Tour Highlights: • Rickshaw (three-wheeled bicycle) ride
Tour Duration
2 Hours
Departures
Daily
Meals
-
Guide
English-speaking guide service
Admissions
Entrance fees to scenic spots or show tickets as listed in the itinerary
Pick-up
Available at your hotel
Drop-off
Available at your hotel
Tour Excludes: • Hotel accommodation. • Flight/train ticket. • Additional meal and drink. • Personal expenses such as laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities, etc. • Gratuities to the local guide, driver, hotel bellboy. • Services not mentioned in the itinerary. • Traveler insurance.
Hutong tour by Rickshaw A hutong is an ancient city alley or lane typical in Beijing, where hutongs run into the several thousand. Surrounding the Forbidden City, many were built during the Yuan (1206-1341), Ming (1368-1628) and Qing (1644-1908) dynasties. In the prime of these dynasties the emperors, in order to establish supreme power for themselves, planned the city and arranged the residential areas according to the etiquette systems of the Zhou Dynasty. Most of the residents of these hutongs were imperial kinsmen and aristocrats. Another kind, the simple and crude hutong, was mostly located far to the north and south of the palace. The residents were merchants and other ordinary people. A new pastime -- roaming by old-fashioned pedicab through Beijing's old, narrow streets-hutong to visit.
