3 Days Great Wall Hiking Tour
Tour Route: Jiankou, Mutianyu, Gubeikou, Jinshanling Great Wall
On this trip, you will visit Gubeikou Great Wall, the most complete Great Wall System, and Jinshanling Great Wall who is the most essential parts of the Great Wall. The Guide Escorted Tour and Shuttle Services will give you a lifetime China Tour Memory!
Your tour guide will pick you up in the lobby of hotel at 7:30 am, it takes about 2.5 hours to the Jiankou Great Wall.
The hiking tour starts from Xizhaizi village, you will experience the best and unrestored wild Great Wall. Firstly, your guide takes you to Zhengbei Watch Tower (the highest watch tower at Jiankou) which takes about 1 hour by walking through the mountain path. Later, you take a ladder up Zhengbei Watch Tower, which features some amazing ruins and scenes of rustic beauty, the wall here is in its unrestored state. Midway through the hike, you will pass over into the mountain, you will pass 17 towers (8 towers on Jiankou section and 9 towers on Mutianyu section) for about 3 hours for the whole hiking on the Great Wall. So you can enjoy the beauty of both section of the wall - natural and well-preserved wall. Finally, you have 3 choices to go down: 1.Cable car 2.Walk way 3.Tabbogan. The whole hiking takes about 4hours and 10 km (6 mils)
Then the guide and driver take you to have lunch. After lunch, free on your own at the rest of the day
Stay at local hotel at the foot of Mutianyu Great Wall for overnight.
Day 2 Gubeikou-Jinshanling Great Wall
Your tour guide will pick you up in the lobby of hotel at 7:30 am, it takes about 2 hours to arrive at the Gubeikou Great Wall.
The hiking is start from Gubeikou section, you will hike 11 towers and reach to Ershisiyan Watch Tower which takes about 1 hour. In the middle of the Gubeikou Great Wall, some part of the wall belongs to the army, so we should come down from Ershisiyan Watch Tower and go cross the bushes, which takes about 1.5 hours to cross the mountain. And then you can reach to the Jinshanling GreatWall. Jinshanling Great Wall is a UNESO Heritage site and has most magnificent scenery around wall. Later, you will pass through Liuyan Watch Tower, Taochunkou Watch Tower, West Wuyan Watch Tower, go down through Zhuanduokou Watch Tower. The whole hiking takes about 4hours and 10 km (6 mils).
Then the guide and driver take you to have lunch. After lunch, free on your own at the rest of the day
Stay at Jinshanling Great Wall hotel for overnight.
Day 3 Jinshanling Great Wall
Your tour guide will pick you up in the lobby after breakfast.
The hiking is start from Zhuanduokou Watch Tower, you will walk to Zhuanduokou Watch Tower about 15-20 minutes, and you can go by cable car to Zhuanduokou Watch Tower as well. Then you will hike 15 watch towers (5 km) and reach to Houchunkou Watch Tower which takes about 3 hours, come down from the Houchuankou Watch Tower.
Then the guide and driver take you to have lunch. After lunch, transfer back to your hotel in Beijing.
Travel Period | 2-5 travelers | 6-9 travelers |
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Dec.1- Feb.28 | US$620 | US$360 |
Mar.1- Nov.30 | US$630 | US$369 |
1. The price is based on stay in China four star hotels. If you want to deduct, upgrade or downgrade the hotel, please indicate this while sending the inquiry.
2. You will enjoy more discounts if there is more people join the tour.
3. Prices may vary according to your travel time and are higher in the high season, e.g. Qingming Festival Holiday (Apr. 4 - 6, 2020 ), Labor's Day Holiday (May 1 - 3, 2020) ,Dragon Boat Festival Holiday (Jun. 25 - 27, 2020) and National Day Holiday (Oct 1- Oct 8, 2020).
1.Two night stay at local hotel.
2. Private transfer service between hotel and Great Wall.
3. Professional English-speaking tour guide service.
4. Cost of entrance tickets of mentioned attractions in the itinerary list above.
5. Chinese meals as specified in the itinerary.
6. Mineral water
7.The above private transfer is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group.
1. Cable car at Great Wall
2. Tips to guide and driver as your wish. (Based on the well-done job of the guide and driver).
3. Travel insurance
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