1 day

Private

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About this activity

After picking you up from your centrally located hotel in Beijing around 8:30am, you will start your day trip by visiting Tian'anmen Square, the world’s largest public square. Explore the sites around the square with opportunities to take some amazing pictures. Then, venture northward to the Tian’anmen Rostrum guarded by the enormous and portrait of Mao for all to see and what has universally been photographed all over the world.

Next, heading to the magnificent Forbidden City, the largest Imperial Palace in the world. You’ll spend a couple of hours wandering around this amazing example of Imperial architecture and learning about the history of the palace. The whole morning tour will be around 2 hours.

At the lunch time, your tour guide can recommend some authentic Chinese restaurants that cater whatever you are craving for.

After lunch, you will visit the classic and historic Hutong alleys by riding a rickshaw. In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods.

At the end, you will visit Temple of Heaven, it is an imperial complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing.

After your classic city tour, your tour guide will send you back to your hotel in Beijing.

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Included

Professional guide
Private car and driver
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Lunch in a local Chinese restaurant
Hutong rickshaw ride
Entrance Tickets to the Sights

Not included

Gratuities
Dinner

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
Please wear comfortable shoes
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Please provide your hotel address for picking up
Please make sure to provide your passport number and name for entrance Forbidden City tickets purchase in advance
If you prefer to have different language tour guide than English one, please kindly make your booking with request 3 days advance
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Features

Tourism

95%

Cultural

80%

Reviews

5.0

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Cheryl J

5 | 2017-03-09

We had a great time! We were only in the Beijing city center one day and this tour hit all of the main attractions in a fun and efficient way. The highlight for me was seeing the large community of men and women over 60 playing games, exercising, and dancing at the Temple of Heaven in the morning. It was inspiring to see them enjoying the good life! as our guide said. We told our guide that we wanted to try Hot Pot and Beijing Peking Duck before we left China. He recommended a place near our hotel to have duck for dinner and then for lunch he took us to trendy/modern spot for Hot Pot in the mall. It was delicious, inexpensive, and very handy to have him there to order for us and tell us what to do! The Hutong area was very fun to see and the rickshaw ride made it even more enjoyable. It was a great day!

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