Great Wall of China at Mutianyu Full Day Tour including Lunch from Beijing

Beijing, China

This full-day Beijing sightseeing tour to the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China provides an opportunity to experience steeper sections of the wall.The Mutianyu section is older than popular Badaling section and features outer and inner parapets, three watch towers and even an optional cable car ride!

Complete your trip to China with an unforgettable visit to the Great Wall at Mutianyu. The Great Wall of China is the greatest symbol of ancient Chinese engineering and one of the world's most famous structures.

The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China offers an alternative Great Wall experience to the popular Badaling section. This segment of China's ancient engineering marvel features an optional cable car ride, or an opportunity to climb more than 1,400 steps to the top.

The Mutianyu Great Wall is much steeper than the Badaling section, and offers a more challenging climb. This section is also older than Badaling, and features outer and inner parapets and three watchtowers.

Your eight-hour trip to the Mutianyu Great Wall includes a visit to a nearby cloisonné enamelware factory and a Chinese style lunch.

USD $64.99

Review by: Paul C	April 2012
We were very fortunate because our group tour turned out to be a private tour (we were the only two people scheduled for that day). The tour guide was excellent and he helped us plan our itinerary for the rest of our stay in Beijing. The Great Wall was amazing and the Chinese lunch was delicious. We were very pleased with the experience!

Review by: Mapeng	April 2012
Great adventure! Our guide, Tom, was very nice and accommodating.

Review by: ANGELA B	March 2012
enjoyed but it was not a full day tour we were back by 2.30pm. Longer to walk the wall would have been good.

Review by: Gregory F	March 2012
I ended up being the only person on this tour. My guide / driver Thomas was SUPERB. He was on time, friendly, flexible, and knowledgeable. This section of the wall was scenic and uncrowded. You take a chair lift up, and take a luge down (optional - it was a blast) Lunch was delicious, the tea ceremony tolerable, and the drive-byes of the Olympic stadium / cube / etc interesting. A big thumbs up!

Review by: Valerie P	October 2011
This was the highlight of our time in Beijing. I would recommend this part of the wall to anyone as it is a lot quieter. It is however, very steep in parts and my legs were shaking for a long time afterwards|!!!! However, it is an experience not to be missed and the views were amazing, helped of course by near perfect weather!! A great day out , the guide, Jason was very informative and when we requested to be taken back via the Birds Nest Stadium he didn't hesitate to oblige. A great day's tour.

Review by: Uki Kustaman B	September 2011
This side of great wall were more challenging then the Badailing side. And it has the cable car to the entrance of the great wall and the sliding car all way down back.

Review by: Sabrina F	September 2011
Our guide's command of English was ok. However, he was not particularly knowledgeable about some matters and did not provide us with a history of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall. He was more of a co-ordinator than a guide. However he did offer to bring us to the Olympic Park for photo opportunities when we asked him about the place.

Review by: Allyson W	July 2011
My tour was great. The wall was not as crowded as the wall at Badaling. Make sure you take the tobaggan ride down. Very exciting!

Review by: Amy	April 2011
Amazing view, absolutely enjoyed climbing the wall and the tabogan ride down

Review by: Kimberly G	March 2011
I ended up getting a personal tour since no one else signed up. My tour guides, Cherry and Gail, were super helpful, friendly and spoke great English - not to mention took a million photos and made the day fun. We got to the wall early so we practically had it to ourselves, which was beautiful. The tour of the cloisonné factory was nothing special, but was quick and provided great handmade gift opportunities. The lunch was delicious (no scary mystery meat), and though the tea ceremony was also an attempt to sell you things, it was interesting (and again, provided great gift opportunities). Highly recommend this tour, especially if Cherry or Gail are your guides. Plus, we were done by 3pm so I still had time that day to continue exploring.

Review by: ELWELL G	March 2011
The tour was great i like my tour guide cherry a lot. but it was very very cold i did spent a whole lot of time in the great wall, i cant stand the cold, but otherwise the went very well.

Review by: Michael P	September 2010
A visit not to be missed - experience was awe-inspiring

Review by: CLAYTON F	September 2010
Great excursion. This was one of the highlights of Beijing. tour was excellent, lunch was good and the guide's English was very good.

Review by: DEAN F, United Kingdom	June 2010
superb day, fantastic guide an extremely personalised tour. If you only go to the wall once pick this tour, it's less crowded and the scenery is stunning.

Review by: K. K, Australia	April 2010
What does a full day tour mean? Only two hours at the Great Wall. Rest of the time for factory visit and tea drinking ceremony, just money extracting exercise. I asked for a full day China Great Wall trip and wasn't interested in anything else. I just hate those pep talks by tour guides. They all think we are just born in this world. Did not expect this from Viator. Highly disappointing trip. Never again.

Review by: Karun K	April 2010
What does a full day tour mean? Only two hours at the Great Wall. Rest of the time for factory visit and tea drinking ceremony, just money extracting exercise. I asked for a full day China Great Wall trip and wasn't interested in anything else. I just hate those pep talks by tour guides. They all think we are just born in this world. Did not expect this from Viator. Highly disappointing trip. Never again.

Review by: N A, Japan	January 2010
Our tour was originally scheduled for a Saturday, but when we got to Beijing the weather was supposed to be bad so I called the company and they had no problem changing our tour to Friday. Our guide called us the night before and my boyfriend and I were the only two on the tour so we just went in a Sedan. Our guide was a younger guy and very friendly and talkative. When we got to the Great Wall we were the only people initially, which was nice, but it was also the coldest day of our trip. My boyfriend's expensive camera worked fine, but my video and still camera would not work at the top of the wall. It was fine on the lower parts. The rest of the day was very setup, which is to be expected! We went to the Closione factory and it was eye opening to see the working conditions. Our lunch was very good and we were the only two there so they sat use right by the heater, which didn't work so well. Our last stop was at Dr. Tea, which is a government run tea house in the cultural square by the Olympic Park. I had read some reviews that said they diagnose everyone with an illness to encourage you to buy something. This was not our experience. Our girl showed us how they make the tea and we tried four different types then we were free to buy or not buy. Our day ended around 2:30pm.

Review by: Anonymous	January 2010
Our tour was originally scheduled for a Saturday, but when we got to Beijing the weather was supposed to be bad so I called the company and they had no problem changing our tour to Friday. Our guide called us the night before and my boyfriend and I were the only two on the tour so we just went in a Sedan. Our guide was a younger guy and very friendly and talkative. When we got to the Great Wall we were the only people initially, which was nice, but it was also the coldest day of our trip. My boyfriend's expensive camera worked fine, but my video and still camera would not work at the top of the wall. It was fine on the lower parts. The rest of the day was very setup, which is to be expected! We went to the Closione factory and it was eye opening to see the working conditions. Our lunch was very good and we were the only two there so they sat use right by the heater, which didn't work so well. Our last stop was at Dr. Tea, which is a government run tea house in the cultural square by the Olympic Park. I had read some reviews that said they diagnose everyone with an illness to encourage you to buy something. This was not our experience. Our girl showed us how they make the tea and we tried four different types then we were free to buy or not buy. Our day ended around 2:30pm.

Review by: Chris B, United States of America	October 2009
We thought the actual visit to Mutianyu was fantastic! Our tour guide was great as well, knowledgeable, very nice and his English was very good. We would have liked, however, to have spent more time exploring Mutianyu. We were there only for about 1 1/2 hours. We were finished by 11am! Considering this was the only sight on the tour, we thought we would have been spending longer! The rest of the day was spent getting to two outrageously expensive shopping stops at the cloisonne factory tour was very, very brief and the Jade factory which was not included in the itinerary description. We might have thought otherwise about doing this particular tour. We really did not think it was worth what we paid.