1-Day Pingyao Ancient Town Sightseeing Walking Tour

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Itinerary

1. Your guide will pick you up at the lobby of your hotel inside of Pingyao ancient city at 09:00 in the morning.

   10 min

2. Your Pingyao ancient town tour will begin with a visit to the City Wall of Pingyao, which has been well preserved. As a whole, the rectangular wall resembles a tortoise, which was considered as a symbol of longevity traditionally. Ascending the wall, you could overlook the ancient city of Pingyao.

   1 hAdmission included

3. Then, get down from the wall and have a stroll on the traditional Ming-Qing Street. On both sides of this not very wide street, there are many buildings in ancient Chinese architecture style, which used to be firms, exchange shops and different kinds of shops like teashop, cloth shop and salt shop. Nowadays, some of them have been turned to hotels, restaurants or shops selling souvenirs while some have been preserved as attraction sites and museums.

   30 min

4. Your next stop is the Temple of City God, one of the best-preserved Temples of City God in China. Its distinctive feature lies in the combination of the Temple of the God of Wealth and the Temple of the Kitchen God, which are separately situated to its right and left.

   1 hAdmission included

5. After lunch, you will proceed to Ri Sheng Chang Exchange Shop and Tong Xing Gong. Ri Sheng Chang Exchange Shop is the first money exchange shop in China as well as the founder of Chinese modern banks, which has played an important role in Chinese financial business for about one century. Tong Xing Gong was an establishment which provided private escort service for the exchange shops to guard their safety during transportation.

   1.5 hAdmission included

6. At the end, your guide will escort you to your hotel.

   10 min

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

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How it compares in Pingyao

• Its from-price is 20% below the median of the 28 experiences we list in Pingyao.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 4 of 28.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Pingyao

Pingyao is a walled Ming-dynasty town in Shanxi province, with fourteenth-century ramparts and courtyard-house lanes preserved as a World Heritage site.

The city wall, about six kilometres round and dating from 1370, encloses a grid of grey-brick lanes, courtyard houses and shops with carved wooden doors, and visitors can walk along the top of the ramparts. In the nineteenth century Pingyao was a financial centre, and the first Chinese draft banks opened here. Rishengchang, the best known, can be seen in its original courtyard.

Top-ranked sights in Pingyao: Ancient City of Pingyao, Pingyao Ancient City Wall, Shuanglin Temple.

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