3 full days enough?

Will be arriving in afternoon 12/7- If we spend three nights and leave on the overnight train to Xian on the 10th, that will leave us three full days. It that adequate to see Tiannaman square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven and Great Wall at Mutainyu? Planning on staying at Tianxiang Coutryard , so should be easy to get to square for flag raising and go right to Forbidden City.

3 full days enough?

Yes you have enough time to also squeeze in some shopping as well.

3 full days enough?

Yes,it%26#39;s enough to finish these sights within three days. When will you arrive in Beijing that afternoon. Because most of the sights stop to sell tickets about at 4:00pm-4:30pm. Maybe you can do some shopping in that afternoon. Silk Market or Hongqiao Pearl Market.

Forbidden City and Summer Palace are very huge,so don%26#39;t do these two on one same day.

Flag raising is very early, usually,not later than 7:00am. But the Forbidden City is open at 8:30.

Have a nice trip.

enough. but you should also arrange your trip carefully, especially the transportation part. you know, beijing%26#39;s traffic is awful. Tiananmen,Forbidden, and Temple stay near with each other, but Summer Palace lies more than 20 km from downtown. Muianyu stays even further; it will probably take you 2 hours.

Our flight gets in at 3:30, I figure we won%26#39;t do much that day other than wander around and familiarize ourselves with the neighborhood and sample street food. I know Temple of Heaven and Great Wall require significant travel, I%26#39;ll leave the whole day for each of those (will do great wall first, just in case) and if we get back early, can just wander around. How far is the train station from our hotel (hotel is very close to Forbidden City) for overnight train to Xian?

Thanks

Sorry, I meant summer palace, not Temple of Heaven. Is Temple of Heaven close enough to Forbidden City to do in the same day? If we leave a full day for Summer Palace, are there other sites in the area or on the way?

Temple of Heaven is just a short taxi ride away from the Fobidden City. We did them both on the same day Easter weekend but could be a lot of walking.

Another time we would spend more time at ToH as we liked watching all the dancing/singing/music making etc going on but you might have other preferences.

If you get a chance try to squeeze in the Lama Temple. I thought that was one of the most interesting and impressive places we went in Beijing.

PS I love San Antonio, what a great city you live in!

I%26#39;ve just come back from china and had a few days in Beijing.

If you are getting around why not try the metro - The roads can get clogged and even through the metro can be busy at times it does not suffer with gridlock. There is a metro station right next to temple of heaven - I caught this from Ti%26#39;annamen square