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Beijing Family Visiting and Dumpling Making Tour

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300 minutes
English

Paying a visit to a Chinese family offers you a glimpse into the lives of these people and can add something interesting to your otherwise leisurely trip. You’ll be able to chat with family hosts, enjoy a homemade lunch, and get a good feel of the lifestyles locals lead in Beijing. Nothing beats having the host family guide and introduce you to every aspect of daily life!

Options

Hutong tour with Dumpling

Duration: 6 hours
Lunch
Minivan car
Pickup included

From$140.80Per Person

What's included in Beijing Family Visiting and Dumpling Making Tour

(Subject to Option Inclusions)

Itinerary

Beijing Hutong culture tour

Your guide will meet you at the hotel lobby at 09:00AM.You’ll take a 20 minute walk along the local morning market. Chinese condiments and various ingredients for Chinese food recipes such as cooking oil, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, white vinegar and dark vinegar, cooking wine and fresh root ginger, garlic, chilies, scallion, salt, and various ingredients are available in local food and vegetable markets. The common ingredients are Chinese cabbage, turnips, radish, carrot, spinach, rape, celery, Chinese chive (leek), mustard and many more. For meat, we have chicken, pork, lamb, beef, duck, fish etc. Arrangements will be made for you to meet the family host in a private and traditional Siheyuan (courtyard), where you’ll learn how to make Jiaozi (Chinese dumplings) from the hostess. Enjoy your dumplings as lunch.

Admission Ticket Included

Bell and Drum Towers

Located at the northern end of Beijing’s north-south axis, the Bell and Drum Tower served as the time-keeping center of the capital during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. It is one of the landmarks of the ancient capital of Beijing and has a long history. The Bell and Drum Tower consists of two buildings, the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower. The two are longitudinally placed one behind the other.

Admission Ticket Included

Lama Temple (Yonghegong)

Lama Temple is a functioning monastery for Tibetan Buddhism that dates back to 1694.

Admission Ticket Included

Inclusions

  • Free hotel pick up and drop off service
  • Family visiting with home-cooked lunch
  • Excellent English-Speaking tour guide
  • Private car or van with professional driver
  • Entrance fee
  • Gratuities
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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Pickup and Dropoff

Choose to be picked up from a list of locations

Please arrive at the pick up point 15 minutes before departure time.

Additional Information

Your Beijing Hotel ( Inside the 3rd rind road)

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