Walking the Great Wall

What's Included

• Meals
  9 breakfasts, 6 lunches, 6 dinners.

* All breakfasts, 6 lunches and 6 dinners included
* All accommodation 
* All transport and listed activities
* Tour leader throughout
* Flights from London (if booking incl. flights)
* Arrival & departure transfers

What's Not Included

• Vaccinations

• Travel insurance

• Single accommodation (available on request)

• Chinese Visa - GBP201 with Travcour or GBP151 plus GBP18 special delivery direct with embassy

Food

All breakfasts, 6 lunches and 6 dinners are included. Food is cheap in China
and you can avoid the spicier regional food if you wish. The cuisine on this
trip is fantastically varied with lots of new flavours and 'things' to try.

Gastronomically the trip can be divided into two parts: 'tourist hotels' and
'local hotels'. In tourist hotels the breakfast is normally a buffet, with a
huge spread of Chinese and western food, including coffee, juice, breads,
cakes, fruit, eggs, bacon and a wide variety of noodle and stir fried dishes.
Dinners are normally taken in the hotel or local restaurants, serving rice
with assorted vegetables, pork, fish, chicken and duck dishes with flavours
roughly approximating those you would find in a Chinese restaurant in the UK.
In the local hotels, breakfast includes rice porridge, dumplings, eggs,
noodles, etc, however, we tend to augment this with fruit and cakes where
available. Dinners are taken in local restaurants where the food is heavily
flavoured with ginger, garlic bamboo shoots and chilli. Lunches are taken in
local village restaurants and will normally consist of noodle soup or stir
fried vegetable noodles. Expect an audience most lunches as the locals crowd
around to watch the 'big noses' trying to master the use of chopsticks!

Vegetarians are well catered for but please inform us before departure of any
special dietary requests. Please note that in China the availability of
certain specialized products for restricted diets, e.g. gluten-free or
dairy-free, is minimal or non-existent and we strongly recommend you bring
these specialized dietary items from home. Strict vegetarians may find the
diet rather limited to stir fried vegetables and eggs as all the soups are
made with meat stock.

Accommodation

You will spend 3 nights in a well located comfortable hotel in Beijing and 5 nights in basic guesthouses whilst on trek.  Please be aware that accommodation options are limited on trek and the guesthouses are basic mountain accommodations but rooms are twin share and have en suite bathrooms. The bathrooms are equipped with Western toilets and there is hot water (although erratic and somewhat unreliable). It can get cold in the mountains and the guesthouses have no central heating but sleeping bags are not required as blankets are provided and the guesthouses usually have a few electric heaters, which are available upon request. There is electricity but there can occasionally be power cuts so a torch may come in handy.

Book with Confidence

• Transfer as credit to Future Tours

  Exodus allows you to transfer existing payments to a future tour to avoid cancellation fees if you can't travel and inform exodus, 43 days before departure.

• Low Deposit

  Exodus requires a minimum deposit of 25% or the full booking value, whichever is less, with the final balance not due until 90 days before departure.

• Cancellation Policy

  We don't charge a cancellation fee, here is a summary of exodus charges.

  Up to 70 days before tour starts: Forfeit 100% of deposit.