Overview
This amazing classic city tour of Beijing that includes both visiting the most popular attractions and also some small historic alleys. You will start your day from walking around the Tian'anmen Square, heading to Forbidden City, explore the Summer Palace and end up your day by going to Temple of Heaven. Hotel transfer, local lunch, private guide and entrance tickets are all included.
Why travelers book this
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Professional guide
- Transfer(private transfer or Uber according to your booking)
- Lunch in a local Chinese restaurant
- Entrance Tickets to the Forbidden City, Heaven Temple&Summer Palace
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Dinner
- Tiananmen Square
Meeting & Pickup
Meeting point, pickup options and start time are confirmed on Viator before checkout.
Itinerary
Stop 1
Next, heading to the magnificent Forbidden City, the largest Imperial Palace in the world. You’ll spend a couple of hours wandering around this amazing example of Imperial architecture and learning about the history of the palace. The whole morning tour will be around 2 hours.
Stop 2
After lunch, you will visit the classic and historic Hutong alleys by riding a rickshaw. In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods. At the end, you will visit Temple of Heaven, it is an imperial complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. After your classic city tour, your tour guide will send you back to your hotel in Beijing.
Stop 3
Summer Palace, a summer resort for imperial family members. It’s considered the best preserved imperial gardens in China, you can understand the stories about the dragon lady.
Important Information
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Please wear comfortable shoes
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Please provide your hotel address for picking up
- Please make sure to provide your passport number and name for entrance Forbidden City tickets purchase in advance
- If you prefer to have different language tour guide than English one, please kindly make your booking with request 3 days advance