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D1 Beijing
Arrival. You will meet your Beijing local guide and driver in the airport, and be transferred to your hotel. The rest of today will be free for you to get to used the time difference or explore the city by yourself.
Meals: Not included
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D2 Beijing
Morning visit Tian’anmen Square, which is the capital city centre. Many key events affecting the whole country even the world happened here. Then you will make your way to Forbidden City, where the Emperors used to live and use your imagination when considering the life of one man and his many wives enclosed in the largest quadrangle in the world!Then, we offer you with the Tricycle Hutong tour to experience the daily life of Beijing residents, seeing the children in a kindergarten and climbing on the Bell Tower.
You will have Chinese dumpling lunch with other local dishes cooked by the housewife at a quadrangle. As for dinner, you will have a welcome dinner, the most famous meal in Beijing—Beijing Duck Dinner . At night, you will enjoy the exciting Chinese Acrobatic Show.
Meals: lunch & special dinner
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D3 Beijing
In order to escape the crowds at the Great Wall, a speciality of ours is to arrange for you to visit the Great Wall at Mutianyu which is further away from the city! 2 hours’ driving will take you to this comparatively quiet section.
At this location the Great Wall was built on steep mountains, yet don’t worry, there is a cable car running up the wall directly. If you walk more than half hour on the Wall, you will arrive at the part named “Wild Wall” that haven’t been restored for more than 500 years.
On the way back to the city, you will visit the cloisonné factory,--cloisonné handicrafts were developed in 600 years ago, long to be appreciated by the emperors and now became the most representative national gifts. And you can have a photo stop at the Olympic Stadium--Bird Nest.
Meals: lunch
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D4 Beijing
In the morning you will be driven to the Summer Palace to enjoy the handsome buildings as well as pretty scenery and learn tumultuous history in the largest imperial garden in China!
We understand that maybe you would like a half day free for some special arrangement, so this afternoon is free for you to explore this city. Your tour guide will suggest you some places maybe interesting to you, such as the Silk Market, Wangfujing Shopping Street, 798 Vanward Art Gallery, and etc.
Meals: lunch
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D5 Beijing/Xi’an
Fly to Xi’an. When you arrive at Xi’an Airport, your local guide and driver will meet you there and take you to downtown City.
Xi’an is claimed to be “Museum City”. You will be able to visit the Shannxi Historic Museum, one of the best museums in China, with collections from 1.7 million years ago. Your next stop will be at the symbol of Xi’an, Big Wild Goose Pagoda. It is a well-preserved ancient building and a holy place for Buddhists.
As for the dinner, you will be able to enjoy the Special dumplings dinner --to taste more than10 types of different dumplings. After the dinner, you can enjoy a Tang Dynasty Performance, a veritable Tang dynasty show, reminding you the most prosperous empire 1400 year ago.
Meals: lunch & special dinner
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D6 Xi’an
In the morning you will visit a prehistoric settlement at Banpo, to see the early settlements’ life.
Then you will visit the highlight of Xi’an trip-- the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century. It was listed by UNESCO in 1987 as one of the world cultural heritages.
In the afternoon you will be driven to the Great Mosque, established in AD742 for Muslim traders from Central Asia who settled in Xi’an, which is still an active place of worship in the present. The area surrounding the mosque has a distinct Muslim atmosphere, crowded with shops.
Tonight, if you like, you will enjoy a special treatment—Chinese herbs feet massage(optional, RMB150/p/60min), to relax your sore feet from a whole day walk, and give you a good sleep. Try it! You will be indulged in it!
Meals: lunch
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D7 Xi’an/Shanghai
Today the tour guide will take you to Xi’an City Wall, the best preserved city wall in China. You can take a bird-eye-view of this ancient but still vivid city and touch the old bricks in person. Then you will fly to Shanghai.
After arrival, you will have a half day walking tour to the small alleys to spot refurbished tenement homes with doors framed with large stone (Shi ku men). A few minutes walking will take you to the 1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, a Marxist exhibit of heroic red and gold proportions.
Then you will pass through some teahouses, bars and restaurants, French Park as well as the St. Nicholas Church. Just a few blocks away is the Old Residence of Zhou Enlai, the former premier of China in 1949, and the home of Sun Yat-sen, the hero of China’s 1911 revolution. Both residences are good examples of residential buildings of the period-short and squat Shikumens hidden in twisty alleyways.
Of all the sights evocative of the splendor and decadence of old Shanghai, none is singularly more impressive than the Bund.You will have a cruise tour and enjoy the night view along the Bund.
Meals: lunch & dinner
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D8 Shanghai/Huangshan
In the morning , your local guide and private driver will meet you in the hotel lobby, and take you to the Jade Buddha Temple and Yu Garden.
Outside of the Yu Garden is the Old Town which displays the vibrancy of traditional Shanghai street life. After lunch you will be driven to Shanghai Museum. Telling you the history how this metropolis developed from a pimping village in the last century.
Following is your free time in Nanjing Road, the No. 1 shopping road in China, where you can purchase what you want from cheap jewelry, small handicrafts to expensive cashmere. Tonight, you will take a train to Huangshan. Stay overnight in soft sleeper
Meals: lunch & dinner
Accommodation: on the train
D9 Huangshan
You will arrive to Huangshan at 10:00. Your local guide and private driver will meet you in the train station, and take you to your hotel in Huangshan City, after a simple washing up, your trip will start from the Hongcun Old Village. Reputed as “A Living Ancient Residential Museum” and “The Most Beautiful Village in China”, this village is listed as a world cultural heritage site by UNESCO.
Afternoon you will roam on the Old street in the city, where a lot of old shops selling tea, painting paper and ink, as well as tourist souvenir. You will also visit a Chinese Ink Factory with a history of 250 years to see how the most famous ink made from smoke
Meals: lunch & dinner
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D10 Huangshan/Shanghai
In the morning, 40 min driving will take you to the foot of Mt. Huangshan, where you will be transferred to the mountain through cable car. For the rest of the day, the guide will take you explore the mountain and show you the four wonders of mountain scenery – mysterious rock formations, oddly shaped pines, crystal clear mountain springs and endless seas of clouds.
You will get down to the mountain at late afternoon and be transferred back to the city. After dinner, you will be transferred to the railway station and take a night train to Shanghai.
Meals: lunch & dinner
Accommodation: train
D11 Departure
Meals: not included
Accommodation: not included
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