This is the area near our hotel. We arrived with no reservations and an old guide book. Never use an old guide book for China. Things are changing so fast in China that a guide book written a year ago could be outdated. The hotel we wanted was fully booked and another went out of business. We started walking away from Wangfujing into what looked like the old quarter and found this new hostel. It was new, clean and cheap, unheard of in Beijing. It was an easy walk and easy bus ride to the major sights. There's another problem to Beijing, all the major sights are scattered far apart and it becomes difficult to see many things in one day. It's more like one major sight a day and it takes many days to see everything. It's not the place to shop either because all the shops are the Western chains like the Gap.
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