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Beijing Cultural Tour: Great Wall, Forbidden City, Tiananmen
4.4
57 Ratings
Beijing
For those experiencing Beijing for the first time and wanting to delve into its rich history and traditions, this is the ideal excursion. Optimize your time in Beijing by exploring three top attractions in a single day: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and Tiananmen Square, with a friendly and well-informed local tour guide accompanying you.
For those experiencing Beijing for the first time and wanting to delve into its rich history and traditions, this is the ideal excursion. Optimize your time in Beijing by exploring three top attractions in a single day: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and Tiananmen Square, with a friendly and well-informed local tour guide accompanying you.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Your English-speaking guide will pick you up from your hotel at around 8 am to start the trip.
The first stop is Tiananmen Square which is located at the center of Beijing. It is the world’s largest city square, surrounded by magnificent buildings like National Museum of China and Mausoleum of Chairman Mao….
- Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Your English-speaking guide will pick you up from your hotel at around 8 am to start the trip.
The first stop is Tiananmen Square which is located at the center of Beijing. It is the world’s largest city square, surrounded by magnificent buildings like National Museum of China and Mausoleum of Chairman Mao.
- Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Walk across the square and enter the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the five most important palaces in the world. With 9999.5 rooms, it served as home and work place to 24 emperors of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) Dynasties. You will see exhibitions of imperial treasures and collections from that time. Visit the Forbidden City along the central axis from south to north for 2 hours.
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Mutianyu Great Wall - After lunch, visiting Mutianyu Great Wall about 2 hours. Mutianyu Great Wall is known for its beautiful surroundings - dense woods and rich pastures changing colors with the seasons of a year. Round-way cable cars are included.
Tour ends, you will be transferred back to hotels around 5:00pm–6:00pm.
What's Included
- Professional English-speaking guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Traditional Chinese lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Round-trip cable car at the Great Wall
- Professional English-speaking guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Traditional Chinese lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Round-trip cable car at the Great Wall
What's Not Included
- Tipping of guide & driver recommended on good service on a 2:1 ratio separately.
- Personal expenses
- Tipping of guide & driver recommended on good service on a 2:1 ratio separately.
- Personal expenses
Additional Information
- All passenger passport numbers MUST be advised at time of booking.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Hotel pickup and drop-off services are available within the 4th Ring Zone of Beijing City.
- You will receive details about tour guide and exact pickup time in your voucher the day before. And the tour guide will also call you via hotel or…
- All passenger passport numbers MUST be advised at time of booking.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Hotel pickup and drop-off services are available within the 4th Ring Zone of Beijing City.
- You will receive details about tour guide and exact pickup time in your voucher the day before. And the tour guide will also call you via hotel or leave a message for you about pickup time the night before tour.
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking. We try to meet individual requirement but can NOT 100% satisfy. Thank you for your understanding.
- Important Note: The Forbidden City opens for booking 7 days in advance, and could be sold out very soon during peak season. For the last-minute booking, we will contact you for a backup plan if ticket is sold out.
Location
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
West Changan Street, Dongcheng District,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.4
(57 Ratings)
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Icemdd
Apr 2, 2024
Intimate Experience As a Small Group - Lily was an awesome guide, explaining the history and background of the places we visited, and answering our endless questions about everything we saw. She was patient while waiting for us, and the ride to and from the various sights was comfortable and luxurious. No one else was on the tour so it was just me and my 2 friends. It felt just like a private tour just for us.
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Albaricoque1
Dec 26, 2019
Excellent - We book this tour online and it was amazing!
The tour included the places that we wanted to see, Jin was our guide and he made the experience even better. He was very knowledgeable, allowed enough time in each location and presented options (for example access to the Great Wall)
Highly recommend!!
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Freyno43
Nov 7, 2019
Around Beijing with Sophia - This was my second day with tour guide Sophia and this time we were taking in the Summer Palace, Quianmen Street and the Temple of Heaven, to name just a few. I was the only person on this day's tour and I had a thoroughly relaxing and enjoyable visit. Sophia is very knowledgeable about the city's history and also helped me try to find birthday cards for my nephew's birthday. I had a really great day. Thank you, Sophia.
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Seth135
Nov 6, 2019
Great Wall ,Forbidden city , and Tienneman Square - Sunny was excellent , knowledgeable, warm and went far beyond guiding the tour by helping several of us out with other Beijing questions and even escorting me by subway to my next event
The tour is a great way to see the highlights of Beijing if you have a short amount of time
Highly recommended
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383mitchellr
Oct 27, 2019
Day trip to forbidden city, Tiananmen Square and Mutianyu great wall - Excellent day trip. Highly recommend. Guide Nancy was very knowledgeable and English was great. Great tour guide.
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Jason
Oct 6, 2019
Forbidden City and Great Wall day tour - Thanks for a great day Alice. Great sights and unforgettable scenery. Loved learning about the history of the city, the dynasties and the Great Wall.
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Nonijuce
Sep 29, 2019
Beijing 2019 - The day was very eventful. Sunny was full of information. We enjoyed her time and knowledge greatly. All was amazing and the was awesome. Thank you Sunny.
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Nadia
Sep 21, 2019
Forbidden City and Great Wall - The trip was great, our tour guide Linda was v. knowledgable, helpful and friendly, v. good English and made sure everyone was happy and comfortable on the trip.
We visited Tianamen Square, Firbidden City and the Great Wall, me & my friend went up with the group by cable car, then walked to the stop where we got the tobaggen down, we both loved it.
Linda made sure everyone did what they were happy & comfortable to do, explaining things clearly.
She made great recommendations too, so we highly recommend her.
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Jessica_a
Jun 11, 2019
Short and convenient - very nice day trip! even though the tour guide might slow down a little, but it was probably due to holidays and traffic jam.
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Yili_travel
May 29, 2019
Excellent tour guide, amazing itinerary, and wonderful experience - I usually prefer self explore whenever come to travelling.
However, since I only got short days in Beijing, hence, I choose the one day tour to avoid the crowd & traffic jam. I searched like crazy on Tripadvisor to find the perfect excellent review tour, and this came to me.
I was concern about the price, it's quite expensive comparing other tour company.
However, the reviews persuade me to make a try.
When I register, I don't have credit card neither Paypal account, I was worry that I couldn't have slot in the tour on that day, because maximum is 6 people.
Hence, I wechat to the company, they are friendly & professional in offering me paying by cash upon arrival.
I was amazed that when I checked in the hotel, the tour guide Ms Nancy Niu already called to hotel & giving me message as reminder. Such a wonderful preparation!
In the morning, the trip should start at 8:30 AM, but to avoid the crowd & traffic, the bus came earlier at 7:30 AM.
It's so great that Ms Nancy's English is fluently!!!!!
She told us the history of TianMen, Forbidden city, Great Wall via headset which is very useful & convenience (like bluetooth), we can go around to take picture, but still can connect with her, hear her voice, we don't scare to be lost among many people.
Moreover, we saved a lot of time, no need long queuing under sun, skip the crowd, directly entry to Forbidden City like VIP guest which I felt kinda cool ~
We had a lot fun, we are like friend, we ate a lot of nice food, we took a lot of pictures as well
After the trip, she recommended me some places for nice food like lamb hotpot, peking duck, bubble milk tea, etc.
I love this trip a lot ~ I definitely recommend to my friends or whenever I go China again, I will check if the company has tour in that city or not. ~
Thank Ms Nancy, thanks Trippest ~
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