Take 2 full days trip from Beijing to Da Tong see the spectacular Yun Gang Grottoes, Hanging Temple, pure copper underground palace at Hua Yan Temple, Nine Dragon Wall, Night City Wall and other important Da Tong attractions. Leaving the navigation and transportation to your friendly driver. Soak in the mountains’ scenery and enjoy all the region’s must-dos on a tour that covers the main sites in two days, receive the convenient round trip transfer from Beijing to Da Tong.
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your Beijing Hotel lobby
At your Beijing Hotel lobby
Day 1: Beijing --- Da Tong ( 387 kilometers / Yun Gang Grottoes, Hua Yan Temple, Nine Dragon Wall, City Wall )
Your Da Tong adventure begins with pickup you up from your Beijing hotel at 7:00am, where you board a Wi-Fi-equipped car. Travel through the beautiful town with mountains around 387 kilometers away from Beijing while your guide narrates their history and stories on the way.
11:30am: Da Tong Yun Gang Grottoes
Upon arrival, your first stop is visit the UNESCO-listed World Culture Heritage Site Yun Gang Royal Grottoes, one of the China's Four Grottoes Art Treasure-houses, which has 1500 years old history from Bei Wei royal period ( 460 -- 526 ), engraving area reaches 18,000 square meters, follow your guide you'll get to see one-kilometer-long 252 carving groups caves with 51000 buddha statues in, bigger size 17 meters high, small one only a few centimeters. Explore the most famous 20th Grotto, Da Tong landmark " Big Open Buddha "; 16-20th the earliest famous Tanyao Five Grottoes; 12th music Grotto full of flying apsaras with musical instruments on four walls, 15th " Ten Thousand Buddha Grotto ", admire the treasure of ancient Chinese carving art, don't miss it.
2:00pm: Lunch
Tasty a famous Da Tong sliced noodle at this area
2:50pm: Hua Yan Temple
Afternoon, continue come to Hua Yan Temple, where get to see the fully preserved Liao Temple from 1000 years ago, get to explore the spectacular purest copper underground palace made of 100 tons of pure copper, as well as a palm-closed toothless Bodhisattva.
5:00pm: Nine dragon wall
Visit one of the oldest nine dragon wall exist in china, which is 300 years earlier than Forbidden city and Bei Hai Park's, get to see this amazing dragon wall that is 45 meters length, 2 meters thick, composed of 426 pieces of multicolored glazed tiles, with 9 flying dragons on both sides.
5:30pm: Da Tong city wall
When night falls, climb onto the 7-kilometer long ancient city wall, overlook the night view of Da Tong, feel the atmosphere of this city.
Finally return to your Da Tong pre-booked hotel for a wonderful evening.
At Your Da Tong Hotel lobby
Day 2: Da Tong --- Beijing ( 70 + 387 kilometers / Hanging Temple, Heng Mountain )
10:00am: Hanging Temple
In the morning, heading to explore one of the top ten dangerous buildings in the world --- Hanging Temple, which listed on America Times magazine at 2010, around 70 kilometers distance from Da Tong city. Here you will follow your guide board on the breathtaking and pulse-pounding narrow wooden corridors, admire the half cave half wooden frame structure, that like a paper cutting stick on the cliff, your guide will shed light on what makes the place so special through their informative commentary. You will learn about the story why it covers only 150 square meters, but the use area is ten times more, stand on 60-90 meters high cliff above the ground no collapse for thousands years. Explore the only combinations of three religions Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism Temple, its history traced back to 1500 years ago, attracting more and more foreign exploration friends come.
11:30am: Heng mountain
Next, come to majestic Heng mountain, continue visit one of the five famous Taoism mountain in china, sit on a cable car get the refreshing and pleasant scenery in both eyes, arrive at the top, glance the view in distance.
1:30pm: Lunch
Have a tasty local lunch at this area
At the end, you will transferred back to Beijing city hotel from Da Tong wrapping up this whirlwind tour at around 7:30pm.
Ending Point
At your Beijing Hotel lobby
This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Professional and Licensed English guide
Clean and Air-conditioned Business vehicle
Polite and safe driver
Round trip transfer from Beijing to Da Tong
Bottle of water
All parking fee, high way fee
Sights tickets
Meals
Accommodation at Da Tong
One night accommodation at Da Tong, please booking your Da Tong hotel ahead.
Forbidden city was not open each Monday.
Cathy's tour can arrange closer city tours such as one day tour to Da Tong see Yun Gang Grottoes; to Cheng de see Potala palace, Summer resort; or to He Bei Zun Hua see Qing Eastern Complex Tombs.
Hi , welcome join in Cathy's private tour , have a comfortable and pleasant tour at Beijing !
My name is Cathy , a native Beijinger , was born at suburb area of Beijing . I got my English guide certificate at 2008 , which is olympic time from beijing . This is my 14 years of guiding job. I am graduated from UIBE (University of International Business Economic) college, major in history of china and English subject . For this reason, when graduated , I start english guide job for my creer till now . Between the ten years , I worked for the largest tour company at Beijing around 8 years , and got twice of top ten guide from china , ( 2012 , got top 2 guide prize from china ; 2015 got top 5 guide ---Beijing , Xi'an , shanghai , Guilin and Hong Kong),as well as my tour was abroad-cast on CCTV-1 at 2017. If you are finding a professional & experienced english guide , I am the great choice !
My personal personality is bubbly , humor , energetic , enthusiastic . Try my best , do my best , enjoying a comfortable & flexible , happy & satisfied tour with Cathy !
1. Top attractions :
According to your timing at beijing , experience all the top attractions such as Tiananmen square , Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven , Mutianyu Greatwall , Hutong rickshaw tour , Summer Palace , Panda gallery at zoo , Lama Temple , Confucius Temple & Imperial college . As well as other less touristy main attractions like Jingshan park , Beihai park , 798 Art District , Nanluoguxiang street, Drum Tower, also local market Hongqiao market , silk street etc.
In addition, explore amazing museums, such as : National Museum of China , National Arts and Crafts Museum , Tibetan Culture Museum , Beijing Art Fine Academy , Former Residence of Artist Qi Bai Shi are the new feature of the multi-day tours.
Moreover, if you have enough time in Beijing, you may have chance experience some special culture class , such as Beijing Dumplings Cooking class , Tai Chi class , Calligraphy writing , Peking Opera Mask painting , and other special experience courses.
2: Tour transportation :
We have very professional driver and car team , with safe and polite driver , who works for tourism over 10 years , with clean, comfortable, air-conditioned car service . Experience good car service . For 1-2 people , use VW passat(5 seats ) business car ; For 3- 4 people , use Buick GL8 business car ( 7 seats ) ; For 5-9 people use Ford or Kowloon ( 15 -18 seats ) business car . Besed on your needs , we can extra arrange Beijing Capital Airport / Da Xing Airport pickup and drop-off , Tianjin International Cruise Home Port to Beijing city hotels pickup and drop-off services .
3. Food experience :
Sample all local food , such as Beijing famous roast duck, authentic Beijing cuisine, Xinjiang cuisine, dumplings, noodles, dimsum for lunch etc .
4. Evening shows :
Kong Fu show , Acrobatic show , Golden Mask Dynasty Water show , Peking Opera show
Welcome ! Join in cathy's private tour at beijing ! Custom and tailor the tour yourself !
Ravi K.
“Exceptional China Tour with Cathy and Team – A Journey We’ll Never Forget!”
We had an absolutely wonderful experience with Cathy, who organized our entire trip across Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai. In Beijing, Cathy is simply outstanding, cathy’s excellent command of English, cheerful personality, sense of humor, deep knowledge of history and culture made our every moment meaningful, had lots of fun our family loved her !!! She was very caring throughout, and also introduced us to authentic and healthy local food, which added so much to the experience! Cathy also coordinated our onward journeys seamlessly. In Xi’an, our local guide Linda was detailed, polite, and thoughtful, she explained the history with great clarity and made sure we were comfortable at every step. In Shanghai, Sophia was simply outstanding too, She knew exactly where to take us, balanced sightseeing with our needs, and by the end of the trip had become more like a family friend than a guide. Overall, our guide Cathy, Linda, and Sophia both with our drivers at each city did an amazing job in making our journey smooth, insightful, and memorable. We left China feeling enriched by the places we saw and touched by the warmth of the people who guided us, as well as all clean and comfortable car we used in all cities! Highly recommended company and tour !
Cathy Z.
Dearest Ravi; great thanks for the really lovey review, you are my amazing family group too, we spent the most fabulous 5 days at Beijing, and it's Cathy's honor to organize a wonderful family trip both Xi'an and Shanghai cities, time in china goes fast, memories are the richest and most precious, sincerely looking forward your next trip back to china, and take care, shows Cathy's best wishes to families : )
Boon chuan C.
“A Complete Tour ”
Cathy is knowledgeable, conversant in English and able to accommodate little changes in itinerary. Prior to visiting each attraction, she would give you an overview and history. During the tour, she would reiterate the pertinent information. This is very useful on attractions like the forbidden city, and the great wall with long history. Cathy is also very attentive. She prepared three sets of winter wear and heatpacks, knowing that we were not adequately dressed. Other gestures like a cake on my birthday was very heartwarming. Thanks Cathy.
Cathy Z.
Dearest Boon; thanks so much for the really precious review, we had fantastic 5 days together, time is short, the memories are so precious, sincerely from bottom heart wish can see again at Beijing, you are my sweet family group, take care dear Boon with families : )
Gwen O.
“BEIJING A HISTORICAL VISIT ”
Amazing experience in Beijing ! I want to thanks my exceptional guide, Cathy, she was not only incredibly knowledgeable but also warm and welcoming. Her deep knowledge of the region's history and culture, combined with her enthusiasm and engaging personality, made our time in Beijing unforgettable. Cathy brought Beijing’s vibrant history to life and made sure we saw the city's all key highlights. Especially the Great Wall of china! Additionally, Cathy went above and beyond, truly stood out as an excellent ambassador of her country, sharing her passion for Chinese culture and making we feel right at home. So if you plan to visit Beijing, ask for Cathy !!! The food quality for three days was excellent, wow! Special great thanks to Cathy, who coordinated everything seamlessly. Every part of the trip was perfectly arranged and everything ran smoothly during my trip. Highly recommend to anyone looking to explore Beijing with a well-organized and professional team. A big thank you, Cathy, both driver for making this trip of a lifetime!
Cathy Z.
Dearest Gwen; Happy you had three amazing days at Beijing, it's my honor to share all Chinese history stories, and sweet and lovely time with your family too, sincerely hope can see again one day in china, take care dear Gwen : )
$1,450/ per group