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PRI Layover Day Tour in Beijing: Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven

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You might want to see Beijing during your layover time. This layover private day tour will let you visit Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace with a local guide. You will be met you at Beijing Capital or Daxing International Airport from 7am to 10pm as per your flight time, then start the day tour. If you If you arrive earlier, we will pick you up at 8am at the arrival exit with a signage writing your name. Chinese lunch and drinks are included as well. Afterwards you will be transferred back to Beijing Airport to catch your flight. Note: You need to check the China Visa policy in terms of your nationality, though Beijing airport is 144-hour-visa-free for most of nationalities.

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PRI Layover Day Tour in Beijing: Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven

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Temple of Heaven

From 7:30am to 10am, we will pick you up from Beijing International Airport as per your flight information. If you arrive earlier, we will pick you up at 8am at the arrival exit with a signage writing your name. Then take 1-hour car ride to Temple of Heaven, which used to be the temple to warship the heaven during Ming and Qing Dynasty in China. There are well-preserved yard, compound, and trees. It is a city park as well, where you will always see the local people singing and dancing.

Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)

Then you will head to Summer Palace. Located in the west of Beijing, Summer Palace was first built in 1750, but largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886. As a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design, the palace is a complex of rockery, hills, lake, pavilions, buldings etc. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value. The must-see thing in the palace is the marble boat that stands at the end of the 728-meter painted corridor. The boat is 36-meter long with 2 storeys, the entire boat was carved from a huge marble rock apart from the second floor that was built with wood but painted whitely to become part of the marble boat. Afterwards, you will be transferred back to Beijing International Airport where the layover day tour concludes.

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Inclusions

  • Private transportation
  • Soda/Pop
  • Entrance fees
  • Lunch
  • Gratuities
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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Beijing International Airport and Daxing Airport from 7am to 2pm

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