1 Day City Tour of Beijing

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Summary of 1 Day City Tour of Beijing

This 1 day City Tour of Beijing is carefully designed to give you insight to the top must-see attractions of Beijing – Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace. The most important thing is that this is a Beijing bus tour (group tour or coach tour), in other words, it make this Beijing day tour affordable, with high quality and lower price. Book this Beijing bus tour now and save BIG for your next vacation.

Why to recommend this 1 day city tour of Beijing?

•  Affordable price, high quality and lower price tour to Beijing.
•  Experienced Beijing tour guide.
•  Free lunch is offered in this Beijing tour.
•  Top Must-see attractions of Beijing (Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace) are included in this Beijing tour.
•  Get general information of old Chinese Royal life.
   

Tour Highlights Included

• Beijing Tiananmen Square , Temple of Heaven , Summer Palace , Forbidden City

Day 1 Beijing



Your today's tour plan include Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace. You are not provided with hotel in this tour.
 

Tiananmen Square is the largest city square in the world, at 440,000 square meters, and can hold about one million people for public celebration or gatherings. In the square tourists can climb the Tiananmen Rostrum, attend the national flag raising ceremony every morning at sunrise, visit the National Museum of China, and go to the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, in which one will see the body of the great Chinese leader.

Forbidden City also known as Palace Museum was home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The construction of the grand palace started in the fourth year of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1406) and ended in 1420. In the ancient time, the emperor claimed to be the son of the heaven and therefore their supreme power was conferred upon them from the heaven.

The Temple of Heaven was where the emperor came every winter solstice to worship Heaven and to solemnly pray for a good harvest. Since his rule was legitimized by a perceived mandate from Heaven, a bad harvest could be interpreted as his fall from Heaven’s favor and threaten the stability of his reign. So, it was not without a measure of self-interest that the emperor fervently prayed for a very good crop.

The Summer Palace, in the Haidian District, northwest of central Beijing, is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world, and the largest of its kind still in existence in modern China.  It’s hardly surprising that, during the hot Beijing summers, the Imperial Family preferred the beautiful gardens and airy pavilions of the Summer Palace to the walled-in Forbidden City. Dowager Empress Cixi took up permanent residence here for a time, giving rise to some wonderful tales of extravagance and excess. 

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