Pick-up at the airport is available upon request. Pick-up at your hotel and return to the hotel at night are included.
If you have two days free in Beijing for sight-seeing, check this 2 days suggested itinerary for reference:
Suggested Itinerary:
Day 1st: National Grand Theatre-Tian’anmen Square-Forbidden City-Hutong Exploration-Temple of Heaven
-Pick up at your hotel (8:30am to 9:00am)
Hutongs |
-Start your day at the National Grand Theatre-egg shape structure,then walk to theTian’anmen Square, allowing for a 30-min stroll around the world’s largest public square. Explore the sites around the square and take some picture. (half an hour)
-Carry on northward to Tian’anmen Rostrum guarded by the enormous portrait of Mao avove. Allow yourself a 20-minute breather to take a spectacular view of the entire square before heading north to the Forbidden City. Allow yourself at least 2 hours to wander around in this most amazing imperial architecture. (2 hours)
- Dine in Xinjiang (Muslim) Style Lunch (1 hour)
Xinjiang food includes lamb kabobs and is normaly served by the Uiger monorities.
Afternoon:
Perking Duck |
-After lunch, drive to the hutong (old residential area) where the transport change into rickshaw. The 30min rickshaw tour stops at a local family where the traveller can get an insight of the home settings and life of traditional Beijingers.
-15min Drive to the Temple of Heaven- the Imperial worshiping place in the ancient time, is the largest preserved religious constructional group in China at moment, which turns into
a park where the local people use the vast space for social activity such as singing, dancing, and Taiji practice.
-Enjoy the Perking Duck Dinner at the Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant famous for the less greasy duck meat.
Day 2nd: Great Wall at Mutianyu Section-Olympic Stadium-Summer Palace
-Pick up at your hotel (8:30am)
Mutianyu Great Wall |
Summer Palace |
-2 hours drive to the Mutianyu Great Wall, a famous and ideal section of the Great Wall if you look for a half-day tour to the Great Wall with moderate hiking. Take the cable car or chair lift up the wall and allow yourself spending 1 to 2 hours hiking up and down from one section to another if you wish to see several watch towers and parts of walls. You can take the exhilarating toboggan ride back down the wall.
--Dine in a local restraurant with most typical dish of rainbow trout barbacue together with an assortment of other Chinese dishes both veg and meat.
Bird Nest |
--After lunch, 1 hour drive to the summer palace, it’s the Summer Resort for the ancient emperors with more than 800 year, consisting of KunMing lake and Longevity hill, is the one of largest Garden in the world. Wonderful scenery combined with the solemn buildings make you a wonderful time here.
-20min drive to Olympic Park, the most important place for the Beijing Olympics and the best place to learn about the Olympics. You’ll need about two hours here. First have a look at the amazing architectural masterpiece-the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) and take a picture there. Then walk west from there to see the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube), another Olympic venue.