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Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Tour
Tour Code: BC-04
Itinerary:
Pick up from your hotel in the city proper of Beijing around 9:00am. Then drive to Wharf No.2 of Tongzhou Grand Canal Culture Park. The boat leaves the wharf around 10:00am. Then you start your one and half hours' boat ride along the 11-km Grand Canal Tongzhou ( total 22 km for the round trip). The boat tour guide will give you a detailed information on the Grand Canal and the economic development of Tongzhou District. On the returned trip, the guide will play a video about the grand canal and Tongzhou development. Through the boat trip, you will learn a lot about the grand canal itself and Tongzhou - the important eastern part of Beijing. After boating the canal, you will visit the 700 year old Randengfo Tower ( Burns the lamp Buddha stupa ) and Tongzhou Museum. The Burns the lamp Buddha stupa is located nort part the Tongzhou District, west of the canal with a history over 1300 years. It is the symbol of Tongzhou. The stupa has 8 angles 13 floors, the high is about 49 meters. Then move on to Tongzhou Museum. Tongzhou Museum is a local district-level museum. The display shows the long history of Tongzhou from neolithic age to the Republic of China. It has the time span from Western Han to Qing Dynasty as the key. All the relics and pictures vividly demonstrate the ties between Tongzhou and water transportation and the important position of Tongzhou in China's water transportation history.After a Chinese lunch, you will be arranged to visit the Gaobeidian Village. It is a thousand-year-old village, situated next to Tonghui River - a part of the man-made canal connecting the Tongzhou and downtown Beijing in the past. In the ancient time, Gaobeidian actually became a prosperous wharf serving the Chinese capital. The name of Tonghui River was made by Kublai Khan who found the solution to the problem of carrying foods collected in Tongzhou to Dadu (now central Beijing) by building the Tonghui River. Then visit Gaobeidian 1500 meter-long Classic Furniture Street which holds over 300 traditional classic furniture workshops, seeing people how to make classic furniture. After that, go on visiting Gaobeidian Chinese Folk Custom Park with Hu-tong layout, along which are 208 old-fashioned stores,the biggest folk style handicraft market in Beijing. After visiting Gaobeidian Village, you will be transferred back to your hotel in the city proper of Beijing.
Gaobeidian Village
Tonghui River
| Cost: in US$ per person |
| Travelling Party |
Tour Cost Per Person |
| 1 person |
$ 120 |
| 2 persons |
$ 90 |
| 3 persons |
$ 85 |
| 4 persons |
$ 75 |
| 5 persons |
$ 70 |
| 6 persons |
$ 65 |
| 7 persons |
$ 62 |
| 8 persons |
$ 55 |
| 9 persons |
$ 52 |
| 10 persons and above |
$ 50 |
Hotel pick-up: Around 9:00am
Duration: 6 hours ( including transfer, boat ride and the inside visit to Summer Palace )
Starting point: Your Hotel
Finishing point: Your Hotel
Inclusion:
1.Air conditioned vehicle
2.Boat ride 120 minutes
3.Entrance fees
4.Englsih Speaking tour guide
5.Chinese lunch
6.The above private transfer is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group.
Exclusion:
Gratuities to drivers and guides.
Available:
Daily between April and October of each year. The boat will be closed because of the big wind of over 4 degrade.
Remark:
Our tour guide will contact you on the evening before your departure date by calling you or leaving a message at your hotel room and fix the pick-up time for the next morning.
Reservation:
1. Please use our online booking or send your travel request via email to info@tour-beijing.com. You are also welcome to call us at + 86 10 67160201 ext 1006 or 1007.
Phone after working hours: 0086 13520598855 or 13901312027 (24 hours)
2.Our real trip advisors will have your booking confirmed no more than 1 working day. We even take last minute booking if time is pressing. When your booking is confirmed, you will get a confirmation email or call from us, which includes the confirmed detailed itinerary with prices.
3. Way of payment:
Guarantee the your transfer by your credit card ( Master or Visa ); pay our tour guide in cash in Beijing ( both USD and Chinese currency are acceptable ).
Pay us via credit card 20 days before your transfer date.
Transfer payment to bank account of our company one month before your transfer date.
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The Wharf No. o2
The Boat
The boat guide gives us some basic knowledge of the Grand Canal
The pictures taken along the canal
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