Top 3 Beijing City Highlights All Inclusive Private Tour
Description
This amazing classic city tour of Beijing that includes both visiting the most popular attractions and also some small historic alleys. You will start your day from walking around the Tian'anmen Square, heading to Forbidden City, explore the Summer Palace and end up your day by going to Temple of Heaven. Hotel transfer, local lunch, private guide and entrance tickets are all included.
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Itinerary
Next, heading to the magnificent Forbidden City, the largest Imperial Palace in the world. You’ll spend a couple of hours wandering around this amazing example of Imperial architecture and learning about the history of the palace. The whole morning tour will be around 2 hours.
After lunch, you will visit the classic and historic Hutong alleys by riding a rickshaw. In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods. At the end, you will visit Temple of Heaven, it is an imperial complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. After your classic city tour, your tour guide will send you back to your hotel in Beijing.
Summer Palace, a summer resort for imperial family members. It’s considered the best preserved imperial gardens in China, you can understand the stories about the dragon lady.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We pick up all guests from hotel lobby within 4th ring road of Beijing
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Important Information
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Please wear comfortable shoes
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Please provide your hotel address for picking up
- Please make sure to provide your passport number and name for entrance Forbidden City tickets purchase in advance
- If you prefer to have different language tour guide than English one, please kindly make your booking with request 3 days advance
Reviews(44)
The agency and guide were very flexible and accommodating to our interests and needs. Very knowledgeable guide, we learned a lot of history and culture.
Lena was great recommend above and beyond
Had May as out tour guide. Very interesting explanation for the various features of the forbidden city, summer place and temple of heaven. Thanks for sharing with us!
May was amazing! I couldn’t recommend her enough. She took my wife and I to all the must see sights in Beijing. She gave us so much information and it was so informative. I would recommend May to anyone wanting an incredible experience of Beijing!
Absolutely outstanding. The full-day tour around the city with Catharine Lu Tours and our guide, Mr. Adam, was exceptional. He is an extremely kind, attentive, and professional guide. I can confidently say this was one of the best tours of my life. Mr. Adam has an incredible knowledge of history and culture, and the experience felt like a true historical masterclass through Beijing. Everything was perfectly organized, informative, and engaging from start to finish. I highly recommend Catharine Lu Tours for both families and solo travelers who want a deeper and more meaningful understanding of Beijing.
I did a tailor made two-day trip encompassing the square, forbidden city, summer palace, temple of heaven and the pearl market. We used public transport to make this affordable as I was travelling alone which worked well. Lunches were fabulous- good quality local restaurants and food chosen was tasty. This was a hot and busy time of year. The sights were great- the crowds less so. James was a great guide- plenty of information but not too much and brilliant at answering questions. My slight criticism is that it would have been better for the square/forbidden city and summer palace to have started the day earlier (and finished earlier). Catherine Lu Tours is a great and professional company and I wholeheartedly recommend them- I booked with them directly so I could include all the things I wanted to see, high meant I got to have the same guide in Beijing for 3 days.
Excellent tour in Beijing made by Catherine Tour Tour! It was 3 excellent days accompanied by the guide Iris who was wonderful, many professional and experienced! It was very professional and enlightening at all times! Besides all the main sights of Beijing we had food experiences too! Great I highly recommend!!
We absolutely loved this tour! Susi was amazing—knowledgeable, professional, and incredibly kind. She shared so much interesting information throughout the day and made the experience unforgettable. We had the best time exploring the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, and many other beautiful sites. The car was very comfortable, and the driver was courteous and friendly, which made the whole journey even more enjoyable. Highly recommend this tour!
My fabulous guide Mei, met me at my hotel and from there on it was an excellent experience with detailed knowledge of all the sites. The traditional tea ceremony was really good with tastings of five different teas then moved on for a wonderful “local” lunch. The finale of the trip was the magnificent Forbidden City What a brilliant day, all thanks to Mei
Iris is a great guide. Learn all about what to see in Beijing, we really enjoyed our visit today. It has good tips and also led us to coner to a delicious place. When you come to Beijing, definitely look for her to have a great experience.
