Arrival at Beijing
On arrival in Beijing, you will be met by your tour guide and transferred to your hotel in Beijing. You will be free for the rest of the day.
Beijing (B L D)
After breakfast at your hotel, start your tour with the visit to Tiananmen Square, the largest public square in the world. Then move on to the Forbidden City, the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. After lunch, you will head to the Shichahai Area - the old part of Beijing. First you have a hard-to-get-opportunity of one-hour tour of a 300-year old courtyard. With the help of your English speaking tour guide, the housekeeper of the yard gives you a detailed explanation of the old courtyard ( Siheyuan ) - its history, its layout, its Fengshui, and its traditiona Chinese culture involved. Then take a rickshaw and drive through the zigzag and narrow alleys or hutongs. Drop off the peidicab at the Silver Ingot Bridge( Yinding Bridge ) and walk along the 800-year old Yandai Xiejie ( Tobacco Pipe Lean Street ), and get to the Drum Torwer. Ascending the 67-meter high and two-story Drum Tower dating from 1420 is sure to bring you back to the old Beijing by seeing the big drum tower and having bird's eye view of the surrounding communities of hutongs and siheyuan - existing traditional courtyards in Beijing. After Beijing Duck dinner, enjoy the Kung Fu Show in the evening.
Beijing (B L D)
Today’s morning excursion will take you to the most beautiful section of the Great Wall - the Ju yongguanGreat Wall. The hike takes about 2-3 hours. After lunch, continue to visit Changling, one of the 13 Ming Tombs of the 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644).
Beijing (B L )
After breakfast, start your morning tour with the visit to the Summer Palace, originally a royal garden and a temporary dwelling palace for emperors of Qing Dynasty. After lunch, then head to the Olympic Green to have an outside look at the Bird's Nest and Water Cube. Then go to visit Capital Museum Beijing, a five-storey building allowing for a maximum of 13 concurrent exhibitions, English and Japanese services are available.
Beijing (B L)
Visit the west of Beijing. First visit Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, an important Paleolithic site - listed as world cultural heritage. It was was first excavated in 1927, in a cave on Dragon Bone Hill at Zhoukoudian, southwest of Beijing. In 1929, skull fossils of Peking Man were discovered here, giving concrete evidence for the existence of primitive man in the Beijing area and marking a milestone in the history of paleo-anthropology. After the tour, move on to Jietai Temple, one of China's most famous ancient Buddhist sites. Its four main halls occupy terraces on a gentle slope up to Ma'an Shan (Saddle Hill). Lastly, head to Marco Polo Bridge, which is best remembered in modern times as the spot where invading Japanese armies clashed with Chinese soldiers on June 7, 1937, hence the start of Sino-Japanese War.
Beijing Exit or free on your own (B L )
After breakfast, start your morning tour with the visit to the Temple of Heaven, the place where the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties
