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| Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Tour
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| Tour Code: |
BJTT162 |
| Destinations: |
Beijing |
| Tour Price: |
From $60USD Click for Price Details |
| Departure Dates: |
You choose
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| Attraction: |
Randengfo Tower (Burns the lamp Buddha stupa), Tongzhou Museum, Gaobeidian Village, Gaobeidian 1500 meter-long Classic Furniture Street, Gaobeidian Chinese Folk Custom Park
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Economic,
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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 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 Chinas 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 that, go on visiting Gaobeidian Chinese Folk Custom Park with Hu-tong layout, along which are 208 old-fashioned stores,the biggest folk style handicraft market in Beijing. After visiting Gaobeidian Village, you will be transferred back to your hotel in the city proper of Beijing. |
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| Tour Prices (based on per person and shown in US dollars): |
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| Tour Class:
Economic |
| Your Group Size |
Occupy |
1 person |
2-5 persons |
6-9 persons |
Low season
16/11/2009
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15/3/2011 |
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130 |
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60 |
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High season
16/11/2009
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15/3/2011
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130 |
90 |
60 |
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| Prices Inclusions & Exclusions: |
Inclusions:
1. Admission fee of mentioned attractions;
2. English-speaking tour guide;
3. Mentioned meals with soft drink (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner);
4. Transfers between airports, hotels and scenic spots by private air conditioned vehicle with a driver;
5. Luggage Transfers between airports and hotels, include Gas, Toll Fee, and parking cost;
6. The above private escorted tour is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group.
Exclusions:
1. International and domestic transfers (airplanes, trains);
2. Visa;
3. Personal expense;
4. Gratuities to guides and drivers;
5. Any meals which are not specified in the tour itinerary;
6. Personal accident insurance.
Note: The prices maybe adjust during the Chinese public holidays, such as Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Mid-Autumn Day, National Day.
Payment method:
1. Pay our tour guide in cash in Beijing (USD and Chinese currency are both acceptable)
2. Pay us via credit card at least one week before tour date;
3. Pay us via Western Union at least 1 week before tour date;
4. Transfer payment to bank account of our company at least 3 weeks before tour date.
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Optional Tour |
Extra cost |
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Kongfu show |
26 USD per person |
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Acrobatic show |
26 USD per person |
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Beijing Opera show |
22 USD per person |
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Start or end the tour in airport |
15 USD per person |
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Start or end the tour in railway station |
5 USD per person | |
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