1 Day Tour : Great Wall and Ming Tombs

Tour Description and Itinerary

One Day Tour: Depart everyday, small group bus tour or private tour.
Starts from 7:30 ~8:00 am, finish around 6:00 pm.

Tour Overview
Duration: 1 Day.
Tour Type: Group tour or private tour.
Departure: Everyday.
Attractions: Badaling Great Wall, Changling Tomb(Ming Tomb) .
Dining: Lunch .
Accommodation: Not included.
Service: Hotel pick-up&drop-off service, private air-conditioned vehicle and English-speaking tour guide.

Itinerary:
1. Pick you up from your hotel on departure time, and then drive to the Great Wall (60 miles away from downtown, about 1.5 hours driving). Tour guide explain the sightseeings along the tour.
Sightseeing on the most famous part of the Great Wall, Badaling section (for about 2 hours), the longest defensive wall in the world.
Visit scenic spots: Badaling Great Wall, Badaling fortress, beacon-towers, "looking-toward beijing stone", etc. (Cable car is a good choice if one wants to get to the highest point and take the whole beautiful bird view.)

2. Driving to restaurant nearby the Ming Tomb and having typical Chinese lunch (1.5 hours).

3. Driving (20minutes) to the Ming Tombs, the best preserved Chinese imperial tombs with 500 years history, visiting Changling, the largest one, Emperor Yongle's Tomb, for about 1.5 hours.
Visit scenic spots: 1.ling en gate, 2.ling en palace, 3.soul tower, 4.the great red gate, 5.the stele pavilion, etc.

4. Driving the travelers back to their hotel. 

Tour Price includes:                
1. Entrance tickets of the Badaling Great Wall (45 CNY, $7) and Ming Tomb(45 CNY, $7) .                        
2. Chinese lunch with drink (50 CNY, $8). 
3. Transfers: Pick-up and drop-off from your hotel, air-conditioned vehicle(car, van, or bus).   
4. English-speaking tour guide explain the sightseeings. (other languages like Spanish, Russian, etc. also available for private tours at extra fees.)     
note: Why some other websites offer cheaper price for bus tour?
Our bus tour price 160CNY($26) include admission fee of  Badaling Great Wall 45CNY($7), Ming Tomb 45CNY($7), lunch 50CNY($8), transfer & guide fee 20 CNY($4) per person , total: 45+45+50+20=160 CNY ($26) per person, if you see bus tour price lower than 150CNY ($25) per person, be careful where they will take you to, it could be fake great wall or worse lunch, be aware of the low price tour traps.

Our Tour Price excludes:                       
Cable car fee(100 CNY) - cable car to the highest point of Great Wall.

For the coach tour (small group in each bus, 6-10 persons per group):
- Suitable for economic or single travelers, make friends on the same bus, only English-speaking travelers on our bus.
- Travellers will be arranged in a small group, Keep group size around ten in each air-conditioned bus;
- Vehichle mode: Coaster-New air-conditioned tour coach(click for picture)- 26 seats, only 6-10 persons per bus.
- We arrange a jade shop at noon, and a tea shop is added at the end of the tour.

For Private Tour:
- Private tour is suitable for friends or families who are not willing to join the tour group, it may not feel freedom when following the group, so we offer private tour for them. A designated car/van and private guide will follow you to go to the place you like, this tour cost higher than coach tour.
- We arrange one shopping stop at the end of the tour.

- Vehichle mode: private luxury car or MPV van(click for picture)

Note: Children taller than 1.1 meter should be charged as full price, children smaller 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 or apartment), 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.Pay cash to tour guide 2.Credit card 3.PayPal 4.Bank transfer