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Days of Ancient Beijing, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Xi'an, Nanjing |
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day 1 | Arrival / Beijing Transfer
via: International flight-On your own arrangement Arrive at Beijing. Be met
& transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day. |
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2 | Beijing Full day trip to the Tian'anmen
Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven. Enjoy the Peking Opera Show
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 bless
of the whole nation. |
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3 | Beijing Full day trip to the Great
Wall, Ming 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 way guarded on both sides with
stone statues by which the ancient emperors went to hold a memorial ceremony for
the ancestors. |
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4 | beijing/ Zhengzhou Transfer via:
PM Train (about 7hrs) Visit Hutongs by rickshaw. Take afternoon train about
6.5 hrs with soft sleepers to Zhengzhou.Be met & transferred to your hotel
in Zhengzhou. - 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. |
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5 | Zhengzhou Have a tour to The Yellow
River Scenery Area & the Shangcheng Relics.-Yellow River Scenery Area:
Yellow River, the cradle of Chinese culture, in the Yellow River Scenery Area,
you can feel the majesty and immensity of the Chinese mother river. -Shangcheng
Relics: Shang Dynasty is the earliest dynasty with written evidence. The ancient
Shangcheng is the town of Shang Dynasty which enjoyed a high level of Shang Dynasty.
civilization was a series of towns united under the Shang king. Shangcheng is
the capital city of Shang. |
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6 | Zhengzhou / Luoyang Drive to visit
the famous Shaolin Temple & Pagoda Forest.Then be transferred to Luoyang,
one of the seven capital cities in ancient China.-Shaolin Temple: The the cradle
of Chinese Kong Fu. |
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7 | Luoyang / Xi' an Transfer via:
PM Train (about 6hrs) Visit the White Horse Temple & Longmen Grottoes.Take
PM train about 5.5 hrs with soft sleepers to Xi'an. Once you get to Xi'an, be
met & transferred to your hotel in Xi'an. -White Horse Temple: was the
first Buddhist Temple in China. -Longmen Grottoes: More than 100,000 images
and statues of Buddha and his disciples were carved into the cliff walls on the
banks of the Yi River, 16km south of the city in 494 AD. |
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8 | Xi'an Xi'an's rich history comes
alive on a visit to the greatest archaeological finding of the century: the army
of terra cotta warriors and the bronze chariots entombed in vast underground vaults
at emperor Qin's tomb. Other monuments on your tour include Banpo Neolithic Village
Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda and Bell Tower. In the evening, go to visit the
Tang Dynasty Show. |
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9 | Xi'an / Nanjing Transfer via: PM Flight
You are arranged to visit the Provincial Museum, the City Wall. In the afternoon,
be transferred to the airport for the flight to Nanjing.Be met & transferred
to your hotel in Nanjing. |
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10 | Nanjing Full day tours to visit
Dr. Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) Mausoleum, Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing City Wall,
The Zhonghua Gate, Confucius Temple, Qinhuai river, adjacent shopping center &
free market. Enjoy the folk music performance in the evening.-Dr. Sun Yixian
(Sun Yat-sen) Mausoleum: The building was designed to be more impressive than
those of the emperors whom the father of the Chinese republic overthrew. The mausoleum,
158 meters above sea level, has 392 steps and a five-meter-high statue, and is
well worth visiting. -Yangtze River Bridge: Built in 1968, it is the first
bridge over the Yangtze River designed by Chinese architect. The Bridge overcomes
the Yangtze River barrier and carries four traffic lanes with land and rail traffic.
-Nanjing City Wall: The longest ancient city wall in the world. It is 0.7
kilometers longer than Beijing's city wall and 1.7 kilometers longer than the
wall in Paris. -Zhonghua Gate: Zhonghua Gate, means Chinese gate, was the
biggest and most splendid city gate of Nanjing. |
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11 | Nanjing / Beijing Transfer via: AM
flight (nanjing/Beijing) International flight-On your own arrangement. Take
morning flight to Beijing. Take the international flight arranged on your own
to the next destination. Service Ends. |
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