{"id":34475,"date":"2005-04-13T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/04\/13\/beijings-underground-tunnel-network-opens-to-tourists\/"},"modified":"2005-04-13T00:10:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T16:10:11","slug":"beijings-underground-tunnel-network-opens-to-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/04\/13\/34475\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing's Underground Tunnel Network Opens To Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"66\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/20050412-beijingoldbuilding.gif\" width=\"87\" align=\"right\">Known as Beijing's Underground Great Wall, the old defensive tunnel which was built in 1969 and is about 10 meters under the ground was opened to visitors this week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are several tunnels in downtown Beijing, and most of them are 3 meters deep and have been filled up in the past few decades. But this one is the deepest and still remains intact. It is 2.5 meters high and has two exits, one leading to a lane in Qianmen and the other to the Temple of Heaven. It extends more than 1000 sq. meters and is linked to the subway station.<\/p>\n<p>The narrowest section in the tunnel allows three people to walk side by side and widest part is enough for a jeep to drive through. At present, it is only opened to individuals and small tourist groups of five people or less, for safety considerations. The ticket is selling for 20rmb (adults) \/ 10rmb (children).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as Beijing's Underground Great Wall, the old defensive tunnel which was built in 1969 and is about 10 meters under the ground was opened to visitors this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}