Small-Group Mutianyu Great Wall and Summer Palace Tour with Lunch
Overview
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8 hours
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This full-day tour of Beijing offers an in-depth look at Beijing’s rich cultural heritage. With a knowledgeable guide, you’ll tour the Great Wall at Mutianyu Section, visit the Summer Palace. Enjoy a Chinese lunch and comfortable round-trip minivan transport from your hotel. All entrance fees, cable car/toboggan round trip are included. Group size is limited to 12 people to ensure more personalized attention from your guide. Pick up and drop off including hotels within the 4th ring road of Beijing City.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Please wear comfortable walking shoes
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Professional guide
Bottled water
Lunch
Cable car or ski lift up and toboggan down at the Wall if you choose the related option
Transport by air-conditioned minivan
Hotel pickup and drop-off (For hotels within the 4th ring road of the Beijing City)
Entrance Fee
Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Gratuities
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
What To Expect
Mutianyu Great Wall
You will be picked up from your hotel lobby at 8:00am and your guide will lead you to your private minivan and start the tour. Drive about 1.5 hours to the Mutianyu Great Wall. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is a masterpiece of restoration, with 23 original-style watchtowers. Upon your arrival, you will have some time to discover this amazing creature by yourself! You will get on the Great Wall either by chair lift up and toboggan down from at tower 6 or cable car round trip at tower 14.
Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)
After the hiking, it's time to have lunch in a local village for the authentic Chinese food. The sample dishes: Gongbao Chicken Local mushroom and pork Onion pancakes Muxu pork Sweet and Sour pork/chicken Egg or soy sauce fried rice Spicy beans Board on the minivan again, and head to the Summer Palace. During the 1 hour drive, your English speaking guide will tell you more about the imperial palace before you visit there. The Summer Palace is the largest and best-preserved imperial garden and palace in China. Your full-day tour concludes with a drop-off at your hotel in Beijing.
Options
Tour with cable car inclusive
This option choose English speaking tour guide, Entry ticket+cable car round trip or ski lift up and toboggan down tickets
Pickup included
Tour without cable car
Tour without Cable Car: Lunch and entry tickets to the Great Wall included, please pay your own cable car tickets
Pickup included
Reviews
88 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Fantasy
ehio690,
Sep 30, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Sheri our tour guide was absolutely fantastic. We had an amazing time. Thanks a lot for being patient through out the experience. We had an amazing time! Thank you!
Excellent trip
Venkata B,
Sep 28, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00It was a well organised tour with an experienced guide Sherry. She is very knowledgeable about the history. The driver was very caring and safe driver. They have even provided us with a nice vegetarian lunch.
A Day to Remember
Martin A,
Sep 28, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00It is a great place to see the Wall. Jack was a great guide, and explained the history and various construction periods very well to the unenlightened! In the afternoon, we had a most enjoyable walk around the Summer Palace.
Excellent tour covering key highlights
M1091TYvb,
Sep 22, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The tour was run excellently by Sherry and driver ZhangJinChao. Sherry made use of the VIP entrance to let us take the car as close as possible to the Mutianyu Great Wall and helped point out important landmarks. She also took care to take plenty of photos. The buffet lunch provided was at a high quality clean restaurant (even as a vegetarian). Finally the Summer Palace was a good end to the tour with excellent views and Sherry explained the history behind the Palace very well. Would highly recommend the tour. She is an excellent guide.
Great memories
Venture63602080329,
Sep 22, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00There are times when the tour guides not only show you things on the planned excursion, but share the beauty of their country and introduce you to its soul. That was certainly the case when we had the chance of experiencing the Great Wall and the Summer Palace with Sherry! Dear Sherry, you are one of the reasons I hope to return to China. I truly appreciate everything you did for our group. Thank you so much! With warmest regards, Nataliya
Excelente service and attention
Elizabeth L,
Aug 10, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Tony was an extraordinary guide. He went above and beyond to accomodate our trip and made it unique, valuable and interesting. I would love to get another tour with him. We highly recommend him.
Incredible Experience!
Antonia N,
Jul 4, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00The experience was incredible, thanks to our guide Edward. His english and history knowledge was remarkable and we had the best time learning new history facts about wonderful places in China such as the Summer Palace, Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. The pace of the tour was great, we didn’t feel rushed at all, and we felt like we had enough time in each place. The lunch stop had great buffet food and good variety! The great driver, Mr. Zhang, dropped us off safely and promptly during extremely busy traffic. We thank Edward for his professionalism and for helping us have an incredible experience!
Great Wall & summer palace - loved!
emilysK4500SP,
May 30, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We loved visiting the Great Wall, our tour guide Linda was really helpful and informative! Highly recommended. The Great Wall was amazing and we stopped in the best spots for photos & for taking the slide back down, which was super fun.
Great day out at the Great wall & Summer palace
Adriana P,
May 12, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00We had an amazing day out at the great wall and summer palace. We also went to a lovely local beijing cuisine restaurant where we at brilliantly cooked lamb, pork and beef. Our guide Lisa was very accommodating and hospitable, she took lots of photos for us and was a constant source of interesting and historical information.
Great Views and Great Times at the Great Wall!
eg384,
May 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I can’t recommend this tour and our phenomenal guide Lucia enough! From start to finish, our tour of the Mutianyu Great Wall and the Summer Palace was absolutely exceptional. Lucia was warm, professional and incredibly knowledgeable. At the Great Wall, she guided us to the less crowded sections with stunning views and shared fascinating historical insights that really brought the experience to life. She is also quite the photographer and took plenty of amazing pictures for us! This was easily one of the highlights of our entire trip. Thank you, Lucia, for an unforgettable day!
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