Beijing, Dali tour
Experience the majesty of the Great Wall at Badaling and carve fresh tracks at Beijing's premier ski resort on this exclusive 2-day private winter escape.
Escape the city for a two-day winter adventure combining two of Beijing's most iconic experiences. Depart from your hotel at 9:00 am and drive 85 km to the Badaling Great Wall, one of the most magnificent and well-preserved sections. Spend 2–3 hours hiking the eastern ramparts, with the option to take a cable car for sweeping views. After lunch, check into a charming Great Wall Courtyard Inn nestled at the foot of the wall. On day two, head to Badaling Ski Resort, just 2 km west of the wall. Spanning 3,000,000 square meters, the resort offers slopes for all levels, including a 2,300-meter snow roadway for motorcycles, the longest in Beijing. After a morning on the slopes, return to your midtown hotel in the afternoon. This private tour offers a seamless blend of history and winter sports.
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Pick from your hotel in Beijing around 9:00am. First drive 85 km to the Badaling Great Wall, one of the most magnificent sections of the Great Wall in Beijing. Hiking the east part of the Badaling Great Wall for 2-3 hours. Cable car is available, but it is optional.

After lunch, then move on to a nice Great Wall Courtyard Inn lying at the foot of the Badaling Great Wall. Check-in and take a short break. the Great Wall Courtyard Inn is a Siheyuan-style building of Ming and Qing Dynasty. The courtyard is about 500 meters away from Badaling Great Wall and 1000 meters away from Badaling Broken Great Wall.

After 2 hours of climbing on the Great Wall, the hot spring is the perfect place to wash off the dirt and relax your body. The Huaxia Hot Spring is at a 20 minutes drive from the courtyard horel. The water from the spa comes from 2000 meters deep and its natural temparature is 54 C. There are 20 different types of pools and in total there are 32 some of the pools are inside others are outside. There are hot and cold pools, buble baths, hot stone beds, water massage pools, pools with flowers, there is a swimming pool and a pool with little fishs who eat your dead skin.There is also a sauna and you can have many different types of massages based on ancient Chinese medical knowledge.

After hot spring soaking, you are transferred back to your courtyard hotel by the Badaling Great Wall for the night and have a nice dinner at the courtyard hotel.
After breakfast at the hotel, today we will bring you to Badaling Ski Resort, about 2kms away to the west of Badaling Great Wall, with an area of 3,000,000 square meters. It provides two 800m long primary slide ways, two 600m long slide ways, one 800m-long and 12m advanced slide way, as well as one 2,300m long snow roadway for motercycles, the longest one of its kinds in Beijing. Furthermore, other entertainments such as Sleigh drawn by dogs, Bungee, Snow sauna, Self-help ice sculpture, crossing the glacial lake, and crossing glaciers on foot, will give you special unprecedentedly fancy and bizarre and motley foreign sceneries.

You will enjoy 4-hour ski at the ski resort. After simple Chinese lunch, drive back to your hotel in Beijing.
| Included | Not included |
|---|---|
| Air conditioned vehicle | Cable car on the Great Wall |
| Meals as listed | Ski clothes rental deposit: RMB 200 Per Person |
| Entrance fees | Snow Skis deposit: RMB 200 Per Person |
| 2 hours Great Wall hiking | Gratuities to drivers and guides. Booking Note: |
| 2 hours hotspring bathing | The Badaling Great Wall is the well preserved Ming Dynasty Great Wall with original appearance. Now it is divided into two sections - east and west starting at the Badaling Pass and Gate. Most people prefer to climb the east section where the highest watch tower is located. |
| 2-4 hours skiing | Some tourists don't choose the Badaling Great Wall. They think Badaling Great Wall is too touristy! "Tourity" is now a bad word for any tour desination. But why is it too touristy? It is "too tourisy" because Badaling Great Wall is the most gorgeous of all the five sections of the Great Wall around Beijing. The Badaling Great Wall is worth being listed on your Great Wall hiking travel plan. |
| Two sharing one-night stay at the courtyard hotel | Do I have a private dressing room to change my clothes before I go to the public hot spring pools for bathing? No, you have to change your clothes in a big public dressing room. If you feel awkward changing your clothes in the public, please forget the tour. |
| Englsih Speaking tour guide | Tell us something about the public hot spring pools. All the public spring pools are open-air with lots of people, women and men wearing swimming suits bathing. On weekends, you are expecting even more crowds of visitors. So, it's better to avoid the weekends. |
| The above private transfer is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group. | If you want to travel lightly for your ski trip to Beijing without bringing your own ski clothes, this never causes any problem since all the ski resorts offer ski clothes rental of ski jackets of all sizes with some amount of deposit of RMB 200 per person. Ski clothes closet: RMB 10 Per Person. |
| The quotations above have already included the ski fees for the skis, so you don't want to cram your ski gear all the way to Beijing. All the ski resorts in Beijing offer the ski gear rental service with some amount of deposit of about RMB 200 per person. Notice from TB |
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| Travelling Party | Tour Cost Per Person |
|---|---|
| 2 persons | $309 |
| 3 - 5 persons | $279 |
| 6 - 9 persons | $225 |
| 10 Persons up | $189 |
| Single Supplement | $55 |
| Travelling Party | Tour Cost Per Person |
|---|---|
| 2 persons | $315 |
| 3 - 5 persons | $285 |
| 6 - 9 persons | $235 |
| 10 Persons up | $195 |
| Single Supplement | $55 |
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