Beijing Zoo

• Tour Length: 1 Day
   
• Departure Date: Available Everyday
   
• Service: Private tour guide & driver + Private car/van
   
• Features: Family-friendly day tour: mix the kids-friendly activities, like intimate contact with Giant Panda, boat cruising on the lake of Summer Palace and having fun by taking the Pedi cab, etc, with the parents' passion for immersion of Beijing's culture and history.
• Tour Itinerary
   
• Today firstly you will take a rickshaw to visit the most famous Hutongs keeping the original layout in the Drum Tower area. During this Hutong Tour You will visit a local family and experience what their life is like. Lunch will be arranged at a local family. If you like, you can learn to cook some Chinese dumplings by yourself. Then continue to the Beijing Zoo to visit the lovely pandas.
• After lunch in a local Chinese restaurant, you will marvel at the splendid Summer Palace, the former royal garden, it is the largest and most beautiful Chinese imperial garden.

1. The guide will pick you up from your hotel around 8:30am and then head to the Beijing Zoo...You will see the panda, the national treasure in china ..Except panda, dears elephant,bears will also see here.

2. We will join the Hutong tour and take the rickshaw ,enjoy the old Beijing alley,. You can also get inside the courtyard of the local people and have a overview of the local peoples daily life.

3.Have a traditional lunch
4.We will go to the Lama temple. It was built in 1694 and originally belonged to the Qing prince Yin
Zhen and most of the complex was converted into a monastery in 1723 when he took the
throne as Emperor Yongzheng.
5.Hotel drop off

Including:

1. Hotel pick-up and drop-off
2.Main entrance tickets of the spot.
3. English-speaking guide.
4. Private air-conditioned car or van
Price excluding:
1. Acrobatic show ,KungFu show Peking Opera ticket
2. Tips to the guide and driver.（not compulsory）
3.Lunch

Pick up from your hotel lobby at around 9:00am. Proceed to see Olympic Green(1hour) by car, tour around the Bird`s Nest (Olympic National Stadium outside) and the Water Cube (Outside). Then transfer to Summer palace for sightseeing(2hours), the Summer palace - 20 kilometers northwest of downtown Beijing. Summer Palace is the largest imperial garden of Ming and Qing dynasty. The whole Summer Palace covers an area of over 290 hectares including more than 3,000 buildings, such as halls, pavilions, towers, etc. We also take a boat ride on the beautiful Kunming lake(1hour).

Bird's Nest:

The Bird's Nest, which looks just like a bird's nest made of tree branches, is located in the north of Beijing. It can hold about 90,000 spectators. Covering an area of 58,000 aquare meters. The construction on it was startes in December 2003 and was compeleted in 2007. The Bird's Nest where the track and field events as well as soccer matches were held will be used for many other large events.

Water Cube:

The National Aquatics Center will be the venue for swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water-polo final during the Olympic Games. The total seating capacity is 17,000, including 6,000 permanent and 11,000 temporary for Games which will be removed post-Games, then the National Aquatics Center will become the venue for various activities such as aquatic sports, swimming, fitness and recreation.

Summer palace:

The Summer Palace has three main sections including the political active region, living section and visiting area. The serious and imperatorial Renshou Hall is the representative of the political area in Summer Palace.The palace features hundreds of architecturally distinct buildings, halls, pavilions, pagodas, bridges and corridors dispersed among magnificent and elegant gardens.

Lunch at a characteristic restaurant(1.5 hours).

Then transfer to Beijing Zoo(2 hours), the zoo is home to around 450 different species and has a population of some 5,000 animals. Some of the most popular attractions among visitors are the wild and rare animals of China itself, such as the giant pandas, golden monkeys, milu deer and northeast tigers. However, the collection is far from restricted to those species found only in the People's Republic of China; the polar bears, American bison, zebras, kangaroos, giraffes and elephants also draw large crowds. Transfer back to your hotel.

Beijing Zoo:

Beijing Zoo is on Xizhimenwai Street (Xizhimenwai Dajie), in the downtown Beijing area of Xicheng District. With an area of 90 hectares (222 acres), it ranks the largest zoo in China. It is also the earliest Chinese zoo open to the public and has the largest variety of animals of all the zoos in China. The zoo has fostered a good relationship with other zoos in over fifty countries and districts. Animals that are presented to China by other countries and celebrities are bred and can be seen here.

Pick up at your hotel lobby around 8:30am. Transfer to Sony Explora Science(2 hours) by car, Sony Exploration Science and Tecnology is an interactive educational center for promotion of science and education. The combination of science and technology is the main theme of Sony Exploration Science. It connects interactive educational exhibits from the Exploratorium in San Francisco with Sony`s latest digital technologies to help your kids to experience the attraction of science. Then visit the Beijing Planetarium(1.5 hours).

Sony Explora Science:

Sony Exploration Science and Tecnology is an interactive educational center for promotion of science and education. The combination of science and technology is the main theme of Sony Exploration Science. It connects interactive educational exhibits from the Exploratorium in San Francisco with Sony`s latest digital technologies to help your kids to experience the attraction of science.

Beijing Planetarium:

The Beijing Planetarium is a national level natural science museum located in Beijing China. The Planetarium comprises two main buildings, Building A and B. Building A, which was built in 1957, contains the Celestial Theater, an Eastern Exhibition Hall and a Western Exhibition Hall. It was the first large-scale planetarium in China, and at one time the only planetarium in Asia. Building B contains a digital space theater, 3D and 4D theaters, several exhibition halls and two observatories.

Lunch at a special characteristic restaurant(1.5 hours). 

After lunch, drive to Beijing Zoo (2hours) to see the Giant Pandas. It has both rare Chinese animals, such as the Giant Panda and the Golden Monkey, and also a wide selection from around the world - from Polar Bears to Kangaroos. Over 6,000 animals of over 500 species are on show. The present place of Beijing Zoo was originally the imperial garden in the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). Then visit to the adjacent Beijing Aquarium(1hour), a good place to take children. Regarded as "the world's largest inland aquarium", this huge structure gives a close-up view at the teeming life of the world's rivers and oceans.

Beijing zoo:

The Beijing Zoo is best known for its collection of rare animals endemic to China including the Giant Pandas, which are zoo's most popular animals, the golden snub-nosed monkey, South China Tiger, white-lipped deer, Pere David's Deer, crested ibis, Chinese Alligator and the Chinese Giant Salamander. Other endangered or threatened species include Siberian tiger, yak, Przewalski's horse, snow leopard, Tibetan gazelle, and kiang. The zoo also has a broad collection of megafauna such as lion, jaguar, clouded leopard, Asian and African elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, black bear, polar bear, tapir, sea turtle, penguin, gorilla, chimpanzee, kangaroo, muntjac, addax, zebra, otter, bat, flamingo and lemur. The Beijing Zoo has 13 of the world's 15 species of cranes.

Beijing Aquarium:

Beijing Aquarium has been ranked among the first batch of China AAAA National Attraction. It was also awarded the Model Group, the highest award in the 11th "Forbidden Cup" held by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Tourism and has been honored consecutively as "Beijing's civilized Tourist Scenic Spot". Ever since it was opened in March 1999, it has attracted more than 7 million tourists home and abroad and is widely recognized.

Morning pick up service at your hotel at 7:30am, first we visit Beijing Zoo where you can see the lovely Giant Pandas. The Panda Zoo visit takes about 40 minutes. After visit the Beijing Zoo,we'll visit the silk shop.You can see the production of silk, to understand how the production of silkworm silk.

Beijing Zoo:

Beijing Zoo is on Xizhimenwai Street (Xizhimenwai Dajie), in the downtown Beijing area of Xicheng District. With an area of 90 hectares (222 acres), it ranks the largest zoo in China. It is also the earliest Chinese zoo open to the public and has the largest variety of animals of all the zoos in China. The zoo has fostered a good relationship with other zoos in over fifty countries and districts. Animals that are presented to China by other countries and celebrities are bred and can be seen here.

Then take you to the largest Lama Temple of Beijing --- Yonghe Temple(1hour)-- the mysterious Tibet style Buddhism temple. The Lama Temple tour finishes at about 11:00.

Lama Temple:

Lama Temple (Yonghe Temple; Yonghe Lamasery) is the largest and best-preserved lamasery in Beijing. It was built in 1694 during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) as the residence of the Emperor Yongzheng (the third emperor of the Qing Dynasty) before he ascended the throne. In the year 1744, the residence was completely converted into a lamasery.

Then you will be arranged to visit the old Beijing lanes by taking rickshaws. Hutong tour lasts for 2 hours. You will visit the typical Chinese quadrangles, primary school, many famous old buildings, like the bell tower, where you can explore the real life of ordinary people in Beijing. After the Hutong tour, transfer to visit the Tea Stores, here you can watch the Chinese tea ceremony, to understand China's tea culture. We will arrange 45 minutes to take pictures at the Bird's nest and water cube. If you are interested in the inner structure of the stadiums, the tour guide will assist you in buying the tickets, and you could enter in the stadiums for a visit yourself. Then back to hotel.

Hutong:

Many famous operas and dramas are based on the themes of the "hutong life". When urban construction threatens the existence of these hutongs, some Beijingers become worried. We trust that a "must see" hutong tour will greatly help you know more about Beijing history and culture.