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Great Wall Private Hiking: Unexplored Jiankou to Mutianyu Trek with Inclusive Packages
5.0
68 Ratings
Beijing
Venturing into the pristine, unrenovated stretch of the Great Wall of China from Jiankou to Mutianyu bestows breathtaking panoramas of the Great Wall as it snakes into the distance to both the east and west. This experience includes lunch, admission fees, and exclusive transportation.
Venturing into the pristine, unrenovated stretch of the Great Wall of China from Jiankou to Mutianyu bestows breathtaking panoramas of the Great Wall as it snakes into the distance to both the east and west. This experience includes lunch, admission fees, and exclusive transportation.
Duration:
10 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- The Great wall of Jiankou - At 7:30am, your professional hiking and historian tour guide will pick you up from your hotel for the Great Wall hiking from Jiankou to Mutianyu. After a 2-hour drive, you will first arrive at Jiankou Great Wall, an unrestored and untouched wild Wall. Jiankou has more twists and turns as it wriggles up the mountain…
- The Great wall of Jiankou - At 7:30am, your professional hiking and historian tour guide will pick you up from your hotel for the Great Wall hiking from Jiankou to Mutianyu. After a 2-hour drive, you will first arrive at Jiankou Great Wall, an unrestored and untouched wild Wall. Jiankou has more twists and turns as it wriggles up the mountain ridge. It has retained its original state without any restoration, and reveals beautiful imperfections, wildness and primitive simplicity, it’s regarded as the most precipitous and picturesque section of the Great Wall which was built during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644).
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Mutianyu Great Wall - After 3 hours hiking accomanied by your tour guide, you will reach to Mutianyu Great Wall, the longest fully-restored section open to tourists. As one of the best-preserved parts of the Great Wall, Mutianyu section used to serve as the northern barrier defending the capital and the imperial tombs.
After a long hiking, you can choose to take a cable car down or slid down by toboggan (at your own expense). Or simply walk down.
Then enjoy a tasty lunch at a nice local restaurant.
Your tour ends with drop-off at your Beijing hotel.
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Professional guide
- Lunch
- Entrance fee
- Transport by private vehicle
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Professional guide
- Lunch
- Entrance fee
- Transport by private vehicle
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
- cable car ticket/toboggan tickets
- Gratuities
- Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
- cable car ticket/toboggan tickets
Additional Information
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Wheelchair not accessible
- This is not an easy hike. Prior hiking experience is highly recommended
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Please wear hiking shoes
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Please pack some snacks if…
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Wheelchair not accessible
- This is not an easy hike. Prior hiking experience is highly recommended
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Please wear hiking shoes
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Please pack some snacks if necessary, because you will have a late lunch
- Due to the weather condition,it might be closed unexpected. You can visit another section instead
Location
The Great wall of Jiankou
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(68 Ratings)
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857danielh
Sep 20, 2024
Hiking the real wall not the tourist one - We loved our driver who was so happy and friendly and attentive. Michael is a most excellent and informative guide. I am a fit 64 year old and enjoyed the challenging climb although my 20 year old daughter kept saying 'come on dad'. Michael took good care of us and when we arrived up there it was glorious. Nobody up there other than a few locals. My daughter held a praying mantis and other small animals. You absolutely need the guide to take a few detours and offer some choices. When you finally arrive at the restored touristic part of the wall you realize how many orders of mag itude better has been your experience of the wall but the tour enables you to see both the restored and the touristic u restored parts and to descend with the gongols. Finally driver took us to a traditional North Chinese restaurant known to michael a real treat not to be missed. The car was very comfortable and the hours there and back passed blissfully.
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303evertonf
Jul 3, 2024
Great Wall visit - Amazing guide, I highly recommended. Friendly and helpful. Whenever you visit Beijing contact him and enjoy your time.
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B9438wabrianh
Jun 17, 2024
Great Wall hike - Great day visiting the Great Wall. Perfect weather for clear pictures and Justin made our day great. We loved hanging out with him. Got to hike to the wall a couple hours from Beijing and walk along restored and unrestored portions of the wall. Toboggan down the hill at the end was also really fun
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Y9884frrobp
May 20, 2024
Awesome experience - May was a great guide. A section of the wall was closed, but May found the detour trail and we were back on the wall in no time. The hike is tough, be prepared for climbing and scrambling over obstacles. Well worth it for the views without the crowds.
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Alia_l
May 17, 2024
Great Wall Hike Interrupted - Great hike despite the detour. We couldn’t do the planned hike to Mutianyu due to officers along the route requiring us to go back down. I was still able to see and hike a part of the Great Wall I’d never seen before. I was grateful for as much as I got to hike and even had the personalized opportunity to visit a tea house after the hike.
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Allard
Apr 22, 2024
Special hiking tour with Jason 🥾🇨🇳 - Today we had a lovely hiking tour with Jason!
The hiking tour was unforgettable, we really had a good time! 🥾🇨🇳
Thanks for everything Jason! 😁
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Marco_f
Apr 3, 2024
Great Experience! - Great experience, started the hike in an area where the wall is in its unrestored state and with almost no other people around. Peter is an excellent guide, very knowledgeable, friendly and speaks very good English. We would highly recommend this hike.
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John_thelostalaskan
Sep 16, 2023
Absolutely fantastic - Just an awesome way to experience the Wall in its unrestored state with hardly anyone else around.
The transportation was first rate. My guide was friendly and courteous. The drop-off is at a small village and the hike begins. The hike is a fairly strenuous mountian climb up, perfect to experience the local forest and get "leg day" done. The climb comes to the Wall at a watchtower, requiring a short improvised ladder to enter. Then just meandering on top of the wall, by yourself (came across only 3 other people on this part of the tour), is just magical. Even though, being unrestored, it is perhaps not as photogenic as the restored sections, the lack of other people and the silence and seeing nature slowly reclaim things allowed my imagination to concentrate on what life would have been like back then.
There is just enough danger on the hike up and wandering to make it feel like a true adventure. My only disappointment was that the hike up and along the unrestored section ended too early, I could have done that all day. The last part of the wall is along a "tourist" section, restored, and finishes with either a cable car or walk down (client choice). After the hike lunch at a very nice restaurant was provided. Expect about 4 hours of hiking depending on pace, 3 1/2 hours of driving, and an hour for lunch. Definitely recommend for those in the mood for a difficult climb rewarded by have a good section of the Wall to yourself.
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Samodelkin
Jul 30, 2023
Unique experience - This was an amazing experience. The guide (Jenny) was very friendly and open. The views of unrestored part of Great Wall are awesome.
A must see tour/experience if you are in Beijing and want to see the real Great Wall as it is!
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James_c
Jan 16, 2020
Fantastic experience with a wonderful guide - We had a brilliant experience visiting the Great wall of China. The company was very accommodating to our needs, took us to a fantastic location and provided an excellent lunch. Lucy our guide was lovely, spoke great English and was very knowledgeable!
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