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Private tour in Beijing Xu Z
The paradise under Heaven -The Summer Palace half day tour
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Hello dear travelers, I’m Sunny. I am a highly experienced English-speaking private tour guide with 22 years professional experience and served more than 1500 international guests from all over the world, own countless perfect reviews. Graduated from Hebei Normal University，major is English. hold professional certificates in archival science and automation engineering, once worked as a professional engineer, so I am careful, reliable, patient and super responsible for every guest. My official national English tour guide license since 2004. Deeply familiar with Beijing’s history, culture, legends and hidden attractions. Telling you vivid ancient stories about the Great Wall, Summer Palace, Lama Temple and Echo Wall，making your tour interesting and unforgettable. warm-hearted, easy-going and love helping guests, take best care of seniors and children, good at photography , I will take perfect photos for you for free. know all authentic local food, take you to taste real Peking duck, traditional noodles, hot pot and royal dim sum, recommend you the best local shopping spots and high-quality Chinese souvenirs, silk, jade, tea and traditional crafts. As a tour guide who traveled all over China and many countries overseas, I totally understand what you need and what kind of travel experience you love. Chinese old saying： Fated people will meet despite thousands of miles apart. It takes a hundred years of fate to travel together. I sincerely cherish every guest and every journey. Choose me , you will enjoy a comfortable， relaxed， professional and perfect Beijing private tour. Your trip will full of beautiful memories. I am looking forward to meeting you soon. Best regards Sunny
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An amazing and unforgettable trip to visit a magnificint Imperial garden
Overview of your Beijing tour
The Summer Palace is just like a paradise , It is combination both southern and northern of Chinese garden construction arts . Within four seasons whenever you visit there you will feel you are under heaven. I have guided more then 800 tour groups , when they asked me where do I think the best place , I always told them I like the Summer Palace best. It's total of 293 hectares, consist of three parts : mountain area, Lake area and emperors residential area. There are towers bridges pagodas pavilions corridors boats and islands, 728 meters long corridors covered 10000 color paintings. It is the largest and best-preserved royal garden in China. It was listed on the World Heritage List in 1998. There are more than 60 Famous Scenic Spots inside, each part of has its unique stories. The Tower of Buddhist incense is the landmark of the Summer palace .
Your Beijing tour itinerary
1)I will pick you up at 8:30am at hotel lobby. Then by Taxi or Uber to Summer palace. About 55 minute we will arrive at entrance. We will spend two and half hour inside. To see Emperor's theater , Emperor and empresses living rooms, long corridor, by one way boat to an island .Winter time from Nov. to Apr. The kunming lake will frozen we will change sightseeing boat to tower of the Buddhist incense area . 2)11:55am leaving. By Taxi or Uber go back to hotel. 3)12:45pm go back to hotel. 4)This tour can be customized , please feel free to contact me with your questions.
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Type: Public Transportation / Category: Taxi
By Didi or Taxi from hotel to the Summer Palace and from the Summer Palace to hotel
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Beijing, Beijing, China
Hotel lobby in the city
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