2-Day Beijing Highlights Small-Group Tour: Visit Great Wall and Forbidden City

Experience the best of Beijing in just 2 days! Explore the iconic Great Wall, visit the historic Forbidden City, and discover the city’s beautiful parks and worshipping altars. Avoid crowds with small-group tours and enjoy optional experiences like acrobatic shows and local shopping markets.

Duration: 2 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Inner City Trip: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park and Temple of Heaven

Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - You will visit the Tiananmen Square, the biggest city square in the world. There are the Great Hall of People, Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum and National Museum in the Square.

Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - You will be guided through this Imperial Residence for almost 600 years in the last two dynasties in China, to find out the histories flow between the archaic buildings, and to feel the massiveness of this wooden structural complex.

Jingshan Park (Jingshan Gongyuan) - After exit the Forbidden City, you can choose to climb the hill in Jingshan Park, to get to the top pavilion to over look the whole Forbidden City.

Temple of Heaven - This is the heaven worshipping place for almost 600 years during the last two dynasties in China.
You will see two most magnificent altars in there and have a nice walk through the Park Area to find out how local aged people spend their day there and look for a secret date matching spot in there.

Outer City Trip: Mutianyu Great Wall, Summer Palace and Olympic Stadium

Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) - You will enjoy a nice view and a cooler summer in here. First you will see the Palace Area to find out how luxury life the Imperial Family had, and then have a walk through the longest Corridor with paintings in the world to get on an Imperial Ferry Boat(if available) in Kunming Lake to enjoy the stunning view of this massive Imperial Garden, which was a birthday gift from an emperor to his mother almost 300 years ago.

Niaochao National Stadium - Passing by the Olympic Stadium - Bird Nest for photos.

Mutianyu Great Wall - You will be driven to the Mutianyu Great Wall through a beautiful countryside road, you will arrive earlier enough to avoid the crowds and queues to better enjoy the Wall. You will spend about 2 hours hiking on the Wall before gathering up for lunch.
You can choose to take a ski - lift up and toboggan sliding down, it is highly recommended, so that you won’t need to climb 30mins stairs before reaching the actual Great Wall.

What's Included
  • English Speaking Licensed Tour Guide
  • Bottled water
  • Lunch
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Pickup & drop-off for the hotels in the City Center
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Beverages
  • Imperial Ferry Boat tickets in the Summer Palace
Additional Information

Looking for a hassle-free, lunch-included, small group tour (maximum 9 people) to explore all the key sights in Beijing over 2 days? Want to visit a less crowded section of the Great Wall? How about pre-booked entrance tickets to the Forbidden City? Interested in seeing the most beautiful park and the largest worshipping altar in Beijing? Or maybe an option to watch an Acrobatic show? This is the tour for you!

  • Please provide your names, passport numbers, nationalities and year of birth at the time of booking for booking tickets.
  • Your passport is required for entering the Forbidden City, please bring the passport with you to the tour.
  • You can switch the cable way tickets to gondola tickets, but need to inform us in advance.
  • The price of Cable Way option for child is not included the cableways tickets. If the child is over 1.2m tall, he will need to purchase ticket onsite.
  • The Cableways option is only for the tickets of ski-lift/chair-lift round trip. The tobbogan silde down is only a free addon, not guaranteed.
  • This tour requires at least 3 person to operate.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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968killianm
Jul 24, 2024
Very convenient tour of the Beijing essentials - I had two days in Beijing with my brother after some other obligations in China, and I booked this tour as a way to try and see the most famous landmarks without the headache of sorting out reservations and transports. The tour did exactly that. Pickup at the hotel, transport to the sights, lunch in some pretty nice restaurants all included. Both guides we had were good english speakers, and nice to boot; and we both thoroughly enjoyed the sights and our time, despite the crowds; For downsides, mostly the inevitable ones tied to the timeframe - two days isn't enough to see everything, or even to give potential day-long attractions like the Forbidden City the time they deserve; not much the tour can do about that.
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Stella_c
Jul 15, 2024
Enjoyable moment in Beijing - The trip is very nice, with good time management and itinerary that brings you to the main highlights of Beijing. David is a super helpful person and organised the trip well!
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Raymundjorge_m
Jul 2, 2024
Keep up the good work - Keith and David, especially David are both superb host and guide. If i could give David 10 stars i would. He goes out of his way to make his guest happy. Hope all guides are like him. More power to your company.
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Yunior_p
Jun 20, 2024
Amaizing 2 days on Beijing - I really like this tour… it was a very comprehensive tour including the most important places in and outside Beijing. I would like thanks both tour guys : the one we use for the Forbidden City was David and for the Great Wall of china we had Keith ….. both tour guys were amazing and knowledgeable ahout the places and the history. The guy for the great wall was very smart, he took us very early in the morning so we didn’t get to many people at the Wall … our photos were fenomenals. In general I recommend this tour to everyone…
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Jessica_g
Jun 17, 2024
Great tour - We highly recommend the 2-day tour with viator. It's a great way to see all the important sights in Beijing. David is a very good tour guide. Very knowlegeable and can answer all our questions. Also very caring with my senior parents. 5 stars!
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Robynwilcha05
Jun 24, 2024
Efficient and easy tour of Beijing tourist hotspots! - The tour did exactly what the itinerary said it would do! The tour guides speak English well and were very knowledgeable about the sights. Lunch was in a Chinese food market and was very tasty. The tour van is comfortable and spacious. A great overall tour of Beijing tourist hotspots!
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Agnes_l
Jun 12, 2024
Well planned Beijing Itinerary - The 2-day tour includes all essential and critical places of interest in Beijing. Pace was just nice, not too tiring but I get to see everything that I see. Tour guide has good knowledge. Driver was also friendly and helpful.
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Julia_b
Jul 20, 2024
Hit and miss - The outer city trip was a shambles, really disorganised and poor quality transport. Guide wasn't very informative and just left us at the wall - paid for luge down but told on arrival queue too long so used cable car instead. The bus didn't even have functioning seatbelts. The inner city trip with Keith was much better, very busy but Keith was informative and helpful. The bus was significantly better too.
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Tanya_g
Jul 12, 2024
Over promise and under deliver - This tour was extremely disappointing. Our tour group was 11 people. This is a very strenuous tour, we walked over 6 miles each day on this tour. Please remember to bring your own toilet paper and soap or hand sanitizer as none is provided to you in the public restroom or by the tour guide. On the 1st day, we were not able to go into Tiana men Square due to a “government meeting.” We waited in an extremely long line for 20 minutes before deciding that we wouldn’t be able to get in. The tour guide who said he had over 10-15 years of experience had us walking in circles. He didn’t coordinate with the driver well for pick ups and had to wait for a long time for pick ups with no shade or any seats. Water was not provided until another tourist asked for water, then water which was hot from sitting in the hot van all day was provided at the end of a sweltering day. No one in our group wanted to do the tea ceremony but we were forced to go. WhenI requested to use the bathroom, the tour guide treated me as though I were a child and told me to wait even though the bathroom was right across the lane. On the 2nd day at the Great Wall, the bus driver dropped us off and another van picked us up to take us a little further up the hill. We still had to walk very far to the Great Wall. I paid for the cable ride with toboggan ride down the Great Wall but was told that the line was too long to accommodate us and we would have to leave to tour group if we wanted to go on the toboggan. Very heartbreaking 😢. I was offered a half day refund if I chose to leave the group but decided to take the gondola ride instead. The lunches were mediocre with only 1 meat dish. One of the restaurants didn’t have a western toilet. I don’t recommend this tour.
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Joys_l
Jul 7, 2024
Not recommended - We suppose it should be a private tour that is meant to be one to one guide. In the end, we have been arranged with the other 3 different groups with different expectations hence resulted a messy arrangement and time consuming.
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