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Days of Beijing,Xi'an,Shanghai,Mt.Huangshan,Guilin,Guangzhou |
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day 1 | Arrival / Beijing Transfer
via: International flight to Beijing-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 and the Summer Palace. 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/ Xi'an Transfer via: PM
flight Visit Hutongs by rickshaw. Take afternoon flight to Xi'an.Once upon
you get to Xi'an, be met & transferred to your hotel in Xi'an. - 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. |
day 5 | 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 Ancient City
Wall: An extension of the old Tang Dynasty structure boasting the most complete
city wall that survives through Chinese long history. - 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. |
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6 | Xi'an / Shanghai Transfer via:
PM flight Visit the Provincial Museum, the Ancient City Wall and the Hanyang
Tomb. - The Provincial Museum: One of the main museums in China which holds
numerous unearthed cultural relics of China. - 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. Take afternoon flight to Shanghai Hongqiao airport.
Arrive at Shanghai. Be met & transferred to the hotel with your private guide
& vehicle. Free at leisure for the rest of the day. |
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7 | Shanghai Tour to the Bund, Nanjing
Road, Yu Garden,Yu Market & Jade Buddha Temple. -The Bund: the former
foreign settlement, ranged along with imposing buildings of the colonial period. -Nanjing
Road: the busiest shopping street in Shanghai. -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. -Jade
Buddha Temple: It is one of the main tourist highlights of Shanghai and it's also
the most famous active temples in China. if you're lucky, you can watch the monks
serving a ceremony in a side room. |
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8 | Shanghai / Huangshan Transfer via:
PM flight Tour to Shanghai Museum, Jade carving factory, Oriental Pearl TV
Tower. Lunch will be Tiemuzhen Mongolian BBQ, Oriental Pearl 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. -Jade carving
factory: Where tourists can see the whole process of jade carving. -Oriental
Pearl TV Tower: Standing by the Huangpu River with 468 meters high, Oriental Pearl
TV Tower is the highest TV Tower in Asia. Take evening flight to Huangshan.Be
met & transferred to your hotel in Tunxi. |
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9 | 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. |
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10 | Huangshan Transfer via: PM train
(about 10hrs) Take cable car down from the Mt. Huangshan. Visit Shexian for
the unique Paifang architectures, the Ancient Street (laojie) & visit Ink
Stone Factory. Be transferred to the railway station for the overnight train with
soft sleepers to Suzhou. - Shexian Paifang: Paifang, is an archway usually
made of fine wood or stone,as memorial and decoration. Shexian county is famous
as the "the Town of Paifang" and has thousands of arches scattered around.
It is the best place to explore the social culture in China's feudal society. -
Ancient Street: Located in the center of the Huangshan City, the Ancient Street
was built 700 years ago in the Song dynasty. Its total length is about 1.5 km
and the sides of the street are laid with slab stones. There are hundreds of old
but well preserved shops, evoking a bygone era in buildings that are simple and
elegant. It is a commercial walking street. - Ink Stone Factory: Ink Stone
is the most important part of "Four Treasures of the Study". Because
of its solid texture, ink stone |
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11 | Suzhou / Shanghai Transfer via:
PM train (about 1 hr) Arrive at Suzhou. Be met at the railway station &
have a cruise on the Grand Canal, then visit the Pan Gate, Lingering Garden,The
No.1 Silk Factory.Take evening train to Shanghai. -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 factory you can see how the silk is processed from
the silk worm to the final woven cloth. |
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12 | Shanghai / Guilin Transfer via: AM
flight Take AM flight to Guilin. Upon Arriving at Guilin, be met & transferred
to your hotel with private vehicle & tour guide. Then have private city tours
to the Reed Flute Cave & the Elephant Trunk Hill.-Elephant Trunk Hill:
Located at the conjunction of the Li River & the Peach Blossom River, the
whole hill looks very much like a giant elephant with a long trunk, it is the
symbol of Guilin city. -Reed Flute Cave: Known as "the Palace of Natural
Arts" where you can see beautiful stalactites & stalagmites,learn how
they are formed. |
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13 | 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. |
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14 | Guilin / guangzhou/Departure Transfer
via: AM flight (guilin/Guanghzou) PM train (guangzhou/Hong Kong) Be transferred
to the airport for Guangzhou.Take a half day trip to Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial
Hall, Chen Family Temple,the Temple of Six Banyan Trees. |
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