Beijing 5-Day Deluxe Tour

Day 1: - Beijing-Beihai Park, Yonghe Palace, Acrobatic Show)

Welcome to Beijing, pick up at Beijing International Airport, Lunch break. proceed to Beihai Park, a park of royal families of dynasties of Jin, Yuan, Ming, Qing. Continue to visit Yonghe Lamasery Palace, the best-preserved one of the kind in Beijing. Dinner. To appreciate famous acrobatic show.
Stay at Swissotel Beijing or similar grade hotel.

Day 2: Beijing

Tian¡¯anmen Square ¨C Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, The Momument to the People¡¯s Heroes, Great Hall of the People ; The Forbidden City ¨C Museum of Treasures/Museum of Clocks & Watches, Jingshan Park, Ditan Ice Lamp Show, Laoshe Teahouse

After Breakfast. Visit Tian¡¯anmen Square, the largest square in the world that can hold an assembly of 1 million people. The Monument of the People¡¯s Heroes stands in center of the square. Proceed to visit the Great Hall of the People (congress building of China), located on the outer ring of Tian¡¯anmen Square, also a tycoon architecture with a big meeting hall allowable of 10-thousand conferees and an enormous banquet hall being able to provide dainty repast for 10-thousand people as well. Lunch break. Visit the Forbidden City, the palace of the Ming(1368-1644) and Qing(1644-1911) Dynasties, the largest and best-preserved ancient building group in China and most treasurable national museum. There are nearly 10,000 rooms inside the palace. You have a chance to take a zoom-in look in museums of treasures and clocks & watches. Legendary Zhenfei Well is on the list of visiting stops as well. Proceed to sightsee in Jingshan Park, the only place to overlook the whole Forbidden City. Dinner and followed with Chinese classical shows in Laoshe Teahouse. Return to Hotel.

Day 3: Beijing -- the Great Wall, Ming Tombs, CCTV TV Tower

After Breakfast. Take bus(about 2 hours) to world-renowned Great Wall(Badaling Pass). You will be surprised at this human wonder. After lunch transfer to Ming Tombs and the underground palace of Ding Tomb(one of Ming Tombs). Proceed to visit China CCTV TV Tower and take a breathtaking bird eye view of Beijing. Buffet dinner in revolving restaurant of the tower. Return to hotel.

Day 4: Beijing ¨C Summer Palace, Dehe Garden, Temple of Heaven, Night tour to Donghua Gate, Xindong¡¯an Market, Wangfujing Street, Dongfang Plaza

Breakfast. proceed to Summer Palace, one of the largest imperial garden, and a typical Chinese classical palace, with different gardens, glazed-tiled pavilions, winding corridors, connecting ponds and stone bridges, all together contributive to compatibleness to Chinese taste. Dehe Garden is an important site inside the Summer Palace. Go to visit Temple of Heaven, where the emperors of both Ming and Qing dynasties presented in person to make sacrifice ceremony to God of Heaven for good harvest. As large as 27,000 square meters, the temple consists of Qi Nian Dian (Hall of Prayer For Good Harvest), Echo Wall, Altar of Heaven, Palace of Abstinence, etc. Dinner. Night bus city tour to Donghua Gate, Xindong¡¯an Market, Wangfujing Street and Dongfang Plaza, for shopping or a leisure break. Return to hotel.

Day 5: Beijing ¨C Military Museum, Hutong Tour, Gongwang Palace

Breakfast. Transfer to Chinese people¡¯s Military Museum where the history of People¡¯s Liberation Army is illustrated with photos, mementos and used objects during 3 civil revolutionalry wars and resistance against Japanese invasion during the World War Two. Also some major achievements of PLA construction are demonstrated vividly. A light-weapon shooting simulation hall opens to the public. To Proceed to China Century Altar, a major memorial landmark in China to greet the year 2000, an architecture of an ingenious integration of traditional culture and modern art. Continue to sightsee the aged winding Hutong under the shade of skyscrapers in pedicabs. Then after, visit Gongwang Lamasery Palace, a historical site of Qing dynasty. Lunch. Transfer to airport for the flight back to home.

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