Mutianyu Great Wall & Summer Palace Day Tour

Pick-up at 8:00am and proceed to visit Mutianyu Great Wall (2 hours). Mutianyu Great Wall is located in Huairou district, about 80 km north from downtown Beijing. Mutianyu Great Wall is 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. It is a green section of the great wall in Beijing with vegetation, green pines and cypresses covering 90 per cent of the section.

Three Ways to Go up to Mutianyu Great Wall

There are three ways to get onto the Wall. Apart from hiking up on foot, you can choose take cable car or chair lift (Optional).

To get down the wall, you can also take Toboggan slide down (Optional).

When you get off the ferry shuttle bus going from the shuttle bus terminal near the ticketing office, you still need to walk along an accessible stone path (600 meters long ) leading up first to the starting point for chairlift ( or toboggan down ), second to the walking path up to the Wall and last to the starting point for cable car up to the Wall respectively.

So the mostly used Cable Car Station is at the end of the 600-meter stone slope. That said, there are three ways to go up to Mutianyu Great Wall.

1. Taking chairlift to the Great Wall – to the 6th Watchtower ( or where you can take a toboggan down )

2. Walking up the Great Wall along the stone steps (like a mountain hike – 30 minute hike ) – to the 10th or 8th Watchtower

3. Taking cable car up to the Great Wall – to the 14th Watchtower

The Most Beautiful Part of Mutianyu Great Wall

The hike from Watchtower No. 14 east up to Watchtower 23 is the most scenic part of Mutianyu Great Wall. Many people would choose to take cable up to Watchtower No.14 and hike east to Watchtower No.23. You may retrace to Watch Tower No.14 and take cable car down the wall, or continue to hike down to Watch Tower No.8 and walk down the wall; or you may continue to hike down to Watch Tower No.6, then either take chairlift down or toboggan down.

Price Information

Cable Car：100 yuan（single way ); 140 yuan ( return )

Chairlift or Slide (Toboggan): 100 yuan( single way )

Chairlift + Slide (Toboggan): 140 yuan ( return )

Cable car + Slide (Toboggan): 200 yuan (return)

Opening Hours:

April to October: 8:00 -17:00

November to March: 8:30-16:30

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

After lunch, move on to Summer Palace (2 hours) . The Summer Palace is the largest former royal garden, a temporary dwelling palace for emperors of Qing Dynasty and Its predecessor was the Garden of Clear Ripples (Qingyiyuan) started in 1750 and burned down by the British and French allied troops in 1860. In 1886, Empress Dowager Cixi used navy outlays and other funds in the reconstruction and renamed the park as Summer Palace in 1888.

After the day tour, return to your hotel in Beijing.