Another Side of Beijing Sanlitun – Leisure and Shopping Paradise

In Beijing, there is one place where famous for that entertainment and leisure place, Sanlitun! Searching for bars, café or many shopping sites, tourists who come to Beijing will find it in Chaoyang District where provides all your needs. Located in the Sanlitun area, there have a lot of café, bars, food stores, restaurants, and department stores available.

This area is one of the popular areas after Wangfujing Street which attracts many tourists come for shopping, clubbing and searching for authentic culinary. And even in Sanlitun, visitors could have a fun shopping time explore many international famous brand stores such as, American Apparel, Apple Inc, Adidas, Fossil, Mango, Uniqlo, etc. At past, Sanlitun is not famous for its shopping or leisure but a few years ago, there has become one complete shopping centre and one main aim shopping area for tourists of Beijing tours.

Sanlitun area is always crowded by visitors, at day or night. It also has become one of the city night life symbols. Most of visitors will come at night, just for personally experience the very busy and loud atmosphere. In the weekend, that area will always crowd with young local people and foreigners. They usually walk out, shopping around, refreshing at bar or café, watching their favorite latest movie, etc. Lots of leisure activities option that visitors can choose there, so that is why Sanlitun become the favorite one.

In the April of 2008, before Beijing Olympic Games, here, Sanlitun had become a recommended place as the icon for leisure. So when Beijing Olympic had started, Sanlitun area crowded with lots international tourists. The number of vendors had also increased, even the streets were filled with people. Olympic Beijing had brought its own gift for the vendors around the area. Their various merchandise and Olympic souvenirs are t-shirt, doll, balloon, and others which always sold out each day.

For the people who stay near Sanlitun area and looking for a late night snack spot, here will be the ideal place. Now there not only bars or cafés that located around this area, there also have some food stores which offer the traditional foods of Beijing. So Sanlitun is the best place for find culinary and shopping which already opened at day time. No matter where you come from, where you want to go, just stop of a moment, Sanlitun is one of the best entertainment places in Beijing at day or night!