Dawn on the Wall, the Palace at opening time, and the Beijing your guide grew up in.
Leave at 5:30 am for Mutianyu — cable car up as the mist lifts, toboggan down. Peking duck lunch on the way home; afternoon nap or a Forbidden City sunset from Jingshan.
Forbidden City at opening time with your storyteller, picnic lunch in the palace moat gardens, afternoon in the hutongs — breakfast stalls, a courtyard-family lunch, and chengren acrobatics after dark if you still have legs.
Temple of Heaven at 7 am (locals hour), Pearl-market haggling with your guide translating, Summer Palace boat at golden hour. Farewell dumplings in a 20-seat family kitchen.
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