Day 1
Somewhere / Shanghai
Transfer via: International flight-On your own arrangement
Arrive at Shanghai. Be met & transferred to your hotel.
Day 2
Shanghai
Visit Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai Museum, Oriental TV Tower, Jade Buddha Temple, Temple to the city Gods, Enjoy Shangcheng Acrobatic Show.
Yuyuan Garden: the most celebrated classical Chinese garden in Shanghai, around which a nice shopping mall for all kinds of light products, specialties and local snacks.
Shanghai Museum: The biggest museum in China, with a collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese art & cultural relics. The museum is especially famous for its treasures of bronzes, ceramics, paintings, and calligraphy.
Oriental TV Tower: Standing by the Huangpu River with 468 meters high, Orental Pearl TV Tower is the highest TV Tower in Asia.
Jade Buddha Temple: It is one of the main touristic highlights in Shanghai and it’s also the most active temple in China. If you’re lucky, you can watch the monks serving ceremony in a side room.
Temple to the city Gods: it is a busy market today, specializing in traditional arts and crafts. Outside, however, it still looks like a temple.
Shangcheng Acrobatic Show: Enjoy the Acrobatic Show in the evening.
Day 3
Shanghai / Suzhou
Drive to Suzhou. Have a cruise on the Grand Canal, then visit the Pan Gate, Lingering Garden, The No.1 Silk Factory, Classical Night View and Show.
Grand Canal: The Grand Canal ranks alongside the Great Wall of China as the country’s greatest engineering achievement and it is the longest man-made waterway in world. Cruising on the Canal, you can see the local peoples’ life.
Pan Gate: Pan Gate is an ancient city gate with land and water entrances. One gate with land and water entrances was quite typical in ancient China. Pan Gate is the only one left.
Lingering Garden: Suzhou is famous for the gardens. Lingering Garden is an elaborate succession of small gardens. Lingering in the garden you would marvel at this unique architecture art.
The No.1 Silk Factory: Suzhou is also famous for its silk production. In the factory you can see how the silk is processed from the silk worm to the final woven cloth.
Stay tonight in Suzhou.
Day 4
Suzhou to Hangzhou
Transfer via: Train T755/T758 (16:33-19:59)
Visit Rickshaw ride, Tongli, Luzhi.
Be transferred to the railway station to catch the train to Hangzhou.
Day 5
Hangzhou
Visit Wuzhen
Day 6
Hangzhou to Wuhan
Transfer via: Flight Pm
Visit West Lake, Six Harmonies Pagoda, Tea Plantation, Lingyin Temple/ Monastery of the Hidden Souls.
You will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Wuhan.
Day 7
Yangtze
Transfer via: Yangtze cruise Serenity (07:00-08:00)
be transferred to the pier and board the ship to Chongqing.
Depart Yichang at 07:00. Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam Site (13:00-16:00). Stay tonight
Day 8
Shore excursion to Shennong stream or Lesser Three Gorges (09:00-13:00). Stay tonight
Day 9
Shore excursion to Fengdu Ghost City or Wanxian new county (07:30-10:30). Stay tonight
Day 10
Yangtze/ Chongqing/Xi’an
Arrives in Chongqing at 08:00.
Chongqing to Xian
Transfer via: Flight Pm
Full day tour to The Great Hall of People, Chongqing Zoo (See Panda), General Stewell Museum & Erling Park with lunch rivate vehicle & guide).
- Great Hall of People: It is a giant traditional building with a large square, where plenty of people do morning and evening exercise everyday.
- Chongqing Zoo: Where you can see Giant pandas, Lesser pandas, Golden hair monkeys, South China Tigers and some other national protected animals.
- General Stewell Museum: General Joseph Warren Stiwell was chief commander of US forces in the China-Burma-India Theatre during World War II., Transfer service.
You will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Xian.
When arriving at Xian, you will be met and transferred to your hotel.
Day 11
Xian
Visit Terror cotta warriors, Bell Tower, Wild Goose Pagoda, Enjoy Evening Show at Tang Yuegong.
Terror cotta warriors: Qin’s terracotta army consists of life-size figures of warriors, depicted in battle dress according to rank and unit, and numerous figures of horses and chariots, and this is only part of what is believed to be his grand tomb.
Bell Tower: The wooden tower, which is the largest and best-preserved of its kind in China, is 36 meters (118 feet) high. It stands on a brick base 35.5 meters (116.4 feet) long and 8.6 meters (28.2 feet) high on each side.
The Wild Goose Pagoda: Big Wild Goose Pagoda was first built in 652 in the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzang, a prominent Buddhist scholar of the time, planned to have a huge stone pagoda built to house the Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures he had brought back from India, but the plan fell through because it was difficult to find the needed stone and the cost was prohibitive. He decided instead to build a mud pagoda reinforced with bricks, but the mud pagoda was not strong and the construction was not done properly.
Evening Show at Tang Yuegong: The Tang Dynasty show: The show that presents the palace dances and sings in the Tang Dynasty when Xian was the capital of ancient China.
Day 12
Xian to Beijing
Transfer via: Flight Pm
Visit Shaanxi historical museum, Xian City Wall, The Grand Mosque.
You will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Beijing.
Shaaxi historical museum: The Shaanxi Historical Museum, a large-scale modern State-class museum, is situated at the western side of the “Wild Goose Pagoda” in Xian City. It covers an area of about 70,000 square meters, the architectural area of which is 55,000 odd square meters. It was completed on June 20, 1991 and open to the public.
Xian City Wall: Xian City Wall is a major landmark, and it’s the best preserved, as well as the oldest and largest of the city defense systems in China. Bikes can be rented to ride along the top of the wall for about RMB20/hour.
The Grand Mosque: With more than 1200 years’ history, the mosque is one of the four grand Islamic mosques in China.
Day 13
Beijing
Full day trip to the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven. The Lahma Palace, Enjoy Martial Arts Performance.
The Tiananmen Square: The largest city square in the world.
The Forbidden City: The largest imperial palace in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties with a history of around 600 years.
The Temple of Heaven: The place where the ancient emperors used to pray for the God’s bless of the whole nation.
the Lahma Palace : Yonghe Lamasery, a Yellow Hat Tibetan lamasary and one of the city’s finest and most celebrated temples.The buildings encompass the Han, Mongol, Manchu and Tibetan architectural styles and the brilliance of the blue, green and gold detail on the sharp red pagodas is simply stunning.
Martial Arts Perfomance : You don’t have to be a martial arts enthusiast to appreciate the incredible feats of strength, with fists, feet, swords, and other weapons. Kungfu expert display their kicks, punches and use of weapons with uncanny speed, power and agility.
Day 14
Beijing
Full day trip to The Ding Tomb and Sacred road & the Mutianyu Great Wall. Enjoy a famous Peking Duck Banquet for dinner.
The Ding Tomb : The only underground tomb of the thirteen tombs of the emperors in the Ming Dynasty.
The Sacred Road : The way guarded on both sides with stone statues by which the ancient emperors went to hold a memorial ceremony for the ancestors.
The Mutianyu Great Wall : One of the seven wonders in the world and the symbol of China.
Roasted Duck at Qianmen Quanjude : In the evening, enjoy the Peking Roasted Duck which is renowned as the most delicious food of Beijing.
Day 15
Beijing
Visit the Hutongs by rickshaw and Xiushui Street.
Hutongs : The old narrow paths where common people lived. All the Hutongs crisscross with each other, dotted with the Kindergarten, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, the Tea House, and the lake, House of Gong Infant and local people’s houses among them.
Xiushui Street : A market near the embassy area where you can find a number of duplicates of clothing in traditional Chinese style such as clothes, caps, gloves. Enjoy bargains with sellers and pleasant surprise of finding a real treasure if you are lucky enough.
Day 16
Beijing/ Somewhere
Transfer via: International flight-On your own arrangement
Free at leisure until to be transferred to the airport for flight to.
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