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Visits : Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square

After enjoying your breakfast your first visit is Tiananmen Square which is a site of historic significance for China. It is the biggest city square in the world, alive with local kite filers and wide-eyed tourists from out of town. Later, you will move to Forbidden City. Also known as the Imperial Palace Museum or Gugong, the Forbidden City was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties carried out their administration and lived. You can see the great traditional palace architecture, enjoy the treasure kept in the palace, and learn of the legends and anecdotes about the imperial family and the court.
Later, you will pay a visit to explore some of Beijing's old Hutongs-the traditional courtyard residences cut into blocks by narrow alleyways. Here you will visit a local family. Later, head to Lama temple which is the most important Buddhist temple in China. Be picked up from your hotel at about 18:30pm and driven to Liyuan Theatre. Our English-speaking guide will lead you in. Enjoy Beijing Opera at a good seat, from 19:30pm-20:50pm. Now you can appreciate some classic episodes, performed by professional opera artists. At the end of the show, send you back to hotel.
Restaurants:

Lunch:Da Wan Ju
Dawanju serves Beijing and Chongqing style food as well as the famous Beijing Duck.Their service is great too.
Dinner:Ba Guo Bu Yi
Beijing Ba guo bu yi Restaurant serves some of the heartiest and most authentic Sichuan fare in town with its traditional Chinese style decorations. Favorite dishes include dandan noodles in spicy peanut-sesame-garlic sauce, lazi jiding (chicken smothered by chilies), steamed fish served with chili-oil sauce and huiguorou (twice-cooked pork).

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Visits : Beijing Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven

Today you will explore Beijing by public transportation--Subway. Take the subway from your hotel to Summer palace. Equally famous as the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace is called 'Yiheyuan'Garden of Nurtured Harmony) in Chinese. It is up to now the best preserved and largest imperial gardens in China.
Later, take the subway to Olympic site where you will take a exterior look of Water Cube and Bird Nest. Later pay a visit to Temple of Heaven wihich sets in a 670-acre park. Here you will find Qinian Dian (Hall of prayer for the Good Harvests), constructed without a single nail, and one of the finest example of Chinese architecture.

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Free till being transfered to the airport. End of the fabulous tour in China.