*Badaling Great Wall and Ming Tombs Bus Tour

Price for this bus tour: RMB135/USD20 per pax

Departure: Daily
Duration: Approx.8 hours
Pick-up point and time: Your hotel between 7:00am and 8:30am
Finishing point and time: Your hotel around 6:00pm
Payment Methods: Cash, Credit Cards, Wire
Language: English

Details:

*In the morning you are picked up at the lobby of your hotel between 7:00am and 8:30am, and then drive to Ming Tombs (50 miles away from downtown about one hour driving). With a history of 500 years, the Ming Tombs are the best-preserved Chinese imperial tombs for the emperors and empresses of China's Ming Dynasty. You will visit Changling, the head and the largest tomb of Ming Tombs, where Emperor Yongle (the first emperor in Beijing) and his Empress Xu were buried. We stay at the Ming Tombs for about 1 hour. The visit to Ming Tombs finishes at about 10:45.

*Before having lunch (11:30 am), you will have 45 minutes for a short visit of Jade Carving Factory. The jade carving is a famous special Chinese product, a blend of the excellent skill on carving and Chinese traditional culture.

*Having traditional Chinese lunch at Jindian restaurant. After lunch, driving to the Badaling Great Wall. The hike on Badaling Great Wall takes about 2 hours. Badaling Great Wall is the most popular among travellers. Its highest point at Badaling is some 800 meters above sea level. Cable car is available and optional.

*On the way to your hotels, we stop at the Olympic Park and have an outside view of the Birds Nest and Water Cube - the main venues of the 2008 Olympic Games. After that, you will have a chance to enjoy the Chinese traditional silk arts. After today's tour, transfer back to your hotels. The Great Wall and Ming Tombs bus tour ends here.

Special features:
1. Only English-speaking travelers in the coach;
2. Well- trained English speaking tour guide.

Service package includes:
1. Entrance fee
2. Hotel pick-up and drop-off
3. Air-conditioned tour coach
4. English Speaking tour guide
5. Typical Chinese lunch

Service package excludes:
1. Fee of cable car
2. Tips to the guide and driver

More Beijing coach tours:

Classic Beijing City Bus Tour  US$30
Coach Tour to Mutianyu Great Wall US$42
Jinshanling Great Wall Bus Tour US$57