Hike from Jiankou to Mutianyu Great Wall Day Tour
(Your Exclusive Vehicle and English-Speaking Tour Guide)

Picked from your downtown hotel in Beijing around 8:00 am by our English speaking experienced great wall tour guide and have 2.5-hour drive to Team 2 Xizhazi Village,  the starting point of for hiking Jiankou Great Wall.


For the first hour, we will clamber up the mountain and get to Zhengbeilou Tower on the wall atop the mountain ridge. The one hour ascent to Zhengbeilou Tower from Team 2 Xizhazi Village is the most difficult part on your trip hiking from Jiankou Great Wall to Mutianyu Great Wall. This one hour uphill walk is done along a narrow and steep bushy mountain path in a beautiful pine forest. Very often you have  to have your hands on rocks, roots, and bushes for balance.

Starting from Zhengbeilou Tower on the top, then walk eastward ups and downs on the rugged wall snaking along the mountain ridge, passing through the wild and crumbling towers at Jiankou, and reach the restored and magnificent Mutianyu Great Wall. The hike takes about 4-5 hours for 8km trekking.

One hour scale up a steep hill to reach the wall, 2 hour hike along the unrestored section starting from Zhengbeilou Tower at Jiankou (Not advisable to scramble the section between the Upward Flying Eagle Tower and Zhengbeilou Tower ) and 1-1.5 hour walk along restored section at Mutianyu (many other tourists). You may get down from the wall at Mutianyu on foot ( half hour walking down ) or take a cable car or toboggan. Cable car and toboggan are optional.

Jiankou Great Wall is the greatest and most photogenic section of the Great Wall around Beijing. It is wild and totally unrestored. The tumbledown and crumbling brickwork snakes along a narrow mountain ridge.Mutianyu Great Wall was built in 1404. The fortifications and the Great Wall here are featured by many watchtowers on overlapping mountain ranges. The wall, built with slabs of stone, is crenellated on both sides with bricks. The wall provided better protection and ward off attacks with Jiankou in the west and Gubeikou in the east.

After the hike from Jiankou to Mutianyu Great Wall, we will have a late Chinese lunch at a local restaurant before returning your downtown hotel in Beijing.

1. Things to take: sports shoes or hiking boots, sticks, cap, sun-glasses, sunscreen, bottles of water, snacks, pocket knife, lip balm and first aid kit.
2. Using toilets at the entrance of the Wall. No toilets on the hiking route. Please always carry toilet paper by yourself.
3. You will return to your hotel around 6:00pm depending on the traffic and don't arrange any activity in the evening.
4. We have two bottles of water for each person.
5. If you need trekking sticks, please let us know in advance.
6. Wearing pants and long-sleeves even in summer to hike through jungles and bushes.
7. You are responsible for your travel insurance for your coverage of injury or accident.
8. Be a green and responsible hiker, taking nothing but photos and leaving nothing but footprint.
9. Travelers with chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, hypertension, chronic tracheitis, asthma, chronic nephritis, or arthritis, are not recommended to take this tour.

This tour is designed for your own traveling party and no other tourists will join you. So you have much flexibility and freedom. If you have any questions, or want more time for taking photos, just feel free to let your tour guide know. With your personal tour guide, you will have more interaction with the locals which will enrich your travel experience in Beijing. It is a non-shopping private tour and no Hidden Fee!

On the evening before your departure early next morning, you will get a call to your hotel room or a message at your hotel front counter by your tour guide to reconfirm your next morning's pickup time which is normally set around around 8:00 am.

On the morning of your tour departure date, our tour guide will go to your hotel ahead of your pick-up time in the lobby, holding a sign with your name. When you come down to the hotel lobby, just look around for the sign to meet our tour guide.

You will have the narratives of local history and culture by your tour guide while you are comfortably sitting in the air-conditioned vehicle of your exclusive use and enjoying the views passing by.

Rush hours in Beijing can cause serious traffic jam. We try our best to manage the traffic and keep your schedule.

All tours & transfers are all based in English Speaking local guides. For other languages, please contact our trip advisors for new quotations.

Price List for this tour (Price per person in US dollars)

Price inclusion: 1.Your Exclusive air conditioned vehicle 2.Chinese lunch 3.Entrance fees 4.Your exclusive English Speaking tour guide 5.The above private transfer is designed for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group.

Price exclusion: 1.Gratuities to drivers and guides 2.Cable car at the Great Wall 3.Travel insurance for your coverage of injury or accident

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Monday	9AM–6:00PM
Tuesday	9AM–6:00PM
Wednesday	9AM–6:00PM
Thursday	9AM–6:00PM
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Sunday	Closed

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