Beijing Zoo is located in the Xizhimen Wai Street of Xicheng District. The zoo covers an area of 86 hectares and the water surface in the zoo covers an area of 8.6 hectares. In the east of the zoo there is the Beijing Exhibition Hall and Moscow Restaurant. The previous names of the zoo are Farming Experiment Field, Natural Museum, the Ten Thousand Animals’ Garden and Western Suburbs’ Park. It is the oldest zoo and has the most animal species. It has more than one hundred years of history from 1906 to now. There are more than 450 species and 4500 animals for exhibition. Also they have more than 500 species of marine fish and marine animals. The Beijing Zoo receives 6oo million tourists every year. It is one of the large zoos and also the famous zoo in the world.
Best Time to visit Beijing Zoo
It is wonderful all year
Beijng Zoo Tickets:
Busy season: (April 1st—October 31th)
Coupon Ticket: 20RMB/person (including entrance ticket and panda house’ ticket)
Entrance Ticket: 15RMB/person (not including the ticket for panda house and the ticket for circus performance)
Ticket for Panda House: 5RMB/person
Low season: (November 1st—March 31th)
Coupon Ticket: 15RMB/person (including entrance ticket and the ticket for panda house)
Entrance Ticket: 10 RMB/person (not including the ticket for Panda House and the ticket for circus performance)
Ticket for Panda House: 5RMB/person
Students and foreign students (not including adult education, amateur education, night school or Handa, etc.) with the valid documents will enjoy preferential price. Busy season: 8RMB. Low season: 5RMB.
Mosquito craft: from Beijing Zoo to Beijing Exhibition Hall, 20 RMB/person, from Beijing Zoo to the Summer Palace (including the entrance ticket of the Summer Palace), 70RMB/person
Preferential Measures:
- The preschool children under 1.2 meters are free of charge.
- Students and foreign students (not including adult education, amateur education, night school or Handa, etc.) with the valid documents will enjoy preferential price. Busy season: 8RMB. Low season: 5RMB.
Ticket for Beijing Aquarium:
Adults: 120RMB/person
Primary and secondary students: 60RMB/person (with personal ID)
60 year olds and older people: 50RMB/person (with valid document)
Children under 1.2meters free of charge (an adult can bring 2 children under 1.2 meters and more than two children required to buy students tickets).
How to Get to Beijing Zoo
By subway: the line 4 and get off at Beijing Zoo.
By bus:
Take No. Te 4, No.7, No.15, No.19, No.27, No.45, No65, No.87, tram 102 and 103, Yuntong 104, 105, 106, tram105, 107, 111, Yuntong 205, night 206 and 209, No319, No.332, No.334, No.347, Man 360, Kuai 360, No.362, No.534, No.563, No.608, No. 614, No.632, No.685, No.697, No.714 and get off Beijing Zoo.
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