Beijing Night Walking Tour - Beijing Night Tour

Pick up from your hotel around 6:00 pm. Then head to a Chinese restaurant for dinner - a Sichuan food restaurant with face Changing Show. This restaurant offers typical new Sichuan cuisine. Over your dinner, you have the chance to see a few minutes of the face-changing show. Face changing is the highlight of Sichuan Opera. Legend goes that ancient Chinese people painted their faces to frighten away wild animals and ghosts.

After the dinner and show, our tour guide will take you to Nanluoguxiang for a nice walk. Nanluoguxiang is an ancient lane or hutong with a history of over 700 years dating back to Yuan Dyansty in 13th and 14th century. Running from north to south, this lane is about 800 meters long with 16 hutongs - 8 hutongs on each side of the lane. The lane is now famous for the cafes, bars, inns and clothing and handcraft shops that line its hutong laneways as well as its traditional hutong and courtyards (siheyuan).

After touring Nanluoguxiang, move on to Drum Tower for its night view. Then walk through Yandai Byway. Yandai Byway literally means "Slanted Tobacco Pipe Street ". The street itself resembles a huge pipe totally 232 meters long. It is "slanted "because it runs from the northeast to southwest. In later Qing Dynasty there were a great number of shops selling pipes. You will find elegantly furnished traditional stores, trendy bars and featuring inns and many more.

At the end of the street, you will find yourself in the middle of the Silver Ingot Bridge connecting Houhai Lake and Qianhai Lake, one of the most important bar areas in Beijing. You may enjoy your time by yourself here in the bar area or transferred back to your hotel before 10:00pm.