An option we were offered when we were booking our honeymoon cruise (and our first ever cruise) with Princess Cruises was to fly out three days early and engage in a series of popular tourist excursions of the Chinese capital city, Beijing. Spending as much as we were doing anyway to fly halfway around the world this was a no-brainer option for us. Posts detailing what we saw and did are available on this site already – see China Travel Articles – and some of them include unedited bits of video that we took on our trip but the following video is an edited compilation of those pre-cruise excursion days for a shorter taste of what the amazing city had to offer.