The Midnight in Peking Official Walking Tour is Back On!!…

Posted: April 9th, 2025 | No Comments »

Retracing the official Penguin Books in China Midnight in Peking Walking Tour – everything still survives!! If you’re in Beijing, or intending to visit, and interested in taking the tour WildChina Travel have trained guides who know the book and the walk inside out….

• Armour Factory Alley (Kuijichang Hutong) – the haunted hutong where Pamela and her father lived with Edgar Snow and Helen Foster-Snow close by…
• The Fox Tower (Dongbianmen) – the last remaining watch tower of Peking and where Pamela’s lifeless body was discovered in January 1937…
• The Tartar Wall – stroll along the longest surviving remnant of the wall that once ringed the entire imperial city.
• The Badlands – the hutongs that once housed the old “Badlands” and its foreign denizens on Heroin Alley, in the Oparina’s bar, Madam Leschinsky’s brothel and the Asbury Church (the Island of Hope).
• The Legation Quarter – The suspicious apartments, St Michael’s Church, the French Legation (where Pamela was last seen alive), The British and Japanese Legations…
• Finally the Grand Hotel de Pekin (Hotel Nuo)…. the centre of “Foreign Colony” life in Peking in 1937….

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