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Pingyao Ancient City Full-Day Walking Tour
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Pingyao Ancient City Full-Day Walking Tour

By China Tour Guide
Free cancellation available
Price is €119 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • Pingyao City Wall
  • Rishengchang Bank
  • Pingyao Confucian Temple
  • Ming&Qing Street
  • Yamen Pingyao Ancient Government Buildings

Activity location

    • Pingyao
    • Pingyao, Shan Xi Sheng, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Pingyao
    • Pingyao, Shan Xi Sheng, China

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Valid for 8 Hours, Pingyao Ancient City Full-Day Tour in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h8h
  • English
Price details
€118.80 x 1 Traveller€118.80

Total
Price is €118.80
Until Fri, 1 Nov
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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedEnglish-speaking guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedAdmission ticket (120 rmb per person , Child half price, tour guide free)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Hotel accommodation
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Meals
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Transfer
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Tips to the guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Our guide will help you to buy the entrance tickets on the tour day.

Know before you book

  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Pingyao, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the best preserved ancient cities in the known world. Walking in the ancient city is the perfect way to quickly absorb its historic vibes.

Your English-speaking guide will pick you up from your Pingyao hotel, and you will soon be on your way through the streets.

You will admire the ancient city wall that was built with bricks and stones. Walking sections of the walls allows excellent views across the city’s many tiled rooftops and down into domestic courtyards, as most buildings within historic Pingyao are mainly low-rise.

Then approach the Rishengchang Bank, the first exchange bank of China, and marvel at the old government buildings.

Visit the Ancient Security Guard Company,is the only private organisation of armed escort in Pingyao's history and one of two most famous during the Ming and Qing dynasty.

A country government office was known as a Yamen and that in Pingyao dates from1346 during the Yuan Dynasty. They formerly housed the office and home of the magistrate sent to act as mayor, judge and senior official for Pingyao. Entered through a ceremonial gate, this yamen had over 300 rooms including not only offices but also a court, meeting rooms, residential areas, a garden and even a prison.

Ming&Qing Street , the traditional shops and houses are still well preserved. They were all built with bricks and stones completely using the style of Ming and Qing architecture. As such they are representatives of most ancient buildings in China that still survive and offer a stark contrast to the architecture employed today.

Pingyao Confucian Temple is with the sophisticated layout, if you'd like to feel what the place meant to ancient Chinese intellectuals, simply step along the path those No. 1 scholars of annual imperial examinations (called Zhuangyuan) once marched past.

Every year there was a gentleman who had been raised up here and made himself well-known after gaining the No.1 position in imperial examinations. The city would watch him swagger from Eastern City Wall all the way across Cloud Road ( indicating that one's career takes off like rapidly rising-up cloud), Kuixing (the holy guard of Chinese students ) Hall, Wenchang (God of Literature) Hall, Rainbow Bridge, Lingxing (in charge of Harvest of the country) Hall, Pan Bridge (also called Zhuangyuan Bridge) and the last stop Dacheng Hall (where the statue of Confucius is worshiped and his great achievements are displayed).

As you walk through Pingyao, the courtyard houses, narrow streets, and small shops in the city provide a complete picture of China’s cultural and social lifestyle during that period of time.

There are too many scenic spots in Pingyao Ancient City to list one by one here. If you have any special visiting preferences, please leave us a message and we will definitely arrange it.

Location

Activity location

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    • Pingyao
    • Pingyao, Shan Xi Sheng, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Pingyao
    • Pingyao, Shan Xi Sheng, China