BEIJING · CASTLES
The ones worth booking.
The 5 beijing castle tours worth your time, walls and all. The keeps, palaces and forts travellers leave the best notes about, with what each visit costs, how long to set aside and who runs it.
Skip the ticket line with QR entry to Beijing’s Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace, plus practical gate routes and timing tips for a smooth day.
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Full-day Beijing tour with Mutianyu Great Wall, Summer Palace, and Olympic Park views, guided in English with smooth transfers and optional rides.
“Great time with Yoyo. A well balanced journey through the Great Wall and the Summer Palace. Highly recommend.”
Private Mutianyu Great Wall and Summer Palace day trip from Beijing with hotel pickup, cable car or ski lift, lunch, and tickets.
“Wonderful, so well planned it made me very comfortable! Amy was so knowledgeable about our sights and I learned so much!!!!”
Choose ticket-only, group, or private options for Beijing’s Summer Palace, with optional Ziyu Bay boat ride and an English PDF guide.
“I was fortunate enough to have Joy as my tour guide and will all honestly - I couldnt be happier at this point! The entire trip was flawlessly organized, including lots of knowledge, interesting facts, transport between the atractions and the mouth watering duck we all had for the lunch. Not only did our guide…”
One-day Beijing highlights with pickup: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, lunch and tickets included for $99.
“This was a one-day tour of the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, and Summer Palace. Our guide, Murphy, was wonderful — very friendly, fun, and incredibly knowledgeable. He shared fascinating insights about both ancient and modern China, and the included lunch was very tasty. The group was small and the other travelers were great company,…”
Every castle, palace and fortress we cover, country by country.
