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Code: |
TQ 14 |
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Routes: |
Forbidden City -
Temple of Heaven - Summer Palace - Great Wall -
Old street - local family visit - Hutong |
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Duration: |
5 Days |
Itinerary in brief
Day 1 : Guangzhou - Beijing
Day 2 : Beijing
Day 3 : Beijing
Day 4 : Beijing
Day 5 : Beijing - Guangzhou
Detail Itinerary
Day 1:
Guangzhou - Beijing
Transfer via: by air
Be met at your hotel in
Guangzhou,
transferred to airport for your flight to
Beijing. Upon arrival at
Beijing airport, you will be met by our English
speaking tour guide and transferred to hotel.
Leisure on your own for the rest of the day.
Day 2: Beijing
(B, L, D)
Visit Forbidden City,
Tiananmen Square, Summer Palace, enjoy
Beijing Roasted Duck
for dinner.
TianAnMen Square, the symbolical heart of China and
gathering place for the masses. It is the biggest
public square in the world, which can hold one
million people. Having a free walk there, imagining
the great historic events of the 20th century took
place there. You will also see legendary landmarks
including the Great Hall of the People and the
towering 125 foot granite obelisk, Monument to the
Peoples Heroes, honoring those who died in
revolution.
Walking across the Golden River Bridge, enter the
Forbidden City, the inner sanctum and palace where
for centuries Chinese emperors ruled their world. It
has 9000-room maze of courtyards, places, and
ceremonial halls, where 24 emperors used to live.
Forbidden City was indeed a forbidden place, where
commoners were kept out for nearly 500 years in the
past. Tour the palace and imagine the mystery,
intrigue and incredible power that reigned here.
Day 3 :
Beijing
(B, L, D)
Badaling Great Wall, Ming Tomb
The Badaling Great Wall
is situated in the northwestern Beijing. It has been
a communication center of strategic importance since
ancient times. It was built in 1378 and was named by
the 8 mountains where the Wall was buit. The
surrounding wall runs over 2 kilometres with one
gate on each of its three sides-east,north and
south. It has been a strategic place contested by
militarists since ancient times.
The 25-kilometer-long Badaling Ridge section has as
many as 120 watchtowers and battlements,terraces and
turrets. Architecturally, there are towers of
various shapes--square, circular, oblate and
cornered, and roofs of different strctures --flat
and vaulted.
In
the afternoon you will visited
Ming Tombs where
the Chinese Emperor dreamed to continue there
eternal life after death. At night, enjoy
Beijing Opera.
Day 4:
Beijing (B, L, D)
Temple of
Heaven,
Hutong, local family visit.
The
Temple of
Heaven,
founded in the first half of the 15th century, is a
dignified complex of fine cult buildings set in
gardens and surrounded by historic pine woods. In
its overall layout and that of its individual
buildings, it symbolizes the relationship between
earth and heaven, or between the human world and
God's world which
stands at the heart of Chinese cosmogony, and also
the special role played by the emperors within that
relationship.
A
jaunt down the intricate maze of
Beijing's
hutongs.
You will be taken by pedicab (a tricycle cab), which
was very popular in the old days to visit the Bell
and Drum Towers, Prince Gong's Mansion and even to
pay a visit to an ordinary Beijing family in the
compound houses. You will visit a Chinese family to
learn how to make Jiaozi - Chinese Dumplin.
Jiaozi looks like shoe-shaped gold and silver ingots
so when people eat it during festivals they really
hope it could bring fortune and good luck to them,
and this, of course, is their best wishes. Sometimes
people will add some sweets, Chinese dates and
chestnuts in fillings of some dumplings to express
their wishes...
Day 55 :
Beijing -
Guangzhou
(B)
Transfer via: by air
Free time till to transfer to airport for your
flight to Guangzhou. Be met and transferred to your
hotel in
Guangzhou.
Service end.
