Beijing Subway - Line 13 Mountains, Markets, Korean food!

Line 13 is the longest subway line in Beijing at about 41 kilometres. Shaped in an inverted U shape, the purpose of the line to take work commuters living on the outskirts of Beijing to the city centre. While residential buildings dominate the line's views, there were three scenic spots that caught our eyes.

Black Mountain Park
(Xierqi subway stop and then walk about 3 kilometres west)

Black Mountain Park is a large area on the outskirts of Beijing that is extremely forested and green. It is a wonderful park that you can walk around for hours. Almost unique in Beijing, it also contains several picturesque hills that provide some good fun exercise.

The park is also dotted with statues and interesting landscape features. If you want to get out of Beijing but don't have much time, this place is highly recommended.

 A nice statue. We don't know why it needs a cape though!

Beiyuan Markets
( North-east of Beiyuan subway stop)


This market in the middle of nowhere, and sells practically everything. The marketplace consists of several football field sized buildings. Each building sells different produce. Meat, fruits and vegetables, household appliances and electronics, shoes and clothing and general bric-a-brac. Similar to most markets in the middle of nowhere, prices are very good.

Shaoyaoju eateries & night street market
(West of Shaoyaoju subway stop)

As mentioned in our resturants section, Shaoyaoju has some eateries we would recommend.

1. Duck place - A favourite of our friends.
2. Noodles restaurant - A student favourite with different noodle dishes.
   
3. Lakers – Pub that does decent RMB20 hamburgers and RMB40 large pizzas with decent cheese toppings
4. Korean place – Cheap good Korean place (RMB10-12 a dish). We particularly enjoy the bibimbap, spicy thick mitiao and meat and egg dishes (shaoniurou, shown on the wall picture menu).

On Wenxueguan Lu northeast of the Korean restaurant is a nice street night market that sells a range of produce, clothes and general random items.