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About this activity

Meet your guide at 8am and drive about 2 hours to see beautiful Huanghuacheng Water Great Wall, a section of the Wall 70 km north of downtown Beijing. It is grand and majestic on the steep mountain ridges and goes along the scenic Haoming Lake. This part of the Wall has historically been the northern gate of ancient Beijing City and also the important entrance to the Ming Tombs. You will find that the most ruined sections of the Great Wall in Beijing and connects to Badaling Great Wall in the west and Mutianuyu Great Wall in the east.

Huanghuacheng Water Great Wall was built from 1404 to 1592 and divided into three parts by a reservoir. It is a section of the Great Wall more popular with local people for camping and barbecue. You will also have the chance take the speedy boat (only available from April to November) and walk through the Chestnut Orchard, planted by the soldiers more than 500 years ago.

Your quality lunch will be served in Dazhaimen, a famous and fancy restaurant with traditional Chinese decoration. Then, continue to see the Sacred Way, a 7 kms long way leading to the Ming Tombs, which was considered by the Ming Emperors as the path to the Heaven.

The highlight of the day is to enjoy a Tibetan style hot spring therapy for 2 hours in Jiuhua Resort. It is also nicknamed Xiaotangshan (little hot spring mountain), which was built on a site where the Qianlong Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi used to bathe. You will enjoy the hot spring indoors and outdoors in a private place with Tibetan flavor; a Spa with saffron crocus, Herba Rhodiolae and other herbs in a wood basin; as well as 50 minutes whole body oil message and 10 minutes hot Himalayan stone therapy provided by the Tibetan Specialist. Tea, fruits and snacks are also provided during the service.

After your wonderful hot spring spa, you are fully relaxed on your way back hotel in Beijing.

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Included

Private nature Hot Spring Therapy
Professional guide
Quality Lunch with drinks
Snacks, fruit and tea (during Spa session)
Mineral water
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Entrance fees
Private transportation
Entry/Admission - Ming Tombs (Ming Shishan Ling)
Entry/Admission - Water Great Wall at Huanghuacheng

Not included

Gratuities

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Speedy boat is only available from Apr. to Nov.
No shopping stop during the tour to ensure adequate time on each sight and comfortable pace
A maximum of 9 people per booking
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress accordingly
If you choose to visit Forbidden city (no Great Wall Tour), Passport name and number is required at time of booking for all participants for getting skip the line access ticket in advance.
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Features

Tourism

90%

Aquatic

90%

Original

90%

Cultural

80%

Reviews

5.0

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wanda_wise

5 | 2017-04-06

Tibetan Hot Springs are closed for refurbishment but was taken to Chun Hui Yuan I had an amazing time would love to return to this facility it was very amazing and I was well pampered.

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deborah H

5 | 2016-10-18

Where to start! Firstly the Great Wall at Huanghuacheng, wow what an amazing natures beauty spot. This scenic area combines the beautiful lake wrapped around the base of the mountains with the great wall on its skyline. We had time to walk up the steps of the wall to the soldiers stations and enjoy the view of the area higher up. The wall is steep to climb, I am not particularly fit but managed to climb up at my own pace with our guide Maria. It was worth it for the view. Maria was a fantastic guide who ensured we had plenty of photos, water and was great company. We had a walk around the chestnut orchard planted by the soldiers. This whole area is mainly visited by the locals which added to the ambience rather than other sections that were more tourist driven. After our Great Wall experience it was time to stop off for lunch. We went to an old traditional hotel and Maria asked us if we would like to order ourselves, we requested Maria to choose for us, and she checked that it was food we liked before ordering and we were very pleased with her delicious choices and there was more than enough food for us all plus a takeaway box for our driver from what was left. Please note this is a full day tour! Then the visit to the Ming Tombs, in honesty this wasn't our thing and we would of happily missed it. However, it was interesting and the tombs are an important and unique part of Chinese culture and gave time for our lunch to settle before the part of the tour we were really looking forward to, the hot spring spa and massage. On arrival at the spa we were served tea and snacks before being taken to our private area. The hot spring lives up to hot. There were three pools you have the option of testing each a little hotter than the previous one. Our aching muscles from our hike melted away with all our worries and stress, after the hot spring we showered before getting into a Chinese Medicine bath. Please note we used swim costumes for the private hot spring and then we were naked in our personal bath and for the massage covered with towels. There was an option to be in our own room each or we could share a room - it was our choice. After the special bath we proceeded to receive the massage, my oh my, wow! The whole time there was a unique special Chinese routine and massage which was different from home and yes I would go back tomorrow for a repeat. That night we both slept very well and when we flew home the following day we had no aches and pains from all our adventures. Be open minded and relax through this almost 2-3 hour spa experience that is truly special and a pure pleasure.

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