Beijing Nanluoguxiang + Drum Tower + Shichahai Half-Day Tour
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Nanluoguxiang
- 🚗 Historical Architecture Tour: Visitors can explore Nanluoguxiang, built during the Yuan Dynasty. Its 16 hutongs are neatly arranged in a fishbone pattern, also known as Centipede Street, offering a rich experience of Beijing’s hutong culture. You can also visit the Drum Tower, located at the northern end of Beijing’s central axis, one of the architectural symbols of ancient Beijing. In ancient times, it served as a timekeeping landmark, and today, you can still see exhibitions of ancient timekeeping tools on the second floor.
- 🚗 Professional English-Speaking Guides: Equipped with professional English-speaking guides, enabling foreign tourists or English enthusiasts to gain in-depth insights into the historical culture, traditional customs, and more behind the attractions, making visitors feel as if they are traveling through time for an in-depth dialogue with old Beijing.
- 🚗 Diverse Experience
- 🚗 Optional Night Tours: During the day, Nanluoguxiang, the Drum Tower, and Shichahai are full of vibrant life, while the night offers a different charm. The Houhai bar street is ablaze with neon lights, and resident singers offer wonderful songs. Tourists can experience the blend of old Beijing’s romance and modern vitality at night.
- 🚗 Rickshaw Experience: Take a rickshaw through the narrow hutongs, listening to the rickshaw driver tell stories of old Beijing, and admire the architectural details of the hutongs’ courtyards, gatehouses, brick carvings, and other architectural details from a unique perspective, and experience the living atmosphere of old Beijing.
- 🚗 Prime Location and Convenient Transportation
- 🚗 Central Location: Nanluoguxiang, the Drum Tower, and Shichahai are located close to each other. The half-day tour is compact and reasonable, without spending a lot of time on the road, so tourists can easily switch between several attractions.
- 🚗 Convenient Transportation: The surrounding public transportation is well-developed, and Metro Lines 6 or 8 can directly reach Nanluoguxiang Station, making it easy for tourists to gather and depart from all corners of the city.
- 🚗 Rich Food and Shopping Experience
- 🚗 Numerous Special Foods: Nanluoguxiang has many internet-famous foods and time-honored snacks. Tourists can also taste century-old delicacies such as Jiumen snacks and Kao Rou Ji in Shichahai.
- 🚗 Diverse Shopping and Entertainment: Nanluoguxiang has a strong commercial atmosphere, with many distinctive shops where tourists can buy special souvenirs such as creative cultural shirts, old Beijing paper-cuttings, and Tu’er Ye (Rabbit God).
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What to expect
- 【Beijing Impressions: Half-Day Tour of Old Beijing Hutongs】 Step into Shichahai Hutongs and Encounter Old Beijing Time
- 🍊A lane with a hundred years of history; a hutong with several stories.
- 🍈Shichahai:
- 🍈Wandering Through the Hutongs: The Shichahai area boasts abundant hutong cultural resources. Strolling through them allows you to experience the daily life of old Beijing and admire courtyards, stone roads, and old-fashioned door piers.
- 🍈Taking a Rickshaw: Travel through the narrow hutongs by rickshaw, listen to the rickshaw driver tell stories of old Beijing, and admire the architectural details of the hutongs from a unique perspective. Taking a Boat Trip on the Lake: You can take a boat trip from piers such as Good Dream Jiangnan Pier and Lotus Market Pier on the Qianhai Sea, and Yeyadao Pier and Willow Shade Ferry on the Houhai Sea. There are pedal boats, rowing boats, and sightseeing sculling boats to choose from.
- 🍎Nanluoguxiang:
- 🍎First, experience the lively atmosphere on the main street, and then explore Dongmianhua Hutong in turn, visiting the Central Academy of Drama and Fengshan Residence; then go to Yu'er Hutong to visit the former residence of Qi Baishi; then go to Mao'er Hutong to see the former residence of Wanrong, etc.; continue to visit Houyuanensi Hutong to visit the former residence of Mao Dun, etc.
- 🥝Bell and Drum Towers:
- 🥝Bell and Drum Tower Square: It is the northern end of the central axis of the ancient capital of Beijing, where you can feel the historical atmosphere of the ancient capital. At specific times, you can listen to the morning bell and evening drum ringing from the Bell and Drum Towers on-site and experience the charm of the ancient capital.
- 🥝In front of the Bell and Drum Towers: You can capture the unique style of the ancient capital, especially when the lights are on at night, the outlines of the Bell Tower and Drum Tower are clearer in the night sky.
- 🥝You can take good photos from the entrance on the first floor, the exhibition hall, and the second floor, such as frame-style photos of the Bell Tower.
- 🥝You can include the surrounding scenery in the lens and take pictures of the architectural details of the Bell Tower and the distant urban scenery with the blue sky as the background.
A Houhai walking tour is the perfect choice for experiencing the unique charm of old Beijing.
Rickshaws weave through the numerous historical sites around Shichahai.
The Siheyuan courtyards on both sides of the Hutong are representative of traditional Beijing architecture. Their layout emphasizes symmetry and regularity, reflecting traditional Chinese Confucianism and family concepts.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The Houhai area at night is a charming and vibrant place where classic and modern styles intertwine, and tranquility coexists with bustling activity.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
A Houhai walking tour is the perfect choice for experiencing the unique charm of old Beijing.
A Houhai walking tour is the perfect choice for experiencing the unique charm of old Beijing.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
Rickshaws weave through the numerous historical sites around Shichahai.
Rickshaws weave through the numerous historical sites around Shichahai.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
The commercial shops in Beijing's hutongs are diverse and unique.
Rickshaws weave through the numerous historical sites around Shichahai.
Hutongs are an important carrier of Beijing's folk culture, giving rise to a wealth of folk arts and traditional customs.
Rickshaws weave through the numerous historical sites around Shichahai.
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Review for: Private Tour with Chinese-Speaking Guide
Such a perfect trip was found in Beijing.In the warm sun in winter, it's really great to take the old Beijing human tricycles to shuttle through the hutongs in Shichahai.
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Our tour guide, Xiaoxue, was very friendly, talkative, and responsible. I've had experiences with other tour guides where I had to repeatedly ask for meeting arrangements and locations, but Xiaoxue proactively contacted me a day in advance and arrived on time. Her explanations were detailed and engaging, and I learned a lot about Beijing, both big and small. The entire process was enjoyable and a great experience.
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Simple, easy, considerate, careful and happy
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