were switching coffee and sausage to be funny! I guess sausage on sticks is a staple over there? If so, then that would be the #1 reason for me to go to China!
@@joeyp1927 haha yeah they have them everywhere here. No matter where you go you can find them.
@@Nicofilms Guess the Chinese watched that scene in There's Something About Mary where Ben Stiller's character and Cameron Diaz's character both complain about the scarcity of meats on sticks! And just like with everything else, they decided to do something about it!
Try go to the "zhoukoudian" cave where the famous ancient beijng man skull (dated back ~400,000 years based on C tracing) was discoved inside that cave. unfortunately, the only skull was lost during world war II.
Thanks for the tip.
I've heard that Gu Bei Shui Zhen， 古北水镇 , is nice in Beijing
Ohh I've heard that too, I really want to go!
what is the cost of the tour? thanks
The tour was ¥120 but really that was just for the bus. The entrance ticket was on top of that.
I m Beijinese but you ve been to more places Beijing than I do😉
hahaha I think sometimes when you grow up somewhere you don't explore it as much as tourists do.
hello Nico, why are you anxious in organized travel?
Time restrictions most likely, following the crowd, specific route, The big crowds. Those reasons are why I am anxious, and I am certain Nico has roughly the same reasons
Yes exactly all those things haha Plus as we film a lot it's added pressure to have a lot of people around so we prefer to be on our own.
The view must be very spectacular if it was not foggy.
I know, it looked really lovely!
It's a double edged sword to have technical features for sight seeing. It ruined the fun part a little bit but benefits for older generations especially when you consider that most Chinese travel with their whole family including elders, which makes sense with assistance you don't have to wait for your elders/kids to catch up or even lose them in the mountains.
This is very true haha and I do understand why. I feel like cable cars are less intrusive though so I don't mind them as much.
Nico, you look like an English teacher of my daughter😁
Maybe I am? 😋
@@Nicofilms Confirmed！You are a good teacher. Thank you. BTW, i have never been to that mountain though i have lived in Beijing for 20 years. Nice video
Me: For such a great video, I can't believe the number of views is so low (6967 as of 10/22/2020). Com' on TH-cam, you can do better.
TH-cam AI: Working as intended.
Haha thanks for the support!
You looked much younger when you are outdoor.
I guess I should spend more time outdoors then....
有很多个镜头……太美了！！！！！！！
Thank you!
beijng is the capital of communist china as written in my history book but never have i thought that those beautiful sceneries exist in china...really amazing....!
Ignorance is bliss.
So many beautiful sceneries in China!
虽然我听不懂在说什么，也没有字幕，但是点赞再看就对了😂
haha thank you!
主要是：她今天腿脚不方便，不能行山，只有靠缆车，缆车来回费用是每人160元，山上有点冷，有云雾，风景不像预期的清楚，但是还是很开心，还会再来，而且是准备步行上山。不用谢。
Err.....north capital...?
welcome to china again.thanks for showing chinese culture to the world
Thanks for watching I'm pleased you liked it :)
I'm pleased to inform you that my wife has just come back form Beijing last weekend, which means you can restart your planned trip outside Beijing. So, I'm wondering where will you appear in the next video. Sure, it's a secret haha...
Thats awesome! Haha not quite as easy as that just yet. A lot of places still want you to quarantine or get the covid test so I think we will be waiting a little while longer.
但愿有中文字幕
video quality is very high
Thank you very much!
I own a small car. If I recover from my broken foot I will show you around Beijing.
Thank you that is very kind! I hope your foot gets better soon!
简单中文解说：她今天腿脚不方便，不能行山，只有靠缆车，缆车来回费用是每人160元，山上有点冷，有云雾，风景不像预期的清楚，但是还是很开心，还会再来，而且是准备步行上山。不用谢。
hahaha yup! that summed it up perfectly!
@@Nicofilms i will do it for you every time from now on.
Lol not a happy camper
Not quite the view I was hoping for haha
sofa
Hope you liked it!
looks like sth wrong with your meniscus
Yup! I had my ACL replaced and had to have all my meniscus repaired as well.
Nico No wonder... your knee told me that your fear of walking upstairs and downstairs
@@zhengricky5446 Yes I'm still really struggling with it. Seems a long way off being normal.
Just rocks and trees,if you insist calling it Scenery
Pretty impressive mountains just clouded by the mist. "Scenery - the natural features of a landscape considered in terms of their appearance, especially when picturesque."
"spectacular views of mountain scenery"
Many people admire the beautiful Seascape. Why would they call it Scenery? It’s just water and sand.
@@Dlinpo You know whats true scenery?Rocky moutain,Hawaii beach.
Absolutely beautiful...!
Thank you very much!