Code PEKS005 --- Marco Polo Bridge & Grand View Garden

This Day Tour can be done from 5 hours to 7 hours in total, depending on how much time you have.

Typical Tour would be: 0830am - 0900pm

Time: 0900am - 0830pm

Morning trip starting 0900am will a distance of 6 miles ( 10 km ) before the arrival at Marco Polo Bridge. The 771 ft. ( 235m ) long and 26 ft. ( 8m ) wide bridge is supported by eleven arches, and has 280 side columns decorated with lion sculptures in the balustrades, which have brought fame to the bridge. Even
though it is called Marco Polo Bridge in English, traces of foot prints could only be found in 1276 in his own book " Millions".

Shortly after lunch back in the city, tickets will be given to visit the Grand View Garden, the most authentic example of the private gardens as owned by rich families in old China. If you have read the famous Chinese novel "Dream of Red Mansions", this garden could be an exceptionally exciting place for you to recollect the sad stories.

Tea time back in the hotel 0400pm-0600pm. Our guide will take you for a little walk through the zigzagging Beijing hutongs (small lanes around Shichahai area) before the dinner which is scheduled at 0600pm followed by the nightview of Tian'anmen Square shown to you by our hospitable guide and driver.

On the July 7th 1937, the Chinese troops stationed by the Marco Polo Bridge was attacked by heavy artillery, which led rapidly into the War that lasted for eight years. What was the name of the War ?

Answer is with your Regent Beijing Guide -:)

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