See Tulip Blossoms + 798 Art Space and New CCTV Tower Day Tour

Escorted Tulip Blossoms Day Tour

Privately Guided Tulip Blossoms Viewing Day Tour

Departure: Daily within the flowering season

Duration: Approx.8 hours (including lunch)

Attractions: See tulip flowers at Jinzhan Tulip Park, visit 798 Art Space and New CCTV Tower

Blossom Time: April 20 - May 08

Pick-up point and time: Your Hotel around 9:00am

Finishing point and time: Your Hotel around 5:00pm

Walking Level: Beginner - intermediate

Payment Types: Cash, Credit Cards, Wire

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The is one of the world's most easily recognized and loved flowers. Tulips are a comfortable flower choice and one that expresses perfect love. Tulip flowers have 3 inner petals and 3 outer sepals that look much like petals. A gift of tulips is a sure delight, enchanting in its beauty and simplicity. Different colors of tulips also often carry their own significance: Red - true love; purple - royalty; yellow tulips - cheerful thoughts and sunshine; white tulips - forgiveness.

Pick up from your hotel around 9:00am and head to Beijing Jinzhan Tulip Garden. The garden covers an area of 260,000sq.m. It is divided into 3 sections - production section, display section and service section. The production section the place where plants and flowers are nursed. Display section is the site for people to view tulips in bloom while service section is for people to have a break and have some drinks or meals in the restaurants. Some people call the place Beijing's Garden of Eden.

Then move on to 798 Art Zone, or Dashanzi Art District. It is a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing. It houses a thriving artist community, nestled in the over 50-year abandoned military factory buildings of featuring architectural style - typical Bauhaus style with perfect combination of practicality and concision. Because of the typical modernism Bauhaus style of some factory buildings, the orderly-planned courtyard and the distinctive architectural style, more and more artists are attracted to settle here and have formed the present 798 Art Zone gradually. Now It is often likened to New York's Greenwich Village or SOHO. It is often called the 798 Art District or Factory 798. The buildings are located inside alleys number 2 and 4 on Jiuxianqiao Lu, south of the Dashanziqiao flyover. It has become China's premier center of contemporary art and is now one of the must see attraction in Beijing after the Great Wall and Forbidden City.

Finally you are arranged to have a outside look of new CCTV Tower. it is located in Beijing's Central Business District (CBD), Chaoyang District. The new landmark comprises of two L-shaped high-rise towers connected at the top and the bottom at an angle to form a loop. Described as a 'Z' criss-cross, the looped tower is ofen dubbed as"a twisted doughnut" or "'the pants". The CCTV tower will employ 10,000 people and will allow China State Television to broadcast some 200 channels against the present limited 16 channels. Ove Arup & Partners (Arup) (East Asia and European divisions) are the civil engineering contractors. They are responsible for structural and mechanical engineering of the structure. After the whole day tour, return to your downtown hotel.

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