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Travel to Beijing and
visit its historical and cultural wonders with Selena
Travel! Beijing is the historical, economical, political
and cultural center of the People's Republic of China.
"In the year 1272, Beijing became the Capital of
a unified country for the first time in Mongolian Yuan
Dynasty (1206-1368) on the orders of Mongolian Great
Khaan Khubilai" was written in the Travels of Marco
Polo. In fact, Beijing has been the Capital of Jin,
Mongolian Yuan, Ming, Manchu Qing and Republic of China
and today it still is the center of national politics,
economics, culture, transportation and tourism. Beijing
is closely connected with the Mongolian rich history
as once it served as the capital city of Great Mongolian
Empire in the 13-14th century when the Mongols ruled
the world. The municipality is under direct administration
of China's Central Government.
 Day
1 Beijing
Your guide will pick you up at Beijing
airport and transfer to the hotel. The rest day is free.
Day 2 Beijing (B+L+D)
Today we visit the Tiananmen Square, the
biggest square in the world and the Forbidden City,
where the Chinese and Manchu Emperors. We lunch in a
pleasant Chinese restaurant for the finest Chinese food.
Then visit the Temple of Heaven. The Beijing Duck Dinner
and the Peking Opera are served in the evening.
Day 3 Beijing (B+L)
After breakfast at the hotel and we drive
to visit the Badaling Great Wall, the Sacred Way and
the Ming Tombs.
 Day
4 Beijing (B+L)
Today we will visit the Summer Palace,
the Beihai Park and the Lama Temple.
Day 5 Beijing (B)
Transfer to the Capital Airport of Beijing,
after breakfast.
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Style: Traveller
Tour grade: Easy
Duration: 5 days/4 nights
All year round
Trip price /per person/:
2-5 pax - 450 USD
6-8 pax - 360 USD
9 and more - 286 USD
Single supplement: 135 USD
The trip price includes:
Accommodation in 3* hotel
(twin sharing) with breakfast, admissions
to the sightseeing, Guiding and interpreting
service, private vehicle, meals as listed
booking@selenatravel.com or
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| Day
1 |
Your
guide will pick you up at Beijing airport
and transfer to the hotel. The rest day is
free |
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| Day
2 |
Today
we visit the Tiananmen Square, the biggest
square in the world and the Forbidden City,
where the Chinese and Manchu Emperors. We
lunch in a pleasant Chinese restaurant for
the finest Chinese food. Then visit the
Temple of Heaven. The Beijing Duck Dinner
and the Peking Opera are served in the evening.
(B+L+D) |
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| Day
3 |
After breakfast
at the hotel and we drive to visit the Badaling
Great Wall, the Sacred Way and the Ming Tombs.
(B+L) |
Gc |
| Day
4 |
Today
we will visit the Summer Palace, the Beihai
Park and the Lama Temple. (B+L)
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Gc |
| Day
5 |
Transfer to the Capital
Airport of Beijing, after breakfast. (B)
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The Forbidden
City, Beijing, China
The Forbidden City stands in the center of Beijing.
It is protected by high walls and a moat on all
four sides and consists of dozens of halls and courtyards.
The emperors of two dynasties, the Ming and the
Qing, lived here with their families and hundreds
of court ladies and palace eunuchs. From their throne
in the Forbidden City they governed the country
by holding court sessions with their ministers,
issuing imperial edicts and initiating military
expeditions. It was the home of 24 emperors of the
Ming and Ching dynasties. Naturally it was the scene
of many important events affecting the course of
Chinese history, including political struggles and
palace coups, some of them extremely tragic. After
the republican revolution of 1911, the last emperor
of the Ching Dynasty, then still a child, abdicated
the next year. But he and his family and their entire
entourage were allowed to stay in the palaces.
The Great Wall of China
Lying to the north of Juyong Pass, the
Great Wall at Badaling is about 60 kilometers from
the city proper of Beijing. The Gate-tower of the
Juyong Pass was firstly constructed in the 18th
year of the Hongzhi reign period of the Ming Dynasty
(1505), with two gates, one in the cast and the
other in the west. Over the eastern gate is a horizontal
tablet, inscribed with the characters meaning "Outer
Juyong Town," and the horizontal tablet over
the western gate also has four characters, meaning
"A Strategic Pass in the North." The Ming
tombsare located at the foot of the picturesque
Tianshou Hills in Changping County, Beijing, the
Ming Tombs are 44 kilometers from the city proper.
Altogether 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty were
buried here. Of them, Changling Mausoleum is well
known for its grand architecture and Dingling Mausoleum
for its excavated underground palace.
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
Tiananmen Square is the largest square in the world,
where the five-star m. flag is raised ., dawn, an,.
lowered at sunset everyday. Standing at the Tiananmen
Gatetower, you will have a nice view of the splendid
and magnificent square. The square is flanked by
the Museum of Chinese History and the Museum of
the Chinese Revolution on the east, the Great Hall
of the People on the west, Zhenyangmen and the Arrow
Tower on the south, the Monument to the People's
Heroes at the center, and the Chairman Mao Memorial
Hall at the southern end. Tiananmen Square attracts
numerous Chinese and foreign tourists everyday.
Beihai Park
Located in the center of Beijing, the Beihai Park
is well known for its Jade Islet, Beihai Lake and
White Dagoba. The 35.9-meter-high White Dagoba,
which was firstly built in 165 L, sits on a Sumeru
base built with bricks and stones. Many halls and
pavilions stand among green pines and cypresses,
in addition to a long corridor by the lake. The
Beihai Park is an ideal place for going boating
in summer and skating in winter. Immediately outside
the southern gate is the Circular City, known as
a small city in the city proper of Beijing. The
Hall of Receiving Light is in the center of the
Circular City, where visitors can see the 800-year-old
pine trees planted in Kin (1115-1234).
Temple of Heaven, in Beijing, China
As the largest of the all existing temples
in China, the Temple of Heaven was the place where
the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshiped
heaven and prayed for good harvests. The construction
of the Temple of Heaven was completed in the 18th
year of the Yongle reign period of the Ming Dynasty
(1420). Its main structures include the Hall of
Prayer for Good Harvests, the Imperial Vault of
Heaven and the Circular Mound Altar. The Hall of
Prayer for Good Harvests is a lofty, round structure
supported by 28 wooden pillars, with a coneshaped
deep blue-tile roof crowned with a gilded knob.
The Imperial Vault of Heaven is surrounded by a
circular wall, known as Echo Wall. If a person whispers
close to the wall at any point, the voice can be
heard distinctly at any other point along the wall.
The Beijing Zoo - The Beijing Zoo, the
largest zoo in China, has the most valuable animals
in the world, such as giant pandas and golden monkeys.
It has more than 3,000 animals from all over the
world, which fall into over 500 species, such as
rhinoceroses, chimpanzees, gibbons, elephants, lions,
polar bears, penguins, etc.
Beijing Hutong - Hutong is an
ancient city alley peculiar to Beijing. Beijing
has more than 4,550 Hutong. Those surrounding the
Forbidden City and taking Prince Gong's Residence
as the center are the best-preserved. The buildings
in Beijing hutong are mainly compounds with houses
around a courtyard, also known as quadrangles. Narrow
passages between these quadrangles linked one with
the other are hutong. The hutong in Beijing was
mainly formed in the Yuan (1279-1368), Ming and
Qing dynasties. Tourists may have a tour of the
700-yearold hutong in Beijing by tricycle.
Peking Opera
Peking opera of China is a national treasure with
a history of 200 years. In the 55th year of the
reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1790)
,the four big Huiban opera Troupes entered the capital
and combined with Kunqu opera, Yiyang opera, Hanju
opera and Luantan in Beijing's thearetical circle
of the time. Through a period of more than half
a century of combination and integration of various
kinds of opera there evolved the present Peking
opera, the biggest kind of opera in China, whose
richness of repertoire, great number of artists
of performance and of audiences, and profound influence
are incomparable in China. 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
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