2 Days Beijing Great Wall Hiking Tour: Jinshanling To Simatai

Tour Code: BTP_07
Destination: Beijing
Available: Year round

Jinshanling Great Wall	Jinshanling Great Wall	Jinshanling Great Wall	Jinshanling Great Wall
Simatai Great Wall	Simatai Great Wall	Simatai Great Wall	Simatai Great Wall

Tour Itinerary

Day 01

Beijing (Lunch) Our guide will pick you up from your hotel and drive to Jinshanling Great Wall. Hike about 10km to west section of Simatai which takes 5 hours. Enjoy a significant scene at the sunrise and sunset. Get down the hill late in the afternoon and check in the local guest house. Jinshanling Great Wall: It is 90 kilometers to the Mountain Resort of Chengde. Jinshangling Great Wall got its name because it was built on the bigger and the smaller Jinshan Mountains. The Jinshanling Great Wall was initially built from 1368 to 1389 in the Ming Dynasty, and in 1567 or 1570 rebuilding of the Wall was mainly directed by General Qi Jiguang. Poems and tablet writings can be found on the Jinshanling Great Wall left from the time Qi Jiguang directed building of this section of the Great Wall.

Day 02

Beijing (Breakfast + Lunch) Hike the east part of the Simatai Great Wall for about 3 hours. Get down the hill for lunch before back to Beijing. It is a bigger challenge and only accessible for the energetic and experienced ones. Simatai Great Wall: Sima Tai, located in the north of Miyun county, 120km northeast of Beijing, holds the access to Gubeikou, a strategic pass in the eastern part of the Great Wall. Originally built during the Northern Qi dynasty (550-577) and rebuilt in the Hongwu years of the Ming dynasty by Qi Jiguang, this section of Great Wall is the only part of the Great Wall which keeps the original features of the Ming dynasty Great Wall.

Hotel Accommodation
The private guided tour is tailored for you exclusively. No other participants will be in your group and you will not take part into any tours of others on land services. Further discount availible for group number more than 6 people.

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1. Your name and nationality;
2. The number of persons in your party, if there are childre, please let us know their age;
3. Your travel date;
4. The code of the tour that you are interested in (each tour has a code, please find it above);
5. Please let us know would you like 5-star luxury hotels or standard 4-star hotels or comfortable 3-star hotels for your tour;
6. If you would like us to tailor make a new tour for you that is different from above tour, please let us know your requests.

1. Hotel accommodation
The hotel is based on two persons sharing one twin or double standard room with private facilities.
2. Meals
Daily American or Chinese breakfast at the hotel, Chinese lunch and dinner in local Chinese restaurant as specified in the itinerary above.
3. Private Transport
Private transport between airport or railway station and hotel and all the sights by air-conditioned vehicle.
4. Entrance tickets
The main entrance tickets for the sights mentioned.
5. Guiding service
All normal sightseeing tours in each city with English-speaking guide and admission fees where applicable.
6. Insurance
China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty Insurance. We highly recommend that you purchase full coverage travel insurance from you country of origin.

1. Visa Fees
Charge of obtaining your visa to enter China.
2. Charge of arrival and departure
The international or domestic air / train charge of arrival and departure.
3. Single Room Supplement
Should a twin room is needed by a single guest, supplement of the twin room will be charged.
What is single supplement? - The hotel is based on double occupancy. If the visitor travels alone or the number of the travelers is odd (such as 3, 5, 7...), who stays in one single room has to pay the single room supplement. As the hotel is on double occupancy.
4. Personal Expenses
Expenses of a personal nature such as laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities or sightseeing, overweight baggage charges or meals not indicated, ect.
5. Optional Programs
Optional programs which are not specified in the above itinerary.
6. Tips to guides and drivers
Suggested tips: USD12-14 to tour guide per day, USD 10-12 to driver per day, but depending on their service, entirely voluntary.