Imperial Sights Tour

Summer palace:
Summer Palace landscape, dominated mainly by Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, covers an area of 2.9 square kilometers, three quarters of which is under water. It was razed to the ground by the Anglo-French Allied Forces in 1860. The Government of the Qing Dynasty started to rebuild it in 1886 with funds that it had misappropriated from the Imperial Navy and other sources.

Forbidden City:
The Forbidden City was the imperial residence and center of the kingdom during the reign of 24 emperors. 14 in the Ming and 10 in the Qing dynasty resided and ruled from this palace for 491 years until Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty and of China. It is now the largest and best preserved ancient architecture in China.

Pick up from your hotel lobby at around 8:00am.Transfer to Summer Palace by car, enjoy a relax walk on the west dyke(with the most beautiful scenery and less of tourists),then visit to Summer Palace (1.5 hours).

Lunch at a special characteristic restaurant.

In the afternoon,transfer to Forbidden City by car,visit to the forbidden city(2 hours), the largest and best-preserved ancient imperial palaces group with 500 years history. The palace was built between 1406 and 1420, but was burnt down, rebuilt, sacked and renovated countless times, so most of the architecture you can see today dates from the 1700’s and onwards.Then at the end transfer to Jingshan hill,climb to it's top and experience the twilight in the Forbidden city.

Return to your hotel.