Day 1: Shanghai Arrival
Welcome to China. Upon arrival, our local guide will take you to your downtown hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the city.
Day 2: Shanghai (B+L)
Sightseeing: Shanghai Museum / Oriental Pearl TV Tower / Bund / Nanjing Road
Today you will start the day with a trip to visit the Shanghai Museum, which is a veritable treasure house of ancient Chinese art and houses 120,000 precious relics. Afterward, you will also pay a visit to Oriental Pearl TV Tower. The tower becomes Shanghai’s new landmark and a big magnet for tourists with its unique design composed of balls and columns. In the late afternoon, you will visit the picturesque Bund. Extending for 1.5 km on the shore of the Huangpu River, the Bund is a symbol of China’s prosperous future and Shanghai’s international past. Then you will stroll along the Nanjing Road, which is considered as one of the World’s Seven Great Roads in the 1930s and always mentioned in travel guides as a must see of China tour.
Day 3: Shanghai (B+L)
Sightseeing: Yu Yuan Garden / Jade Buddha Temple / Shanghai Xin Tian Di
In the morning, you visit the Yu Yuan Garden. A former private garden, called work of art, designs with different styles of the traditional Chinese horticulture art. After lunch continue to inspect the Jade Buddha Temple, which is renowned for a 2m-tall Buddha carved from a single piece of white jade, brought to China by a Burmese monk in 1822. Then you will stroll along Shanghai Xin Tian Di, which has become an urban tourist attraction that holds the historical and cultural legacies of the city. In the evening, you will take a flight to Huangshan and transfer to the hotel.
Day 4: Shanghai – Yichang by air (B+L+D)
The morning is at your leisure before you board your flight to Yichang and transfer to the dock to get on the ship.
Day 5: Yangtze River Cruise (B+L+D)
Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam.
Day 6: Yangtze River Cruise (B+L+D)
Shore excursion to Lesser Three Gorges or Shennong Stream.
Day 7: Yangtze River Cruise (B+L+D)
Shore excursion to Fengdu or Shibaozhai or Wan County.
Day 8: Chongqing – Shanghai by air (B+L)
Sightseeing: Ciqikou Ancient Town / Eling Park / Chongqing Zoo
Disembarks at Chongqing at 9 a.m. and have some tours around the city. Firstly, you will take stroll along the Ciqikou Ancient Town, with a history of more than 1700 years. While visiting, you will find the local residents dedicated to their traditional way of life, unaffected by modern influences to be found in the larger towns and cities. After lunch, you will visit Eling Park, which was built in 1909. There you will find numerous special plant species. In addition, there is a newly built tower (Liangjiang Pavilion) providing the view of the entire city. Then you will proceed to visit Chongqing Zoo – the largest zoo in southwest China with over 1000 birds and 170 species of animals, where you can see naive giant panda, lesser pandas and their offspring, golden hair monkeys and South China tigers. In the late afternoon, you take flight to Shanghai and transfer to the downtown hotel.
Day 9: Shanghai – Next Destination
The morning is at your leisure before boarding your flight back home.
