Beijing · Small Group · Daily Departure
Beijing Essentials — 2-Day Tour
The Imperial City in two days: the Forbidden City, the Great Wall at Mutianyu, the Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace — small group, expert English-speaking guide, hotel pick-up included.
DURATION2 days · daily departure
GROUP SIZEMini group ≈ 12 · private option
GUIDEEnglish-speaking, licensed
PICK-UPDowntown hotel, ~7:00–8:00 AM
Day 1 — Imperial Core & the Great Wall
Morning → Evening · ~11 hours door-to-door
- ~7:00–8:00 Hotel pick-up (downtown Beijing)
- 8:00 Tiananmen Square (~30 min), then the Forbidden City — the imperial palace for 500 years
- 11:00 Drive to Mutianyu (≈1.5 hr) · buffet lunch included
- 13:30 Mutianyu Great Wall — 2.5–3 hrs on the restored crest; cable car/chairlift up, toboggan or chairlift down
- 17:00 Return to your hotel
Day 2 — Temples, Hutongs & the Summer Palace
Morning → Late afternoon
- 8:00 Hotel pick-up
- 9:00 Temple of Heaven — Ming-dynasty altar of harvest prayers (Mondays: Beihai Park substituted)
- 11:00 Hutong rickshaw tour with a courtyard-family visit · lunch on your own
- 13:30 Lama Temple — Beijing's most splendid Tibetan-Buddhist monastery
- 15:00 Summer Palace — lakeside imperial retreat · 17:30 hotel drop-off
What's included
Included
Entrance tickets (Forbidden City · Mutianyu · Temple of Heaven · Lama Temple · Summer Palace) · Great Wall cable car/chairlift + toboggan · Day-1 buffet lunch with soft drinks · English-speaking guide · downtown hotel pick-up & drop-off · air-conditioned vehicle · unlimited bottled water
Not included
Gratuities · Day-2 lunch · hotels outside the downtown pick-up zone (small transfer fee or meeting point) · travel insurance. Not suitable for guests over 85 or wheelchair users.
Tour price
Mini group: US$169 pp · Private: from US$229 pp
Same price as booking direct — all inclusions above; children's rates and private-tour variants on request.
Price parity: listed at the same price as TravelChinaGuide's own published rate (as of November 2026) — our guests pay the same, with Explore China Holidays' service and local support on top.
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