Tianjin Private Tour to Huangyaguang Great Wall and Eastern Qing Tombs

Tianjin Private Tour to Huangyaguang Great Wall and Eastern Qing Tombs

Escape the city and head away from the tourist trail and into the most beautiful and natural section of the Huangyaguan Great Wall. This section of the Great Wall winds on high mountains and lofty hills. The Huangyaguan Pass was once an important strategic military position and has a history of 1400 years. While the Eastern Qing Tombs are the largest, most complete, and best preserved extant mausoleum complex in China. This private tour will take you experience authentic Great Wall and Imperial burial system from Qing Dynasty. Tour includes tasty local lunch, all entrance fee, an English-speaking guide and transport by private vehicle. The tour contains no factory and shopping stops which keeps the focus on the main sites.

Your guide will pick you up at 8:00am in your hotel's lobby, drive by private vehicle for approximately 2.5 hours to Huangyaguan Great Wall. On the way you will enjoy beautiful countryside scenery, and your guide will give you a history class while driving to the Great Wall as well as the Eastern Qing Tombs, feel free to ask any questions on the way to your guide 

Once arrived at Huangyaguan Great Wall, you will enjoy a less hurried and less crowded hike at the Wall. You will spend about 1.5 hours at Huangyaguan

The Huangyaguan section of the Great Wall including 3 km (1.8 miles) of the wall, 20 watchtowers, one pass fort, and one gatehouse. It is the longest of the Great Wall renovation projects. In Huangyaguan section, you can find the stone base built in the Northern Qi Dynasty (550 - 557) and the brick battlements laid in the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). Watchtowers there are either solid or hollow, and have different shapes.

Then you will heading to the Qing Tombs, on the way you will stop at a local village for a delicious Chinese lunch.

The Eastern Qing tombs are an imperial mausoleum complex of the Qing dynasty. They are the largest, most complete, and best preserved extant mausoleum complex in China. Altogether, five emperors, 15 empresses, 136 imperial concubines, three princes, and two princesses of the Qing dynasty are buried here.

Spend about 2 hours at the Eastern Qing Tombs then you will be transferred back to your hotel in Tianjin.