Reschedule & Cancellation:

Your ticket can be refunded (minus a 4% processing fee charged by the booking platform) or rescheduled for free if cancelled more than 72 hours before the event. Any cancellation within 72 hours of the event cannot be changed or refunded, but you can transfer the ticket to others.

The walk will take place with rain, shine or pollution. But if bad weather really makes the walk impossible we will call you on the day of the tour to let you know it’s been cancelled and reschedule.

What actually is traditional Chinese thinking? How come Confucianism - the state religion of feudal China has gotten a comeback today? And why are Chinese people on the first day of the year still flocking to the Lama Temple to receive blessings? 

At the Confucius temple of Beijing stands a whole forest of stone tablets. Chiseled into these massive pieces of rock are the names of 40,000 people that passed the imperial examinations during the dynasties. The candidates spent years memorizing the Chinese classics - mentally scratching the sayings of the great Chinese philosophers into their minds, before a select few finally got their own names chiseled into solid rock. 

Getting your name applied to one of these stones was not an easy task. It required the utmost physical and mental stamina to sit through the 72-hour long Imperial examinations.  

On the upcoming pop-up walk, we will make it a bit more comfortable for you when we spend three hours exploring traditional Chinese thinking by visiting the fascinating and stunningly beautiful grounds of the Confucius Temple, the Lama Temple and the Imperial Academy in search for answers.