Beijing Trip Overview
Take a Beijing layover tour to pack in the city’s top sights in a convenient way. With an expert guide, travel the city by private transportation, stopping at major attractions like Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City and Summer Palace. Plus, you will have a whole new experience-tasting the traditional and authentic local food.
1. Visit a China’s ancient sacrificial building – Temple of Heaven
2. Visit the magnificent Forbidden City
3. Visit the most well-preserved royal park – Summer Palace
4. Learn about local insights, history, and geography from your guide
5. Round-trip airport transport by private vehicle is included on this day tour
Additional Info
Duration: 9 to 10 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Beijing, China, China
Take a Beijing layover tour to pack in the city’s top sights in a convenient way. With an expert guide, travel the city by private transportation, stopping at major attractions like Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City and Summer Palace. Plus, you will have a whole new experience-tasting the traditional and authentic local food.
1. Visit a China’s ancient sacrificial building – Temple of Heaven
2. Visit the magnificent Forbidden City
3. Visit the most well-preserved royal park – Summer Palace
4. Learn about local insights, history, and geography from your guide
5. Round-trip airport transport by private vehicle is included on this day tour
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Temple of Heaven, Tiantan Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100050 China
Your tour guide will meet you at exit of the airport with the welcoming board on which your name will be written at 08:30 a.m.. Then, we will transfer to Temple of Heaven and start start the highlight layover tour.
It 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: Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang), West Changan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006 China
The solemn and respectful Tiananmen Square is the largest central city square in the world, which serves not only the city’s symbol but also the whole of China. This immense courtyard is surrounded by a variety of significant edifices such as the Tiananmen Tower, Great Hall of the People, Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao, Monument to the People’s Heroes and National Museum.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Forbidden City-The Palace Museum, No.4 Jingshanqian Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100009 China
Then, we will taste the traditional and authentic local food for lunch.
After lunch, we will walk into the Forbidden City, it is is the largest and the best-preserved imperial palace complex in the world. It has 9,999 rooms in flourishing period with just a single room short of the number that ancient Chinese belief represents ‘Divine Perfection’ and surrounded by a moat six meters deep and ten-meter high wall. For five centuries, this palace functioned as the administrative center of the country.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Summer Palace (Yiheyuan), No.19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100080 China
This will be last spot of the tour, but it is the largest and best-preserved of the surviving imperial garden. Once a summer retreat for emperors, this 716-acre park is still a retreat for tourist, who can relax here or stroll around ancient pavilions, mansions, temples, bridges and huge lake, stopping occasionally at a shop or tea-house. Much-loved summer retreat of the Imperial families, the lovely landscaped gardens, halls, pavilions and corridors are set around the lake and rivers in natural harmony.
Afterwards, enjoy comfortable transfer back to Beijing airport to catch your flight, and your layover tour ends.
Duration: 2 hours
