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Beijing

People's Republic of China · 9 quests

History

3 quests
Forbidden City, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
Forbidden City
Twenty-four emperors lived behind these walls
Ancient Observatory, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
Ancient Observatory
Bronze instruments still crown the old city wall
Great Wall, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
Great Wall
It was never one single wall

Nature

2 quests
Olympic Forest Park, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
Olympic Forest Park
Trees frame the Olympic-era buildings
Fragrant Hills, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
Fragrant Hills
Why do these wooded hills turn red each autumn

Art

3 quests
798 Art Zone, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
798 Art Zone
Old factory halls now hide rooms full of art
Galaxy SOHO, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
Galaxy SOHO
Four white domes meet above open courtyards
National Theatre of China, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
National Theatre of China
A glass dome sits in the middle of a lake

Sport

1 quest
Workers' Stadium, Beijing🇨🇳 Beijing
Workers' Stadium
Why do match nights turn the stands green?

People's Republic of China

Photo quests in Beijing

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Beijing holds nine quests across four categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art and History are level at three quests each.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other seven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers four of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Beijing quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Beijing the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Beijing

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Beijing

How many photo quests are there in Beijing?
9, across four of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are History (3), Art (3) and Nature (2). Nothing in Food, Beach and Party here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Forbidden City, Olympic Forest Park and 798 Art Zone.
What is there to do in Beijing beyond the obvious?
2 of the 9 quests in Beijing are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Beijing holds two at tier 1, three at tier 2 and four at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Ancient Observatory and National Theatre of China, which fall under History and Art.
Can you do all the Beijing quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 9 is 58 km from the middle of the Beijing list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Beijing quests can you do for free?
7 of the 9 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 9 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Beijing means two quests: Ancient Observatory and National Theatre of China.
How do I prove I visited a place in Beijing?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Beijing is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Forbidden City fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you.