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6 Days
/ 5 Nights Beijing Panorama Culture
Tour
Destinations:
Beijing
Tour Code: BTP_06
Departure: Daily
1. Tour Itinerary
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| Day
01 |
Arrival
in Beijing
Upon your arrival in Beijing,
our English-speaking tour guide
will meet you at the airport.
After claiming your luggage, you
will easily find our guide holding
a welcome sign with your name
on it. Transfer to your hotel.
Afternoon at leisure to overcome
jetlag. |
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| Day
02 |
Beijing
(Breakfast
+ Lunch + Dinner)
Visit Tiananmen
Square, the Forbidden City (the
Imperial Palace) and the Summer
Palace. Enjoy the Beijing Duck
Dinner and the Peking Opera in
the evening.
Tiananmen
Square: Tian'anmen
Square, the largest square in
the world, encompasses 440,000
square metres, about the size
of 60 soccer fields, 880 metres
from north to south and 500 metres
from east to west, big enough
to hold half a million people.
Forbidden
City: The
Forbidden City China is a symbol
of oriental culture, Established
on the basis of the Imperial PaLace
of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
One cannot be counted as having
visited China if he or she has
never visited the Forbidden City
of China.
Summer
Palace: The
Summer Palace is a monument to
classical Chinese architecture,
in terms of both garden design
and construction. Incorporating
scenes from surrounding landscapes,
it radiates not only the grandeur
of an imperial garden but also
the beauty of nature shown by
Chinese architectural style.
Beijing
Duck Dinner: Beijing
Roasted duck is renowned as the
most delicious food of Beijing.
Peking
Opera: Beijing
Opera is deemed the national opera
of China. The accompanying music,
singing and costumes are full
of Chinese cultural facts. |
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| Day
03 |
Beijing
(Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Take an excursion
to the Mutianyu Great Wall and
the Ming Tombs. See the appearance
of the Bird's Nest (Olympic National
Stadium) at a distance.
Mutianyu
Great Wall: Mutianyu serves
as the northern barrier defending
the capital and the imperial tombs.
With vegetation, green pines and
cypresses covering 90 per cent
of the area, the sceneries here
are beautiful all the year round.
Ming
Tombs: Some
50 kilometers northwest of the
downtown Beijing, the Ming Tombs
are generally combined with a
visit to the Great Wall. Otherwise
known as the "13 Tombs", this
is the burial site of 13 out of
17 emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
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| Day
04 |
Beijing
(Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Tour to the Fragrant
Hills Park, the White Cloud Taoist
Temple, Yonghegong Lama Temple
and Confucius Temple. Take a Hutong
tour at Shichahai in the evening.
Fragrant
Hills Park: The
park is situated in the east part
of the western hills, In 1186,
in the Jin Dynasty, Fragrant Hills
Park Temple was built and terraces,
pavilions and pagodas were added
by the subsequent dynasties. The
area was later converted into
a park and was named the Park
of Tranquility and Pleasure.
White
Cloud Taoist Temple: In
the 8th century, the Tian Chang
Temple was built in Beijing to
house a statue of Lao Tzu. Although
it burned down in 1202, the statue
was saved . In 1224, Genghis Khan
ordered the reconstruction of
the temple. It came to be known
as the White Cloud Temple. Today
it is one of China's oldest and
largest Taoist temples, housing
the office of Taoist Association
of China.
Yonghegong
Lama Temple: The
Yonghegong Lama Temple, located
in the northeast corner of downtown
Beijing was originally used as
official residence for court eunuchs
of the Ming dynasty and then used
for the royal court of Prince
Yongzheng of the Qing dynasty.
In the 3rd year of Yongzheng's
rein (1725), it was elevated to
imperial palace for short stays
away from the capital with the
name changed to Yonghe Palace
of Peace and Harmony.
Confucius
Temple: The
Temple of Confucius in Beijing
was initially built in 1302 and
additions were made during the
Ming and Qing dynasties. It covers
a total area of 22,000 square
meters (5.4 acres). It is the
second largest temple constructed
for Confucius, ranking second
only the Temple of Confucius in
QuFu, ShanDong Province, the hometown
of Confucius.
Shichahai:
Shichahai is
Beijing's most popular hutong
district, composed of the homes
of Qing Dynasty merchants and
aristocrats.The area is made up
of three man-made lakes, Qianhai
(Front Sea), Houhai (Back Lake),
and Xihai (West Sea Lake).
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| Day
05 |
Beijing
(Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Tour to the to
Tanzhe Temple and Temple of Heaven.
Tanzhe
Temple: A
Buddhist temple built on a hillside
and consists of various pavilions,
prayer halls, courtyards and a
group of pagodas dating from the
Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
At one time, it was one of the
most important temples in the
nation.
Temple
of Heaven: Situadet
in the South-Eastern part of Beijing,
the Temple of Heaven is the largest
still existing sacrificial temple
in China. It was used as the site
for imperial sacrifices during
the Ming and Qing dynasties. It
was here that the emperor conducted
the elaborate and most exalted
sacrifices addressed to "the Supreme
Ruler of the Universe" to ask
for the heavens blessings and
good harvest. |
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| Day
06 |
Beijing -
Departure (Breakfast
+ Lunch)
Visit Beihai
Park and see pandas in Beijing
Zoo. Transfer to the airport for
your departure, end of service.
Beihai
Park: A famous beautiful Park
which used to be the former palace
of the emperors in successive
dynasties, called the Winter Palace
by Westerners.
Beijing
Zoo: The Beijing Zoo was built
in 1906 and opened to the public
in 1908 with an area of about
10 hectares and a few humble pavilions
to house the animals. At that
time only several dozens of species
were shown. such as lions, tigers,
leopards and monkeys. Now the
Beijing Zoo covers an area of
about 50 hectares. The animal
houses and enclosures, with a
total floor space of 40,000 square
metres, include those for pandas,
elephants, brown and polar bears,
tigers, hippopotami, rhinoceros,
antelopes, giraffes and reptiles.
More than 6,000 animals of over
500 species are on show. Among
them are giant pandas, golden
monkeys, addaxes, tigers from
Northeast China, elks, yaks, precious
birds and gold fish. |
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2. Hotel Accommodation
| Hotel |
Luxury |
Standard |
Comfortable |
| City |
Beijing |
Crowne
PLaza Hotel
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Sunworld
Hotel
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King
Parkview Hotel
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3. Tour Price
Please send us
an email and provide the information
below, we will quote LATEST
FAVORABLE PRICE
for the above tour.
1. Your name and nationality;
2. The number of persons in your
party, if there are childre, please
let us know their age;
3. Your travel date;
4. The code of the tour that you
are interested in (each tour has
a code like: CNT_18, you can find
the code of a tour at the top of
the page where the tour is);
5. Please let us know would you
like 5-star luxury hotels or standard
4-star hotels or comfortable 3-star
hotels for your tour;
6. If you would like us to tailor
make a new tour for you that is
different from above tour, please
let us know your requests.
4. Quotation Inclusions For The Above Tour:
1. Hotel accommodation
The hotel is based on two persons
sharing one twin or double standard
room with private facilities.
2. Meals
Daily American or Chinese breakfast
at the hotel, Chinese lunch and
dinner in local Chinese restaurant
as specified in the itinerary.
3. Private
Transport
Private transport between airport
or railway station and hotel and
all the sights by air-conditioned
vehicle.
4. Transportation
between Cities
The economic class air tickets of
the domestic flight or soft berth/seat
train tickets between cities as
specified in the itinerary.
5. Entrance
tickets
The main entrance tickets for the
sights mentioned.
6. Guiding
service
All normal sightseeing tours in
each city with English-speaking
guide and admission fees where applicable.
Our guide will not fly with you
from one city to another. Upon your
arrival at each city, a new local
guide and driver will pick you up,
be with you for local tour and see
you off after you finish the itinerary
of each city. The cruise shore excursion
is in-group assigned by the cruise
company.
7. Insurance
China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty
Insurance. We highly recommend that
you purchase full coverage travel
insurance from you country of origin.
8. Tibet
Travel Permit application fee
The Tibet Travel Permit application
fee if your tour covers Tibet.
5. Quotation Exclusions For The Above Tour:
1. Visa Fees
Charge of obtaining your visa to
enter China.
2.
Charge of arrival and departure
The international or domestic air
/ train charge of arrival and departure.
3. Single
Room Supplement
Should a twin room is needed by
a single guest, supplement of the
twin room will be charged.
What
is single supplement?
The hotel is based
on double occupancy. If the visitor
travels alone or the number of the
travelers is odd (such as 3,5, 7...),
who stays in one single room has
to pay the single room supplement.
As the hotel is on double occupancy.
4. Personal
Expenses
Expenses of a personal nature such
as laundry, drinks, fax, telephone
call, optional activities or sightseeing,
overweight baggage charges or meals
not indicated, ect.
5. Optional
Programs
Optional programs which are not
specified in the above itinerary.
6. Tips
to guides and drivers
Suggested tips: USD10-14 to tour
guide per day, USD 8-10 to driver
per day, but depending on their
service, it's up to you, entirely
voluntary.
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