Beijing Summer Palace Tours
Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven & Summer Palace Bus Tour
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30
Classic City Bus Tour, visit Beijing's highlight attractions to touch the face of the metropolitan city on this one-day tour. Departure: daily.
Badaling Great Wall & Summer Palace Bus Tour
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30
This one-day bus tour includes visits to the most famous section of the great wall + royal garden. Departure: daily.
Summer Palace Half Day Private Tour
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38
This half day private tour covers the trip to Summer Palace, enjoy your own car or van with your own tour guide and driver.
Badaling Great Wall & Summer Palace Private Day Tour
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44
Badaling Great Wall, the most popular site, Summer Palace is the largest imperial garden of Qing dynasty, enjoy this one day private tour package.
Lama Temple, Summer Palace & Beijing Zoo Private Day Tour
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45
Visit Lama Temple, Summer Palace and Beijing Zoo, enjoy this 1 day private tour package.
Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City & Summer Palace Private Day Tour
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46
Highlight one day private tour covers the trip to 3 of the 6 major sites in Beijing. Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Summer Palace.
Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven & the Summer Palace Private Day Tour
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50
Classic one day private tour package covers the trip to the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace, enjoy your own car or van with your own tour guide and driver.
3-Day Beijing Private Tour Package
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71
3-day private tour package covers airport transfer & the trip to the attractions: Badaling Great Wall, Summer Palace, Peking Duck Dinner, Tiananmen Square & Forbidden City.
Beijing Classic 2-Day Private Tour Package
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104
The 2-day private tour package covers the trip to the attractions: Badaling Great Wall, Ming Tombs, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace.
Special 4-Day Private Tour Package
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105
Attractions: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Beijing Mongolian Hot Pot, Chinese Acrobatics Show, Great Wall, Ming Tombs, Wangfujing Walking Street, Donghuamen Cuisines Street, Temple of Heaven, Imperial Court Food.
5-Day Beijing Private Tour Package
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112
5-day private tour package covers airport transfer & the trip to the attractions: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Chinese Kungfu show, Badaling Great Wall, Ming tombs, Peking Duck Dinner, Summer Palace & Beijing Hutong by rickshaw
Popular 5-Day Private Tour Package
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126
Attractions: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Peking Roast Duck, Acrobatics Show, Great Wall, Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven, Imperial Court Food, Beihai Park, Jingshan Park, Wangfujing Walking Street, Donghuamen Cuisines Stree.
4-Day Kaichuang Golden Street Business Hotel Coach Tour Package
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151
Pick up from airport to hotel, join 2-day Beijing Badaling Great Wall & Forbidden City Coach Tour & Including 3-night Kaichuang Golden Street Business Hotel(3 star, including breakfast) accommodation & Pick up from hotel to the airport.
4 Day Beijing LuSongYuan Hotel Tour Package
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187
Stay in the most distinctive courtyard, Beijng LuSongYuan Hotel. Pick up from airport to hotel, join 2-day Beijing Badaling Great Wall & Forbidden City Coach Tour & Including 3-night hotel accommodation, then pick up from hotel to the airport.
Xingang to Beijing 2-Day Private Tour Package
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194
Pick up from Xingang to Beijing, 2-day private tour package covers the trip to the attractions: Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs. Then transfer from hotel to Xingang Port.
4 Day Jianguo Garden Hotel Tour Package
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220
Pick up from airport to hotel, join 2-day Beijing Badaling Great Wall & Forbidden City Coach Tour & Including 3-night Jianguo Garden Hotel (5 star, including breakfast) accommodation & Pick up from hotel to the airport.
4-Day Beijing Wangfujing Grand Hotel Tour Package
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224
Pick up from airport to hotel, join 2-day Beijing Badaling Great Wall & Forbidden City Coach Tour & Including 3-night Beijing Wangfujing Grand Hotel (5 star, including breakfast) accommodation, then pick up from hotel to the airport.
Xingang to Beijing & 1-night in Wangfujing Grand Hotel Private Tour Package
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246
Pick up from Xingang to Beijing, stay in Beijing Wangfujing Grand Hotel 1 night and 2-day private tour package covers the trip to the attractions: Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs. Then transfer from hotel to Xingang Port.
Beijing to Xingang 4-Day Wangfujing Grand Hotel Coach Tour Package
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288
Pick up from Beijing airport, stay in Beijing Wangfujing Grand Hotel 3 nights and 2-day Beijing Badaling Great Wall & Forbidden City Coach Tour, then transfer to Xingang Port in Tianjin.
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To
the north of the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity is the Garden of Virtuous Harmony.
Inside the garden is a 21 metre high 17 metre wide, three-storey grand theatre, which
happens to be the second highest building in the Summer Palace. It's only next to the Hall
of Buddist Incense in height. Now it is the best preserved ancient theatre in China. The
stage and ceiling have trap-doors, to enable actors to appear and disappear, a deep well
and five ponds supplied water for special effects. In the course of the performance, a
grand water scene could easily be produced when necessary on the stage. Some veteran
actors even say that their voices could be heard clearer here because of the effect of the
deep well.
It's incredible
that the Grand Theatre was only built for the 63th birthday (1892) of the Empress Dowager
Ci'xi, and approximately 1.6 million tales of silver was spent on it!
Ci'xi loved to watch the plays very much and sometimes she would even
take part, disguised herself as the Goddess of Mercy. Emperor Guangxu would sit near the
window, outside the door to the left. While those concubines sat at the right hand side.
Ci'xi usually invited some princess, dukes and ministers to watch the performance together
with her, so when there was a performance, the scene must be very impressive here because
of the number of honored audience.
One exotic foreign
item in the first exhibition room deserves special attention. It is a vintage car, a Benz.
This car, once owned by the Empress Dowager Ci'xi, is the first car China imported. Yuan
Shikai, a wily warlord, who knew that Ci'xi liked nothing better than gifts, presented
this car to Ci'xi in order to curry favor with the Empress Dowager.
It is said that
three German engineers claimed that it was a second-generation Benz made in 1898, when
they visited the Summer Palace in 1976, they would trade ten brand-new Mercedes-Benz cars
for this antique. However, the offer was declined.
