Beijing Day Trips

Beijing Day Trips is an initiative of Piet Bos. In the Summer of 1998 he came to China working as a tour leader, taking groups of tourists around China in a month at a time.

Even after moving to Beijing at the end of 1999, he stayed somehow active in tour leading and tourism by organizing day- and weekend trips for groups of people living in Beijing to Inner Mongolia, the Summer Palace, the Great Wall, Beidaihe and other places in the proximity of Beijing.

Early 2006, talking with some friends, the idea of Beijing Day Trips came up and without a real plan the URL was bought. A couple of months later the idea formed to start organizing day trips to the snow during the winter of 2006 / 2007.

Because the winter season doesn’t last that long in Beijing, he decided to fill the rest of the year with day trips to sights in Beijing that you normally wouldn’t find so easy (if at all…).
Apart from that Beijing Day Trips also offers some trips to well known sights, but the way we go there is different than your standard touring car experience.

Apart from being fluent in English and Dutch, Piet also speaks German and Mandarin. Other tour leaders of Beijing Day Trips speak at least English and Mandarin.

Creativity, thinking out-of-the-box, service and personal attention are some of Piet’s strong points and we think that with the current program we can make your stay in Beijing a more memorable one!

Please have a look around the Beijing Day Trips website and decide for yourself! One side note is that Beijing Day Trips acts as a facilitator: we facilitate in giving you a unique and exclusive experience in Beijing. Of course we can tell quite a lot of things about the sights we visit during the day trips, but not in the way a tour guide does.