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A guide who works this city daily and orders the stops by traffic and opening hours.
China · Nanjing
Private Guide & Car Hire in Nanjing
Made to order Guide · Escort · Car · Translation · Transfers Chinese · English · Korean
Theme
- Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
- Ming Xiaoling
- Qinhuai River
- Provincial Museum
- Plane Trees
- Salt Duck
Licensed local guideItinerary before paymentNo shopping stops
Ground services in Nanjing
Guide, escort, car, translation, transfers, family and photo — book one or combine them.
- Best months
- March–April, October–November
- Days needed
- 2 days
- Arriving
- Lukou airport 50 min, South Station 30 min
- Typical day
- CNY 750–950 (≈US$104–132) car + guide
Quotes are in CNY; US$ figures are indicative at about CNY 7.2 = US$1 and move with the daily rate. Final price is confirmed by our team before you pay.
Local escort
No rushing, no pushing sales. Point ordering, photos and looking after the kids, half or full day.
Private car & driver
5 to 19 seats, priced per day with fuel and tolls included. The driver knows the coach parks.
Translation
English, Japanese and Korean available; good for business visits and independent travellers.
Airport & rail transfers
Name-board pickup, 60 minutes free waiting when a flight is delayed.
Family & school trips
Museums and ruins explained by age, with breaks and meal time kept in the plan.
Photo session
Half a day of shooting, 20–30 retouched photos, shot along the same route as the sightseeing.
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01What to see
Nanjing: the four places that matter
Ordered the way you should actually visit them, not by fame.
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
392 steps up Purple Mountain; free, but reserve a slot and go before 9:00.
Ming Xiaoling
The tomb of the first Ming emperor’s parents, at the end of a 600-metre spirit way.
City wall & Zhonghua Gate
The longest surviving city wall in China, with a four-layer barbican you can walk through.
Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao)
Qinhuai river scene, rebuilt but lively at night; the imperial examination hall is the real sight.
02Two-day plan
How we would plan your two days
Built around opening times and traffic, not around a list of attractions.
Day 1 · Purple Mountain
Mausoleum at 8:00, Ming Xiaoling, then the Nanjing Museum (free, closed Mondays) in the afternoon.
Day 2 · Wall and river
Zhonghua Gate and the wall walk in the morning, old city lanes for lunch, Fuzimiao and the Qinhuai boat at night.
Local notes
- Purple Mountain sites are spread out; a car saves two hours of walking between them.
- The Nanjing Museum and the Massacre Memorial both need reservations and both are closed Mondays.
- Summer is one of the hottest cities in China — plan indoor stops at midday.
03Where to stay
Pick the area first, the hotel second
The wrong district costs you an hour a day in traffic.
Xinjiekou
Central, metro hub, walk to the wall.
Fuzimiao
Riverside, atmospheric at night, touristy food.
04What to eat
Two things you should not leave without trying
Salted duckNanjing’s signature, ¥40–60 for half a bird.
Duck blood vermicelli soupBreakfast staple, ¥15–20.
05What goes wrong
Three things that catch first-time visitors
- Purple Mountain sites are spread out; a car saves two hours of walking between them.
- The Nanjing Museum and the Massacre Memorial both need reservations and both are closed Mondays.
- Summer is one of the hottest cities in China — plan indoor stops at midday.
06Questions
Nanjing: questions travellers actually ask
How many days for Nanjing?
Two, or three with a day trip to Yangzhou.
Is the mausoleum free?
Yes, but you must reserve online and it closes to new visitors when full.
What food should I try?
Salted duck and duck-blood soup — Nanjing takes duck seriously.
The full guide runs to four pages — in Chinese
Tickets, opening hours, hour-by-hour itineraries and eighteen local questions. Machine translation handles these pages well; send us a screenshot if anything is unclear.
How booking Nanjing works — three steps, itinerary before price
No deposit to get a plan, and nothing is locked in before you agree to it.
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Send the brief
Dates, party size, how you arrive and what you want to see. Tell us the working language you need and whether anyone has trouble with stairs.
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Get a route and a price
We order the stops by location and traffic, then quote per car per day with fuel, tolls and the driver included. Ask for changes as often as you need — it costs nothing.
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Confirm and travel
Only after you accept the route and the price do we assign the car and guide. You get their contact details before pickup, so you are never handed off to a stranger.
Combine it with
Cities usually combined with Nanjing on the same trip.
