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Beijing Special Tour
Tour Summary: This is an Independent Private City Package. You will visit one of greatest human wonders - Great Wall, Forbidden City - the largest palace in the world and Temple of Heaven, SummerPalace, etc. The highlight is doing Yoga on the Great Wall.
Departure day: every day.
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Day 1 Beijing
Transfer via: by air-own arrangement
Program: Upon arrival in the airport, pickup by our English speaking tour guide and drive to hotel
Met and transferred to the luxury hotel of Commune by the Great Wall. Remainder of the day at leisure.
Day 2 Beijing (B,L,D)
Program: Badaling Great Wall, Ming Tomb (changling), Sacred Way, Summer Palace, Peking Roast Duck
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Morning: Do a morning Yoga session on the Great Wall with an experienced instructor. After breakfast, check out and leave for the Ming Tombs and Sacred Way.
Afternoon: visit to the Summer Palace.
Evening: Taste Peking Roast Duck as dinner
Badaling Great Wall: one best preserved section of the Great Wall. Great Wall is one of the most remarkable feats of mankind, built over 2,000 years ago. You will be able to climb and walk on it, admiring the splendid mountains scenery.
Ming Tomb: The tombs are located about 50 kilometres to the north of Beijing. They are scattered over a basin approximately 40 square kilometres in area, screened by mountains on three sides and open to the Beijing Plain in the south. The road leading to the tombs is guarded by the Tiger Hill on the left and the Dragon Hill on the right. It was a forbidden ground except for those who were officially in charge of its upkeep. It was not allowed to cultivate land, cut wood or to take stones from here. No one could enter it on horseback, even the emperor himself had to dismount at the gate.
Sacred Way: This road was known as shendao, meaning "the way of the spirit". The body of the dead was carried over the route at funeral ceremony. It is 7 kilometres long, from the Memorial Arch to the gate of the main tomb
The Summer Palace is the largest and best-preserved royal garden in China with a history of over 800 years. With its cool features - water, gardens and hills, it was the palace of choice for vacationing emperors and Dowager Empresses. It was badly damaged by Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War (1860) and its restoration became a pet project of Empress Dowager Cixi, the last of the Qing dynasty rulers.
Peking roast duck: is well known among both domestic and overseas customers. The duck is hung in the oven and roasted by flame burning from fruit-wood. It takes about 45 minutes for the duck to be done. The finished duck is characteristic with crispy skin, tender meat and the fragrance from the fruit-wood. It looks wonderful and appealing with a full figure, even claret color and the brightness and shine on the duck skin. It tastes pure and mellow with lotus leaf-shaped cake, scallion slices and sweet sauce jam, leaving a lasting and pleasant after taste
Day 3 Beijing (B,L,D)
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Program: Tian An Men Square, Forbidden City, Peking opera
Morning: After breakfast, enjoy a half day visit tour to the Tian An Men Square and Forbidden City.
Noon: Lunch at a famous local Old Beijing Style noodle restaurant.
Afternoon: we transferred to Fragrant Hill Mountain Yoga Retreat Centre, do Yoga relax.
Evening: Dinner at a Sichuan Cuisine restaurant, Peking Opera
TianAnMen Square, the symbolical heart of China and gathering place for the masses. It is the biggest public square in the world, which can hold one million people. Having a free walk there, imagining the great historic events of the 20th century took place there. You will also see legendary landmarks including the Great Hall of the People and the towering 125 foot granite obelisk, Monument to the Peoples Heroes, honoring those who died in revolution.
Walking across the Golden River Bridge, enter the Forbidden City, the inner sanctum and palace where for centuries Chinese emperors ruled their world. It has 9000-room maze of courtyards, places, and ceremonial halls, where 24 emperors used to live. Forbidden City was indeed a forbidden place, where commoners were kept out for nearly 500 years in the past. Tour the palace and imagine the mystery, intrigue and incredible power that reigned here.
Peking opera: Peking opera is a synthesis of stylized action, singing, dialogue and mime, acrobatic fighting and dancing to represent a story or depict different characters and their feelings of gladness, anger, sorrow, happiness, surprise, fear and sadness. In Peking opera there are four main types of roles: sheng (male) dan (young female), jing( painted face,male), and chou (clown, male or female). The characters may be loyal or treacherous, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, their images being vividly manifested.
Day 4 Beijing (B,L,D)
Program: Temple of Heaven, Hutong Tour
Morning: Temple of Heaven, Hutong tour
Noon: Learn how to make Jiaozi (Chinese dumpling) Lunch at the local family.
Afternoon and Evening: Transferred to Fragrant Hill Mountain Yoga Retreat Centre, late afternoon Yoga session followed by a Farewell dinner party with live Chinese music show
Temple of Heaven: Temple of Heaven was built in the 15th century, a sacred site for ancient Beijing, where the emperor and his 1000 member entourage would retreat twice a year for religious ritual. Surrounded by enormous grounds designed in accordance with fengshshui, the Temple complex consists of the Celebrated Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, a unique wooden and blue-tiled structure built without a nail. It is considered the supreme achievement of traditional Chinese architecture.
Hutongs: The old narrow paths where common people lived. All the Hutongs crisscross with each other, dotted with the Kindergarten, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, the Tea House, and the lake, House of Gong Infante and local people's houses among them.
You will be taken by pedicab (a tricycle cab), pay a visit to an ordinary Beijing family in the compound houses. You will visit a Chinese family to learn how to make Jiaozi - Chinese Dumplin.
Jiaozi looks like shoe-shaped gold and silver ingots so when people eat it during festivals they really hope it could bring fortune and good luck to them, and this, of course, is their best wishes. Sometimes people will add some sweets, Chinese dates and chestnuts in fillings of some dumplings to express their wishes...
Day 5 Beijing (B)
Transfer via: by air-own arrangement
Program: Transfer to airport for your flight to next destination
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