Beijing Family Visiting and Dumpling Making Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Your guide will meet you at the hotel lobby at 09:00AM.You’ll take a 20 minute walk along the local morning market. Chinese condiments and various ingredients for Chinese food recipes such as cooking oil, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, white vinegar and dark vinegar, cooking wine and fresh root ginger, garlic, chilies, scallion, salt, and various ingredients are available in local food and vegetable markets. The common ingredients are Chinese cabbage, turnips, radish, carrot, spinach, rape, celery, Chinese chive (leek), mustard and many more. For meat, we have chicken, pork, lamb, beef, duck, fish etc. Arrangements will be made for you to meet the family host in a private and traditional Siheyuan (courtyard), where you’ll learn how to make Jiaozi (Chinese dumplings) from the hostess. Enjoy your dumplings as lunch.

  2 hours • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Bell and Drum Towers

  Located at the northern end of Beijing’s north-south axis, the Bell and Drum Tower served as the time-keeping center of the capital during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. It is one of the landmarks of the ancient capital of Beijing and has a long history. The Bell and Drum Tower consists of two buildings, the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower. The two are longitudinally placed one behind the other.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 3
  Lama Temple (Yonghegong)

  Lama Temple is a functioning monastery for Tibetan Buddhism that dates back to 1694.

  1 hour • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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