Before you go, here's what you need to know

1 Main Entrance

You’ll know it when you see the giant fake missile. Buy your festival tickets here. It’s the only way into the park. Or is it?

2 Beer and Chuar

Two staples of festival life. MIDI beers are known to be the most delicious on the planet and their chua’r the best you’ll ever eat.

3 Weather Center

Of dubious use. If it’s raining, you’ll know it. Don’t forget to pack an umbrella!

4 The Big Lawn

Ground zero of MIDI. Will be full of mosh pits, punk rock kids, video cameras and cute hippie chicks.

5 Lake

Last year the lake actually had water. It’ll be a great place for mudsliding, though, if it rains.

6 Mini Amusement Park

Has a fake animal zoo, carousel and game called Save the Duck, but you’ll find us on the bumper cars.

7 Swinging Chair

Great place to grab a friend, a couple of beers and catch some spring breeze.

8 Grassy Knoll

Throw down a beach towel and chill on the slope under a shady tree.

9 Park Benches

Or, as we like to call them: “make out stations.”

10 Dried up Fountain

Bring your hackeysack, sack lunch and a sack of beers to this little spot.

11 Chen Boaan

Security Guard Chen keeps the riff-raff from climbing in over the old west gate. Make friends with him if you want to sneak in.

12 Corn Circle

This odd little patio seems to be a star map of some kind. Act like you can read it, it’ll impress people. Any odd occurences will certainly happen here.

13 Big Hill

Here’s where to have your own MIDI moment. This sunset spot has a view on all the action, plus you get an eyeful of the Summer Palace and Xiangshan to the west.

14 Swap Meet

Buy, beg, trade or steal some MIDI keepsakes.

15 Helicopter Landing

Seriously, but you’ll have to ask management first.

Bathrooms

The only truly bad thing about outdoor music festivals.

Spooky Building

Don’t go near this old building after sunset: We hear it’s haunted.

MIDI Music Festival

Tuesday, May 1-Friday, May 4

Location: Haidian Park just west of Beijing University campus

Get There: Take a cab! Or grab a direct bus from the Xizhimen Metro stop

Tickets: ¥100 (four-day pass), ¥50 (one- day), buy them at the gate

Bring: Snacks, suntan lotion, water gun, umbrella, hammock, kite, yo-yo, tent, folding bed. Just don’t bring in glass bottles.