Summer Palace Ticket with optional Guided Tour

5.0
(11 reviews)

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2 hours (approximately)
Pickup offered
Offered in: English

Ticket -booking service or experience the grandeur and beauty of the Summer Palace with your tour guide in group at the fixed meeting point.
summer Palace used to be the imperial Garden for the emperors in the Qing Dynasty.

What's Included

If your booking only ticket, it means no guide no pickup, you will go and explore on your own.
Guided Tour if you choose this option
Entrance Ticket
Either ticket we provide booking is entrance ticket NOT combo ticket.
Gratitude(for good service)
If your booking is only ticket, it means no guide service
Meals
Transportation

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points
You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).
Pickup details:

Meeting Point: Bronze Lion with a Ball. East Gate of Summer Place. 颐和园东宫门 Google Maps Plus Code: X7XJ+5F9 Haidian District, Beijing How to get there: Didi / Taxi: Summer Palace - East Gate Square 颐和园东宫门 Subway Line 4, Station XIYUAN, Exit: C2, +14 minutes by walk

Itinerary

Duration: 2 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    Hall of Benevolence and Longevity

    The building was built in 1750, burned down in 1860 by the English and French troops and rebuilt in 1888 by the Empress Dowager Cixi. For administering government affairs, receive greetings, and receive foreign envoys.

    20 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 2

    Kunming Lake takes up about 75% of the park. This lake used to be a much smaller water source near Beijing. Before this water reservoir becomes a man-made lake. Most of the expansions took place during the time of the Qianlong Emperor, who used about 10000 laborers for this end. They used the extracted ground as a means to increasing the area around longevity hill.

    20 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 3
    Hall of Happiness and Longevity

    The living quarters of Empress Dowager Cixi. This large complex enjoys a prime position, facing the Kunming Lake, and backing onto the Longevity Hill.

    30 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 4
    Long Corridor at the Summer Palace

    The Long Corridor is 728 meters long and has 4 octagonal gazebos representing the four seasons. The beams and ceilings of the walkway are profusely decorated with over 14,000 paintings depicting scenes from Chinese history, literature and mythology and lots of flowers and animals including horses, birds, fish and insects.

    20 minutes • Admission ticket included

Additional info

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • We need all your participants' full name, passport number and birth date for tickets booking.
  • You had better send us all your scanned copy of passport front page for tickets booking
  • Please note your language request on booking
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Cancellation Policy

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