5-6 hours Layover Tour to Tiananmen Square and Forbidden city

You will be picked up at the airport based on your given flight details. Our guide will hold your name sign in airport. Upon meeting on the spot, drive straight from Beijing Airport to the Tiananmen square and forbidden City (1 hours drive)-the prettiest section in Beijing. After arrive at Tiananmen square and forbidden city , then enjoy visit Tiananmen square and forbidden city for 2 hours or so. Then drive back to the airport. Lovely tour ends. The whole trip will last for 5 hours or so.

Tiananmen square:

Tiananmen Square, also known as Tian’an Men Square can be translated to mean the Square of The Gate of Heavenly Peace. It is situated in the centre of Beijing City. It is the original gate of the Imperial Palace (more commonly known as the Forbidden City). Thousands of people come to the Square everyday. It is the largest city square in the world, encompassing 44 hectares (108.7acres). It is 880 metres from north to south and 500 metres from east to west, big enough to hold over half a million people!

Forbidden City :

The Forbidden City was the Chinese Imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China. It now houses the Palace Museum.

The complex consists of 800 buildings with 8,886 rooms. It covers 720,000 square metres. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 as the "Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties",[1] and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

Note 1: Counting from your flight (international) lands at Beijing airport to meet us at the exit will take about 2 hours. It includes such procedures as follow:

1. Flight arrival;

2. Inspection & Quarantine (24-144 hour free visa application);

3. Baggage claim (could be ignored by layover passengers);

4. Customs inspection;

5. Leaving the airport & meet us;

Note 2: As Great Wall is on the mountain top, so in order to let you speed up to the wall and see Great Wall as much as possible, we suggest you to use cable car instead of 40mins walk each way through mountain path. Save time & energy.