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This is 3hours private tour, follow our professional tour guide to walk in the famous Beijing old Hutong alley and visit the famous Ming Dynasty Drum Tower . Tasting the local famous Pekin hot pot in a local popular Hutong restaurant. Private transportation for the tour, hotel pick up is included. Entrance fee of Drum Tower is included as well. Two options for this tour booking, the morning tour depart at 9am in the morning, the afternoon tour depart at 3pm in the afternoon.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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This is 3hours private tour, follow our professional tour guide to walk in the famous Beijing old Hutong alley and visit the famous Ming Dynasty Drum Tower . Tasting the local famous Pekin hot pot in a local popular Hutong restaurant. Private transportation for the tour, hotel pick up is included. Entrance fee of Drum Tower is included as well. Two options for this tour booking, the morning tour depart at 9am in the morning, the afternoon tour depart at 3pm in the afternoon.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Bell and Drum Towers, Di’anmen Wai Main Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006 China
This tour has two options for departure time, you can either choose the departure time at 9am in the morning or 3pm in the afternoon.
After the tour guide pick you up from your hotel lobby at Beijing downtown area, then come to the famous Drum Tower which was for centuries the tallest building in Beijing, lording it over the surrounding hutong. Up in the 46m-high tower, the great drums would beat to sound the curfew after nightfall in the Qing dynasty, and thereafter every two hours to coordinate the patrols of the city’s nightwatch. Climb the steep stairs to hear a touristy drumming performance every hour from 9.30am.Originally built in 1272, the Drum Tower (and the Bell Tower to the north) are aligned on Beijing’s central axis, at the heart of the former Mongol-led Yuan capital of Dàdū, as Beijing was then known. It was rebuilt by Emperor Yongle as part of his grand plan for Ming dynasty Beijing. Since then it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Nanluoguxiang, Nanluoguo Xiang, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100009 China
After finish the visit of Drum Tower, then come to Nanluogu Hutong which was the local oldest Hutong in Beijing,it is a north–south strip of snack stalls, small food courts, souvenir shops and more people than you can possibly imagine crowding onto a single street. The main reason to visit is to delve into the quieter alleys that cross the main lane,where you’ll turn up a more compelling array of cafes, bars and restaurants between historic residences.
Hungry now? Let’s go to a local very popular restaurant to taste the famous traditional Old Beijing hot pot,it is very yummy and you can dip all kinds of food materials in the hot pot which has burning charcoal under the pot, Beijingers love it very much, lamb and beef dip inside with some other vegetables, it is not spicy hot as Sichuan hot pot, the sauce is sesame sauce.So if you don’t eat spicy, this will be a perfect choice for you. The meal and drinks are included.
This tour will be finished here,you can have a walk around the beautiful Houhai lake nearby after the meal.
Duration: 1 hour
