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2-Day Beijing Highlights Small-Group Tour: Visit Great Wall and Forbidden City
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52 Ratings
Experience the best of Beijing in just 2 days! Explore the iconic Great Wall, visit the historic Forbidden City, and discover the city's beautiful parks and worshipping altars. Avoid crowds with small-group tours and enjoy optional experiences like acrobatic shows and local shopping markets.
Duration:
2 days
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
Inner City Trip: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park and Temple of Heaven
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - You will visit the Tiananmen Square, the biggest city square in the world. There are the Great Hall of People, Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum and National Museum in the Square.
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - You will be guided through this Imperial Residence for almost 600 years in the last two dynasties in China, to find out the histories flow between the archaic buildings, and to feel the massiveness of this wooden structural complex.
Jingshan Park (Jingshan Gongyuan) - After exit the Forbidden City, you can choose to climb the hill in Jingshan Park, to get to the top pavilion to over look the whole Forbidden City.
Temple of Heaven - This is the heaven worshipping place for almost 600 years during the last two dynasties in China.
You will see two most magnificent altars in there and have a nice walk through the Park Area to find out how local aged people spend their day there and look for a secret date matching spot in there.
What's Included
- English Speaking Licensed Tour Guide
- Bottled water
- Lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Pickup & drop-off for the hotels in the City Center
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Beverages
- Imperial Ferry Boat tickets in the Summer Palace
Additional Information
Looking for an Effortless, ‘Maximum of Six Guests’ intimate Group Journey to cover key Beijing attractions in 48 hours? Eager to climb the Great Wall at dawn to bypass the throngs and lines? Pre-arranged entry passes for the Forbidden City? Wish to visit Beijing’s prettiest park and grandest temple of reverence? An alternative to enjoy an Acrobatic performance or dive into the local market scene? Your search ends with this Tour!
- Please provide your names, passport numbers, nationalities and year of birth at the time of booking for booking tickets.
- Your passport is required for entering the Forbidden City, please bring the passport with you to the tour.
- You can switch the cable way tickets to gondola tickets, but need to inform us in advance.
- The price of Cable Way option for child is not included the ski-lift tickets. If the child is over 1.2m tall, he will need to purchase ticket onsite.
- Tips are not compulsary but welcome:)
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(52 Ratings)
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James_y
May 21, 2024
A surprise! - Comprehensive and very enjoyable tour. We enjoyed the day tour with our guide, David, who was sensitive to our needs/wishes, knowledgable, friendly and caring; making the trip memorable. The small group made it enjoyable too as we got go new friends from other nationals. We would definitely recommend this tour!
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Tawi_m
May 17, 2024
Wonderful 2-day Beijing Tour covering all major attractions - Day 1:
Forbidden City is the best! We are grateful to have David as our tour guide as he is knowledge and very helpful. Regret that Tiannanmen Square was closed but the overall tour experience was excellent though finished much earlier than what we expected. Good thing is David recommended an Acrobatic show which was fabulous to fill our time after the day touring. Thank you David !
Day 2:
Great Wall is definitely the best, though we enjoy Summer Palace with the Boat-ride along the river. Enjoyed the ski-lift up and Toboggan ride on the way down. New experience to reach the Wall in a fashion way. Overall excellent experience with Keith as our tour guide cum driver with exceptional communication skill and customer service which made the entire journey pleasant and memorable. Well done and thank you Keith!
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Joseph_e
May 15, 2024
Absolutely Extraordinary Aventure - The guides, especially the Great Wall guide (Tracy), spoke very good conversational English. The lunches were delicious and plentiful. The ride to top of Great Wall and slide down was thrilling and the view as extraordinary. The crowds at the Great Wall were sparse compared to Forbidden City. The weather was outstanding which made the views spectacular from the top of the Great Wall. I would recommend doing this tour in the spring or fall NOT during summer or winter. We went in early May and the temperature was hot given all the pavement in the Forbidden City.
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Madeline
Apr 28, 2024
Thank you very much - Thank you so much for being so helpful to our last minute change! We are very grateful for taking our phone call early in the morning!
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Weelee_s
Apr 8, 2024
Highly recommended - Although we were not able to get tickets for the Forbidden City, the 1 day tour was jam packed with sights of the Summer Palace and Great Wall. David our tour guide had a lot of information and advice navigating both incredible attractions and we had a very good and productive day of sight-seeing, highly recommended. Communication with the tour company was also excellent.
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Steve_b
Mar 19, 2024
An amazing tour of Beijing, so happy we meet Keith and his company. - We had an amazing 2 days seeing Beijing. In two days we covered everything we wanted to see and even took in a show. Both of our guides were great, the restaurants we went to for lunch each day were fantastic. Our tour guides were easy to reach via iMessage and were very friendly and knowledgeable. I have absolutely no complaints. What a great way to end our 30 day trip through Asia!
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Alexander_t
Jan 14, 2024
All you need to see in Beijing. - Great tour. Lots to see. Knowledgeable guide takes you to all main attractions. Luxury transportation. Expect to walk a lot. Dress according to weather. Forbidden city has strict security checks. Inquire what NOT to bring. Plentiful lunches. For Great Wall pick option with lift, otherwise you'll have to climb a lot of stairs.
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Wendy_o
May 3, 2024
Tour was on time, covered... - Tour was on time, covered all the itineraries. Good companions from tour members came from different part of the world.
The condition of the mini van used for the first day should be improved.
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Jessexu
Apr 28, 2024
Lovely trip with many boxes checked off and lots of walking! - The tour on the whole was excellent. We got to visit every place and the guides were helpful. In particular on our first day we visited Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City along with Jingshan Park and the guide (David) managed to secure tickets despite the crowd and have it all organised. David was lovely. The second day we had an early start to avoid the rush up the Great Wall and this was also lovely. We were a bit disappointed that this guide (Amigo) smoked in public spaces. On the whole though it was a lovely trip and I would recommend to others.
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Arnold_v
Apr 1, 2024
Efficient but shallow - It is an efficient way of seeing a lot of Beijing in a few days. Guides explain the highlights and don’t go very deep into the sights.
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