4-Day Beijing Tour Package B (Excluding Hotel) Closed

After breakfast at your hotel, start your tour with the visit to Tiananmen Square (40 minutes), the largest public square in the world. Then move on to the Forbidden City (2 hours), the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. After lunch a nice restaurant, head to the Shichahai Area (2.5 hours) - the old part of Beijing. First you have a hard-to-get-opportunity of one-hour tour of a 300-year old courtyard . With the help of your English speaking tour guide, the housekeeper of the yard gives you a detailed explanation of the old courtyard ( Siheyuan ) - its history, its layout, its Fengshui, and its traditiona Chinese culture involved. Then take a pedcab and drive through the zigzag and narrow alleys or hutongs. Two people share one rickshaw. Drop off the peidicab at the Silver Ingot Bridge( Yinding Bridge ) and walk along the 800-year old Yandai Xiejie ( Tobacco Pipe Lean Street ), and get to the Drum Tower . Ascending the 67-meter high and two-story Drum Tower dating from 1420 is sure to bring you back to the old Beijing by seeing the big drum tower and having bird's eye view of the surrounding communities of hutongs and siheyuan - existing traditional courtyards in Beijing. Tonight, you will be arrange to see Beijing Opera at Liyuan Theatre (Add: 1/F Qianmen Hotel, Yongan Road, Hufangqiao, Xicheng District, Beijing). Show time: 19:30 - 20:40. Return to your hotel at the end of the show. Lunch: Beijing food lunch at Fuku Restaurant

Half day excursion to the Badaling Great Wall (2 hours), the most strong and magnificent section of the all 5 sections of the Great Wall in Beijing. The hike takes about 2-3 hours. After lunch, head back to the downtown Beijing to visit the Summer Palace (2 hours), originally a royal garden and a temporary dwelling palace for emperors of Qing Dynasty. Back to your hotel. Lunch: Chinese lunch at Siwei Restaurant

After breakfast, start your morning tour with the visit to the Temple of Heaven (1.5 hours), the place where the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for peace and harvest. After lunch, head to the Olympic Green (40 minutes) to have an outside look at the Bird's Nest and Water Cube. Then transfer to airport for departure or free activity on your own. Lunch: Chinese lunch at Junyuexing Restaurant