Experience four signature sights of Beijing on the guided tour. After a convenient hotel pickup, explore a China's ancient sacrificial building - Temple of Heaven and experience the leisure pursuits of local people. Then, Walk through the Wangfujing Street and see the most fashionable fancy shopping malls. After lunch, visit two modern landmark buildings at Beijing Olympic Park. At last, visit the largest and best-preserved of the surviving imperial garden – Summer Palace.
Pickup included
Your tour guide will be welcoming you at your hotel at 09:00 a.m.. Then, we will transfer to Temple of Heaven and start the wonderful tour. It is the Largest Existing Architecture Group For Heaven Worship in the World. Originally, the Temple of Heaven was the place where emperors of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty held the Heaven Worship Ceremony. Residents living near the this place enjoy many activities here, such as running, cycling, singing, dancing, playing chess, flying kites, etc. You can become involved personally in these activities and experience the leisure pursuits of local people.
Wangfujing is one of the most famous shopping streets, not only in Beijing but in all of China. It is the most well-known and prosperous shopping street with modern and fashion trends. Wangfujing Shopping Street houses a wide variety of shops and boutiques, some of which are of world-famous brands as well as restaurants. Apart from that, there are also many time honored stores with traditional commodities standing in the street for hundreds of years. Nowadays, Beijing Wangfujing Street is a modern commercial street which can be paralleled with Champs Elysees in Paris. Another Wangfujing landmark: the Foreign Languages Bookstore. The store sells books, art supplies, videos and CDs on several floors, but the street level is the place to buy coffee table books about China in a variety of languages as well as cookbooks and books to help you learn the Chinese language. At noon, we will enjoy a local lunch, with Peking duck and vegetarian options available. In the afternoon, we will visit Niaochao National Stadium, Water Cube and Summer Palace.
Beijing Olympic Park, also known as the Olympic Green. Beijing Olympic Park is where the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympics took place. It also will be where the 2022 Winter Olympics takes place. Afterward, it was transformed into a comprehensive multifunctional activity center for the public. It contains the main venues used during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, such as the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube. You will be overwhelmed by the architecture of these two magnificent buildings.
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Your guide will pick you up from hotels located within Beijing 5th Ring Road.