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Summer Palace Walking Tour - Beijing

By Talktome
Free cancellation available
Price is £29 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Starting your tour in the summer Palace from the North Palace Gate makes your tour more enjoyable by avoiding the big crowd from the main enterance.
Boating on the lake (around 15 minutes boat ride) during the tour makes your tour less exhausting.
Walking on the lakeside enables you to enjoy the beautiful sunset if you are visiting the Summer Palace in the afternoon.(Approximately 18:00 is the sunset time during September and December)

Activity location

  • Suzhou Market Street
    • Yiheyuan Road, Haidan District
    • Beijing, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Beigongmen
    • Qing Long Qiao Dong Jie
    • 100091, Hai Dian Qu, Bei Jing Shi, China

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Summer Palace Walking Tour - Beijing
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Price details
£29.07 x 1 Adult£29.07
Total
Price is £29.07

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Admission ticket
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Excellent English Speaking Tour Guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    boat ride fee

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Suzhou Market Street

  • 15m
The tour guide led the tourists to the Suzhou Street in the Summer Palace. This is a commercial street modelled on the water town SuZhou City. It used to be a place for the imperial family to amuse themselves. Now, even just strolling along the street, tourists can still experience a unique sense of ancient charm.

Xumiling Jingzhi

  • 15m
A group of temples in Tibetan style will make the tourists feel that they are in Tibet and walking through this group of temples will make them feel the solemn atmosphere and see the beauty of the Chinese ancient buildings.

Traveling in a pictorial world

  • 15m
It's a group of buildings that located on the Longevity Hill,which is the best view point to enjoy the whole view of the Kunming Lake and part of the city.

Kunming Lake

  • 15m
When stolling along the Long Corridor,we will be so close to the lakeside.You will see even the fish and the Manderin Ducks.

Long Corridor at the Summer Palace

  • 10m
As the longest corridor(painted walk way)in the whole world, according to the Guinness Book of records,more than 14 thousands of paintings are on top of the ceilings and beams,all of which are all different from each other.

智慧海

  • 10m
Standing on the very top of the Longevity Hill,it's one of the very few old buildings from the original time,which is the 1750s.(Most of the other buildings were destroyed by the British and French during the Opium War.

Hall of Happiness and Longevity

  • 15m
As part of the living quarters of the Summer Palace,this area was exclusive for the mothers of the emperors.It's the most spacious courtyard of the three courtyards.

Hall of Benevolence and Longevity

  • 10m
As the main building in the political section,the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity is the second larges building of its type all over China after the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden city.It witnessed so many important historical affairs before the last dynasty came to an end...

Location

Activity location

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    Suzhou Market Street
    • Yiheyuan Road, Haidan District
    • Beijing, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Beigongmen
    • Qing Long Qiao Dong Jie
    • 100091, Hai Dian Qu, Bei Jing Shi, China

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