One Day Beijing Private Tour of Hutong and Yonghegong

Attractions: Lama Temple (Yonghegong), Hutong

Hotel:  Not Included

Meals: Not Included

Meet your guide and group of 10 or fewer at an easy-to-find central location near Beijing’s Lama Temple. Then, set off by private tuk-tuk into the crooked alleys and courtyards of the city’s old hutongs—Beijing’s original residential districts.

Beijing Hutongs

It has recorded the historical changes, the style of the times, and contains a strong cultural atmosphere, as if a museum of folk customs, branded with the imprint of people's various social life. Walking in it, there are places of interest everywhere, and a closer look is like an encyclopaedia of Beijing, and many of the bricks and tiles in the hutongs have a history of hundreds of years.

Lama Temple (Yonghegong)

The Lama Temple, is located in the northeast corner of Beijing city, the Kangxi emperor in the construction of this residence at the Qing dynasty Kangxi thirty-three years (1694), given to the fourth son of Yin Zhen, that is, later the Prince of Yong Palace. Yongzheng three years (1725), change the Royal Palace for the Palace, said Yonghe Palace. The main hall of the Yonghe Palace original green glazed tiles to yellow glazed tiles.