Ten days in Beijing built around a comprehensive medical screening and a spa-led recovery thread.
Mornings open quietly — tai chi inside the Temple of Heaven, a herbal sachet workshop with an intangible-heritage master, deep TCM therapy with a bilingual practitioner. Afternoons settle into anti-aging spa sessions and clean wellness dining. Beijing’s headline landmarks — Summer Palace, Lama Temple, Shichahai hutongs, Beijing Zoo — are paced gently between treatments. The route then trades the city for two restorative day trips: lakeside breathing at the Huanghuacheng Water Great Wall, and a long hot-spring soak at Gubei Water Town with the floodlit Simatai night wall above the canal lanes. The journey closes with a personalised health report, a completion ceremony, and a Chinese-Western farewell banquet.
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 boutique hotel, your guide walks you through the property and the arc of the journey ahead. Over tea, a welcome briefing introduces the 10-day spa and wellness programme — the medical screening flow, the daily restorative sessions, and the major Beijing landmarks scheduled between treatments.
The day closes with a welcome dinner — clean, low-oil cuisine designed to ease you in gently. Before the meal ends, your guide reminds the group that fasting begins at 8 PM tonight in preparation for tomorrow’s health screening. The rest of the evening 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 feed into the report walk-through later in the trip.
A private car takes you to a top-tier hospital for a comprehensive health screening — blood panel, tumour markers, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular checks, 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.
The afternoon shifts to a relaxed visit to Beijing Zoo — home to China’s famous giant pandas, with the original panda house dating to the 1950s. 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. 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 draws the connection between the temple’s design and traditional Chinese health philosophy — how its symmetry, alignment, and proportions reflect the same principles of balance 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*), an intangible-heritage craft studio where you make your own herbal sachet (*xiangbao*) from scratch. You select fabrics, fill them with dried herbs — lavender, mugwort, mint, and others your instructor selects for the season — and stitch the sachet shut. The instructor explains the wellness properties of each herb and the centuries-old tradition of carrying sachets for relaxation, sleep, 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 spa-led restoration.
The morning is given to a deep TCM therapy session with a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner. The treatment includes meridian massage (*jingluo tuina*) and acupoint therapy, tailored to your health screening notes from Day 2. The practitioner explains the principles behind each technique in a bilingual session, then teaches simple self-care techniques — pressure points and stretches you can practise at home for everyday recovery.
Lunch is a clean, post-therapy meal — light and nourishing, designed to support the body 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. A wellness instructor adds dietary and lifestyle advice geared to long-term recovery.
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), the Tower of Buddhist Incense, and the Cloud-Dispelling Hall. Your guide chooses a route that avoids the worst of the crowds, with quieter side paths between the headline pavilions.
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 evening’s highlight: a Peking Opera performance — selected classic scenes with English subtitles from VIP seats.
Dinner is an opera-themed banquet — Beijing flavours plated in dishes that echo the opera tradition, using organic ingredients and clean cooking techniques. 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, the guide draws the connection between Buddhist practice and traditional Chinese wellness — meditation, breath, and mind-body balance as living traditions, not just doctrine.
Lunch nearby is a vegetarian temple-style meal — clean and organic, chosen to match the contemplative atmosphere.
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 wellness tea session — your guide explains the properties of each herbal 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 short 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 wellness instructor leads a lakeside 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 — Great Wall foothills cooking with the kind of rough-cut, flavour-forward dishes Beijing restaurants rarely serve.
The afternoon brings a slower rhythm: a herbal tea break at a quiet spot near the reservoir, with the instructor sharing simple recovery techniques — pacing, posture, and breath patterns you can carry into everyday life. There’s time to sit with the water and the air before the drive back to Beijing.
Dinner is at the hotel, with a free evening to rest.
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*) where you learn the knotting and dyeing technique and keep your finished fabric — 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 long hot spring soak at the water-town hotel. 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 water-town dinner rounds out the evening before you check in to the hot-spring hotel inside Gubei Water Town — the quietest night of the trip.
Breakfast at the water-town hotel, then the car returns you to central Beijing for the final full day.
The morning explores one of the city’s quieter creative neighbourhoods — Wudaoying Hutong (*Wudaoying*) 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. Your guide points out the architectural details of the courtyard doorways and helps you photograph the textures that make hutong life visually distinctive.
Lunch is a relaxed midday meal nearby.
The afternoon is the journey’s bookend: a doctor walks you through your personalised health report — explaining each result from the Day 2 screening, answering questions, and offering targeted lifestyle and dietary recommendations. Your bilingual guide translates throughout so nothing is lost.
Afterward, a short completion ceremony: a wellness-programme certificate, a herbal wellness gift box (dried herbs and traditional crafts), a Beijing cultural craft set, and a group portrait session with individual photos.
The evening closes with a Chinese-Western fusion farewell banquet — a warm, multi-course dinner blending Beijing flavours with Western plating. The car returns you to your city hotel for the last night.
A final breakfast at the city 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.
