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Stop At: Dingling Underground Palace, Ming Tombs, Changling Town, Changping District, Beijing 102213 China

Your English-speaking guide will pick you up at your hotel lobby between 6:30 am and 7:30 am depending on other customer’s hotel pick-up. The exact time will be informed by your guide a day before the tour starts, normally after 6:00 pm, by a phone call to your hotel.

The first stop of the tour is the Ming Tombs, the well-preserved Chinese imperial tombs with 500 years’ of history behind it. We will visit Dingling Tomb, the only tomb that has been excavated among the thirteen Ming Dynasty imperial tombs. This mausoleum of Emperor Wan Li is a curious labyrinth underground Palace.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Mutianyu Great Wall, Mutianyu Road, Huairou District, Beijing China

After exploring the Ming Tombs, you will have the opportunity to visit a Jade Carving Factory for 45 minutes. Jade carving is a very popular product in China, not only for the excellent skills artists need to do the carvings, but also because of the cultural background behind. A traditional Chinese cuisine lunch will follow the visit.

The next activity is the Great Wall, the longest piece of architecture in the world, stretching from China’s east coast to China’s west desert. This section of the Wall called Mutianyu is known for its beautiful surroundings like dense woods and rich pastures changing colors with the seasons of a year. At Mutianyu, you can hike up the side of mountain to the wall or take a cable car (at your own expense). Then you can walk over the wall passing several watch towers for different views. On the way down, you can either walk, or take the cable car or toboggan (at your own expense).

After this 2 hour visit, you will return to Beijing downtown, where you will have the chance to learn about Chinese traditional tea ceremonies at a Tea Shop. Finishing the tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel around 6:00 pm, depending on the hotel drop-off order.

Duration: 2 hours

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Included

Hotel Pickup and drop-off
Air-conditioned tour coach
English-speaking tour guide
Traditional Chinese cuisine lunch
Entry/Admission - Dingling Underground Palace
Entry/Admission - Mutianyu Great Wall

Not included

Cable car fee to the Mutianyu Great Wall
Shuttle bus fee at the Mutianyu Great Wall
Gratuities
Drinks

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
This is a bus tour. The hotel pick-up time will be informed by your guide a day before the tour starts (normally after 6:00 pm) by a phone call. If you didn't get any information about the hotel pick-up time after 10:00 pm the day before the tour, please call the emergency number and they will inform you
Hotel must be in Beijing city centre (within the third ring road). If you stay in an apartment block, we will find a nearest hotel as your pickup point. If you stay in a hutong hotel in a narrow lane, please walk a few steps and wait for our bus on a main street.
Please note that depending on traffic conditions, the return time may be later than stated
Minimum age is 2 years

Features

Tourism

95%

Cultural

70%

Reviews

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Jens-Peter M

1 | 2019-09-26

The guide spoke almost no English. A lot of bla bla about the shopping spots and next to zero explanation for the Great Wall. The guide didn't care for his group, almost lost sbd. We spent more time on the road driving to distant shopping outlets that on historic locations, This tour just steels your time and money.

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Jeyaseelan M

5 | 2019-06-10

It was a very memorable day. I give my hug to the guide Jack. He was very pleasant. Good English. Very friendly. Less price with great experience.

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ljwill77

5 | 2018-10-05

First off this is the section of the Great Wall you need to see! This tour starts with the Dingling tomb of the Ming Tombs, has a wonderful lunch and then onto the Great Wall. Tour guide Sabrina was outstanding in her depth of knowledge and wonderful personality. Trips to jade and tea shops allowed us another chance to pick up items we hadnt on our first tour. This is another tour that that offers a lot for a very reasonable price.

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sfoss95

1 | 2018-09-30

WE FEARED FOR OUR LIVES! This is no joke! Our driver fell asleep many times at the wheel along with our guide sitting in the next seat have phone picture as proof. And multiple times we yelled at the driver to wake up after he veered into oncoming traffic, just before we would hit other oncoming busses. And the van was questionable in its maintenance dirty, van made noises, brakes, bearings, when stopping. A/C didn't work and actually was blowing hot air. The shopping stop was just another predesignated store they would take you to to get you to buy stuff you can get elsewhere. Nothing special, so don't bother buying at these places. The guide was ok at the best, poor english and hard to understand most of the time. The drive to the Wall was truly terrifying the whole van was glued to the way the driver and guide were falling as we made our way. When we finally made it to the Wall, the guide simply stated to be back at a the drop off spot for lunch in 45 minutes. This was to include the wait in line to take the lift up to the wall 25 minutes, so we had about 15 minutes at the Great Wall in total. We had lunch at a very dingy restaurant and questionable cleanliness atmosphere. Then back in to the van of terror to drive to the Ming Tomb, which was about another 1 1/2 hours drive. The Tomb was nothing to see. nothing there, actually bare. Then back into the van to drive to Tea. Another 1 1/2 hour drive of swerving in and out of traffic, dodging cars and busses.Tea was just another stop to try to sell you the stuff. Don't bother. Then to the hotel, Lucky we were dropped off first. We had contemplated getting a cab but we didn't know just where we were or if the cabs were reputable. Don't take this tour! Pay for a reputable driver to take you to the Wall and you will be able to spend the whole day there and get lunch at the Subway or a at pizza. And the wife says....Bring your own toilet paper!

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Christopher D

5 | 2018-03-21

Best part of the Great Wall! Not that crowded!

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bkilmarx

2 | 2018-03-18

The tour guide was rather lackluster, and really didn't provide us with much background information. The minivan was dirty and had garbage on the floor. We wasted time at a jade shop on the way to the tombs and I would have preferred using that time to take the Spirit Way Road to the other tombs. We had a nice lunch but then had to really hoof it up the incline to the cable ride that would take us up to the Great Wall. I felt rushed at the Great Wall because we had yet another stop at a tea shop on the way home.

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Vinod V

4 | 2018-03-05

This was a well organized tour. Lunch was very minimum and small portions. Guide was very good.

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Torrey L

3 | 2018-02-14

Evan was very chatty and engaging . The ming tomb was a bit underwhelming and lacked much in the way of information. The ladies with the dried fruits were delightful as we exited. The Wall was great Our driver was a bit of a racer and came up on several cars and bikes a bit too fast to be safe.

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Ah Choo N

4 | 2017-11-08

Well organised. Enough time was given to browse on our own. comfortable bus. Friendly and well informed guide

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