Private Day Tour to Confucius Home Town Qufu By Bullet Train from Beijing

Your driver will pick you up at 7:00am from your hotel and transfer to Beijing South Railway Station to catch your bullet train from Beijing to Qufu,Shandong Province(train departs at 8:15am)

Upon arrival, meet your tour guide at the Qufu Railway Station,then head to your first stop-the Confucius Temple.The Temple of Concucius is a group of grand buildings built in oriental style. Together with the Summer Palace in Beijing and the Mountain Resort of Chengde,it is one of the three largest ancient architectural complexes in China.

Then continue to Kong Mansion,located east side of the Confucius Temple,the Kong Family Mansion developed from a small family house linked to the temple into an aristocratic mansion in which the male direct descendants of Confucius lived and worked.Following a fire and rebuilding of the temple with an enclosure wall on the model of an imperial palace in the 14th century, the mansion was rebuilt a short distance from the temple. Subsequently expanded, then destroyed again by fire and rebuilt in the late 19th century, it now covers 7 hectares with a total of some 170 buildings. Over 100,000 collections are kept in the Mansion

After an anthentic Chinese meal at local restaurant,you will visit the Kong Forest.The Kong Forest contains the tomb erected in memory of Confucius, along with the remains of more than 100,000 of his descendants.It is also the largest and best-preserved ancient cemetery in China. After the tour, your guide will accompany you to Qufu train station to catch your bullet train back to Beijing(train departs at 7:00pm).

Once arrive at Beijing train station, look for your driver who will hold a sign with your name on it. Then you will be transferred back to your Beijing hotel.