Beijing Private Day Trip to the Imperial Palaces: Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace With Authentic
Beijing, China
Trip Type: Private Day Trips
Duration: 6 hours
Spend a day to explore the beauty of the wonderful Chinese gardens on this private and personalized tour: Beauty, drama and history! This tour is ideal for the horticultural enthusiast or any admirer of natural beauty. The tour including top two imperial gardens in Beijing: The Summer Palace and The Old Summer Palace. Both palaces were built in the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911) due to the Emperors were not satisfied by merely living and playing in gardens. They decided to build gardens venues for theater-going and praying. Big and small picturesque gardens were just like precious stones dotted about. On this private tour, enjoy in-depth attention from your own personal guide who will keep you informed on various interesting facts about each stop in these two places.The tour also including an authentic Chinese lunch.
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Spend a day to explore the beauty of the wonderful Chinese gardens on this private and personalized tour: Beauty, drama and history! This tour is ideal for the horticultural enthusiast or any admirer of natural beauty. The tour including top two imperial gardens in Beijing: The Summer Palace and The Old Summer Palace. Both palaces were built in the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911) due to the Emperors were not satisfied by merely living and playing in gardens. They decided to build gardens venues for theater-going and praying. Big and small picturesque gardens were just like precious stones dotted about. On this private tour, enjoy in-depth attention from your own personal guide who will keep you informed on various interesting facts about each stop in these two places.The tour also including an authentic Chinese lunch.
Your private tour guide will pick you up from your hotels lobby at 9:00am to start the garden adventures. The Chinese have a totally different perspective on what a garden should be and it must be seen to be understood.Chinese Gardens mainly has three characteristics: stylish, super splendor scales and harmonious unity of human with nature. Summer Palace, one of the four famous gardens in China, symbolizes the highest achievement of the imperial garden during the Qing Dynasty.
The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls (Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, Hall of Happiness and Longevity, and etc), palaces, temples and bridges (such as Seventeen Arches Bridge) to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value. Using Kunming Lake, the former reservoir of the Yuan dynasty’s capital and Longevity Hill as the basic framework, the Summer Palace combined political and administrative, residential, spiritual, and recreational functions within a landscape of lakes and mountains, in accordance with the Chinese philosophy of balancing the works of man with nature. You will also see the famous Qingyan Stone Boat there.
After explore the Summer Palace ,then heading to the Old Summer Palace.The Old Summer Palace was, indeed, a veritable museum of garden construction and horticulture. Known to be one of the largest museums in the world, a popular name in China was the 'Garden of Gardens'. It was constructed during the 18th and early 19th century and was a wonderland of lakes and waterways, bridges, hills and pavilions.It was at the Old Summer Palace that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty resided and handled government affairs - until it was destroyed;Your private guide will keep you informed on various interesting facts about each stop in the garden.
After the tour of the two gardens, stop at a local restaurant for the authentic Chinese food, then drive pass by the most famous 2008 Beijing Olympic stadiums: Birds nest and Water cube Stadiums.
At the end of the Tour, your tour guide and private vehicle will send you back to your hotel in Beijing City.
The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls (Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, Hall of Happiness and Longevity, and etc), palaces, temples and bridges (such as Seventeen Arches Bridge) to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value. Using Kunming Lake, the former reservoir of the Yuan dynasty’s capital and Longevity Hill as the basic framework, the Summer Palace combined political and administrative, residential, spiritual, and recreational functions within a landscape of lakes and mountains, in accordance with the Chinese philosophy of balancing the works of man with nature. You will also see the famous Qingyan Stone Boat there.
After explore the Summer Palace ,then heading to the Old Summer Palace.The Old Summer Palace was, indeed, a veritable museum of garden construction and horticulture. Known to be one of the largest museums in the world, a popular name in China was the 'Garden of Gardens'. It was constructed during the 18th and early 19th century and was a wonderland of lakes and waterways, bridges, hills and pavilions.It was at the Old Summer Palace that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty resided and handled government affairs - until it was destroyed;Your private guide will keep you informed on various interesting facts about each stop in the garden.
After the tour of the two gardens, stop at a local restaurant for the authentic Chinese food, then drive pass by the most famous 2008 Beijing Olympic stadiums: Birds nest and Water cube Stadiums.
At the end of the Tour, your tour guide and private vehicle will send you back to your hotel in Beijing City.
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