Private Tour

Private Tour: Wang's Family Compound and Shuanglin Temple From Pingyao

Overview

Available languages

English

7 hours

Mobile ticket

Visit the masterpiece of residential architecture – Wang Family Mansion and see precious and colorful ancient sculptures and frescoes at Shuanglin Temple in this Pingyao day tour. You will be escorted by English-speaking tour guide, a personal car and driver.

Additional Info

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

You will receive details about tour guide and exact meeting time in your voucher the day before. And the tour guide will also contact you through hotel or leave a message for you regarding the exact time the night before tour.

Lunch is not included in this tour. But you can have a lunch break at any time if needed, just let your tour guide know.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What‘s Included

Transfer by reliable driver and air-conditioned vehicle

English-speaking tour guide

Entrance fee

Hotel pick-up and drop-off

Gratuities

Lunch

What To Expect

Shuanglin Temple

At 9:00 am, you will be greeted by your private tour guide at your hotel in Pingyao start the day. Also known as "Double Forest Temple", Shuanglin Temple is located about a 20-minute drive from Pingyao Old Town. Shuanglin Temple was built about 1,500 years ago and renowned for its ancient locust trees, steles, frescoes, and particularly over 2,000 vivid and well preserved color-painted mud sculptures.

2 hours•Admission Included

Wang's Family Compound (Wang Jia Dayuan)

Afterwards, drive about one hour to visit Wang Family Mansion. This huge magnificent courtyard complex occupies a higher ground overlooking a broad landscape. It boasts 123 courtyards and 1,118 rooms which entails all the major architectural features of north China peasant homes. It's buildings and decorations reflect strict social hierarchy of the time, and all of the carvings and statues have lots of meanings and stories behind them. After the tour, return to your hotel in Pingyao at about 16:00pm.

2 hours•Admission Included

Options

Private Day Tour

Pickup included

Reviews

4.00

1 review

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Our tour guide, Michael, was punctual...
thedairy123,
Nov 5, 2016
- Viator
4.00
Our tour guide, Michael, was punctual, friendly and very knowledgeable. His English was excellent. Wang Family Mansion is well worth a visit. It gave really good insights into Chinese family life in the past. Michael brought the experience to life by adding details that you couldn't get just by looking at the buildings. For instance, he explained the differences in the lives of sons and daughters.
We would have been happy to have just visited the Wang Family Mansion, but we thought that the Shuanglin Temple was a reasonably interesting add on. Again Michael gave us lots of relevant information about this Buddhist temple.
Lunch was at our hotel. We didn't get a choice of food. However the food was very tasty. We would have preferred to have been taken to a different restaurant and to have chosen from the menu and for Michael and the driver to have been allowed to join us. This is what happened on our other guided tour.