12
Days of Well Tour Beijing, Xi'an, Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai | |
day 1 | Arrival / Beijing Transfer
via: International flight-On your own arrangement Arrive at Beijing. Be met &
transferred to your hotel. | day
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. | day
3 | Beijing Full day trip to the Great
Wall and 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. | day
4 | 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
5 | beijing/ Xi'an Transfer via: AM
flight Free at leisure until to be transferred to the airport for flight to
Xi'an .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 Wall: An extension of the old Tang Dynasty structure
boasting the most complete city wall that survives through Chinese long history. | day
6 | 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. -
The Tang Dynasty show: The show that presents the palace dances and sings in the
Tang Dynasty when Xian was the capital. | day
7 | Xi'an / Nanjing Transfer via: AM
flight Take morning flight to Nanjing, Arrive at Nanjing, be met & transferred
to the the city with your private guide & vehicle. half day city tours to
Nanjing City Wall, The Zhonghua Gate, Confucius Temple, Qinhuai river, adjacent
shopping center, & free market. -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 city
wall in the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644). -Confucian Temple: It is for consecrating
and worshipping Confucius, the great thinker and educator of ancient China. -Qinhuai
River: it is the branch of the Yangtze River. The inner river of the river used
to be the most flourishing place of Nanjing since it was the red-light district
famous throughout the nation. Painted boats shuttled to and fro and music sounded
all night. Many love affairs and romances spread from here. | day
8 | Nanjing / Suzhou Transfer via: PM
train (about 2 hrs) Full day tours to visit Dr. Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) Mausoleum,
Yangtze River Bridge. Take the afternoon train to Suzhou. Arrive at Suzhou, be
met & transferred to the hotel with your private guide & vehicle.-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. | day
9 | Suzhou Take a 30 minutes 3 Rickshaw
ride to see the local people's life, then cruise on the Grand Canal, visit Pan
Gate,Lingering Garden,& the No.1 Silk Factory. Enjoy the Garden Show in the
evening.-Rickshaw ride: Sitting on the rickshaw through the old town of Suzhou,
you will see the small Hutongs,the open markets and the local people's life. -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 people's 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 its 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 | day
10 | Suzhou / Shanghai Transfer via:
PM train (about 1.5 hrs) Visit Hanshan Temple,& Humble Ministrator's Garden.
Take afternoon train to Shanghai,Arrive at Shanghai. Be met & have city tours
to the Bund, Nanjing Road. -Hanshan Temple: It used to be one of ten most
famous temples in China where there are a lot of cultural relics. -Humble
Ministrator's Garden: The garden is most representative of Chinese classical gardens
in the Ming dynasty. Focused on a central pond with pavilions, terraces, chambers,
and towers located nearby, the garden is divided into three parts: the eastern,
middle and western parts. -The Bund: the former foreign settlement, ranged
along with imposing buildings of the colonial period. Nanjing Road: the busiest
shopping street in Shanghai. | day
11 | Shanghai Visit Shanghai Museum,
Yu Garden, Yuyuan Market, Children's Palace & Oriental Pear TV Tower. -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. Evening Shangcheng
Acrobatic Show. -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.
In front of the garden, there is a market called Yu Market. -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. -Oriental Pearl TV Tower: Standing by the
Huangpu River with 468 meters high, Oriental Pearl TV. | day
12 | Shanghai / Somewhere Transfer via:
International flight-On your own arrangement Free at leisure until to be transferred
to the airport for the flight to your next destination. Service Ends. | | | |
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