Detailed Itinerary:
Your hotel/apartment pick-up by our guide and driver at between 7:00-8:00 in the morning.
- The first stop will be the famous Tiananmen Square, it’s one of the largest squares in the world. After 30 minutes touring on the square, walking directly to the Forbidden City, the place where 24 emperors lived for almost 500 years. Visit the Forbidden City will approximately take 2 hours.
-Second stop will be the Temple of Heaven, a place where Emperors performed worship to the God of Heaven and Prayer for good harvest.

-Next, lunch will be arranged in a friendship restaurant near the Summer Palace. After lunch, enjoy a visit to a local Pearl Market.

-Heading to the Summer Palace afterwards, it’s the largest and best preserved imperial garden in China. Touring in this Garden for 1 hour.

-Drive back to your hotels respectively. (Lunch included)

Tour Feature:
Only English-speaking travelers in the coach/bus
Well-trained English-speaking tour guide
Keep about 5-20 travelers in each coach/bus

Detailed Itinerary:
Our experienced English speaking tour guide will pick you up at your hotel by private car/van around 8:30 in the morning. The first stop of the day will be Tiananmen Square, which is famed as the largest square in the world. You may walk around the square for approximately 30 minutes before proceed to Forbidden City. Forbidden City can be considered as one of the must visit Beijing attractions as it is the best preserved as well as the largest imperial palace for ancient Chinese dynasties. You may spend about 2.5 hours within the palace. After that, you will be heading to Jingshan Park which located right to the north of Forbidden City. From here, you may take an aerial view of Forbidden City.

Lunch will be arranged at Revolving Restaurant at CCTV Tower, where you may witness the breathtaking city view of Beijing while having your lunch. After that, you will be visiting the Summer Palace. Summer Palace used to be a retreat for imperial families during Ming and Qing Dynasty. There are many cultural heritages can still be found with the park. Then, your tour ends and you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Service Includes:
Admission fees to all attractions listed above
Fabulous buffet lunch at CCTV revolving restaurant
Private, well-trained English-speaking tour guideÂ
Private, air-conditioned car/vanÂ
Free-bottled mineral water in the vehicle

Service Excludes:       Â
Hotel fees
Gratuity to the driver and the guide (optional)
Personal expenses

Detailed Itinerary:
–Hotel pick-up. Our guide and driver will pick you up at between 7:00 and 8:00 in the morning.

-First, visit the Forbidden City, it was the living quarters for 24 emperors for 490 years, but after 1924, it opened to the public as a palace museum till now. Touring inside for 2 hours. Then heading to the famous Tiananmen Square, it is one of the largest squares in the world. Touring around Tiananmen Square for 30-40 minutes. Then, visit the Jade Carving Factory for 45 minutes. Followed by lunch.

-After lunch, drive to famous Badaling Great Wall, touring on the wall for 1-2 hours, if you’d like, you can also take the cable car up instead of climbing. After visiting, drive to a Chinese traditional medicine academy to learn some traditional culture of Chinese medicine.

-Be transferred back to the hotel afterwards.

Tour Features:
ONLY English-speaking travelers in the coach
Helpful and well-trained English Speaking tour guide
Approximately 5-20 travelers in each coach/bus

Service Includes:
Admission fees to the attractions in the itinerary
Hotel pick-up & drop-off service
Air-conditioned tour coach
English-Speaking tour guide
Chinese lunch

Service Excludes:
Personal Expenses
Gratuity to the guide and driver (optional)
Cable car on the Great Wall (optional)

Things to know:
1. Our staff will call your room to set up the exact pick-up time for next day at the night before departure.
2. Upon arrival at your hotel, if you’re not in the hotel lobby, our guide will call your room again.

Detailed Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrive in Beijing
Upon your arrival in Beijing, be met by our guide and driver at Beijing airport. Your hotel will hold a sign with your names on. Then transfer to your hotel and the rest of day is free on your own.  (No Meal)

 

Day 2: Visiting to Tiananmen Square-Forbidden City-Temple of Heaven-Summer Palace
Leaving hotel with our tour guide and driver at 8:30 am. Then enjoys the full day visit to the Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace. Be transferred back to your hotel approximately at 5:30 in the afternoon. (Breakfast + Lunch included).

Day 3: Visiting to the Great Wall & Ding Tomb (Underground Palace)
Leaving hotel with our tour guide and driver at 8:30 in the morning. Then take a full day visit to the Great Wall at Mutianyu and Ding Tomb with underground Palace inside. Drive back to your hotel after the whole day tour (approximately at 5:30 pm). (Breakfast +Lunch included)

Day 4: Depart Beijing
Depart Beijing to the airport with our guide and driver based on your flight information. See off at the airport terminal. Lovely tour ends! (Breakfast included)

Service Includes:
3 nights hotel accommodation in Beijing (you choose the hotel level)
Private vehicle throughout the whole package
Private English-speaking tour guide throughout the whole package
Admission fees to the attractions listed in the itinerary
Bottled water in the vehicle
Meals included in the itinerary
Travel insurance                                                                      

Service Excludes:
Any airfares
Personal expenses
Gratuity to the guide and driver (optional)
Cable car at the Great Wall (optional)

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Gallery of Paintings Pictures

The collections of the Palace Museum are based on the Qing imperial collection – ceramics, paintings and calligraphy, bronze ware, timepieces, jade, palace paraphernalia, ancient books and historical documents. After the founding of the Museum, the collection was moreover augmented, for example by the salvage of a number of precious artifacts from a jumble of apparently worthless objects. In this page, we collected some paintings about Forbidden City and Forbidden City collections in Palace Meseum, which has a long history from Qing Dynastry.

Gallery of Treasures Pictures

Forbidden City Treasures were colleced from old China to Nowadays China，from home to aboard, which are exhibitioned at Palace Meseum. The Treasure pictures includes Ceramics, Painting and Calligraphy, Hall of Clocks, Gold and Silver, The Bronze, Qing Imperial Opera, Jade. In fact, a total of 429 ceramic objects, representing a comprehensive history of the development of Chinese ceramics, comprise this permanent exhibition.

Many of the city wall were decorated with a coiled dragon, from the mouth of which issues a chandelier-like set of metal balls, enjoy china dragon.

When Take bus no.101, 103, 109 or 814 and get off at Gugong Station. You will see the sign with “Palace Meseum”, and enter the forbidden city easily.

Forbidden Gardens invites you back in time to experience some of the most significant historic and cultural sites in China today. As home to one of the most ancient civilizations in world, many of it’s historical sites are considered to be among the world’s wonders. Here you are offered a chance to visit two of
these historic sites, without ever having to leave Texas.

Qin’andian, the Hall of Imperial Peace is the dominant building in the garden and occupies the central position. Surrounded by a wall, it dates from the 15th Century.