Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Tour
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Tour Description
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 on 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 visiting Gaobeidian Village, you will be transferred back to your hotel in the city proper of Beijing.
| Price 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. |
Price exclusion: Gratuities to drivers and guides. |
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
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.
The Wharf No. o2
The Boat
The boat guide gives us some basic knowledge of the Grand Canal
The pictures taken along the canal
Reservation Notes:
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