Beijing Guilin Tour

Entry Beijing

Day 1.

Arrive in Beijing.
Be picked by private vehicle and English speaking tour guide from airport.
Be transferred to hotel.

After a short rest in hotel, visit Temple of Heaven. Built in 1420 during Ming Dynasty, Temple of Heaven is the best preserved and largest sacrificial building complex in the world. The emperor came to the temple every winter to pray for ample harvests and good weather. Strictly built on the basis of philosophical requirements, the temple in many ways features the relationship between Heaven and Earth. Take sightseeing in the attraction for one hour.

Be transferred back to your hotel after the tour.

Breakfast, Lunch

Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Kongfu show

Day 2.

Pick up from your hotel around 8:30 am.

Visit Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen Square is the largest public square in the world. Surrounded by many well-known cultural and political institutions, the square is the final resting place of Chairman Mao Zedong. Tiananmen square has witnessed the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Then we will enter the Forbidden City from the north end of Tiananmen Square. Known as the Palace Museum, Forbidden City is a treasure house of Chinese cultural and historical relics. The palace was the exclusive domain of the imperial court for almost 500 years. As one of the World Cultural Relics, the palace consists of 90 palaces and courtyards, 980 buildings and 8,704 rooms. Take sightseeing in Forbidden City along the central axis for 1.5 to 2 hours.

Take a Chinese Herbal Medicine class for about 40 minutes before lunch.
Drugs that the Chinese medicine uses are usually plants, so it usually called Chinese herbal medicine. In Chinese people's process of fighting with the disease for thousands of years, rich medical knowledge was gradually accumulated through the practice and understanding. These medical knowledge be passed by apprentice dictation first, and then were written down in books, which helped the medical knowledge spread fast and farther.

Drive to restaurant to have lunch.

After lunch visit Summer Palace. Summer Palace was first built in 1750 by Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. It covers an area of 2.9 square kilometers, including 70,000 square meters of building space. Summer Palace perfectly combines the natural landscape of hills and open water with humankind works such as pavilions, halls, palaces and bridges. In 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. Take sightseeing for 1 to 1.5 hours.

Have dinner in a restaurant with Beijing local favor.

Be transferred to Hong theatre to enjoy Kongfu Show. The performance (19:30 to 20:45) combines the Kongfu with dancing skill, which make the performance more interesting.

Be transferred back to your hotel after the tour.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Ming Tombs-Changling, Sacred Way, Lunch, Badaling Great Wall

Day 3.

Be picked up from hotel at 08:30 am.

Drive to Ming Tombs to visit Changling, the largest one. Ming Tomb is the final resting place of 13 Ming Dynasty emperors, along with 23 empresses and a number of concubines. It has a history of over 600 years. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, the Ming Tombs features splendid landscape. Chang Ling (the Tomb of Chang) was built by the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in 1409 AD. Chang Ling is the largest tomb in architectural scale. The hall of Chang Ling is the largest structure of nanmu wood in China.

Visit Sacred Way for half an hour. Sacred Way stretches 7 kilometers from south to north through the center of the tombs area. It was originally built for the first tomb Changling - the tomb of Emperor Yongle, the most powerful emperor in the Ming dynasty. But as the later tombs were built either to the right or to the left, it became the main road to all of them.

Proceed to a restaurant to have lunch and a short rest.

Drive to the famous Badaling Great Wall. The Great Wall was built and maintained between the 7th century BC and 17th century BC. It was originally built to protect the empire from northern invaders. The Great Wall stretches through the countryside over deserts, hills and plains for 8,851.8 kilometers.
Badaling was built in 1505 during the Ming Dynasty. This section of the Great Wall is the best preserved and most visited one. It is 7600 meters long and 1000 meters above sea level, commanding a strategic position in ancient times.
Spend two hours on the Great Wall. Cable car is optional to get the top to have a bird view of the wall.

Be transferred back to your hotel after the whole day tour.

Breakfast, Lunch

Beijing Hutong, Beijing - Guilin

Day 4.

Be picked up from hotel at 08:30 am.

Be transferred to Beijing Hutong. Hutongs are lanes or alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan (a compound with houses around a courtyard). Most of them were built during the Yuan (1206-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1908) dynasties surrounding the Forbidden City. Many famous operas and dramas are based on the themes of hutong life. Man-power rickshaw is arranged for you to feel the Hutong of Beijing.

Be transferred to airport to connect flight to Guilin.

Arriving in Guilin, be met and transferred to your hotel with private vehicle and tour guide.

Breakfast, Lunch

Li River Cruise, Yangshuo

Day 5.

Pick up from your hotel at 08:30 am.

Be transferred to the Zhujiang Pier (about 1 hour drive) for a 4.5 hours wonderful Li River Cruise with lunch aboard. Li River is one of the most popular and picturesque scenic spots in China. Gorgeous Karst peaks give you surprises at each bend of the limpid river under the blue sky. Water buffalo patrol the fields, peasants reap rice paddies, school kids and fisherman float by on bamboo rafts. With its breathtaking scenery, the scenery along the Li River become one of China's top tourist destinations.

Disembark at the one thousand year old town Yangshuo. Yangshuo is a one-thousand-year-old town, a lovely and relaxing place to break a journey and to soak up some of China's most beautiful scenery in the afternoon.

Have a short exploration to the old town before to be transferred back to Guilin city.

Breakfast, Lunch

Reed Flute, Elephant Trunk Hill, Departure

Day 6.

Pick up from your hotel at 08:30 am。

Have private city tour in this scenery city. Visit Reed Flute Cave. Known as "the Palace of Natural Arts", Reed Flute Cave contains beautiful stalactites and stalagmites.

Then we will visit Elephant Trunk Hill -the symbol of Guilin, it looks like a giant elephant with a long trunk.

Transfer to airport to connect flight.
Service End.

Breakfast