Beijing Trip Overview
As one of the most popular travel destinations in the world, Beijing is a historical and cultural city with wonderful array of attractions. This is a tour that you can get a in-depth experience in Beijing. With the assistance of a knowledgeable guide, we will walk into the ancient city and explore more in Temple of Heaven and Hutong. The itinerary includes visiting Temple of Heaven and Wangfujing Street, having a bird’s eye view of Forbidden City, walking into Hutong to visit a local home and gain insight into ancient Chinese customs, watching a cricket show and learning paper-cutting.
1. Visit a China’s ancient sacrificial building – Temple of Heaven
2. Wander in the most well-known and prosperous Wangfujing Street
3. Walk into Hutong to gain insight into ancient Chinese customs
4. Enjoy delicious Lunch (Peking duck and vegetarian options are available)
5. Hassle-free pickup from most location within Beijing 5th Ring Road
6. Get local tips and insights from your guide
Additional Info
Duration: 7 to 8 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Beijing, Beijing, China
As one of the most popular travel destinations in the world, Beijing is a historical and cultural city with wonderful array of attractions. This is a tour that you can get a in-depth experience in Beijing. With the assistance of a knowledgeable guide, we will walk into the ancient city and explore more in Temple of Heaven and Hutong. The itinerary includes visiting Temple of Heaven and Wangfujing Street, having a bird’s eye view of Forbidden City, walking into Hutong to visit a local home and gain insight into ancient Chinese customs, watching a cricket show and learning paper-cutting.
1. Visit a China’s ancient sacrificial building – Temple of Heaven
2. Wander in the most well-known and prosperous Wangfujing Street
3. Walk into Hutong to gain insight into ancient Chinese customs
4. Enjoy delicious Lunch (Peking duck and vegetarian options are available)
5. Hassle-free pickup from most location within Beijing 5th Ring Road
6. Get local tips and insights from your guide
Itinerary
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Stop At: Temple of Heaven, Tiantan Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100050 China
Temple of Heaven is the Largest Existing Architecture Group For Heaven Worship in the World. Originally, the Temple of Heaven was the place where emperors of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty held the Heaven Worship Ceremony.
Residents living near the this place enjoy many activities here, such as running, cycling, singing, dancing, playing chess, flying kites, etc. You can become involved personally in these activities and experience the leisure pursuits of local people.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006 China
Wangfujing is one of the most famous shopping streets, not only in Beijing but in all of China. It is the most well-known and prosperous shopping street with modern and fashion trends.
Wangfujing Shopping Street houses a wide variety of shops and boutiques, some of which are of world-famous brands as well as restaurants. Apart from that, there are also many time honored stores with traditional commodities standing in the street for hundreds of years. Nowadays, Beijing Wangfujing Street is a modern commercial street which can be paralleled with Champs Elysees in Paris.
Another Wangfujing landmark: the Foreign Languages Bookstore.
The store sells books, art supplies, videos and CDs on several floors, but the street level is the place to buy coffee table books about China in a variety of languages as well as cookbooks and books to help you learn the Chinese language.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Jingshan Park (Jingshan Gongyuan), No.44 Jingshanxi Street, Xicheng District, Beijing 100009 China
Jingshan Park is superbly landscaped with hills to ascend by steps, clear lakes and dignified ancient buildings. It used to be one of the ancient imperial gardens in Beijing, and now has developed as a peaceful public park. Vigorous cypresses are planted widely in the park, creating a quiet and solemn atmosphere with the golden-glazed ancient pavilions.
Because of close to north of the Forbidden City, Jingshan Park is the best place for a bird’s eye view of the Forbidden City and central Beijing. At dusk, the Forbidden City is particularly beautiful, palace eaves decorated with golden rays of the setting sun.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Hutong Tour, No.9, Zhonglou, Dongcheng District No.9, Zhonglou, Dongcheng District, 100009, Beijing, Beijing 100009 China
Hutong(胡同) is the name given to a narrow lane, alley, or small street between rows of single-storey Siheyuan(四合院) dwelled by Beijingers in the past. People say that the real culture of Beijing lies in the culture of Hutong and Siheyuan. They give an insight to the old lifestyle of ordinary Beijingers and have special appeal to tourists.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Beijing, Beijing
In Beijing, cricket refers to a kind of insect and its Chinese name is Qu Qu(蛐蛐). Keeping cricket has a history of more than 1500 years in China. People like to keep the cricket and watch the cricket fighting. The lifetime of the cricket is only 100 days. It may seem strange that such a little insect could bring great popularity to a place, but the crickets are indeed an extraordinary and indispensable feature.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Beijing, Beijing
Paper-cutting(剪纸) is a very distinctive visual art of Chinese handicrafts. It originated from the 6th century when women used to paste golden and silver foil cuttings onto their hair at the temples, and men used them in sacred rituals. Today, paper-cuttings are chiefly decorative. They are pasted on the walls, windows, doors, columns and lanterns to express people’s hopes, gratitude and other emotions.
Duration: 1 minute
