Day 1

To Shanghai Transfer via: International flight on your own arrangement
Arrive in Shanghai, be met and transferred from hotel with private car by English speaking guide to your hotel.

Day 2
Shanghai
Visit The Bund, Jade Buddha Temple, Temple to the city Gods, Shanghai Museum, Enjoy Shangcheng Acrobatic Show.
- The Bund : This spot in the city is home to a myriad of European-styled buildings that face the Huangpu River. Home to chic restaurants and shopping opportunities, the Bund is a must-see site when visiting Shanghai. Architectural styles include gothic, baroque, Romanesque, and renaissance.
- 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 cermony 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.
- Shanghai Museum : The biggest museum in China, with a collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese art & cultural relics. The museumis especially famous for its treasures of bronzes, ceramics, paintings, and calligraphy.
- Shangcheng Acrobatic Show : Enjoy the Acrobatic Show in the evening.

Day 3
Shanghai To Guilin
Transfer via: Flight TBA on our arrangement.
Visit Oriental TV Tower, Pudong, Nanjing Road before be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Guilin. When arriving at Guilin you will be met and transferred to your hotel.
- Oriental TV Tower : Standing by the Huangpu River with 468 meters high, Orental Pearl TV Tower is the highest TV Tower in Asia.
- Pudong : Situated in the east of the Huangpu River, the southwest of the mouth of the Yangtze River, and adjacent to the urban districts of Shanghai, including the former country of Chuansha and former Sanlin village of Minhang district, Pudong New Area covers 523 square kilometers with a population of more than 1.4 million. It consists of 4 key areas: the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, the Jinqiao Export Processing Zone, the Waigaoqiao Bonded Zone, and the Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park Zone. Pudong New Area has become a new hot spot for investment in China.
- Nanjing Road : Nanjing Road is Shanghai’s main shopping street .

Day 4
Guilin
Full day Organized group city tour of Reed Flute Cave, Fubo Hill Park, Seven Star Park, and Elephant Trunk Hill with Lunch.
- Reed Flute Cave : Known as “the Palace of Natural Arts” where you can see beautiful stalactites & stalagmites, and learn how they are formed.
- Fubo Hill : You can see lots of rock stone carvings & Buddha statues since Tang Dynasty. Have a wonderful bird’s-eye view of Guilin city if you climb to the summit.
- Elephant Trunk Hill : Located at the conjunction of the Li River & the Peach Blosom River, the whole hill looks very much like a giant elephant with a long trunk. It is the symbol of Guilin city.
- Seven Star Park : The biggest park in Guilin, where you can see a giant Panda Meimei, the Camel Hill, Bonsai Garden and more sites if you are energetic enough to climb some hills. , Visit Cormorant Fishing.

Day 5
Guilin
Full day Organized Group tours of Li River cruise to Yangshuo with lunch aboard. You will be picked up at your hotel lobby at fixed time and transferred to the pier to board the ship in the morning, and be transferred from Yangshuo to your hotel in Guilin in the late afternoon.
The Li River cruise goes from Guilin to Yangshuo and is the centerpiece of any trip to the northeastern Guangxi Province. During the about 4.5 hours cruise, you will enjoy the picturesque mountains, peaceful green fields, farms and villages with water buffalos, cows wondering around on both sides of the river bank. Disembark at the one-thousand-year-old town Yangshuo in the afternoon. Explore the ancient town beofore to be transferred back to Guilin.

Day 6
Guilin To Chongqing
Transfer via: Flight TBA on our arrangement
You will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Chongqing after breakfast. On arrival, be met and transferred to visit Chongqing People’s Congress Hall , Goose Neck Park, Panda Room in Chongqing Zoo, Stiwell museum.
- Chongqing People’s Congress Hall : It is a giant traditional building with a large square,where plenty of people do morning and evening exercise everyday.
- Goose Neck Park : Where tourists can take a bird’s eye view of the whole city of Chongqing.
- Panda Room in Chongqing Zoo : Where you can see Giant pandas.
- Stiwell museum : It is a museum to commemorate General Stiwell who was chief commander of US forces in the China-Burma-India Theatre during World War II.

Day 7
Departs Chongqing at 0900. Shore excursion to Fengdu.
- Fengdu is where the devil lives, according to Chinese legend. They say that spirits go to heaven, and evil goes to Fengdu. The town is overlooked by Ming Shan Hill, home of Tianzi, the King of the Dead. The whole place has an eerie feel to it with deserted streets, tower blocks, empty shops and banks. The only people here are those who make a living from visiting cruise boats.

Day 8
Shore excursion to Shennong Stream(1000-1330).
- Shennong Stream is another tributary of the Yangtze River, and its fast-flowing, crystal clear water runs southwards through deep gorges. The stream races past large and small karst caves, flocks of swallows, sheer cliffs, deep gorges, waterfalls, three-colored springs, rapids, the ancient plank path, a suspended coffin in the cliff, groups of ancient tombs and marvelous karst formations.

Day 9
Yangtze To Yichang
Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam site(0800-1000). Arrives in Yichang at 1300 after your lunch onbaord.
- Three Gorges Dam , the largest water conservancy project ever undertaken by man and it has been a dream for several generations of Chinese people. The construction of the dam formally began in 1994. The body of the dam was completed in 2003, and the whole construction will be competed in 2009. It will be 2,335 meters long, 185 meters high, 18 meters wide on the top and 130 meters wide at the bottom. Since Sep 1st, 2005, the first 1000 tourists each day get access to the top of the dam and enjoy different kinds of photo opportunities.

Day 10
Wuhan To Xian
Transfer via: Flight TBA
Visit Hubei Provincial Museum, The Guiyuan Buddist Temple, The Yellow Crane Tower, Donghu.
You will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Xian.
- Hubei Provincial Museum : The museum was built in 1953. In the museum the most precious collection is a complete set of 65 ritual bells of different sizes,which were made in the Chunqiu & Zhanguo dynasties(more than 2200 yeaers ago).Enjoy the amazing ritual bells concert.
- The Guiyuan Buddist Temple : One of the four biggest temples for Buddhist meditation in Hubei as well as an important Buddhist temple in China.
- The Yellow Crane Tower : One of the “Three Famous Towers in the South of Yangtze River”.
Be transferred to Maoping in Yichang and get aboard for Yangtze cruise.
- Donghu : It locates to the east outskirt of Wuchang.Now it is the national grade scenic area and is composed of five lakes forming a natural spot.

Day 11
Xian
SIC Eastern Xi’an tour:Terra Cotta Warriors, Huaqing hot Spring, Banpo Neolithic Village, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Lunch and Guide.
- The Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses : The greatest archaeological findings of the century: the army of terra-cotta warriors and the bronze chariots entombed in vast underground vaults at emperor Qin’s tomb.
- The Wild Goose Pagoda : The pagoda where widely renowned Master Xuanzang (Monk Tripitaka) stored his classics brought from India.
- Huaqing Spring :Located in Lintong county,the Huaqing Hot Springs have once been called Huaqing Palace in the Tang dynasty.
- The Banpo Neolithic Village Museum : Banpo Site is a comparatively integrated commune village site rather typical of the matriarchy in the Yellow River Valley about 6000 years ago.

Day 12
Xian
SIC Xi’an City Tour:History Musuem, Ancient City Wall, Bell Tower, Stone Stele, Lunch and Guide.
- the History Museum : which houses an impressive collection of artifacts from the Silk Road as well as other relics from the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.
- Forest of Stone Steles Museum :With 900 years of history, this treasure house holds a large collection of the earliest stone steles of different periods of the Chinese history.
- The City Wall : an extension of the old Tang Dynasty structure, boasting the most complete city wall that survives through Chinese history.
- The Wild Goose Pagoda : The pagoda where widely renowned Master Xuanzang (Monk Tripitaka) stored his classics brought from India.

Day 13
Xian To Beijing
Transfer via: Flight TBA on our arrangement
You will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Beijing. On arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Enjoy the rest of the day at your leisure.

Day 14
Beijing
One day SIC tour: Go to visit the Great Wall Tour and Ming Tomb.8 hours.Lunch is included.
- Great Wall :One of the seven wonders in the world and the symbol of China.
- The Ming Tomb : They are the best preserved ancient imperial tombs largest in scale, and with most numerous emperors buried there in China.

Day 15
Beijing
Historic Beijing Program A-One day SIC tour: Forbidden City,Tian’anmenSquare, Temple of Heave锛?7 hours.Lunch is included.
- The Tian’anmen 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.

Day 16
Beijing
Historic Beijing Program b-One day SIC tour:Summer Palace, Lama Temple & Panda Garden锛? hours.Lunch is included.
- The Summer Palace : The largest and best-preserved royal garden in China with a history of over 800 years.
- The Lhama Temple : The largest 260-year-old monastery in Beijing of the Yellow sect of Lamaism.
Panda Garden: Where you could know much about panda.

Day 17
Beijing
Half day SIC of Hutong tour(3 hours) without lunch.
- Hutongs : The old narrow paths where common people lived. All the Hutongs crisscross with each other, dotted with the Kindergarten, the Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Tea House, the lake, House of Gong Infante and local people’s houses among them.

Day 18
Beijing To Departure City
Transfer via: International flight on your own arrangement.
You will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight and fly to Departure City.

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