Beijing 4 Day Tour for Couples with Kids

Picked by our tour guide at your hotel in Beijing early in the morning around 8:00 am. Then head to Mutianyue Great Wall (hiking about 2 hours), a beautiful section of the all 5 major sections of the Great Wall around Beijing, less crowded than Badaling Great Wall with picturesque views. Mutianyu Great Wall once worked as the northern barrier defending the capital and the imperial tombs.

There are three ways to get onto the Wall when you get to the base of Mutianyu Great Wall. Apart from hiking up on foot (half hour), you can choose take cable car or chair lift (Optional ). To get down the wall, you can also take Toboggan slide down ( Optional ).

Lunch will be arranged at Xinshuangquan Restaurant which serves traditional Chinese food.

After lunch, drive back to the downtown Beijing and visit Sony ExploraScience. It is a Science and technology museum, an interactive educational center for promotion of science and education. The blend of science and technology is the main theme of Sony ExploraScience.

It blends interactive educational exhibits from the Exploratorium in San Francisco with Sony's latest digital technologies to assist young children to experience

Back to your hotel in Beijing around 5:00 PM

After breakfast, head to Tiananmen Square ( 40 minutes sightseeing ), the largest public square in the world. Located in the heart of Beijing City, it is the site for massive parades and rallies, which is the largest square of this kind in the world. This was the site when in 1949, from a rostrum on Tiananmen (the Gate of Heavenly Peace), Chairman Mao proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

Move on to Forbidden City ( 2 hours visit ), the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. For almost 500 years, it served as the seat- bed of the Emperors in Ming and Qing Dynasties as well as the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government.

Lunch will be arranged at one of our designated quality Chinese restaurants which offer traditional Chinese food.

After lunch, on the way to Summer Palace, you will drop off at Beijing Zoo to see see the Giant Pandas. The first birth of a giant panda in captivity occurred at the Beijing Zoo 1963. The first artifcial insemination breeding success in the world was achieved at the Beijing Zoo in 1978. As a symbol of friendship, the giant pandas have been presented to many countries.

After lunch, continue to visit Summer Palace (2 hours sightseeing), originally a royal garden and a temporary dwelling palace for emperors of Qing Dynasty. Its predecessor was the Garden of Clear Ripples (Qingyiyuan) started in 1750 and burned down by the British and French allied troops in 1860.

Back to your hotel in Beijing around 6:00 PM

Picked up from your hotel in Beijing around 8:00 and transferred to Chenxian Street, the east-west roadway, starting about 700 years ago with its structures built in line with ancient Chinese customs, once one of the China's most important humanist centers - the Confucius Temple and Guozijian (Imperial College).

You will be arranged to visit Confucius Temple and Guozijian Museum. Confucius Temple in Beijing is the place where people pay respect to Confucius, which has started since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) . Confucius is a Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

Guozijian was once the national central institute of learning in Chinese dynasties in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynastied. It was the highest institute of learning in China's traditional educational system.

Then head to Shichahai Area for lunch. You are arranged to have home made lunch in a private and traditional local family.

After lunch, continue to visit 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. Then walking along the Yanda Xiejie (Yandai Byway), a quaint 800-year-old hutong located directly north of Yinding Bridge between Qianhai and Houhai and the south of the Drum Tower, used to be well-known for sellers of long-stemmed pipes, hence the name.

Continue to walk across the Silver Ingot Bridge ( Yinding Bridge ), a narrow channel joining Qianhai Lake and the Houhai Lake, the hub of Shichhai area with surrounding quiet hutongs. At Yinding Bridge, you will take a 30-minute pedicab drive through the zigzag and narrow alleys or hutongs. Two people share one rickshaw. You are not supposed to tip the pedicab driver since the tour cost includes the tip.

Arriving at an old courtyard and begin the one hour visit inside, with the help of your English speaking tour guide of the courtyard, you will have a detailed explanation of the old courtyard ( Siheyuan ) - its history, its layout, its Fengshui, and its traditional Chinese culture involved.

At the end of the tour, you returned to your hotel in Beijing

Picked up from your hotel in downtown Beijing around 8:00am, then escorted by our tour guide, drive along Jingping Expressway to the Pinggu District in the east of Beijing.

First visit Stone Forest Gorge. The stone forest valley is 6 kilometers long with its main peak looking like trees put together, hence the name stone forest for the scenic area. The stone forest gorge area has dense plantations and fresh air, a good place to walk close to the greatness of the nature. Then move on to the world's largest glass sightseeing platform. It is hung out from the cliff on the highest peak inside Stone Forest Gorge (Shilinxia Scenic Area), 11 meters longer than the Grand Canyon Skywalk inside the Grand Canyon National Park in the United States.

The transparent sightseeing platform allows you to have a terrific view of the valleys and mountains below.

You will be arranged to take the cable up to the transparent sightseeing platform and take the cable down afterwards.

Then head to the Diaowo Village. The village has 54 households with over 100 villagers. Today you will meet Mrs Li and her husband Mr. Hao in their courtyard home. A few years ago Mrs. Li retired and left the busy downtown Beijing and relocated to her husband birth place for spending the retirement life.

Now she eats the vegetables she plants in her front yard and the Geese & Chickens in her back yard, enjoying an organic living and healthy life. You will have a home lunch made by Lady Li , chatting on their life and getting a good feel of it people of China.

After lunch, drive along deep valley called Flying Dragon Valley. The ravine is well known for its deep valley, original sandstones, thick forest, beautiful waters and mysterious caves. This north-south canyon is a 8 km-long, 20m wide and 7m wide at the narrowest.

Finally visit Jinhai Lake , also known as Jinhai Lake Scenic Area. It is located in the east of Pinggu District, about 85km northeast of Beijing downtown. Jinhai Lake is situated to the south of the Grand Gold Mount ( well known for producing gold), hence the name of "Jinhai lake" which literally means "Golden River". Now Jinhai Lake has been turned into a recreational and sightseeing area including mountain hiking and and lakeside vacationing, yacht, speed boat, self-driving boat, flying umbrella above water, pedalo, rowing boat and many more ( Optional ).

Back to your hotel in Beijing around 6:00 PM