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Departure time：8 am. Please contact tour guide at the day before your tour to confirm the starting time.

Departing from：Your guide will meet you at your hotel and depart together.

(Please refer to below map for hotel pick up range. Hotel over this range will not be picked up.)

Travel time：The entire journey will take about 5 hours, of which cycling will take roughly 2-3 hours.

Please note：This package only includes a bicycle tour in the downtown area. Please do not go to other attractions.

*Please make sure to provide your hotel name and address.

- Highlights -

＃Carefully planned, in-depth travel tour that let you feel Beijing genuinely rather than showing you only a glimpse of the city through your car window.

＃Understand the stories behind hutong

＃Immerse yourself in the hutong alleys and take beautiful photos!

＃Eat authentic Beijing snacks and experience local life!

- Itinerary Activities -

A professional tour guide will meet you at your hotel lobby and take you to the Beijing metro to Shichahai, where you can start your bicycle tour. At the end, your tour guide will take you back to your hotel.

＊Shichahai

Shichahai is a historic scenic area consisting of three lakes in the north of central Beijing in China. They are located to the north-west of the Forbidden City and north of the Beihai Lake. Shichahai consists of the following three lakes: Qianhai (前海), Xihai (西海) and Houhai (后海). In imperial times it was called the Riverbank.

Shichahai is a famous scenic spot in Beijing, and it is near the north-gate of the Beihai Park. The borders of the lakes are lined by tall trees. In the summer tourists rent boats to paddle on the lakes. In the winter many people come to ice-skate.

＊Huangchenggen Ruins Park

Situated between the Palace Museum and Wangfujing Street, Huangchenggen Ruins Park is 2.8 km’s long and 29 meters’ wide.

The park is planted with various types of trees and bushes and a piece of lawn of six thousand eight hundred square meters. The total green area reaches seventy-five thousand square meters, forming a greening rate of 90 percent.

The park collects seven cultural landscapes, including stone maps of Beijing in Ming and Qing Dynasties, underground base of walls, Siheyuan Courtyard and sculptures of Sino-French University.

＊Drum Tower

Gulou, or Drum Tower of Beijing, is situated at the northern end of the central axis of the Inner City to the north of Di'anmen Street. Originally built for musical reasons, it was later used to announce the time and is now a tourist attraction.The Drum tower is a two-story building made of wood with a height of 47 metres (154 ft). In ancient times the upper story of the building housed 24 drums, of which only one survives. Nearby stands the Bell Tower, a 33-metre-high (108 ft) edifice with gray walls and a green glazed roof.

＊Guozijian （Imperial College）

The Beijing Guozijian , located at the Guozijian (Chengxian) Street in Beijing, China, was the imperial college (Guozijian) during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the last Guozijian of China. Most of the Beijing Guozijian's buildings were built during the Ming Dynasty and it remains an important heritage site in China.

The Guozijian, often translated into English as the Imperial Academy or Imperial College was the national central institute of learning in ancient Chinese dynasties. It was the highest institute of learning in China's traditional educational system. Emperors in imperial China would also frequently visit the Guozijian to read Confucian classics to thousands of students.

＊Beihai Park

Beihai Park is a public park and former imperial garden located to the northwest of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. First built in the 11th century, it is among the largest of all Chinese gardens and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces, and temples. Since 1925, the place has been open to the public as a park. It is also connected at its northern end to the Shichahai.