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Day 1:
Pick you up from hotel by our tour guide & private car/van at 7:30am. Then drive 1.5 hours to get to the Grand Epoch City.
Enjoy the opening ceremony of Grand Epoch City first. The ceremony lasts for 1 hour.
After Hotel check-in, visit the imitation of the old Summer Palace - used to be the largest imperial garden ever built in Beijing in the past. The original garden was totally destroyed by eight-country allied forces in 1860, people built a part of imitation to represent how it looks like back to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Then visit  temple & museum in the Grand Epoch City.
After lunch, enjoy 18-hole golf playing on your own - caddie & cart included.
Dinner will take place at 6:30pm. Enjoy the Brazil dancing show after dinner. (L+D)


Day 2:

Hotel check-out at 8:30 am after having breakfast.  Be transferred back to the city, lovely tour ends!


Tour Includes:
Private English-speaking tour guide
Accommodation: five star hotel-Zheng’an Gong with breakfast
Meals listed
private car/van
Entrance fee                                         
Green feeGrand Epoch City
One caddie per golfer at the golf course                                  
Mineral water in bottles

Golf cart/couple

 
Tour Excludes:
Golf equipment rental
Tips to the caddie, guide & driver
Other fees not mentioned above
Single Room Supplement

Beijing , the capital city of China, is situated in the northeastern part of China, with a total area of 16808 square kilometers (about 65 square miles) and a population of about 12 million. The weather in Beijing is very cold and dry during the winter, and hot during the summer. It’s long history of serving as the capital city of China has marked the city with countless historic and scenic sites. The famous Great Wall (Ba Da Ling Great Wall and Ju Yong Guan Great Wall) is located in northwest of Beijing. We list the Great Wall as one of the most famous attraction sites by itself since the magnitude itself merits individual attention. But there are four must-sees for tourist in Beijing. The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Temple of heaven.

Tourists travel beijing for China's beauty, long history, and rich cultures. Beijing is the city that remains on the top of the China traveler's list when you tour China. Beijing emerged as one of the first cities in world more than 3000 years ago. It became the national capital in China about 800 years ago. Through the political changes of history, the capital city changes along with it. It was only until 1421 in the Ming Dynasty that Yongle moved the capital to Beijing officially. Large-scale construction was carried out in 1403 to prepare for this move and Beijing's basic city plan took shape during this period of time. Beijing remains a city that is rigidly symmetrical, extending in squares and rectangles from the palace and inner-city grid to the suburbs as it is today. While Beijing has been quickly developed into a super large modern metropolis, the city has still retained the charms of an ancient capital city awaiting visitors from all over the world to explore. The city has countless historic and scenic sites for tourist to visit.

The Great Hall of the People was built in1959.  Tian An Men Square is flanked by the Great Hall of the People and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution. The magnificent Great Hall of the People impressed them tremendously.

   
Fortifications of Beijing city

The city wall of Beijing was a fortification built around 1435. It was 23.5 km long. The thickness at ground level was 20m and the top 12m. The wall was 15m high, and it had nine gates. This wall stood for nearly 530 years, but in 1965 it was removed to give way to 2nd Ring Road and the loop line subway of Beijing. Only in the southeast, just south of Beijing Railway Station, stands one part of the wall.

Beijing was the capital city of the last three dynasties (the Yuan, Ming and Qing) as well as two northern dynasties (the Liao and Jin) in the history of China, as such, Beijing is often referred to as an "ancient capital of Five dynasties" . It had an extensive fortification system, consisting of the Palace city, the Imperial city, the inner city and the outer city. Specifically including the many gate towers, gates, archways, watchtowers, barbicans, barbican towers, barbican gates, barbican archways, sluice gates, sluice gate towers, enemy sighting towers, corner guard towers and moat. It had the most extensive defense system in Imperial China.

After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, Beijing 's fortifications were dismantled one by one, the Palace city has remained largely intact, becoming the Palace Museum; the Imperial city's fortifications has Tian'anmen and several sections of imperial city wall remaining intact; the inner city with Zhengyangmen's gate tower and watchtower, Deshengmen's watchtower, the southeastern corner guard tower, and a section of the inner city wall near Chongwenmen remaining intact; and nothing of the outer city remaining intact, with Yongdingmen completely reconstructed in 2004.