7-Day Tour of Beijing and Hohhot

Day 1 Welcome to Beijing, capital of China. Upon arrival you will be met by our guides and transferred to hotel.


Day 2 Morning tour to Tian An Men Square,located in the heart of the capital, and the Imoerial Palace ( Forbidden City) - one of the greatest feats of ancient Chinese architecture. After lunch proceed to the Temple of Heaven where the Ming and Qing emperors prayed for good harvests. This is the largest temple complex remaining in China today.
Cultural or acrobatic performance (if available) will be attended in the evening.

Day 3 Full day excursion to the Great Wall - the landmark of China. It is one of the most amazing feasts of human labor - the only man-made construction on earth visible from outer space. After lunch, a drive to the Ming Tombs along the Scared Way with giant marble figures and animals guarding the tomb area for deceased emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Day 4 Beijing - Hohhot by air
A 1-hour flight takes you to Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mogolia Autonomous Region, a city literally meaning "Green Town" in Mongolian.
Visit Xilamuren, Jiagan Pasture, where you may ride on the nimble and sturdy Mogolian ponies or the huge Bactrian camels or have a ride on the Mogolian "lele" cart. To visit a Mongolian yurt, a new experience for you.

Day 5 A full-day visit to Da Zhao Lamasery, with its 400-year old temple, the Wutasi (Five Dagoba Temple), made of glazed bricks carved with Buddhist symnols and inscribed in three languages: Mongolian, Sanskrit and Tibetan, and the Ten-thousand Avatamsaka Sutras Temple, or White Pagoda, the only best-preserved building left in the later days of the Liao dynasty (roughly the tenth century).
Other attractions today include a visit to the Tomb of Wang Zhaojun, an imperial Han concubine married off to a Xiongnu tribal chief to form an important political alliance.