Day 01: Arrival in Hong Kong
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 02: Hong Kong (B)
You will spend half day touring around the city, including visits to Victoria Peak, Aberdeen and Repulse Bay. For lunch time, you will be transferred back to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the city.
Day 03: Hong Kong – Guilin (B)
Transfer via: FM flight
The morning is at your leisure before boarding your flight to Guilin. Upon arrival in Guilin, you will be welcome and picked up at the airport and transferred to the downtown hotel.
Day 04: Guilin – Yangshuo – Guilin (B+L)
Get up early in the morning and drive about 40 minutes to Zhujiang pier to take the Li River cruise, which is considered as one of China’s top tourist destinations. It is the river of poems and paintings. The region covers 83-km karst area with clear, exotic, ingenious and changing characteristics. After nearly 4.5 hours’ Li River Cruise, you will arrive at Yangshuo County, a dream place for many tourists who want to see the real natural landscape and touch the countryside life.
After taking a short walk along the famous foreigner street- Western Street, you will drive back to Guilin.
Day 05: Guilin – Chongqing (B+L)
Transfer via: FM flight
After checking out at the hotel, you will begin with a tour of Reed Flute Cave. Inside you will see different shapes of stalactites & stalagmites with huge imagination to name for them and it is known as “A Natural arts gallery”. After lunch, you will also pay a visit to Seven Star Park. The main sights contain Seven Star Cave, Dragon Hiding Cave, Flowers Bridge, the Zoo, Mosque, and Potted Trees. You next stop is Elephant Trunk Hill, which is regarded as the symbol of Guilin landscape. When the night falls, you will take flight to Chongqing and transfer to the ship.
Day 06: Yangtze Crusie (B+L+D)
Shore excursion to Fengdu or Shibaizhai
Day 07: Yangtze Crusie (B+L+D)
Boat excursion to Shennong Stream or cruises through Wu Gorge
Day 08: Yichang – Shanghai (B+L)
Transfer via: FM flight
Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam. Disembarks at Yichang city at around 1 p.m. afterwards, take flight to Shanghai and transfer to the downtown hotel.
Day 09: Shanghai (B+L)
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 visit 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.
Day 10: Shanghai –Beijing (B+L)
Transfer via: FM flight
Today you will start the day with a trip to visit 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. Then 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. Afterwards, 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. In the mid-afternoon, take flight to Beijing and transfer to the hotel.
Day 11: Beijing (B+L+D)
Today you will visit the Tiananmen Square which is considered as the largest square of the world. Subsequently, you visit the Forbidden City, the most complete imperial palace in China. And later you will also pay a visit to the Temple of Heaven. Temple of Heaven was built in the year 1420 and symbolized the meaning that the emperor can contact with the sky through it.
Tonight, enjoy a Peking Duck Dinner in a famous restaurant.
Day 12: Beijing (B+L)
After breakfast, you will visit the Badaling Great Wall where you will experience at first hand the wonder of the Great Wall. For lunch you’ll sample some delicious fare in a local restaurant. Afterwards, take a short drive to visit the Spirit Way and one of Ming Tombs. Spirit Way is an impressive marble archway as well as the entrance to the Ming Tombs equipped with many animals and people statues on the left and on the right of the avenue.
Ming Tombs are the representative royal tombs of the Ming Dynasty tombs. 13 emperors of the Ming dynasty from 1368 to 1644 were buried there.
Day 13: Beijing (B+L)
Starting the day later than usual, you will start the day with a unique Hutong Trishaw tour in the morning. Hutongs are a kind of ancient city alley or lane that is considered an informal symbol of the Beijing city. Afterward, you will also pay a visit to the Lama Temple. It is a typical Tibetan Monastery in Beijing and reveals various architectural styles from Han, Mongolia, Manchuria and Tibet, and the impressive 60-foot Maitreya Buddha, carved form a single sandalwood tree.
Day 14: Leave for home (B)
The morning is at your leisure before boarding your flight back hom
