1-Day Pingyao tour from Datong and ends of Beijing or Xi'an by Bullet Train

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1. In the morning, our driver will meet you at the Datong hotel at 6:40am and transfer to the Datong train station to catch the 7:45am train to Taiyuan. Note:The Datong hotel pick up services(driver only,no guide) and Train tickets tickets to Pingyao is included the package tour.

   10 min

2. Upon arrival at Pingyao train station, you will be picked up on time with our local guide and transferred to the Pingyao ancient city.

   15 min

3. As one of the four best preserved old cities in China, the 2,700-year-old Ancient City of Pingyao is famous for containing the most complete dwellings complex and shops with architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911), which are arranged at both sides of the 400-meter-long Ancient Ming-Qing Street. Situated in the center of the city, Ancient Government Office is built with a symmetrical layout. In Security Guard Company, you will know the history about the security industry through the cases, vehicles and weapons used at that time. From our guide's explanation, you will know the cultural background of Rishengchang Exchange Shop, the first private financial institution in China.

   5 hIngresso incluso

4. 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.

   1,5 hIngresso incluso

5. 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.

   1 h

6. 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 hIngresso incluso

7. 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 hIngresso incluso

8. At the end, your guide will escort you to your hotel in Pingyao or dropped you to Pingyao train station then you can take bullet train to Beijing or Xi'an or even back to Datong again. Note:The train tickets to Beijing/Xi'an/Datong and Beijing/Xi'an/Datong railway station pick up services also included the package tour, but driver only, no guide.

   1 h

9. Upon arrival at Xi'an/Beijing/Datong, you will be picked up on time and transferred to the hotel(driver only, no guide).

   15 min

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How it compares in Datong

• Its from-price is close to the median of the 69 experiences we list in Datong.
• It is longer than most of them.

About Datong

Datong is an old coal-mining city in northern Shanxi, with a rebuilt Ming wall and the Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery within reach.

Datong stands on a high plateau in northern Shanxi province, about 1,000 metres above sea level, not far from the Great Wall and the Inner Mongolian border. As Pingcheng it was the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty in the fifth century, and its Buddhist heritage dates from then. The Ming city walls have been rebuilt around the centre, and the Nine-Dragon Wall, a glazed-tile screen from 1392, is one of the largest of its kind.

Top-ranked sights in Datong: Yungang Grottoes (Yungang Shiku), Hanging Temple (Xuankong Si).

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