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Beijing Panda Layover Tour Including Hutong and Drum and Bell Tower with Lunch
1 Person $207 $ 207
2 Person $135 $ 135
3 Person $116 $ 116
4 Person $103 $ 103
5 Person $97 $ 97
6 Person $88 $ 88
7 Person $81 $ 81
8 Person $77 $ 77
9 Person $76 $ 76
10 Person $74 $ 74
10> Person $74 $74
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There is a lot you can do, see, and eat in five hours. Enjoy the privilege of visiting lovely pandas and learn unveiled Chinese history from ancient Bell and Drum Tower, then explore traditional hutong on a rickshaw and savor traditional Chinese food. Beijing has really become a famous layover destination over time with rich historical sites and a visa-free transit policy and our layover tour is guaranteed to bring you the most unforgettable experiences and memories.
Airport Pickup
Starbucks Coffee at arrival floor
Visit 30 Minutes
Beijing Zoo
Visit 20 Minutes
Bell and Drum Towers
Visit 1 Hour
Hutong
Visit 30 Minutes: Tea Ceremony
Transfer to Airport
Tour Itinerary:
Itinerary:
Your friendly tour guide and driver will greet you at Starbucks Coffee in Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 2 or 3. (You will need about 1-1.5 hours to finish the customs clearance and get out)
~ 50 mins : Drive to Beijing Zoo
~ 30 mins : Visit Beijing Zoo
See the cute pandas cuddling, playing and eating.
~ 15 mins : Drive to Bell and Drum Towers
~ 20 mins : Visit Bell and Drum Towers
Learn about the unique technical achievement at Beijing’s 500-year-old Bell and Drum Towers. You can choose to climb one of the towers.
~ 10 mins : Drive to Hutong
~ 1 h : Visit Hutong
Make a stop for a local homemade lunch at the hutong. Or you can choose to enjoy a delicious meal at a local restaurant. Later, tour hutong on a rickshaw and experience the lifestyle of local Beijingers.
~ 10 mins : Drive to
~ 30 mins : Visit
Be part of a tea ceremony and feel the purity, tranquillity and harmony, and sip different tea for relaxing and interesting tea culture.
~ 1h : Transfer to Airport
The driver and tour guide will transfer you to the airport for a flight to your next destination. Have a nice journey!
Beijing zoo is a park in Beijing, China. Loc in the Xicheng District, the zoo occupies an area of 89 hectares, including 5.6 hectares hectares of lakes and ponds. It is one of the oldest zoos in China and has one of the largest animal collections in the country. The zoo and its aquarium has over 450 species of land animals and over 500 species of marine animals. In all, it is a home to 14,500 animals. More than six million visitors come to the zoo each year. The zoo was founded in 1906 during the late Qing Dynasty. Like many of Beijing's parks, the zoo's grounds resemble classical Chinese gardens, with flower beds amidst natural scenery, including dense groves of trees, stretches of meadows, small streams and rivers, lotus pools and hills dotted with pavilions and historical buildings.
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 lions, jaguars, clouded leopards, Asian and African elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, black bears, polar bears, tapirs, sea turtles, penguins, gorillas, chimpanzees, kangaroos, muntjac, addax, zebras, otters, bats,flamingos and lemurs. The Beijing Zoo has 13 of the world's 15 species of cranes.
The bell and drum were originally used as musical instruments in China. Afterward, however, they were used for telling time. As early as in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220), there was 'a morning bell and a dusk drum'. Telling the time by bell and drum played an important role in helping people live and work regularly when there was no other means to keep track of the time. As a result, bell and drum towers became public architectures, and were widely constructed in almost every city throughout the country since the Han Dynasty. In the history of their construction, the bell and drum towers of Beijing are the largest and highest. Their layout is unique, in that they were placed fore-and-aft, not as the traditional sense of standing right-and-left horizontally.
Lying to the north of Beijing-south axis line in Dongcheng District, the bell and drum towers are visibly prominent constructions and represent the symbol of this old city. They were built in 1272, and rebuilt twice after two fires. At one period in history they were the time-telling center of the capital city during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties (1271-1911).
Bell Tower
Bell Tower
This brick and stone towers have two floors: there is an arched door on all four sides of the tower on the first floor, and you can go up to the second floor through stone stairs. The same exists on the first floor. An arched door was also built on the four sides of the second floor. Additionally, there is a stone window on each side of the four doors. Hanging on an eight-square wooden frame of the second floor, the bell in this tower is the largest and heaviest in China. It is 7.02 meters high including the pendants, with a weight of 63 tons. The bell was made of copper, and you can hear its round and clear sound from far away. The two 2-meter-long wooden logs hanging sideward are used to ring the bell.
Drum Tower
Located 100 meters south to the bell tower, the drum tower was placed on a 4-meter-high stone and brick base. It is 46.7 meters high, a little bit lower than the bell tower that is 47.9 meters high. This tower is also a two-storey building; the first floor contains the China Committee for the Promotion of the Minority Art. The second floor contains the exhibition area. Originally, there was one big drum and 24 smaller drums, but only the big drum remains. The method of beating the drum is to beat it quickly for 18 times and then slowly for 18 times. Altogether there are three rounds and 108 tollings. People knock the bell and the drum 108 times, because 108 times represent one year in ancient times.
Drum Tower
Telling time by ringing the bell and beating the drum was abolished after Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, left the Forbidden City. Since the New Year's Eve of 1990, the sweet sound of the bell that had disappeared for a long time began to ring out in Beijing. Being drowsy for nearly a century, the drum was also beaten again on the New Year's Eve of 2001. It has been beaten four times a day, for 15 minutes at a time since January 1st in 2002. From then on, every New Year Eve, the drum is beaten with the bell 108 times to send a blessing to the people.
The area of the bell and drum towers has been flourishing since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), when they were just standing behind the imperial palace. It was the busy downtown district there then, full of storefronts and businesses. Thanks to the further developing of the businesses, the street in front of the drum tower became the busiest shopping street in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties. During the Republican Period of China (1911-1949), many have-nots (impoverished people),along with merchants selling handcrafted items (handicraftsmen) and vendors selling snacks and local food items (snack stands) swarmed the place between the bell and drum towers, which attracted people from all walks of life at that time.Today, when visiting, you can climb onto the bell tower and drum towers to have a birds-eye view to admire the entire city, and even take part in the activity of knocking the bell and drum, appreciating all kinds of folk-customs, such as the dragon and lion dance, and other folk-custom exhibitions.
According to experts,the word Hutong originated from Mongolian language meaning"Well". In ancient times,people tended to gather and live around wells. So the original meaning of Hutong should be"a place where people gather and live."Another explanation says that during the Yuan Dynasty,in the 13th century,residential areas in the city were divided into many quarters. In Mongolian language,passageways were called Hutong. But no matter what Hutong exactly means,one thing is for sure: Hutongs first appeared in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty.
In the early 13th century, a Mongolian tribe from the north became very strong. Led by Genghis Khan,the Mongolian occupied Beijing,the capital of the Jin Dynasty. In the year 1271,Kubla Khan,the grandson of Genghis Khan,founded the Yuan Dynasty and set Beijing as the capital city. Unfortunately,the old city was completely destroyed during the war. So they had to rebuild it. In old China,all the structures and roads were required to be symmetrical. So the city was well designed. First,they had to find a center,and then built a regular square city. The layout of the city was very much like a chessboard. About 50 residential areas were constructed,with straight roads and Hutongs in between. At the time,there was a clear definition for avenue,street and Hutong. A 37-metre-wide road was called an avenue,an 18-metre-wide one was called a street,and a 9-metre-wide lane was called a Hutong. Most of today's Hutong were formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that followed.
Hutongthe Chinese narrow streets
Why book a Hutong tour to explore these streets?.
Beijing has some of the most mesmerizing architectural masterpieces.
Walk around these historical streets which patterned to fit a square city. You’ll find the reflection of the great Chinese dynasties!
Includes & Excludes
Price includes
Entrance fee
Private vehicle and driver
English speaking tour guide
Airport pickup and drop off service
Lunch
Rickshaw
Travel insurance(if selected)
Price excludes
Tips to tour guide and driver
Booking Notes
How to Choose Tour Type?
Affordable Group Tour:
At least 2 people bookable.
Our small group tour is around 15 peoples picked up from different airline.
Suitable for tourists with limited budget and who would like to travel with others from different countries.
If you stay in a hotel, please go to our meeting point on your own.
Tour duration is fixed, if you would like to stay longer or shorter time at attractions. Please choose private tour.
Best Value Private Tour:
More flexible and time-saving.
No need to wait for other tourists.
Flexible schedule.
Possible to be customized for your own itinerary.
A privet tour guide and the air-conditioned vehicle will be at your service.
Pick up and drop off according to your time and place (Hotel or Airport)
Your tour guide will decide attractions visiting order on the tour reasonably.
How to Book?
1. You can choose your favorite tour and book online, fill in your booking information(full name, arrival & departure time, flight number, email, tel etc). Please confirm and leave note your landing at Terminal 1, 2 or 3 in Beijing Capital International Airport.
2. Choose to pay the deposit or full payment. We accept payment by PayPal, Credit Card, Alipay or Wechat, either USD, AUD, EURO or RMB in cash on the tour day. Confirmation will be received at the time of booking.
How to Apply for 24/144 Hours Free Visa Permit?
1. You should apply for a transit VISA after you landed at the airport.
2. It only applies to passengers who transit through from one country to another country. (e.g New York-Beijing-Tokyo)
The destination and place of departure cannot be the same.(e.g Bangkok-Beijing-Bangkok).
24-Hour Without VISA, TWOV for almost all countries by air, cruise or train transiting in China. Counted from the landing time, multiple stops.
How to apply the 24 hours free transit VISA and Policy :
How to apply the 144 hours free transit VISA and Policy:
Cancellation Policy
Beijing Layover Private Tour
If your flight is canceled or delayed and you inform us at least 4 hours in advance before the scheduled pick-up time, there is no cancellation fee.
If you are not able to get out of the airport for some reasons, we will refund the money to you (Excluding driver and guide airport transfer charges)
Beijing Layover Group Tour
If you cancel at least 3 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 24 hours before the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
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Hotel Position : Plaza del Angel, 12, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
Opened:2000
Number of rooms:108
Postcode:100007
Redecorated:2017
The Ping'anfu Hotel (Ping'anfu Binguan) is a luxury hotel located in the hustle and bustle of the city center. It is only 4 kilometers from the railway station and 28 kilometers from the airport. This hotel provide comfortable rooms, ranging from standard doubles to deluxe suites. Facilities in rooms include international direct dial telephones, satellite televisions, central air conditioning and mini bars. Room service is available on request. Guests of the hotel will also have the chance to relax in the sauna and massage center. The hotel has numerous restaurants, mostly serving Chinese cuisine.
Check-in & Check-out
Check-in from 14:00
Check-out before 12:00
Smoking is now strictly prohibited within all public and enclosed spaces in Beijing. This hotel will NOT offer smoking rooms.
Opened:2000
Number of rooms:108
Postcode:100007
Redecorated:2017