Temple of Heaven

Day 01Beijing

Our well-trained guide will meet you outside the customs of Beijing Airport after your check-out procedures are fully completed and then transfer you to the hotel. The rest of the day is free for you to rest or explore. For dinner on your own arrangement, we could offer you restaurant suggestions around your hotel.

Meals: No Meals

Forbidden City

Day 02Beijing

This morning, you'll visit the world's largest urban center square, Tiananmen Square, which is a site where many major historical and celebratory events happened. Walk through the square to the Golden Water Bridge, you'll enter the largest as well as best-preserved imperial palace complex, Forbidden City. Once the palace of twenty-four emperors from the Ming and Qing dynasties, it not only exhibits the incomparable architecture arts and precious cultural relics, but also shows how the China ancient emperors administered the country and lived their lives 600 years ago. In the afternoon, tour the Temple of Heaven, which is the largest ancient imperial worship architecture group in the world.

Meals: B+L

Great Wall

Day 03Beijing

Today you'll travel to the Great Wall at Badaling. As one of the greatest wonders of mankind, the majestic Great Wall of China is always a must for those visitors to Beijing. Among all the existing sections, Badaling Great Wall is the most famous and developed one. In the afternoon, go through the Sacred Way to tour the Ming Tomb. The Sacred Way is a road leading to the Ming Tombs, which mainly consists of memorial archway, stele pavilion, ornamental pillar and 18 pairs of stone statues. The Ming Tombs is a group of mausoleums of the Chinese emperors from 15th to 17th century. On the way back to downtown Beijing, we will drive by the Bird's Nest (Olympic National Stadium), which is the major venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Meals: B+L

Summer Palace

Day 04Beijing

Explore the Summer Palace and the Lama Temple. Reputed as the 'Museum of Imperial Garden', the Summer Palace is an imperial garden and temporary dwelling palace for the emperors built 260 years ago. It is also a large-scaled natural mountain and water garden. Lama Temple, also called Yonghe Lamasery, is the largest Tibetan Buddhism temple in Beijing. Then send you to the airport to end the nice Beijing trip!
Meals: B+L