🏨 Full-Day Beijing Lama Temple, Hutong & Paper-Cut Walking Tour Activity

Full-Day Beijing Lama Temple, Hutong & Paper-Cut Walking Tour

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From $100.27

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Departs: Beijing, Beijing

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

What is Beijing really like in your opinion?
Have you ever tried to explore this ancient city by foot?
If the answer is “No”...
This trip is for you!
Walking is a good way if you want to truly feel the charm of the city. Every piece of land you step on and every place you go has its own story. This full-day trip will show you countless amazing sights and historic stories with traditional culture inside the old city center. It features a magnificent Lama Temple, a Prince’s mansion with elegant ancient buildings, a special narrow lane called “Hutong”, a Chinese traditional handicraft, and more!

1. Visit a magnificent temple of tranquil atmosphere & a mini Forbidden City
2. Explore local life in Beijing Hutong
3. Experience paper-cutting in a local family
4. Stroll in Yandai Xie Street

What's Included

Admission to the indicated attractions

Air-conditioned vehicle

Professional tour leader

Public Transportation(Metro/Subway)

What's Not Included

Lunch

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 2
CHILD: Age: 3 - 17
ADULT: Age: 18 - 75

Additional Info

Service animals allowed
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Service animals allowed
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Lama Temple (Yonghegong)

Lama Temple, literally Yonghegong, is the largest monastery of the Gelu School of Tibetan Buddhism in Beijing, which features an impressive fifty-four-foot high Buddha carved from one piece of Tibetan sandalwood. It originally served as an official residence for court eunuchs, and was later converted into a monastery for monks of Tibetan Buddhism, under the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Gong Wang Fu

Gong Wang Fu, also called Prince Kung’s Mansion, the Mansion is endowed with elegant ancient buildings, beautiful gardens as well as rich culture and history. The residences of the Mansion are neat courtyards with three main roads and multiple entries while the garden creates three distinctive lines of landscape on the east, middle and west roads based on its conditions. Thus, the scenery changes at every step and boasts different styles.

1 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Hutong is the name given to a narrow lane, alley, or small street between rows of single-storey Siheyuan dwelled by Beijingers in the past. People say that the real culture of Beijing lies in the culture of Hutong and Siheyuan. They give an insight to the old lifestyle of ordinary Beijingers and have special appeal to tourists.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Yandai Xie Street

This place is a great choice to relax and refresh as there are small bars, restaurants and coffee shops. The stores are closely packed along the street, and a wide variety of cheap souvenirs with Beijing characteristics can be found there.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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Paper-cutting is a very distinctive visual art of Chinese handicrafts. It originated from the 6th century when women used to paste golden and silver foil cuttings onto their hair at the temples, and men used them in sacred rituals. So join this trip, you can experience paper-cutting in a local family.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Free

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