Making a booking within your budget to secure your spot and travelling with professional English tour guide. Learning summer palace stories from your guide. NOTE: Ticket of summer palace is not included,please carry passport and cash(or Alipay) to buy ticket. Meet your English-speaking guide at Metro Line 4 Beigongmen station(North palace gate station) Exit C. Find the guide who is holding a sign with name “Roy Li”. Continue to visit Summer Palace, one of China's largest imperial garden. Summer Palace was originally a royal garden and a temporary dwelling palace for emperors of Qing Dynasty, Its predecessor was the Garden of Clear Ripples (Qingyiyuan) started in 1750 and burned down by the British and French allied troops in 1860.