A lovely strolling through the old alleys-Hutong, you will have a real panoramic view of the ordinary people here. The real scene you may encounter would be: how the local people start a day, the local Seven-Eleven store, local multi-functional storage besides the alley, how the people go home well loaded with stuff on their bikes, or the parents escorting the kid to and from school. It is the most informative way of getting to know the local culture and history.

A farmers market is always indispensable for the Hutong life, because it is not only the shopping place, where the food is fresh and cheap, but also a meeting place in the neighborhood, where you can chat and bargain with the vendors.

Family visit, the highlight of the tour. Here you may go into a local courtyard (with the help of our guide). Chat with a family and the local residents. Only from such a stay in a Chinese family, can you realize the hospitality the Chinese people and their daily life. What is more, you will get to know what a neighborhood means in today's compound.

Kindergarten visit will bring you the liveliest memory during your stay in Beijing, look at the cute kids in the Kindergarten, where there is also a 300-year-old mansion of the Ming Dynasty.

The place where we have the tour was considered to be the most popular section of the old Peking, with the highest concentration of opera houses, teahouses, and nightclubs in the very popular shopping Dazhalan, and cultural street Liulichang. Part of the itinerary would be to take you to an old nightclub, and listen to the folk story happened in this neighborhood.

Zhenyici Opera House is an ancient wooden theatre with more than three hundred year's history. it was built earlier than many famous operas in western countries such as the French Comedy Theatre in Paris, the Karvine Park Opera in Britain. Zhen-Yi Temple Theatre occupies an area of about 1,000 square meters.

Free tea service is included in all the following 3 items.

If meal is to be arranged, booking is required 2 days in advance; otherwise 1 day is required.

Tour Time:
Morning Tour: 09:00 - 11:30
Afternoon Tour: 14:00 - 16:30
Night Tour: 19:00 - 20:30

If you are not satisfied with the service in your tour, please write down the number of the pedicab and the name of your guide. The complaint phone is 63027010.

Starting point of Hutong tour: About 50 meters to the west of the Laoshe Tea House, Qianmen. Our English tour guide will wait for you there.

Attention: Please kindly identify the white letters "Hello Peking" specially written on the awnings of our pedicabs driven by workers in black uniform. If you get on the wrong pedicabs, you are to bear the possible losses. You'd better book our tour one day in advance. 

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