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This private day highlight tour will show you 2 UNESCO sites in Beijing, including the famous Badaling Great Wall and Ming Emperor’s Tomb. Private transfer, entrance fee, and lunch are inclusive. Come and enjoy this wonderful day trip to get to know some interesting stories about this amazing city.
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Duration: 7 to 9 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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This private day highlight tour will show you 2 UNESCO sites in Beijing, including the famous Badaling Great Wall and Ming Emperor’s Tomb. Private transfer, entrance fee, and lunch are inclusive. Come and enjoy this wonderful day trip to get to know some interesting stories about this amazing city.
Itinerary
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Stop At: The Great Wall at Badaling, Badaling, Yanqing District, Beijing 102112 China
After morning pickup at your Beijing hotel, travel in a private vehicle to the Badaling Great Wall, located about 45 miles (75 km) north of downtown Beijing. one of the most magnificent sections of the Great Wall around Beijing. This section of the Wall is about 2.3-miles long (3.7 kilometers) and on average 26-feet (8 meters) high. The highest section is wide enough for five horses to ride abreast. Badaling was the earliest part open to the visitors among all the sections of the Great Wall in Beijing. You can hike the Great Wall for two to three hours, or have the option to take cable car up and down (own expense). During winter season, you will see the snow that covers the mountaintop and the Wall. You will be amazed by this beautiful scenery. You will have couple of hours to enjoy the hiking here.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Ming Tombs (Ming Shishan Ling), Ming Shisan Ling Area, Changling Town, Changping District, Beijing 102213 China
During lunch time, your tour guide will take you to a local restaurant for local authentic food meal. In the afternoon, you will move on to the Underground Dingling Palace, part of the 13 Ming Dynasty Tombs complex.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Dingling Underground Palace, Ming Tombs, Changling Town, Changping District, Beijing 102213 China
13 Ming Dynasty Emperors were buried in this area. You will visit Dingling and the tomb of the Wanli Emperor, which is the only one of the Ming Dynasty Tombs to have been excavated.
Scared Path will be the last program before you finish this tour. The path stretching for 800 meters north of the pavilion is lined with stone pillars and statutes. The statues include 12 figures of generals and civil officials and 24 animal figures — lions, camels, elephants, unicorns and horses. There are 4 of each of these animals: two standing and two lying down. These lifelike and exquisite stone statues are of very high cultural and artistic value and constitute a museum of Chinese stone carving.
After the tour you will be transferred back to your midtown hotel in Beijing.
Duration: 2 hours
