Kathy,
I would like to personally say that I thought that Tony and Sphia were first class in the way they looked after my wife and I on our recent short tour to Bejing. There punctuality was excellent there understanding of what we wanted was good and we found them extremely polite, curteuous and knowledgable and were an asset to your company. Tony handled our arrival at the docks superably as we;; as pur deperture at the airport. Sophia looked after is in Bejing and we found her an excellent guide.
Once again a big thank you.
Margaret and Richard
Are you expecting a smiling and knowledgable Beijing tour guide? All our Beijing tour guides have got very strict professional training in tourism industry. Most of them are university gratuates.
Are you going to have a side trip from Beijing to rewind yourself or supplement your Beijing tour? There are many interesting places not far from the city of Beijing like Xian, Chengde, Pingyao, Qufu, Taishan Mountain, Luoyang Shaolin Kung Fu, Datong, Tianjin and more... We have a few Beijing side trip packages for your choices. If all the Beijing side trips mentioned here are not what you expect or like, you are welcome to contact our Beijing China trip advisors to give you customized Beijing side trips.
Pingyao is a small town in central Shanxi Province,near Taiyuan.Pingyao boasts plenty of cultural relics.The city wall was first built during the Zhou Dynasty (11th century - 256 B.C.) and was expanded in 1370, the third year of the reign of Ming Emperor Hongwu. Since 1997, it has been listed as a World Heritage Site.
Xi'an, also called Changan is the largest city in north-west China. It had served as the nation's capital for more than 1000 years. It is noted for historical importance. The Terra-cotta Warriors and Horse of Xi'an, is the greatest archeological found of last century.
Included in the UNESCO world heritage list in 1994, Chengde is located 250 kilometers north-east to Beijing, surrounded by the Yunshan mountain range. It is a famous cultural city with about 300 years history, used to be the second political center in the Qing dynasty.
Situated in the Songshan Mountains, 40 km south-east of Luoyang, Shaolin Temple is the center of Chinese kung-fu. The Longmen Grottoes is one of the three most valuable Buddhist cave and rock carvings in China.
Qufu is a famous historical and cultural city best known as the hometown of Confucius (551-479BC). Mt.Taishan is one of the most famous mountains in China. When an emperor ascends the throne, he must climb the mountain and pray to the gods.
In a valley at Yungang, some 10 miles west of Datong and easily reached by taxi or public bus, more than 50 recesses have been dug into the hills and filled with Buddhist statues of various sizes and shapes, 51,000 altogether.
Beidaihe is a part of Qinhuangdao. Qinhuangdao literally means Qin Emperor's Island in Chinese language. It got its name after the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Inner Mongolia is situated on China's northernmost tip boarding Russia for 4200 KM, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is largely inhabited by the Mongolians, with grasslands, deserts, forests, and the Yellow River.
Jimingyi, 150km from Beijing is the place where an ancient post station is located, dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368). Xuanhua, 40km from Jimigyi, is famous for its long history and civilization with he state and provincial level of key cultural relics of Qinyuan Mansion, Zensuo Mansion and ancient city great wall.
Shijiazhuang is the capital of Hebei Province 280 km (174 miles) southwest of Beijing. Baoding is a national cultural city with history of 2,300 years. There are abundant tourist resources here.
It was first built in the 7th year of Tianbao, Beiqi Dynasty (557AD) and extensively repaired with bricks in Ming Dynasty. The East Tombs of the Qing Dynasty is the largest, best preserved and most complete of its kind in China.
In a valley at Yungang, some 10 miles west of Datong and easily reached by taxi or public bus, more than 50 recesses have been dug into the hills and filled with Buddhist statues of various sizes and shapes, 51,000 altogether.
Located 350km from Beijing, Wuqiao County in the southeast of Hebei province is recognized internationally as the birthplace of Chinese acrobatics. The history of Wuqiao acrobatics dates back to about two thousand years ago. It is said that the local people from doddering grand parents to toddling infants can all perform some incredible acrobatics!
