Beijing Sideways
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See the Beijing suburbs from the comfortable confines of a motorcycle sidecar. Led by a long-time Beijing resident, these tours tool out along the hiways and biways to places like the Great Wall or the Miyun reservoir. Throw in a picnic lunch and you've got the makings of a unique outdoor experience. Arrange pick-up at home or hotel.
www.beijingsideways.com See another face of Beijing and its countryside. Beijing Sideways helps you discover Beijing and its surroundings from a sideways look, seated in the side-car of a motorbike. Ignoring traffic jams, enjoying the pleasures of a top less vehicle, wind in the hair (or in a helmet), admiring the stunning hilly landscapes of Beijing, savouring a French picnic with French wine on the crest of the Great Wall or on a boat drifting on the Summer Palace lake. With Beijing sideways, you enjoy the company of a French guide who has been living in Beijing for eight years, helping you to discover new places in a fun vehicle and as if from a black & white movie. Contact us for a tailor made trip or choose one of our best tour. Upto 40 people !
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Nothing, not even cold, could stop us from hopping onto the back of two strangers’ motorbikes and speeding down Beijing’s suburban highways, the wind in our hair. We were in search of adventure and Beijing Sideways delivered. After all, there’s nothing like the sensation of the cold wind hitting your face and the hot rumble of a motorbike beneath you to get the adrenaline pumping.
An alternative to cookie-cutter Beijing tours, Beijing Sideways offers specialty trips around Beijing via sidecar or on the back of a motorbike. Trips are tailor-made and founder Gael Thoreau and his band of easy riders arrange pick up wherever is most convenient. For us, that meant The Bookworm, which explains why three girls were spotted being picked up by two men with motorbikes last weekend.
Our trip took us two hours out to Huanghuacheng Great Wall. Largely unrenovated yet easy to traverse, Huanghuacheng possesses that deep sense of history lacking at tourist traps like Badaling. No matter where we stood, we had uninterrupted views of the Wall as it wound layer upon layer over the mountains with nary a tour flag nor colored umbrella in sight.
For lunch we dined on a homemade meal which Beijing Sideways had prepared: roast pork, baked potatoes, strawberries, tangerines and Merlot. Meanwhile, Gael told us of their tours for families and couples, and of trips through Beijing’s hutongs in caravans of 30 motorbikes. “Now that’s a sight to see,” Gael laughed.
Full and rested, we hiked down the Wall, pausing for photos, before returning to the bikes and civilization.
Erica Chen
