Private tour
You will have your own tour guide speaking English, and a private 7-12 seat air-conditioned company coach with a driver.
Double check phone call
Our tour guide will make a phone call before 10pm one day prior to your hotel to check if you have checked in. So if there is any change of your arrival flight, please contact us at +86 20 22822049 (outside China) or 020 22822049 (in China). You might ask for changing the tour to another day, or cancel the tour.
Pickup time and back to hotel time
Usually at 08h30 from your hotel lobby, the time back to the hotel is 17h30 usually. If extra hour is requested, please tell us in advance. We might charge for extra working hours, accordingly to labor law.
Waiting notice
Our tour guide will find you via eye contact from the crowd in the lobby. Please do not worry! We will recognize you!
Tour Itinerary:
① Pick up travelers from hotel on departure time, and then drive to the Great Wall (60 miles away from downtown about one hour driving) Badaling section is the most famous and best-preserved wall. Its highest point at Badaling is some 800 meters above sea level. Cable car is a good choice if one wants to get to the highest point and take the whole beautiful bird view. Sightseeing on Badaling Great Wall for 2 hours. Fees of Cable car & Slideway (toboggan) are not included.
② Before having lunch (12:00), travelers have 45 minutes to have a short visit of Jade Carving Factory. The jade carving is very famous special local product, it was not only the excellent skill on carving, but also mixes many Chinese traditional cultures in the jade carving.
③ Have traditional Chinese lunch at restaurant.
④ Driving (1.5 hours) to Tiananmen Square - the largest square in the world. The heart of modern China beats in Tiananmen Square, the symbol of the People’s Republic of China and the center of Beijing’s landmarks. It will take about half hour to go around it.
⑤ Then walk to the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City, also known as the Palace Museum, is the largest and most well preserved ancient imperial residence in China today.
⑥ Driving the travelers back to their hotel.
Highlights today
Badaling section of the Great Wall - most frequented by visitors dates from the Ming Dynasty. Constructed of large blocks of granite and bricks, the wall at this point is 6.6 meters high and 6.5 meters wide at its base, narrowing to 5.5 meters on the rampart. It is wide enough to permit five or six horses to stand abreast.
TianAnMen Square - the symbolical heart of China and gathering place for the masses. It is the biggest public square in the world, which can hold one million people. Having a free walk there, imagining the great historic events of the 20th century took place there.
The Forbidden City (Imperial Palace) - It is in the heart of Beijing is the largest and most complete imperial palace and ancient building complex in China, and the world at large. Its construction began in 1406 and was completed 14 years later, having a history so far of some 580 years. |