Beijing Trip by Underground

Remark:   At present, the lines run in Beijing city include: Line 1, Line 2, Line 5, Line 8, Line 10, Line 13, Line Ba-Tong and Airport Express. The total length of all these lines is 199.31 kilometers. Beijing's subway lines generally follow the checkerboard layout of the city. Most lines run parallel or perpendicular to each other and intersect at right angles.

• Line 1, a straight east-west line underneath Chang'an Avenue, which bisects the city through Tiananmen Square. Line 1 connects major commercial centres, Xidan, Wangfujing, Dongdan and the Beijing CBD.
• Line 2, a rectangular loop line, traces the Ming-era city wall that once surrounded the inner city, and stops at each of the wall's 12 gates (ending in men), now busy intersections, as well as the Beijing Railway Station.
• Line 5, a straight north-south line just east of the city centre. It passes the Temple of the Earth, Lama Temple and the Temple of Heaven.
• Line 10, a "┐"-shaped route to the north and east of Line 2. It follows the Yuan-era city wall in the north, passing just south of the Olympic Green. At the Sanyuanqiao, northeast of the city, Line 10 turns straight south and follows the eastern 3rd Ring Road through the embassy district and Beijing CBD.
• Olympic Branch Line (Line 8 Phase I) extends north off Line 10 with three stops in the Olympic Green.
• Line 13 arcs across suburbs north of the city and channels commuters to Xizhimen and Dongzhimen, at the northwest and northeast corners of Line 2.
• Line Batong extends Line 1 eastward from Sihui to suburban Tongzhou District.
• The Airport Line connects the Beijing Capital International Airport, 27 km northeast of the city, with Line 10 at Sanyuanqiao and Lines 2 and 13 at Dongzhimen.

Day One, upon your arrival, you may get lost at our new capital airport but with help of our smile guide, you could take the Airport Express at first, then, you change to subway for the comfortable hotel. After reaching hotel, you will be free at your temporary home and ready for tomorrow’s tour. The next door of the hotel where you will stay is the subway station, so it is very convenience for the subway tour.

Day Two, after you enjoy the breakfast at the hotel. We will walk out the hotel, head to the subway station. Our guide will help you purchase the entrance ticket at subway station. We will reach the Tiananmen Square by twenty minutes by Line One. We will stop at the Tiananmen Square before spending several hours exploring the vast corridors and courtyards of the Forbidden City, one of China's premiere historical attractions and the site of the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Altogether more than 800 buildings and 9,000 chambers make up this complex, and with the help of our expert guide you will be awed and enchanted by stories of imperial extravagance and political intrigue that go back more than 500 years. After walking through the Forbidden City, we will pay a visit to Jingshan Park. Located to the east of Beihai Park and north of the Imperial Palace, Jingshan Park is another beautiful spot to visit. Now covered in fruit trees, pines and cypress trees, the hill was originally made with the earth from the moat surrounding the Forbidden City. From the top there are wonderful views of Beijing, especially over the Forbidden City, hence its name, which means "Scenic Hill." The park was an imperial garden during the Yuan (1271 - 1368), Ming (1368 - 1644) and Qing (1644 - 1911) dynasties. After standing at the top of the hill, we could go down from the hill by western side and out of its western gate. Across one street, we will reach the eastern gate of Beihai Park. Beihai (North Sea) Park is one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved ancient imperial gardens in China located in the center of Beijing. This ancient garden, with over 1,000 years' history, is not only a classic combination of the grandiosity of the northern gardens and the refinement of the southern gardens in China, but also a perfect integration of magnificent imperial palaces and solemn religious constructions. It is said to be built according to a traditional Chinese legend. The story is that once upon a time there were three magic mountains called 'Penglai', 'Yingzhou' and 'Fangzhang' located to the east of Bohai Bay (to the east of China). Gods in those mountains had a kind of herbal medicine which would help humans gain immortality. Consequently, it was believed that different mountain-water combinations in ancient Chinese architecture led to totally different effects. So from then on, almost every emperor during the succeeding dynasties would build a royal garden with one-pool-with-three-hills' layout as a fairyland near his palace. Beihai Park is just the one of them. We suggest that you could have the lunch at Fangshan restaurant in the middle island of Beihai Park which is one of the royal kitchens for serving Emperor and Empress at past time. Enjoying imperial lunch with beautiful lake view and for a short rest, you will make a fresh start. We will take a sightseeing boat from the middle island to the back door of Beihai Park. Out of Beihai Park, we will arrange you for the Hutong tour in the afternoon. You will be taken by the Rickshaw to have a visit around the narrow lane area for seeing Beijing old people’s living quarter. It will take about two hours, and you could have a close touch with Beijing local people, it will give you another total different experiences. By the end, the Rickshaw could transfer you to the place which is near the subway station and you could take it for going back to the hotel.

Day Three, after the breakfast, we will arrange you for pick-up tour for the Great Wall and Ming Tombs as no subway for that too far place. You will follow up the one day group to see the Great Wall and Ming Tombs. We will choose one of several sections of the Wall to visit and walking, and you could think about how to build these over 2,000 years ago and stretching about 6,700km.You may touch the Mongolian wind from north, and then you will understand why the wall is here. Down to foot of maintain, after enjoying a tourist Chinese meal, we continue to watch Ming Emperor’s Tombs, you could learn it about Chinese concept of Feng Shui. On the way to the Ming Tombs, you could pass the Sacred Road which is lined with stone statues of animals, mystical beasts and officials who serve the emperor in his afterlife, through which the sitting emperors would go to perform memorial rituals for the ancestors once a year.    

Day Four, after the breakfast, we will take the Line One and change to Line Five at Dongdan Subway Station. By the Line Five, we will get off at Yonghegong Subway Station. Then, we are going to pay the visit to Lama Temple and Confucius Temple and Imperial College. The Lama temple features five large halls and five courtyards with beautifully decorative archways, upturned eaves and carved details. It houses a treasury of Buddhist art, including sculptured images of god, demon and Buddha, as well as Tibetan-style mural. After Emperor Yongzheng’s death in 1735, his coffin was placed in the temple. Emperor Qianlong, his successor, upgraded Yonghe Palace to an imperial palace with its turquoise tiles replaced by yellow tiles (yellow was the imperial color in the Qing Dynasty). During the 9th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1744), it was converted into a lamasery and became a residence for large numbers of monks from Mongolia and Tibet. This is a kind of friendly policy that the Qing dynasty deals with the relation with Mongolia and Tibet. That is the reason why the Great Wall was not massive constructed during the Qing dynasty. The Confucius Temple and the Imperial College are neighborhood. They were first build in the Yuan Dynasty, and followed the ancient architectural rules “temple on the left and school on the right,” which served respectively as the place to worship and enshrine Confucius by the emperors and the highest imperial college. The two building complexes were respectively constructed along its central axial line, in the traditional Chinese architectural format of symmetry, and formed a complete set of magnificent and grand ancient building complex. The Dacheng Hall, the main architecture of the Confucius Temple, is as magnificent and splendid as the Supreme Harmony Hall in the Forbidden City. The stone tablets bearing the names of 51,624 scholars from all over China who passed the triennial imperial examinations tell the history of China’s imperial examination system. The 13 sutra tablet forest, with 189 tablets inscribed with the Confucian classics, carries on the essence of the Chinese culture. The Biyong Hall inside the Imperial College has a unique style, and it was the place where Emperor Qianlong gave lectures to the scholars, and the halls and rooms still manifest the features and styles of the imperial college at that time. Strolling among the ancient pines and cypresses and hearing the ancient music, visitors could feel the history and rich culture, trace the moving stories about the scholars and have an experience of ancient imperial architecture, and enjoy tranquility in the bustling metropolis.
After that, you could take the Line Five again and stop at Dongdan Subway Station for taking simple lunch under Dongfang Plaza. We still go back to Line Five again and leave the Subway at Tiantan Dong Men Station. Out of the Subway Station, you could find Eastern Entrance of Temple of Heaven. It is a vast religious complex containing masterpieces of Chinese architecture, used by past emperors for offering sacrifices. It is only belong to the Emperor as he proclaimed that he was the son of the Heaven and was sent by the God of Heaven. But today, such grisly activities are no longer in evidence, and the area has been opened to locals for recreational use. Nowadays, you could find all the local people like to come in, some play Taiji and Qigong, some are gathering for dancing and singing, some are flying kites, or some are staying together for playing chess and cards, etc. It is common life of ordinary people. Maybe still a little time left, you could pay a visit to Hongqiao Market, just near the East Entrance of Temple of Heaven and you might find something you need, that will be end of the tour by today.
Day Five, after morning breakfast, we will take the Line One and change to the Line Ten at Guomao Subway Station. You will get off at Beitucheng Subway Station and change to Line Eight for a visit to Main Sites of 2008 Beijing Olympics. You could take picture for the famous Birds Nest which is the National Stadium of 2008 Beijing Olympics and National Aquatics Center which is used for swimming and diving and synchronized swimming. Finishing you hot shooting, you could come back to Line Eight and change to Line Ten at Beitucheng Subway Station for our tour to Summer Palace. By the end of Line Ten, we will leave the Subway and by a few minutes of taxi to reach Summer Palace. The Summer Palace was first built in 1153 and served as an imperial palace for short stays away from the capital. Empress Dowager Ci Xi rebuilt it in 1888 with a large sum of money which had been appropriated to build a Chinese navy. You also could have the Chinese lunch within the Summer Palace just like Emperor or Empress. Beautiful man-made lake in your mind, we will be out of Palace in the afternoon and take taxi back to Line Ten. Changing to our City Line which is called Line Thirteen at Zhichulu Station, you will reach the Xizhimen Subway Station and take a walk to Beijing Zoo for a visit to Panda in China. Later, walking back to Xizhimen Subway Station, you will make the change for Line Two and transfer at Jianguomen Station for Line One. At last, you will be back to your hotel.
Day Six, after morning breakfast, you will be free till to pick up on the same way back to airport for the flight to your next destination.  

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