Private 3-Day Beijing Tour

Your private tour guide and driver will pick you up at downtown Beijing hotel. The first stop today will be the world’s largest city plaza, Tian’anmen Square. Take some pictures of the Great Hall of the People, National Museum of China, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, and Monument of the People’s Heroes and Tian’anmen before entering the Forbidden City.

Known as the Palace Museum, the 600+ years old UNESCO site, is the largest imperial palace complex in the world. 24 emperors from Ming and Qing Dynasty and their families lived and ruled here. Prepare yourself to be awed by the grandeur of the vast palaces. Your tour guide will conduct you through the cental axis and share intriguing stories and splendid Chinese history and culture.

Enoy an authentic lunch in a local restraurant in a Hutong. Rickshaw riding or strolling around after lunch is optional activity.

Lama Temple is your afternoon stop. The temple used to be the fourth Qin Dyansty Emperor’s personal palace before he succeded the throne. It was turned into a lamasery after the Qin Emperor started to patronize Tibet Buddhism. The highlight of the temple is the 18-meter tall statue of the Maitreya, carved by Nepalese craftsmen from a single sandalwood tree.

Drop-off at your Beijing hotel.

Today starts with a pickup at your Beijing downtown hotel. Embark your trip to the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu section, one of the best preserved and top rated site in Beijing, less crowded than Badaling section and safer than other sections. Spend about 2 hours touring the wall. An optional cable car or toboggan ride up and down

Set off for Ming Tombs, another UNESCO listed site in Beijing and the Imperial Mausoleums for 13 Ming Dynasty emperors. You will visit Changling, the resting place of Zhudi, who was the 3rd emperor of the Ming Dynasty and decreed the building of the Forbidden City. His tomb is the largest and best preserved mausoleum of Ming Dynasty.

We will also stop at the Scared Way, which is an affiliated pathway to the mausoleums consisting a stone memorial arch, several honoring gates, a stele pavilion and stone statues. Its collection of delicately carved legendary animals guarding this divine way is the highlight.

Drop-off at your downtown Beijing hotel.

Your Beijing tour guide will pick you up at your downtown Beijing hotel to visit another 2 UNESCO sites today.

You will visit Temple of Heaven first today. Temple of Heaven used to be where the emperors to perform worship rituals to the Heaven in the hope of gaining blessings for their reign and realm. Now it’s turned into a park where local Beijingers hang out, practising Taichi, dancing, singing, other self entertainments and exercises.

Our last stop is the Summer Palace, which is the most well preserved royal garden in Beijing, priding itself with a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and over 3,000 imperial buildings. It’s regarded as a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.

The tour ends with a drop off at your Beijing hotel.