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) Sightseeing on Badaling Great Wall for 2 hours. 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. Fees of Cable car & Slideway (toboggan) are not included.
② Before having lunch, 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 the Summer Palace, the best-preserved imperial garden in the world that boasts centralized architectural masterpieces as well as scenic beauties. Long corridor & marble boat in Summer Palace will impress you a lot. Visit it for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
⑤ 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.
The Summer Palace - It is in northwest suburban Beijing is the largest and most complete imperial garden existing in China. It was first built in the 12th century as an imperial palace. Renovation and extension in the following several hundred years till the end of the 19th century. |