📌 Product Overview
• Explore Beijing’s historic Xisi old-city area with a private English-speaking guide.
• This is a private cultural walking tour, not a self-guided ticket product.
• The guide serves only your own party.
• The route connects temples, imperial ritual space, museum collections, hutong streets, and a Beijing-themed local bookstore.
• This tour is designed for travelers who want cultural context instead of only quick photo stops.
• Start time is flexible between 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM.
• Final start time will be confirmed before departure.
• The total duration is around 4 hours.
• Meet your guide at Xisi Subway Station, Exit D.
• Begin with a walk through the old Xisi neighborhood.
• Visit the White Pagoda at Miaoying Temple and learn about its religious, architectural, and urban history.
• Continue to the Temple of Past Emperors, a site connected with imperial ritual and state ceremony.
• Visit Guangji Temple, one of Beijing’s active Buddhist temple sites.
• Continue to the Geological Museum of China to see mineral, fossil, gemstone, and natural history collections.
• End near Zhengyang Bookstore, a Beijing-themed cultural bookstore located beside Wansong Elder Pagoda.
• Along the way, your guide explains how belief, ceremony, knowledge, and everyday old-city life shaped Beijing.
• Entrance fees for the listed itinerary stops are included.
• Hotel pickup and hotel drop-off are not included.
• This is a walking tour and does not include vehicle service.
• Meals, drinks, personal expenses, and additional purchases are not included.
• Original passport is required on the day of the tour.
• Passport details must be submitted after booking.
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✨ Highlights
• Walk through Beijing’s Xisi old-city area with a private English-speaking guide.
• Visit the White Pagoda, imperial ritual spaces, a Buddhist temple, a museum, and a local bookstore.
• Learn how religion, ceremony, knowledge, and hutong life connect in one old-city route.
• Enjoy a deeper cultural walk instead of a simple photo-stop itinerary.
• Choose a flexible start time between 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM.
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⏰ Departure Time / Meeting Time
• Tour duration: around 4 hours.
• Flexible start time: anytime between 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM.
• Final start time will be confirmed before departure.
• Meeting point: Xisi Subway Station, Exit D.
• Chinese meeting point: Beijing Metro Xisi Station Exit D / Xisi Station Exit D Southwest.
• Please arrive on time at the confirmed meeting point.
• Late arrival will shorten the experience time.
• This tour ends at the scheduled time.
• Ending area: near Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Chinese ending area: near Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Guests return independently after the tour.
• Final meeting details, start time, and guide contact information will be sent before departure.
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🗓️ Itinerary
• Meet your private English-speaking guide at Xisi Subway Station, Exit D.
• Begin walking through the historic Xisi old-city neighborhood.
• Visit the White Pagoda at Miaoying Temple.
• Learn about the pagoda’s Yuan-dynasty origins, religious background, and role in Beijing’s old urban landscape.
• Continue on foot through nearby hutong streets.
• Visit the Temple of Past Emperors.
• Learn how imperial China used ritual spaces to express authority, history, and state ceremony.
• Continue walking through the old-city streets.
• Visit Guangji Temple.
• Experience a different side of Beijing’s religious culture in an active Buddhist temple setting.
• Continue to the Geological Museum of China.
• Explore selected exhibits related to minerals, gemstones, fossils, natural history, and modern knowledge culture.
• Continue toward Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Visit Zhengyang Bookstore near Wansong Elder Pagoda.
• Slow down in a local cultural space connected with Beijing-themed books, old-city memory, and neighborhood life.
• The tour ends near Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Guests may continue exploring the area independently after the guided service ends.
• The order of stops may vary depending on daily site operation, crowd levels, opening rules, route conditions, or local management.
• For later start times, some interior visits may be adjusted according to site closing rules and final confirmation.
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📦 Inclusions & Exclusions
✅ Private English-speaking guide
✅ Around 4-hour private walking tour
✅ Xisi old-city walking route
✅ White Pagoda at Miaoying Temple visit
✅ Temple of Past Emperors visit
✅ Guangji Temple visit
✅ Geological Museum of China visit
✅ Zhengyang Bookstore visit
✅ Entrance fees for listed itinerary stops
✅ English cultural commentary
✅ Tour arrangement support
❌ Hotel pickup and drop-off
❌ Vehicle service
❌ Transportation to the meeting point
❌ Transportation after the tour
❌ Meals and drinks
❌ Personal purchases at the bookstore or museum shops
❌ Personal expenses
❌ Tips or gratuities
❌ Attractions not listed in the itinerary
❌ Any service not clearly listed as included
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⚠️ Know Before You Go
• This is a private English-guided walking tour.
• This is not a vehicle tour.
• Hotel pickup and hotel drop-off are not included.
• Please go to Xisi Subway Station, Exit D by yourself.
• Start time can be arranged anytime between 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM.
• Final start time follows your booking confirmation.
• The tour lasts around 4 hours.
• Late arrival will shorten the experience time.
• The tour ends at the scheduled time.
• Passport details must be submitted after booking.
• You must bring your original passport on the day of the tour.
• This tour involves extended walking through old-city streets, temples, museums, and cultural spaces.
• This tour is not suitable for guests with clearly limited mobility.
• Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
• Some temples and museums may require security checks.
• Some sites may have different opening rules, visitor-control rules, or temporary closures.
• The order of stops may vary depending on daily site operation.
• For later start times, some interior visits may be adjusted according to site closing rules and final confirmation.
• Meals and drinks are not included.
• Personal purchases, bookstore purchases, museum shop purchases, and souvenirs are not included.
• Please respect temple rules and local cultural spaces.
• Smoking may be restricted or prohibited in temple, museum, and indoor areas.
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📍 Meeting Point
• Meeting point: Xisi Subway Station, Exit D.
• Chinese meeting point: 北京地铁西四站 D 口 / 西四站D西南口。
• Starting area: Xisi old-city area.
• Chinese starting area: 西四老城区域。
• Main route: White Pagoda at Miaoying Temple, Temple of Past Emperors, Guangji Temple, Geological Museum of China, Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Chinese route: Miaoying Temple White Pagoda, Temple of Past Emperors, Guangji Temple, China Geological Museum, Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Ending area: near Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Chinese ending area: Near Zhengyang Bookstore.
• Hotel pickup and drop-off are not included.
• Guests return independently after the tour.
• Final guide contact, meeting point details, and start instructions will be sent before departure.
