Travel Videos 365 - BETA version 1.02

some pictures from Beijing Hutongs 2002 Pechino, HuTong - qualche scatto, la città vecchia 2002

Beijing hutong to see the traditional side of Beijing? Beijing hutong is an ancient city alley or lane typical in Beijing. Existed as early as hundreds of years ago, narrow lanes, or hutongs were common in ancient Beijing. In the past, several thousand lanes, alleys and quadrangles(siheyuan), formed residential areas.... more

Southwest of Qianmen and Tiananmen Square in Beijing is a maze of narrow alleyways stretching from the theater and market street of Dazhalan all the way west to Liulichang, Beijing's antique and traditional Chinese art supplies street. In the Qing Dynasty, this area was the city's commercial quarter where travelling.... more

Visite d'une cour carrée (siheyuan) dans les hutong (ruelles) du côté de Dongnei xiaojie à Pékin, le 11 novembre 2006.

The last episode of Danwei TV's Hard Hat Show was an interview with the writer Mike Meyer, who is completing a book about his experiences living in the hutong area west of Qianmen. He introduced us to a Chinese writer living in the area, Zhang Jinqi. Zhang has recently published a book about the history of that area:.... more

The scale of the traditional hutongs is quite different from the high-rise of the 'modern' Beijing. Thought I'd capture the feel of this hutong, south of Tiananmen, which locals feared was up for demolition.

Nan Luoguxiang is one of the oldest hutongs in Beijing and has been a residential neighborhood for hundreds of years. In the last few years, bars, cafés and boutique stores have flourished in the alley way, drawing tourists and Beijing residents in search of low key night life and a taste of old Beijing. In the.... more

An interesting video shows you the traditional Chinese alleys in Beijing with a Guzheng music.

The English, baby! team arrives in China and competes in a hutong bicycle race, filled with useful race vocabulary. Brought to you by English, baby! where friends learn English together. See more Olympic English lessons on English, baby! at http://www.englishbaby.com/news/olympics_home Sponsored by TOEFL.

A walk in the morning through a hutong in Shaoxing, China