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Ten days in Beijing designed around rest, recovery, and traditional Chinese wellness.
Anchored by a full medical screening at a top-tier hospital and a personalised health report you take home. Between the checkup days, mornings open with tai chi at the Temple of Heaven, afternoons shift into TCM therapy sessions and herbal workshops, and evenings settle into clean, wellness-focused dining. The route weaves in Beijing’s major landmarks at a gentle pace — Summer Palace, Lama Temple, Shichahai hutongs — then trades the city for Gubei Water Town, where hot springs, canal-side lanes, and the floodlit Simatai night wall offer a different kind of recovery before the journey home.
Your guide meets you at arrivals — whether you land at Beijing Capital or Daxing Airport, a private car is waiting. From here, everything is handled.
After settling into your city-centre hotel, your guide walks you through the fitness centre and hotel facilities. At four o’clock, a welcome session begins over tea — your guide introduces the 10-day wellness journey ahead, explains the health screening process, and hands out an English-language programme booklet covering each day’s highlights.
The evening opens with a light welcome dinner — clean, low-oil cuisine designed to ease you in gently. Your guide reminds the group that fasting begins at 8 PM tonight in preparation for tomorrow’s health screening. The rest of the night is yours to recover from the flight and settle in at your own pace.
The morning begins with a short briefing on the screening process — what to expect, what each test measures, and how the results will be used later in the trip.
A private car takes you to a top-tier hospital for a comprehensive health screening — blood panel, tumour markers, cardiovascular check, and more. Your bilingual guide accompanies you throughout, translating in real time and keeping the process calm. The checkup takes the full morning.
Lunch is a light, post-screening meal — clean and easy on the stomach, with your guide explaining the dietary logic behind each dish.
The afternoon shifts to a relaxed visit to Beijing Zoo — home to China’s famous giant pandas. The pace is gentle, with time to stroll the gardens and decompress after the morning’s medical session.
Dinner is a wellness-focused meal with nourishing soups and seasonal ingredients. Afterward, the hotel’s hot spring or spa facilities are available — the rest of the evening is yours.
The day opens early with a tai chi session at the Temple of Heaven (*Tiantan*) — the largest imperial altar complex in the world, where emperors performed the most solemn ceremony in the Chinese calendar. A professional tai chi instructor leads the group through the forms step by step, breaking down each movement for correct posture and breathing. Practising in the park alongside local residents — some of whom have been coming here for decades — is part of the experience.
After breakfast at the hotel, a private car returns you to the Temple of Heaven for a deep-guided tour of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (triple-roofed, built without a single nail), the Circular Mound Altar, and the Echo Wall. Your guide explains the architecture’s connection to traditional Chinese health philosophy — how the temple’s design reflects the same principles of balance and harmony that underpin tai chi and TCM.
Lunch is a wellness-focused meal — light, seasonal, and designed to complement the morning’s restorative work.
The afternoon moves to Buzuo Yiyun Workshop (*buzuo yiyun*), a traditional craft studio where you make your own herbal sachet (*xiangbao*) from scratch. You select fabrics, fill them with dried herbs — lavender, mugwort, mint — and sew the sachet shut. The instructor explains the wellness properties of each herb and the centuries-old tradition of carrying sachets for relaxation and natural insect repellent. Your finished sachet travels home with you.
Dinner rounds out the day before the car returns you to the hotel.
After breakfast, your guide introduces the day’s wellness focus — a full day of hands-on traditional therapy and restorative care.
The morning is given to a TCM therapy session with a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner. The treatment includes meridian massage (*jingluo tuina*) and acupoint therapy, tailored to your health screening results from Day 2. The practitioner explains the principles behind each technique in a bilingual session, and teaches simple self-care techniques — pressure points and stretches you can practise at home.
Lunch is a clean, post-therapy meal — light and nourishing, designed to support the body’s recovery after treatment.
The afternoon continues with an anti-aging spa session at a premium facility. Professional therapists use natural skincare products and explain the treatment process in English — what each step does, why natural ingredients matter, and practical anti-aging habits you can adopt daily. The session also includes lifestyle and dietary advice from a wellness instructor.
A tea break with light refreshments follows the spa before an early, gentle dinner. The evening is free for rest.
After breakfast, a private car takes you to the Summer Palace (*Yiheyuan*) — China’s largest imperial garden, covering 300 hectares of lake, hill, and painted corridor.
A deep-guided tour walks you through the Long Corridor (728 metres of hand-painted ceiling panels, each one different), Tower of Buddhist Incense, and Cloud-Dispelling Hall. At the lakeside, a guided meditation session lets you pause and absorb the garden’s stillness — your instructor leads a short breathing exercise designed to complement the wellness thread running through the trip.
Lunch is near the Summer Palace — a lakeside meal blending Chinese and Western flavours, light and wellness-focused.
The afternoon begins with a Peking Opera culture session (*jingju*). A bilingual instructor introduces the art form’s history, the meaning behind the painted-face roles, and the hand gestures that tell stories without words. You learn a few basic opera poses yourself, then try on simplified costumes and headpieces — with time to examine the craftsmanship and cultural symbolism up close.
The highlight of the evening: a Peking Opera performance — selected classic scenes with English subtitles from VIP seats.
Dinner is an opera-themed banquet — Beijing flavours presented with dishes that echo the opera tradition, using organic ingredients and clean cooking techniques.
A TCM experience — acupuncture and therapeutic massage is included in the optional Wellness Package — select when booking. The car returns you to the hotel afterward.
After breakfast, a private car takes you to the Lama Temple (*Yonghegong*) — Beijing’s most important Tibetan Buddhist site, home to a 26-metre Buddha carved from a single white sandalwood trunk. Your bilingual guide explains the temple’s architecture, Buddhist iconography, and the etiquette of prayer and incense-offering before you enter. Inside, a brief seated meditation in one of the temple’s quieter halls offers a moment of stillness.
Lunch is a vegetarian meal near the temple — clean and organic, chosen to match the contemplative atmosphere, with your guide drawing the connection between Buddhist dietary practice and wellness.
The afternoon moves to Shichahai Lakes (*Shichahai*) — three linked lakes that were once the Grand Canal terminus of imperial Beijing. A guided stroll traces the lakeside lanes, with a stop at a traditional tea house in the hutong for a restorative herbal tea session (*yangshen chayin*) — your guide explains the wellness properties of each brew.
A rickshaw ride (*huangbao che*) carries you through the narrow hutong lanes — 800-year-old courtyard homes where laundry still dries in doorways and neighbours play chess on the sidewalk. Your guide leads a hutong photography walk, pointing out the doorway carvings, courtyard details, and neighbourhood texture that photograph best.
Dinner is a Beijing-style banquet (*jingyan*) — a multi-course evening meal before the car returns you to the hotel.
An early departure beats the morning traffic to Huanghuacheng Water Great Wall (*Huanghuacheng Shui Changcheng*) — the only Great Wall section where the wall meets a turquoise reservoir, about 90 minutes north of the city.
The morning is a gentle lakeside walk along a flat, well-maintained path — no steep climbs, no scrambling. Your guide narrates the Wall’s history and the unusual story of how this section was partially submerged when the reservoir was built. A professional wellness instructor leads a breathing exercise along the route, using the high negative-ion air of the mountain environment to deepen the restorative effect.
Lunch is a farmhouse-style meal at a village near the Wall — organic, seasonal, and freshly prepared.
The afternoon continues with a lakeside meditation session — a guided stillness exercise by the reservoir, listening to the water and wind. The instructor then leads a short plant identification walk, explaining the wellness properties of common herbs and plants growing along the Great Wall — and helping you press a simple botanical specimen to take home.
A herbal tea break rounds out the afternoon before the drive back to Beijing. Dinner and a free evening at the hotel.
An early-morning departure heads northeast to Gubei Water Town (*Gubei Shui Zhen*) — a restored Ming-era village at the foot of Simatai Great Wall, about two hours from central Beijing.
The morning is a full guided walk through the water town’s canal-side lanes, stone bridges, and traditional courtyard workshops. Along the way you visit a tie-dye workshop (*zaran*) and watch demonstrations at traditional craft studios — working heritage that has been part of the water-town revival.
Lunch is a water-town meal — organic, seasonal, and prepared in the clean, wellness-focused style that runs through the trip.
The afternoon is reserved for a hot spring session at the water-town hotel — a long, quiet soak. Your wellness instructor explains the therapeutic properties of the mineral water and offers personalised soaking advice based on your constitution.
As dusk falls, the evening brings the Simatai Night Great Wall — the only section of the Great Wall open for night walks. The floodlit wall snaking along the mountain ridgeline above the water town is one of Beijing’s most striking nighttime landscapes. Your guide leads a photography session on the wall and through the lantern-lit town streets below. A drone display and light show add to the atmosphere.
A traditional massage session is included in the optional Wellness Package — select when booking. Available at the water-town hotel before or after the night wall walk.
A late dinner at the water-town hotel rounds out the evening. You stay overnight inside Gubei Water Town — the quietest night of the trip.
After breakfast at the water-town hotel, the car returns you to central Beijing for the final full day.
A premium health screening at Pengrui — a high-end medical centre — is included in the optional Wellness Package — select when booking. For those who choose this upgrade, the morning begins at the clinic before rejoining the group.
The rest of the morning begins with a visit to one of Beijing’s quieter creative neighbourhoods — Wudaoying Hutong or Langyuan Station, depending on the day’s flow. These tucked-away lanes mix independent boutiques, ceramics studios, and courtyard cafes — a side of Beijing most visitors never see.
Lunch is a relaxed midday meal before the afternoon’s main event.
At the health screening centre, a doctor walks you through your personalised health report — explaining every result, answering questions, and offering targeted lifestyle and dietary recommendations. Your bilingual guide translates throughout so nothing is lost.
Afterward, a short completion ceremony: a certificate for the wellness programme, a herbal wellness gift box (dried herbs, traditional crafts), and a group photo session with individual portraits.
The evening closes with a farewell banquet — a warm, multi-course dinner blending Chinese and Western flavours.
An evening SPA massage is included in the optional Wellness Package — select when booking. A restorative close to the journey before your last night in Beijing. The car returns you to the city hotel.
A final breakfast at the hotel, then time to pack and check out.
The private car takes you to Beijing Capital or Daxing Airport, timed to your flight. If the schedule allows, your guide may point out a few city landmarks along the route — a last glimpse of Beijing before the journey ends.
