Great way to see the important sites if you only have a short time.
Although we booked the value group tour, on the first day we ended up having a private tour with a driver and guide to see the city sites. I cannot say enough about our guide Rita....she was fantastic! Very interesting, personable and spoke excellent English. The car was a clean, large, newer model with an excellent driver as well.
On the second day we were only a group of 4. Unfortunately, this guide was less able to speak English and gave up even trying to have us understand her half way through the tour so we just talked to the other couple touring with us.... a little disappointing as we would have liked some in depth info about the Great Wall. When none of us wanted to go to the silk factory she took us to a Chinese for 20CNY foot massages which we did end up enjoying. Again the van was newer and clean.
We found the food on the first day at the pearl factory not good but had a great meal near the jade factory on day two.
All said the tour is excellent value!
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