Half-Day Great Wall at Mutianyu Hiking Tour

Meet your guide at your hotel. He or she will be waiting in the hotel lobby, holding a placard with your name on it. Then drive to the Great Wall section at Mutianyu which will take about 1½ hours and we'll have a rest and enjoy your delicious Beijing local food for lunch at our well selected local restaurant - Xinshuangquan.

Good to know:

• The evening before your tour, your China Highlights guide will call you at around 7:00 pm to confirm the departure time. If you don't answer, your guide will leave a message for you at the front desk. If you’ve neither received a message nor a call after 8:00pm, contact the China Highlights Beijing Office on 13910694045. We will solve your problems on the spot.
• It is necessary to wear comfortable hiking shoes for the hiking.
• Be prepared for a hiking day and have a nice lunch before leaving.
• Do not forget you are going to the mountains where the weather can rapidly change, and that there are no shops on this part of the Wall.
• We are also available to provide the private airport transfer service for this trip, price from 18 USD p/p. Click here to book the transfer.
• We can drive our own vehicle to the foot of the Great Wall to save your precious time while others have to wait for the public transfer bus to the foot of the Great Wall.

Your guide will be waiting for you in your hotel lobby

Lunch at Xinshuangquan Restaurant

Upon arrival, collect some cool drinking water and a walking pole at the China Highlights Refreshment Kiosk at the foot of the Great Wall before taking a shuttle bus to the Mutianyu tourist area.

You will have two options for travelling up and down the Wall: round-way cable car and round-way chairlift (or toboggan). You can decide which option you prefer when you arrive. If you choose to go by cable car or the chairlift, it will take seven minutes to reach the top of the Wall, instead of going up by foot might take you 45 minutes climbing steps.

Cable car ascends to and descends from the 14th watchtower. From there, walk east to the 23rd watchtower on the most beautiful part of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall. And chairlift ascends to the 6th watchtower. It would be a high challenge hiking from the 6th to the 23rd watchtower. According to your physical condition, most of our customers who take the chairlift up and down, hike from tower 6 to tower 14 and turn back to tower 6. Take a toboggan down the mountain which is fun. (If you want to take one way cable car and one way chairlift or toboggan, you need to pay the price difference CNY80 per person at your own expense.)

Good to know:

• We avoid (the worst of the) crowds on the Great Wall and traffic jams by visiting in the afternoon.

Arrive at the foot of the Great Wall and take a shuttle bus to the parking lot. You will be transferred back to your hotel at approximately 6:00 pm.

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Good to know:

• If you plan to leave Beijing after your day tour, please check out from your hotel before departure. Normally it will take 10 to 20 minutes for hotel staff to complete the procedure. You may leave your luggage in our vehicle, and you will be transferred to the airport or train station straight after the tour to make best use of your time. You will need 1 hour to be transferred from the city center to airport, and you will need to be at the airport 1.5 hours before a domestic flight, or 2.5 hours before you’re an international flight. Tell us about your departure time when booking, and remind our guide, and we will make arrangements accordingly. We provide private airport / train station to transfer (price from 18 USD p/p).