Private Day Tour to Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Hutong by Public Transportation

At 9:00am, your tour guide will meet you in your centrally located hotel in Beijing and take you to the nearest public transportation station. You will be explained how to purchase subway or bus tickets, and then start visiting all the interesting attractions.

The first place you will visit the Tiananmen Square which is the biggest city center square in the world. Moreover, along famous Chang'an Street, you will see The Great Hall of People, and The National Museum (used to be named Chinese history and revolution museum). In additional, the center of the square is the Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum.

From the Tiananmen Gate you can walk towards the Forbidden City (the biggest Imperial Palace in world). There are 9999.5 rooms inside with over 600 years history. There were total 24 Chinese emperors who lived and ruled the country in this place from Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty). It's worth to spend a couple of hours to visit the highlight of the Forbidden City.

For the lunch, your tour guide will recommend a local restaurant to if you like (at your own cost).

In the afternoon, you will visit the old neighborhood "Hutong", which is with more 700 hundred years history. Some Beijing locals still live in this area nowadays. You can choose to take a rickshaw ride there (at your own cost).

After the day tour, your driver and tour guide will send you back to the hotel by public transportation as well.