1 Day tour: Forbidden city, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace

[One day Beijing city tour, visit the most famous sightseeings: Forbidden City, Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven, coach or private.]

From $35

1 Day tour: Forbidden city Temple of Heaven Summer Palace - China local discount

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Depart everyday, tour time is from 8 am to around 5~ 6 pm; English-speaking tour guide explain the sightseeings along the tour.

Itinerary:
1, Picking up travelers from hotel on departure time, and then driving to the Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City, the largest ancient imperial palaces group in the world with 500 years history.Visit the Forbidden City along the central axis from south to north for about 2.5 hours.
Visit scenic spots: 1. The hall and the courtyard of supreme harmony, 2. The meridian gate, 3. the hall of supreme harmony, 4. the hall of complete harmony, 5. the hall of preserving harmony, 6. the huge of stone carving, 7. the hall of union, 8. the palace of earthly tranquility, 9. the imperial garden, etc.

2, Drive (20 minutes) to the Temple of Heaven — the largest ancient imperial worship architecture group in the world. Visit it for about 1.5 hour.
Visit scenic spots: 1. the hall of prayer for good harvest, 2. red stairway bridge, 3. the imperial vault of heaven, 4. echo wall, 5. triple sound stone, 6. the circular mound altar, etc.

3, Have Chinese lunch (40minutes) in Taiyichun Restaurant.

4, Driving (30minutes) to Summer Palace, the largest and most beautiful Chinese imperial garden. Visit it for about 2 hours.
Visit scenic spots: 1. East palace gate, 2. the hall of benevolence and longevity, 3. hall of jade billows, 4. the hall of joyful longevity, 5. the covered walkway, 6. the marble boat, etc.

5, At last, driving the travelers back to guest hotel.

Price includes:
1, Pick-up and drop off service from/to hotel；
2, Air-conditioned vehicle (car, van or bus)；
3, Site Entrances' tickets；
4, English-speaking tour guide explain the sightseeings ；
5, Chinese and Western cuisine Buffet Lunch with drinks；

For the coach tour (small group, 6~10 persons in each bus):
- Keep less than ten travelers in each air-conditioned coach(bus);
- All English-speaking travelers in our coach (bus);
- Vehichle mode: Coaster-New air-conditioned tour coach (click for picture)- 26 seats, 6-10 persons per group.
For Valued Coach Tour, only a silk shop is arranged for visiting and shopping during the tour;
For Budget Coach Tour, besides pearl shop, TongRenTang shop is added in the tour.

For Private Tour:
- Private tour is suitable for those individual or family travelers who is not willing to join the tour group, it may not feel very free when following the group. A designated car and private guide will follow you to go to the place you like, this package cost higher than coach tour.
- Vehichle mode: private luxury car or MPV van(click for picture)

For the private tour, you also need go to one or two shopping stop every day.

Note: Children taller than 1.1 meter should be charged as full price, childern shorter than 1.1 meter should be charged only half of the price.

How to Book?
1. You can book online or by email, tell us which hotel you will live in Beijing (inform us where to pick you up, place can be: hotel, apartment or campus), then receive our tour confirmation email.
2. When you arrive in Beijing, our tour guide will call you the night before the tour, if you are not in hotel room, we will leave a message in your room, to inform the time to pick you up in the next morning. Our (bus, car or van) arrive next morning, meet and enjoy the tour.

Payment Methods: 1.Cash to tour guide 2.Credit card 3.PayPal 4.Bank remit(wire transfer)

Please Contact Us Send Enquiry, if you want to Customize This Tour or Have Any Questions.

Pictures of 1 Day tour: Forbidden city, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace :

Select Tour Type: more friends coming with you, more discount you get. Note: following price is for per person
.Budget Coach Tour (join small group bus tour) : $35 (240RMB)
.Valued Coach Tour (join small group bus tour) : $47 (320RMB)
Private Tour (Car, you are 1 person) : $118 (805RMB)
Private Tour (Car, you are 2 persons) : $88 (600RMB)
Private Tour (you have 3 people) : $76 (520RMB)
Private Tour (you have 4 people) : $65 (440RMB)
Private Tour (you have 5 people) : $59 (400RMB)
Private Tour (you have 6 people) : $56 (380RMB)
Private Tour (you have 7~10 people) : $51 (350RMB)
Additional Requirement:
Evening: Beijing Opera Show : +$32 (220RMB)
Evening: Chinese Kongfu Show : +$32 (220RMB)
Evening:Chinese Acrobatic Show : +$32 (220RMB)
Evening: Peking Roasted Duck Dinner (Quanjude) : +$44 (300RMB)

Customer Reviews of 1 Day tour: Forbidden city Temple of Heaven Summer Palace, check total 18 travellers reviews:

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review written by Julie Morris

We booked this tour for our second tour in Beijing, and the tour guide was very accommodating as we had to catch an early flight. Instead of going back to our hotel, we took our suitcase on the bus and he hailed a cab for us to go to the airport, after we had seen EVERYTHING! The day was full-on and we saw the Forbidden City last - which was then rather tiring. The experience of visiting these places will be with us forever. Lunch was great at the Temple of Heaven. Guide spoken good english and the shopping components were okay, but not interested in the Chinese medicine visit. I would highly recommend the tour company - it was easy to book and confirmations fast. Many thanks for a memorable trip. It made it possible to see so many things in our very short visit to Beijing.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

review written by robin ellison

We recently visited Beijing and used ChinaTour.net for three separate day tours. Day 1 we visited Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace . Laura (Lili?) was our personal tour guide and despite the rushed atmosphere caused to having to see so many sites in one day, she was very informative, exceptionally helpful, and a delight to be with all day. I highly recommend personal tour guides. The next day we visited the Lama Temple, the Panda Zoo and the Hutong. This was a small group tour and turned out to be a lot of fun. The Hutongs we visited were being renovated so there was a lot of construction debris. I think its great that these areas have been declared protected and are being redone. Lunch was great, in one of the Hutong houses. The Lama Temple was gorgeous and the pandas were sleepy and cute. The tour guide was incredible and I am sorry I forgot her name. I would like to give her personal credit for making this day a great memory. Our last tour was also a personal tour. We went to the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. We chose the Badaling site since it has the cable cars to take you to the top. I was a little disappointed in that we went to the Great Wall at the last or our tour. The sun was in our faces so any pictures I took turned out rather poor. It would have been better to go to the Wall first but it was incredible to see! During all three trips, side excursions to silk factory stores, cloissone factory stores and other preferred shops took up some of our day but there were no hard sells. Probably what was the most fun was going to the Silk Factory and Pearl Market store. This is 5 stories of shopping heaven. Resist the temptation of buying at the stores visited on the tours if you can. You can find everything you want here if you are willing to bargain. My advice? Start really really low. If we return to China, we will definately use this service again.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

review written by Peter Brunner

Once again Peter and I (Leslie Swiger) were picked up at the Beijing Crown Plaza. We again had private car, driver and tour guide, the same as for The Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. Can not tell you what great people they were.Known as the Palace Museum, this magnificent complex is a grand monument to the 24 emperors who ruled from its hall over a period of almost 500 years. A must see! The Temple of Heaven is where the emperor would make sacrifices and pray to heaven and his ancestors at the wintger solstice. As the Son of Heaven, the emperor could intercede with the gods on behalf of his people and pray for a good harvest. You can spend hours just hearing about the history of the Temple of Heaven. You may want and make it a day at the Summer Palace. A sprawling landscaped park on the edge of the city, the Summer Palace was a seasonal imperial retreat from the stifing confines of the Forbidden City. It was the favored haunt of the fiercesome Empress Cixi, who had it rebuilt twice; once following its destruction by French and English troops in 1860 and again in 1902, after it was plundered during the Boxer Rebellion. Besure and take the dragon boat across the lake. SoooooooBEAUTIFUL! We are going back and will be using ChinaTour.Net again. Thanks to all those who helped make our trip so enjoyable. Leslie Swiger

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

review written by Kim Baker

Enjoyed the tour. Tour Guide was informative and friendly.

Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]

review written by Joerg Heyse

We were a bit lucky with this trip as we booked the group tour but there was only our family and one other very pleasant guest. The Forbidden City is huge and full of tourists. It is very impressive. The Temple of Heaven is beautiful and definitely something special. The Summer Palace is again full of people, which does not take the pleasure out of the trip. The way we were brought to have lunch - in a golf cart - gave us the feeling of being somehow important and was great fun. The trip to the Chinese Medical Centre was very interesting although surprising. The Pearl Factory on the other hand did not enhance the trip at all. It is much easier to visit these main sights of Beijing with a tour like this than being on your own with limited Chinese.

Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]

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