Beijing Trip Overview
This fully-customizable private sightseeing tour offers you a wonderful Beijing city attraction experience in a free style. Visit top attractions like Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Jingshan Park, Lama Temple, Hutongs, Summer Palace and some shopping market and etc. Choose 3 to 4 sights to visit in 8 hours (entrance fees at your own expense). Hotel pickup and drop-off is included.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Bus & Minivan Tours
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This fully-customizable private sightseeing tour offers you a wonderful Beijing city attraction experience in a free style. Visit top attractions like Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Jingshan Park, Lama Temple, Hutongs, Summer Palace and some shopping market and etc. Choose 3 to 4 sights to visit in 8 hours (entrance fees at your own expense). Hotel pickup and drop-off is included.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang), West Changan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006 China
Your knowledgable tour guide will pick you up at the hotel lobby and tell your tour guide what you are interested. Your itinerary is 100% customized and your tour guide can also give you some suggestions. You may also follow the sample itinerary.
First you can do the Tian’anmen Square which is the largest city center square in the world. Looking around the buildings around the square just seeing from outside such as Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao; National Museum of China; the Great Hall of the People; Monument to the People’s Heroes.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Forbidden City-The Palace Museum, No.4 Jingshanqian Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100009 China
Afterwards, you can continue walk to Forbidden City which is Imperial Palace for the emperors in the Ming & Qing Dynasty. Listen to the stories and what had happened at the Forbidden City. You will see where the Emperors’ worked, lived and spared their lives with their empresses and concubines. (pls remind the Forbidden City closes every Monday)
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Jingshan Park (Jingshan Gongyuan), No.44 Jingshanxi Street, Xicheng District, Beijing 100009 China
After that you may just climb to the top of the park behind the Forbidden City which is called Jingshan Park. You can have the bird view of the Forbidden City as well as the whole city here if the weather is bright.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Lama Temple (Yonghegong), No.12 Yonghegong Street, Beixinqiao, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100007 China
After the wonderful morning actives you can take a lunch at the local Chinese restaurant and your private tour guide. After that you can visit the Lama Temple which is the biggest lamasery in Beijing and used to be the home for the Qing Emperor Yongzheng before he became emperor. Later it turns to a temple carries with Tibetan characters. Now you can see people go there and play their wishes. Monks also practices religious ceremonies during some festivals.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Confucius and Guozijian Museum, No.13 Guozijian Street, Beijing China
After that, you can visit Temple of Confucius which is the second largest Confucius Temple in China. You will understand how confucius philosophy influence Chinese life.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Wudaoying Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing China
It’s an artistic and elegant hutong with an array of cafes, bars and dessert shops dotted on both sides, among which are some small specific shops with exquisite decorations. The Chinese architectures with plastered walls and grey tiles on the two sides of the hutong show the local colour of art and literature.
As the exclusive flexible tour , if you have been to the above mentioned attrations , you could also have alternative options to other sights such as Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Drum Tower & Bell Tower. You can also do some shopping such as the Silk Market Pearl Market. By the end of tour you will be dropped off at the hotel or any preferred stop in the city.
Duration: 30 minutes
