Attractions: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Beijing
After breakfast at your hotel, start your tour with the visit to Tiananmen Square (40 minutes sightseeing). It is the largest city square in the world, covering an area of 440,000 square metres and can accommodate 1 million people. Tiananmen Square is surrounded by many famous historical and cultural attractions, such as the Tiananmen Square Citadel, Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, and the National Museum. The grand flag-raising and flag-lowering ceremonies held in Tiananmen Square attract countless Chinese and foreign tourists every day.
Then move on to the Forbidden City (2 hours visit), the last imperial palace in China, is the centralised presentation of imperial culture in traditional Chinese culture in architectural form, the three-dimensional, symbolic and pictorial representation of Chinese imperial culture, and the high degree of unity between Chinese imperial culture and ancient Chinese architecture culture.
After that, we will head to the Summer Palace (2 hours sightseeing), The Summer Palace, a royal garden in China during the Qing Dynasty, formerly known as the Garden of Clear Ripples. It is adjacent to the Yuanmingyuan. It is a large landscape garden built on the basis of Kunming Lake and Wanshoushan Mountain, modelled on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and drawing on the design techniques of the Jiangnan Gardens, and it is also the best-preserved imperial palace, known as the "Museum of Royal Gardens".
End of today’s sightseeing, transferred back to your hotel.