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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!

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Daily
Private Tour
Day 1 Jiankou-Mutianyu Great Wall

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.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner
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.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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.


Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Travel Period 2-5 travelers 6-9 travelers
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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It is flexible to change the duration, attractions, starting and ending cities according to your interests. Also the tour can be extended or shorten as your preference, just let your trip consultant know.
All of the tour packages exclude the international airfares. We suggest you can book it one your own. You can compare the price between OTAs (Expedia, Priceline, Sky scanner...) and the airlines. When you have a confirmed date, set alarm and compare it always.
As the China Visa, we cannot apply for you as we are an China inbound travel company. However, we can send you our invitation letter with our company's official seal to you after you booked the tour from us, which could assist you to get China Visa from China embassy easily. Usually, we suggest you to apply the visa about one month or one month and a half before your travel date.
For the breakfast, it is offered by the hotel you stay, usually Chinese and Western buffet breakfast. As for the lunch, we offer 80RMB per person for a standard Chinese meal at a nice tourist restaurant. If you want to order other kind of meals, such as vegetarian, Muslim meals, Indian Meals, please let your trip consultant know. Dinner usually will be left for you to choose the food you prefer. Our guide will help you to balance each meal such as your taboo, your preference and avoid repeated food. You have to pay for the extra cost if you want to take better or more. The meals on Yangtze Cruise are fixed Chinese and Western Buffet.
All the hotels can be replaced by your favorite ones or you can book your own hotels. And the hotel room we offered here usually is standard with twin beds. If you want to have king-size bed room or suite, please let your trip advisor know. Besides, all the accommodation are quoted on two persons sharing one room. The room supplement must be paid if you want to have a single room.
* Most hotels we offered in our tour package have WIFI in the lobby, and some of which have WIFI in hotel rooms. If you need the WIFI in your room, please make sure with your trip advisor.
We have non-shopping private tour and tour with carefully selected shops. For tour with shops, the price will be lower, and you will enter one or two shops in every tourist city. The shops could be jade, silk, pearl, Chinese tea etc., all of which have strong China's character and is worthy to buy. Each shop will take you around 45 minutes. We promise there is no compulsory consumption at all. You get the situation in your hands.
* Department stores, supermarkets, boutiques, hotel and restaurants in most cities of China do accept the credit card with the sigh of MasterCard, VISA and JCB. However, it does generate commission charge. Please check the regulations with your bank manager.
All domestic flight we offered is the economic class, which you can carry one hand-on luggage no more than 5 kg for free. The total of free registered luggage is no more than 20kg. Excess luggage will charge you some extra fees, be aware of that. The free registered luggage allowance in China domestic train is 20kg.
The insurance provided by us is called Travel Agencies' Liability Insurance, which covers accidents occurring during the activities arranged by travel agency. It does not cover mishaps or physical problems occurring outside the guided tour period or caused by clients themsevles, so we highly suggest you purchase the full coverage travel insurance from your country of origin.
For group of 1-4 passengers, recommend US$ 4-8 per tourist per day for guide, and US$ 2-5 per tourist per day for guide; for group of 5 and above, recommend US$ 2-5 per tourist per day for guide, and US$2-4 per tourist per day for driver. Besides, we highly recommend you to tip every day to encourage better service from them in the next coming days. However, if you have genuine reason not to tip, don't.
Usually, the deposit of tour package accounts for 30% of the total quotation, and the balance should be paid 30 days before your tour date. Payment methods we accept include Bank Transfer and PayPal, Credit Card and so on. More details you can check the Payment Guide page. Moreover, Children who are less than 12 y/o have their own discounts, please contact with your trip advisor.

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