Ming Tombs (Thirteen Tombs of Ming Dynasty)

1-10days tours in Beijing covering the monumental places(listed here or not) you want to visit.

Specific requests are always welcome and accepted.

Affordable quality tours with the top guides and service in China.

Individuals and groups/events are all within our expertise.

We receive 20,000 tourists per year from all over the world,as long as you speak English,we are the absolute choice of yours!

Selectable tourist attractions:

Tian'an men Square

Forbidden City

Temple of Heaven

Summer Palace

Great Wall

Confucius Temple and Ancient Academy of China

Yonghegong Lama Temple

National Theater

Hutongs(Old Town of Beijing since 800years ago)

Beihai Park

Liulichang Ancient Street of Art

798 Art zone

Qianmen Walking Street

Wangfujing Walking Street

National Museum

Capital Museum

City Planning Exhibition Center of Beijing

Beijing Roast Duck Meal

Chinese Hotpot Meal

Houhai Lake

Acrobatic Show

Kungfu Show

Peking Opera

1. Pick-up from your hotel between 7:00a.m. and 8:30a.m. and then drive to Ming Tombs (50 miles away from downtown about one hour driving). The thirteen Ming Tombs are the best-preserved Chinese imperial tombs with 500 years history. You will visit Changling, the head and the largest tomb of Ming Tombs, where Emperor Yongle (the first emperor in Beijing) and his Empress Xu were buried. The sightseeing on the Ming Tombs takes about 1 hour.

2. The visit to Ming Tombs finishes at about 10:45. Before having lunch (11:30 a.m.), you will have 45 minutes for a short visit of Jade Carving Factory. The jade carving is a famous special Chinese product, a blend of the excellent skill on carving and Chinese traditional cultures.

3. Having traditional Chinese lunch at restaurant. After lunch, driving to the Badaling Great Wall. The hike on Badaling Great Wall takes 2 hours. Badaling section is the most famous and best-preserved wall. Its highest point at Badaling is some 800 meters above sea level. Cable car is available and optional.

4. On the way to hotels, you will have a chance to enjoy Chinese traditional Tea Ceremony, where you also experience Chinese Calligraphy free. Chinese Calligraphy has thousand years of history and it was regarded as a kind of cultural &visual art. After the tour, transferred back to your hotels about 18:00p.m. 

The price is including hotel pick-up and drop-off service, bus, tour guide, entrance tickets, lunch.

The Great Wall ,is one of the most famous ancient construction wonders in the world.It’s just like the roof of the world from east to west in the northern part of Chia.

For many centuries,the Great Wall,as a military gigantic defensive project,kept out the invading troops of the northern nomadic tribes.Having undergone the forces of nature for thousands of years,the Great Wall still standing proudly in the eastern part of the world.Now ,the Great Wall has become a famours historical scenic spot for tourists,and it plays a role in bridging the friendship between the Chinese people and peoples in different parts of the world.

Beijing the Great Wall open to tourists are the Great Wall at Badaling ,the the Great Wall at Juyongguan,the Great Wall at Mutianyu , the Great Wall at Jinshanling, the Great Wall at Simatai.

Mainly tourists choose the the Great Wall at Badaling ,but there too crowd,I suggest go to the the Great Wall at Mutianyu .

The the Great Wall at Mutianyu lies about 70 kilometers(43.4 miles) northeast of Beijng in Huairou County.

The construction of the the Great Wall at Mutianyu was started in the mid-6th century during China. Northern Dynasties (386 - 581) and what now remains is the main restoration made during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). I

Mutianyu Great Wall Travel Area is surrounded with mountains and is of beautiful scenery. In spring, fragrant flowers are vying with each other in beauty and are blooming; in summer, mountains are covered with green coats and you can listen to music of flowing lake; by autumn, it is fruitful and can see red leaves dancing; by winter, Great Wall is painted of pure white and coated with silver costume, showing a northland scene. It enjoys a reputation of “Mutianyu surpassing others of Great Wall” and is the best scenic spot.

The architecture of Mutianyu Great Wall is of special style. It has closely packed enemy towers and [perilous passes. It was built up with battlements on both side of walls. On southeast side, there is one general gateway platform connected with three enemy  towers together, which is quite rare in the whole Great Wall; in northwest side, there are the Great Wall section named as Ox Horn Edge built above the sea level of over 1000 meters and the sections named as Arrow Buckle and Flying Eagle Facing Upward built on the knife-steep mountain peak, which look extraordinary and rugged. The whole section of Great Wall stretches and winds like a huge flying dragon.