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1-Day Tour: Tianjin Cruise Port to Beijing City Highlights and Return

Visit highlights of Beijing including the Tianjin Cruise Port pick up by car, touring in Beijing Temple of Heaven,Forbidden City,Tiananmen Square,Summer Palace and back to Tianjin by train with this private shore excursion day tour from Tianjin Cruise Port.

You will be picked up and dropped off from Tianjin Cruise Port.

Duration: 10 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Tianjin International Cruise Port - In the morning, your private guide and driver will pick you up from the Tianjin Cruise Port at around 08:30am, and then escort you to the Beijing Mutianyu Great Wall and need 3hrs car ride.
Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) - You firstly will visit the Summer Palace, which is reputed as the museum of ancient royal gardens. Your expert guide will show you around. The whole garden mainly consists of the Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. The Long Corridor, seven hundred twenty-eight meters (796.2 yards) in length, boasts as the longest corridor in Chinese gardens. Beginning from the Yaoyue (Inviting-Moon) Gate and ending up with Shizhang Pavilion, the corridor ingeniously links Longevity Hill with Kunming Lake. You might appreciate the exquisite murals and enjoy the melodious music while walking along there.
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - After lunch, you will head to Tiananmen Square, you can take great photos of the Tiananmen Tower, Monument to People’s Heroes, and Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao.
The Tiananmen Square is seated in the center of Beijing City. During the past hundreds of years, it has witnessed numerous historical events and assemblies. Nowadays, it becomes a holding place for grand celebrations, military parades, and welcoming ceremonies for foreign leaders. Besides, visitors can admire the towering Monument to People’s Heroes and the solemn Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao on the square. Traditional Tiananmen Tower, Zhengyang Gate and Qianmen Arrow Tower can also be found there.
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Next, you will be led to go across the Tiananmen Tower to visit the Forbidden City, where 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368 - 1911) lived and handled national affairs.
Served as the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City is the largest and the best-preserved old wooden complex in the world. The whole palace is divided into Inner Court and Outer Court by the Palace of Heavenly Purity with the outer one for emperors to handle affairs and the inner one as the living place for the imperial family. The complex is also a giant museum with more than one million national treasures exhibited there.
Temple of Heaven - Afterwards, visit the Temple of Heaven. It is the largest royal ceremonial building groups in China. Emperors in the past used to hold the annual sacrificial activities here to worship the heaven and pray for a good harvest. Now it has developed into a large park where you can also see local people doing exercises and more recreational activities.
Beijing West Railway Station - At the end, your guide will escort you to Beijing West railway station and take a train to Tianjin, the train will takes around 30 minutes.
Note: Your guide don’t go with you to Tianjin.
Tianjin railway station - Upon arrival at Tianjin, you will be picked up on time and transferred to the Tianjin cruise port(Driver only, no guide).