Beijing Trip Overview
Enjoy a private Beijing half day tour that explore Summer Palace, local pearl gallery and interesting Hutong rickshaw tour, at first, we experience impressive gardens that surround the Summer Palace, which include a large and beautiful kunming lake, amazing marble boat and temples built on longevity hill, later visit local pearl gallery and take interesting Hutong rickshaw tour.
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Duration: 4 to 5 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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Enjoy a private Beijing half day tour that explore Summer Palace, local pearl gallery and interesting Hutong rickshaw tour, at first, we experience impressive gardens that surround the Summer Palace, which include a large and beautiful kunming lake, amazing marble boat and temples built on longevity hill, later visit local pearl gallery and take interesting Hutong rickshaw tour.
Stop At: Summer Palace (Yiheyuan), No.19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100080 China
On 09:00am in the morning, our Beijing English guide and driver will hold your name logo and transfer you from your hotel to summer palace directly, combined with the beautiful natural landscape, Longevity hill and Kunming Lake, and the Summer Palace is a impressive resort for scenic views. Experience the exquisite gardens and grounds, the wonderful marble boat and the world’s longest art gallery there. Our English guide will also tell you interesting historical stories of this royal garden.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bell and Drum Towers, Di’anmen Wai Main Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006 China
Later on visit the pearl gallery, pearl farming in China is mainly concentrated in the both north and south part of country, Pearls have gotten strong symbolic status in Chinese culture since ancient time, for example, the pearl has been connected with dragons for the longest time, with the dragon seen as chasing a pearl, then have lunch at a local Chinese restaurant, then take the Hutong rickshaw tour, and the Hutong tour starts from along shishahai near the vegetable and fruit market, in the past,princes’, generals’ and ministers’ housed with courtyards were scattered around the outside of the forbidden city. linking up those courtyard houses were lanes and alleys called hutongs. The Word “Hutong” probably came into use during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), as It is A Mongolian Word, Meaning “Well”. These residential areas were so called because where There is a Well, there are People living nearby, later on go back to hotel.
Duration: 1 hour
