Day 1 Beijing ,Lunch
Durations: 1
Departure: daily
Type: private tour
Visit Locations: Badaling Great Wall and Ming tombs
Itinerary Details:
1.Pick up you from your hotel on departure time, and then drive to the Great Wall (60 miles away from downtown, about one and a half hour driving). Our tour guide will explain the sightseeings along the tour.
2. Driving to restaurant nearby the Ming Tombs and having typical Chinese lunch (50 minutes).
3.Visit Ming Tombs.
4.transfer you back to your hotel.
Badaling Great Wall Introduction:
Badaling Great Wall is located at Yanqing County, more than 70 kilometers northwest from the center of Beijing City. The wall of Badaling has a total length of 3, 741 meters with an average height of 8 meters The highest part is 15 meters. The total area for a tour is 19, 000 square meters. The top of the wall can permit five horses to be ridden abreast.Badaling was the earliest section to be open to the tourists among all the parts of the whole Great Wall. 130 million tourists from China and abroad have visited Badaling; 370 foreign leaders and very important persons have come to climb Badaling successively. Cable car is optional to get the top to have a bird view of the wall.
Ming Tombs Introduction:
Ming Tombs is the tombs of 13 Ming dynasty emperors and their consorts are scattered in the southern foothills of Yianshou Mountain northwest of Beijing. Two of the 13, Changling and Dingling, are excavated open to the public.In front of Changling, the largest of the 13 Tombs, is the marble-based 1,956 square meters Ling En Hall built 570 years ago. It is built of very precious wood and is China's largest wooden structure. Dingling is the tomb of Zhu Yijun, the 13th Ming emperor. It consists of similar surface structure and a Underground Palace. The whole palace is built compeletely with stone, and not a single piece of wood is used. There are no beams and the ceiling is arched. The unearthed relics, including porcelains, jade carvings, silk, woman's head-dresses decorated with golden phoenixes and jewels, wooden seals, and other precious article, are now on display in the Dingling museum.
Meal: lunch
