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Love gardens? Experience the majesty of imperial Chinese landscaping and horticulture on this 8-hour private garden tour. You’ll visit the Summer Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and its predecessor, the Old Summer Palace, discover the gardens’ fascinating history, and enjoy a restaurant lunch. All entrance fees, private tour guide and transfer service are all inclusive.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Beijing, China
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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Love gardens? Experience the majesty of imperial Chinese landscaping and horticulture on this 8-hour private garden tour. You’ll visit the Summer Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and its predecessor, the Old Summer Palace, discover the gardens’ fascinating history, and enjoy a restaurant lunch. All entrance fees, private tour guide and transfer service are all inclusive.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Summer Palace (Yiheyuan), No.19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100080 China
Your all-inclusive private day tour begins at 9:00am, and your professional guide and personal driver will meet you at your hotel. Your first stop is the UNESCO-listed Summer Palace, the largest and best-preserved of the surviving imperial gardens, around 40 minutes’ drive from downtown Beijing.
First built in 1750 AD, during the time of the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong, and largely destroyed during the war of 1860, the Summer Palace centers on the expansive Kunming Lake and towering Longevity Hill.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, Inside Summer Palace, Haidian District, Beijing 100091 China
Your guide will escort you around the grounds, providing an insight not only into Chinese landscape architecture but into the lives of the imperial family who enjoyed their leisure there.
You will visit Important buildings such as: The hall of Benevolence and Longevity, The Hall of Happiness and Longevity and more.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Long Corridor at the Summer Palace, No.19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District, Beijing China
Walk along the World’s longest corridor and enjoy different paintings on the ceiling.
Pass By: Kunming Lake, Inside Summer Palace, Haidian District, Beijing 100091 China
In summer time, you will enjoy the dragon boat cruise along the lake
Pass By: Qingyan Stone Boat, Inside Summer Palace, Haidian District, Beijing 100091 China
Your tour will ends at Qingyan Marble Boat.
Stop At: Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan), Qinghuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100007 China
You’ll break for lunch at a local restaurant and enjoy Chinese specialties before driving 20 minutes or so to the Old Summer Palace.
Celebrated for its spectacular collection of gardens, architecture, and art, this was once known as the ‘Garden of Gardens’ – its destruction in 1860 was a huge loss to the world. A harmonious blend of typical Chinese scenery with some western architectural features, the vast majority of what remained of the garden was damaged in the 1980s.
Your guide will lead you through this landscape of crumbling walls and ruins and describe its former grandeur.
Duration: 2 hours
Pass By: Niaochao National Stadium, No.1 Guojia Tiyuchang South Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing China
Driving pass by the National Stadium and Watercube, then you will be transferred back to your hotel in Beijing.
