If you don't want to mix with other people when you travel, please take our daily-departure private tours. We treat you like an insider to look at the hidden world. We'll make a custom trip for you if your special interest takes it way. With the help of your private tour guide and driver, you 'll receive more personal care and in-depth interaction. If necessary, you are more flexible in choosing the time for departure. Take our private tours, you'll have one of the best personal guide and driver in China. .You will have a chance to know about the lives of ancient Emperors, Empresses, even the Concubines, and how they all lived with one another! With our knowledgeable guide you will really enjoy all this,which you will never find from standardized group travel.
Beijing Badaling Great Wall & Ming Tomb One Day Private Tour -$50
Duration: 1 day
Starts at 08.00 am
Finishes at 06.00 pm
Starting point: Your Hotel
Finishing point: Your Hotel
Payment Types: Cash, Credit Cards, Wire
We speak: English
Tour Itinerary:
Pick up at your hotel between 8:00AM. Then drive to Ming Tombs,the Tombs of thirteen Emperors of Ming Dynasty with 500 year history located about 50 kilometers to the north of Beijing. After lunch. the drive to Badaling Great Wall takes about 40 minutes. Badaling section is the most famous and best-preserved wall. It lies 100 KM away at the northwest of Beijing. If you want to get to the highest point and have a bird eye's view of this section of the great wall, cable car is a good choice ( optional ).Visit Bona Jade Factory and learn about the stone carving. After the tour, transferred back to your hotel.
Tour Cost:
1 Traveler :USD 135
2-5 Travelers:USD 80 Per Person
6-9 Travelers:USD 68 Per Person
10 Travelers: USD 50 Per Person
Prices to include:
1. Entrance fees and lunch as listed
2. Deluxe private car or van for your own use with personal English speaking guide
Note:
(1)Payment: Payment in advance, or you may pay to our tour guide or come to our office in person for the payment in Beijing.
(2)The above private escorted tour is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group.
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Great Wall
The Great Wall, symbolizing China's ancient civilization, is one of the world's most renowned projects. It is a distance of 75 kilometres northwest of Beijing. Its highest point at Badaling is some 800 metres above sea level.
Construction of the Wall first began during the period of the Warring States (476 - 221 BC). Formerly, walls were built at strategic points by different kingdoms to protect their northern territories. In 221 BC after the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty unified China, he decided to have the walls linked up and extended.
Historical records show that about 1 million people, one-fifth of China's population at the time, were involved in the project which took more than ten years. When it was finished we call it "Wan Li Chang Cheng" which means "Ten Thousand-Li-Long Wall". Now, nature has taken over most of the Great Wall. The Great Wall which we are going to visit was rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century. It extends from Shanhaiguan Pass, a seaport along the coast of Bohai Bay, to Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province. Its total length is more than 6,700 kilometres.
The Ming Tombs
The Ming Dynasty lasted from 1368 to 1644. The first Ming emperor had his tomb built in Nanjing, the town which he had chosen for his capital. As his eldest son died early, he was succeeded by his grandson, who became the second emperor. His fourth son, the Prince of Yan, was guarding the northern frontier near Beijing with an army 100,000 strong. The second emperor attempted to weaken his forces but was met with counter-attacks. After a 3-year war he was ousted and lost track of completely. So, the fourth son became the third emperor, Emperor Yongle, of the Ming Dynasty.
As a frontier commander, he was aware that a peaceful northern frontier was of great importance to the Ming Palace, he chose this valley to build his tomb. All his successors followed his example and had their tombs built here, except one who was dethroned and buried in the western suburb. Out of the sixteen emperors, thirteen lie here with their empresses and concubines.