Beijing Private Layover Tour: Great Wall+City Attraction Option

You will be picked up at the airport based on your provided flight details. Your tour guide will be holding a sign with your name at the airport. After meeting, you will be driven directly from Beijing Airport to the Great Wall at Mutianyu.

The Forbidden City, once the epicenter of the Imperial City, is the largest ancient palace complex in the world. Follow your guide on a walking tour through this UNESCO World Heritage Site, where you will admire the palatial buildings and cultural relics dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Temple of Heaven, built in 1420 and covering an area of 674 acres, is the largest religious worship complex in China. It was originally used by the Ming and Qing emperors to pay homage to Heaven and pray for bountiful harvests. Today, it is a beautiful park where visitors can spend an hour or two listening to traditional singing and music, while observing locals going about their daily lives.

The Summer Palace is the largest and best-preserved surviving imperial garden in China. Once a summer retreat for emperors, this 716-acre park now serves as a retreat for tourists. Visitors can relax or stroll through ancient pavilions, mansions, temples, bridges, and the expansive lake, occasionally stopping at a shop or teahouse. As a much-loved summer retreat of the imperial families, the beautifully landscaped gardens, halls, pavilions, and corridors are harmoniously arranged around the lake and rivers.

Visit the Hutong, including Shichaihai lake, Nanluoguxiang Street, Yandaixiejie Street, etc.

Ming Tombs are mausoleums of thirteen emperors of the Ming dynasty. It is the largest clusters of imperial cemeteries in China.Since 1409 with the construction of Changling Tomb for Emperor Zhu Di, the Ming Tombs was completed in 1644 when the Emperor Chongzhen was buried in Siling Tomb. There are three parts are opened to public, the Sacred Way, Changling Tomb and Dingling Tomb.