Day 1
Ariival / Hongkong
Transfer via: By your arrangement
Be met and trasfered to your hotel from airport.
Day 2
Hongkong
Leisure by yourself.
Day 3
Hongkong / Guilin
Transfer via: PM filght
Leisuire by yourself until be transferred to airport for your flight to Guilin. Arrive at Guilin, be met and transferred to your hotel in Guilin.
Day 4
Guilin
Full day Li River Cruise to Yangshuo with lunch aboard and return to Guilin late in the afternoon.
- Li River Cruise : Depart from your hotel in the morning. Be transferred to the Zhujiang Pier(about 1 hour drive)for a 4.5 hours wonderful 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. Have a short exploration to the old town before to be transferred back to Guilin city.
Day 5
Guilin / Shanghai
Transfer via: AM filght
Half a day city tours to Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill & Reed Flute Cave. To be transferred to the airport in the afternoon. Arrive at Shanghai. Be met & transferred to your hotel.
- Elephant Trunk Hil l: Located at the conjunction of the Li River & the Peach Blossom River, the whole hill looks very muh like a giant elephant with a long trunk, it is the symbol of Guilin city.
- 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.
- Reed Flute Cave : Known as “the Palace of Natural Arts” where you can see beautiful stalactites & stalagmites,learn how they are formed.
Day 6
Shanghai
Have a short Huangpu River Cruise, visit Pudong area, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Nanjing Road & the Childern’s Palace.
- Pudong area :It is a newly developed modernized area stands for Shanghai’s future.
- Huangpu River: Boating along the Huangpu River, visitors could take a glimpse at the old Shanghai & new Shanghai. Eenjoy a sight of rows of magnificent buildings on the banks and ships of different sizes briskly plying the Huangpu River.
- Nanjing Road : Shanghai’s busiest shopping street.
- Oriental Pearl TV Towe r: Standing by the Huangpu River with 468 meters high, Oriental Pearl TV Tower is the highest TV Tower in Asia.
- Shanghai Children’s Palace : The Shanghai Children’s Palace provides after school education for gifted children. Children participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities such as music, dance, art, model making, science, technology and computer science. The palace hosts many art performances and science and technology contests which attracts thousands of youngsters.
Day 7
Shanghai / Huangshan
Transfer via: PM filght
Visit Yu Garden, Yu Market before take the flight for your flight to Huangshan. Arrive at Huangshan, be met and transferrd to your hotel.
- Yu Garden : It is characteristic of the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty and it used to be a private garden with 400 years’ history. Infront of the garden, there is a market called Yu Market.
Day 8
Huangshan
Take cable car to the top of Mt. Huangshan,tour to Jade valley and other peaks; Stay overnight on top of the mountain.
- Mt. Huangshan : known as “the loveliest mountain in China”, famous for its magnificent scenery made up of many granite peaks and rocks emerging out of clouds.
Day 9
Huangshan / Shanghai
Transfer via: PM filght
Take cable car down from the mountain. Then visit Hong Cun Village. Be transferred to the airport for the flight to Shanghai.
- Hong Cun Village : An ancient town over 800 years old leaning against Mt. Huangshan, it is folded in the fog of the Mt. which makes it look like a river and mountain picts. It enjoys the reputation of “The Chinese town in the pictures”. Especially, the whole town distributes like a “cow”, which made it one of the wonders in the world culture heritage. The famous film”Crouching Tiger” was made here.
Day 10
Shanghai / Yichang
Transfer via: PM filght
Be trasfered to airport for your flight to Yichang. Arrive at Yichang , be met and transferred to your pre-boarding ship.
Day 11
Yichang To Yangtze
Transfer via: Yangtze cruise Galaxy 1 (08:00)
Departs Yichang at 08:00. Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam Site(08:00-10:30).
Day 12
Shore excursion to Shennong stream(07:30-11:30).
Day 13
Shore excursion to Shibaozhai(09:00-11:30).
Day 14
Chongqing / Xian
Transfer via: AM filght
Arrives in Chongqing at 0800, be met and transferred for your flight to Xian. Arrive at Xian. Be met & transferred to your hotel. Have city tours to the Provincial Museum and the Ancient City Wall.
- The Provincial Museum : One of the main museums in China which holds numerous unearthed cultural relics of China.
- The Ancient City Wal l: An extension of the old Tang Dynasty structure boasting the most complete city wall that survives through Chinese long history.
Day 15
Xi’an
Visit the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, the Bell Tower and the Wild Goose Pagoda. Enjoy the Tang Dynasty show in the evening.
- 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 Bell Tower : The emblem of Xian city.
- The Wild Goose Pagoda : The pagoda where widely renowned Master Xuanzang (Monk Tripitaka) stored his classics brought from India.
- T he Tang Dynasty show : The show that presents the palace dances and sings in the Tang Dynasty when Xian was the capital.
Day 16
Xi’an / Beijing
Transfer via: PM flight
Visit the Hanyang Tomb. Be transferred for your flight to Beijing. Arrive at Beijing, be met and traNsferred to your hotel.
- The Hanyang Tomb : The Jing Emperor’s tomb in Han Dynasty which was opened in 2001 and is famous for its rich collections of different kinds of tombs.
Day 17
Beijing
Full day trip to the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven. Enjoy Enjoy Martial Arts Perfomance in the evening.
- 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 blessing on the whole nation.
- 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 18
Beijing
Full day trip to the Great Wall, Ding Tomb and Sacred road. Enjoy a famous Peking Duck Banquet for dinner.
- The Great Wall : One of the seven wonders in the world and the symbol of China.
- The Ding Tomb : The only underground tomb of the thirteen tombs of the emperors in the Ming Dynasty.
- The Sacred Road : The road guarded on both sides with stone statues by which the ancient emperors went to hold a memorial ceremony for the ancestors.
- Roasted Duck at Qianmen Quanjude : In the evening, enjoy the Peking Roasted Duck which is renowned as the most delicious food of Beijing.
Day 19
Beijing
Visit the Hutongs by rickshaw and Xiushui Street,The Summer Palace.
- 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 Infante 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.
- The Summer Palace : The Summer Palace in Beijing is an outstanding expression of the creative art of Chinese landscape garden design, incorporating the works of humankind and nature in a harmonious whole.
Day 20
Beijing
Transfer via: By your arrangement
Be transferred for your flight to next destination.
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