Mutianyu Great Wall and Ming Tombs: Full-Day Tour

Embark on a private full-day tour from Beijing to explore the Mutianyu Great Wall and Ming Tombs. Enjoy a less-crowded section of the Great Wall, take a cable car ride, and admire breathtaking views. Includes entrance fees, lunch, guide, and hotel transport.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Mutianyu Great Wall - Meet your private guide in hotel’s lobby at 8:00am in Beijing, take around 1.5 hours to Mutianyu Great Wall in the morning, which is farther away from Beijing and more popular section, a stretch less crowded than the Badaling segment. It is considered as one of most famous Great Wall by the beautiful view in Beijing. Once you…
What's Included
  • Lunch at a local Chinese restaurant
  • Bottled water provided
  • Gas, toll, and parking fees included
  • Round trip cable car or chair lift with toboggan ride
  • Professional English-speaking tour guide
  • Transportation by air-conditioned private vehicle
What's Not Included
  • Accommodation
  • Dinner
  • Gratuity to the guide and driver
  • Personal Costs
Additional Information

Start your complete day excursion at your accommodation, heading to two World Heritage sites - the Mutianyu Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. You have the option to pick between the Dingling Tomb or the Changling Tomb. Mutianyu is a less congested segment of the Great Wall where you can take a round-trip cable car and gaze at the far-stretching views over…

Location
Mutianyu Great Wall
Mutianyu Village, Bohai Town, Huairou District,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Carmen_f
Oct 23, 2024
Great one day trip from Beijing - We were very impressed with the Great Wall and enjoyed the mountain scenery from the top. The visit to the Changling Tomb was very memorable as well. Our guide, Eva, was very kind and helpful.
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Carmenf2765
Oct 22, 2024
Great one day trip from Beijing - I highly recommend this trip. Our guide, Eva, was very helpful and kind. The views from the Great Wall were very scenic. We were also very impressed during our visit to the Changing Tomb.
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Marco
Aug 18, 2024
An amazing experience with a great guide - We visited the Great Wall and the Ming Tumbs with a Catherine Lu tour and we had a wonderful experience. Everything was perfectly organized, but the best aspect of our experience has been our wonderful guide May. May has been very professional, sharing a lot of information all the time and personalizing the tour according to our preferences. She has also been incredibly available in helping us with many local tips on things to do in our free time for the following days, especially with great recommendations for delicious food to try in Beijing and where to find the best option of each dish. We really had an amazing time with May and we have been in touch also during the following days for tips and more suggestions. Also the driver has been very professional and available during all the tour.
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Passport30491591363
Jun 28, 2024
The best tour in Beijing - Our guide May and our driver Mr Lu made this tour the most memorable and best part of our trip! Our day started with getting picked up from the hotel and making our way to Matianyu. On the drive May bought the tickets for which cable car would best suit us/wasn’t busy. We were guided the whole way on the wall and helped us through each gate point, which would have been very difficult not knowing any mandarin. We then headed to a local restaurant on the way to Ming’s tombs and had lunch. May and Mr Lu ordered for us and helped accommodate with me being vegetarian. Their pick was great as all the food was fabulous. We then went to Ming’s tomb and sacred way with May buying the tickets, guiding us and telling us a lot of the symbolism and history behind each monument. We were offered to buy tickets to an acrobatics show after coming back from Ming’s tomb. May and Catherine Lu organised buying the tickets and organising our seats. We arrived a bit early before the show and May offered to take us to a tea ceremony which was very close to the theatre. The acrobatic show was insane! I would definitely recommend to anyone going to Beijing and I’ve never read or seen about it online. May and Mr Lu waited for us while during the show and were there for us when it ended. Mr Lu was very sweet and had bought us cold cokes to give to us which he had remembered that we ordered at the restaurant. Overall, we had the best time thanks to the planning and accommodating nature from Catherine, May and Mr Lu. We would recommend anyone going to Beijing to book this tour.
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545adrienh
Nov 29, 2023
Great!!! - I also highly recommend this tour organized by Catherine. Catherine ensures you an optimized exploration of Beijing and its surrounding area. Her prompt responsiveness allows for a personalized service that truly enhances the experience. For this attraction, I benefit from a French speaking guide who help me to really enhance my knowledge of the Chinese civilization.
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Tom
Jul 19, 2023
VERY Highly Recommended but if you want maximum sights go custom itinerary - Utterly amazing. I emailed Catherine about a custom itinerary as I had seen some of the sights previously and after a discussion came up with an schedule that met our desires. 7.30am in the morning we were met by Jerry and a driver and then taken around nearly all the major sights :Visit the Temple of Heaven, Tian'anmen Square ( drive around in the car)(as queuing inside taking extra time) Hutongs, Summer Palace including boat to , Ming Tombs at the Ding tomb and Sacred Way and then finishing with a Night tour at the Mutianyu Wall . ( 4 of 5 UNESCO heritage sights - only missed out Forbidden City as too long to queue )What an day ! Ok it was tough - plenty of walking and in 35+ degree heat, but plenty of water in the car - a lunch stop to suit our requirements ( fresh dumplings ! Top choice ) The finale was the evening tour on the Great Well at Mutianyu ( please don't go to Badaling - so disappointing and crowded compared to Mutianyu ) Jerry was a delight - a real lovely human ! Friendly, knowledgeable, REALLY and I mean REALLY looks after his clients. So please book and make sure you ask for Jerry - Tom from the UK and Michael highly approve ❤️
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Meganli888
Dec 23, 2019
Amazing day tour! - We had a day tour covering Mutianyu Great Wall, Ming Tombs and Olympics Park. It was amazing, we had lots of fun and would highly recommend it. Jenny was our guide and she was absolutely brilliant. She was friendly and knowledgeable so we were never bored on the trip. The driver was great too; he was polite and drove well. We did not have any traffic on the day so were extremely lucky. Highlights: - Mutianyu Great Wall: we visited this in the early morning around 10ish before it got too hot / crowded. We got to spend an hour on the wall which was enough as the walk was quite tiring in the sun. You could either go left with more uphill and downhill or go right which is steeper but offers a great view. We took the cable car up and the slide down. The slide is uper fun and highly recommended if not too busy / crowded. - Lunch: this was definitely one of the highlight of the trip. We went to a very lovely local rural restaurant with a fish pond in the front. We were able to catch our own fish and had it cooked. Food was tasty as well. We preferred this to some of the more touristy restaurants. - Ming Tombs: the history was interesting but the tomb itself was quite boring. We enjoyed Sacred Way though. It was beautiful with the green trees and stone sculptures along the pathway. - Olympics Park: we stopped for pictures at Olympics Park and saw the Birds Nest and Water Cube. Overall lovely day trip and highly recommended. Although the tour is slightly pricey it is defintiely worth it!!
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Lesliemv1995uw
Nov 19, 2019
Amanda ROCKED the Great Wall & Ming Tombs with us!! - Amanda was the BEST!!!! Booking tours with Catherine Lu before even leaving home was SO easy and we were more than impressed with the car and driver that picked us up, the details of the day flawlessly planned in advance but then executed perfectly by Amanda!!!! Amanda was our tour guide our first full day in Beijing (which was also our first full day in China) and on our 2nd day with her we got to go to the Great Wall, Ming Tombs and had a KILLER, delish, super locals lunch in between the two stops. Amanda was super flexible in allowing us as much time as we wanted at the wall walking around, in the shops afterward, etc. And she recommended to have us toboggan down the Great Wall (her favorite way to get down) which was the BEST!!! How many people can say they tobogganed down the Great Wall of China? She took SO MANY amazing photos of us during both days of tours - so many frame-able moments of all 3 of us so we didn't have to ask other travelers or take selfies. We felt safe and taken care of with Amanda and Catherine Lu from start to finish! And we even had Catherine Lu travels assist us in setting up tours in other cities throughout our time in China as well (make recommendations if they did not have a team there). ALL were wonderful. Amanda truly made us super excited for the rest of our trip (which was a little over 2 weeks in total) she was super knowledgeable and thoughtful or our time and what we were interested in, willing to discuss more than just what we saw but historical questions we had as well as questions we had about China's culture in general and she was FUN!! And she even had a little surprise for us at the end of the day that we were able to take home with us - I'm not telling because I don't want to ruin it for others!! You can't go wrong when booking ANY tour with Catherine Lu!! Thank you!
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Brazilianheat
Aug 28, 2019
Amazing Tour - I'm so glad that I had such wonderful time with our tour guide, Joyce. The Mutianyu Great Wall (best part of the wall to be visited from BJS) is really wonderful and we've got a real history class. Transportation was comfortable, with a kind driver. I strongly recommend this day tour.
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Alohajamon
Aug 31, 2018
An Amazing Tour - Totally Worth It - Our tour guide Sasha was fantastic and very informative. She thoroughly explained the culture and background of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. It gave us a better understanding of how and why they were built. Not only was the actual sightseeing absolutely incredible, the transportation and the lunch that were included in the package were all excellent. Our driver and Sasha were both very kind and caring. They did their absolute best to make sure that we were as comfortable as we can be, and they definitely achieved that. I vehemently recommend booking this tour and hopefully you can get Sasha as your tour guide for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Catherine Lu, our tour operator, was very responsive and efficient during the process. It was very pleasant doing business with her. P.S. Sorry for the belated view. We just returned to the States after a long trip in Asia.
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