Departure every Saturday and Wednesday!

Day 1  Meal(s) (L)   Beijing   /   Datong

Transfer via: by train K23 / K3 - by DCT arrangement

Program: Take your train to Datong in the morning, be met at Datong station by your tour guide and have a tour to the Yungang Cave. Be transferred to your hotel in the afternoon.

-Yungang Cave: Begun around AD 460, these grottoes are the earliest Buddhist carvings in China

Day 2  Meal(s) (L)   Datong

Program: Whole day tour to the Nine Dragon Screen, the Shanhua Temple and the Huayan Temple.

-Shanhua Temple: The grandiose, bracketed wooden halls in this forgotten temple date back nearly 900 years to the 12th century.

-Huayan Temple: It is divided into two separate complexes, one of which is an active monastery (the upper temple); the other being a museum (the lower temple)

Day 3  Meal(s) (L)   Datong   /   Wutaishan

Transfer via: by air conditioned private vehicle

Program: Drive to Wutaishan Mountain in your private car; visit the Hanging Monastery and the Wooden Tower on the way.  Stay overnight on the Wutainshan.

-Hanging Monastery: Built precariously into the side of a cliff, the Buddhist Hanging Monastery is made all the more stunning by the long support stilts that extend downward from its base, furthering the appearance that there really isn't a whole lot keeping the structure from one day smashing to bits in the riverbed below

-Mu Ta: The 11th century Wooden Pagoda is one of the planet's oldest wooden buildings. Not a single nail was used in the construction of the nine-storey, 67m-high structure, which has thus fare survived seven major earthquake

Day 4  Meal(s) (L)   Wutaishan    /   Pingyao

Transfer via: by air conditioned private vehicle  

Program: Have a tour on the Mt. Wutaishan covering the Bodhisattva Peak, the Tayuan Temple and the Xiantong Temple, drive to Pingyao in the afternoon. Stay overnight in Pingyao.

-Mt. Wutaishan: It's regarded as one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, the other three being Mt. Emei in Sichuan Province, Putuo in Zhejiang Province, Jiuhua in Anhui Province. The names of those mountains came from five peaks - Central Peak, East Peak, West Peak, West Peak, South Peak, and North Peak.

-Tayuan Temple: One of Wutaishan's most symbolic sights, the Tayuan Temple (Tayuan si) is most famous for housing the Great White Pagoda (Da baita). This bottle shaped pagoda, rising to 50 meters in height, is painted a creamy white all over. The construction is from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD), and from its top hangs a total of 250 bronze bells, that make exotically eerie sounds whenever the wind blows.

-Xiantong Temple: One of the more captivating temples is the enormous Xiantong Temple.

Day 5  Meal(s) (L)   Pingyao

Program: Whole day tour to the Piangyao Ancient Town which covering the Ancient City Walls, the Ming & Qing Street, the Rishengchang Financial House Museum and the Shuanglin Temple.

-Shuanglin Temple: It contains rare Song and Yuan painted statues

-Ancient City Walls: It is the protective wall which can be dated to early Ming Dynasty

-The Mingqing Street: It is the downtown thoroughfare and reserved quite well of the styles in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

-Rishengchang Financial House Museum: It is the first of many draft banks, which operates from the city.

Day 6  Meal(s) (L)   Pingyao   /   Taiyuan   /   Beijing

Transfer via: by air conditioned private vehicle

by overnight train for soft sleeper N202(21：30-07：58+1)

Program: Drive to Taiyuan from Pingyao, have a tour to the Qiao Family Courtyard House on the way; visit the Jinci Temple after arrival.  Be transferred to Taiyuan train station in the evening and catch your overnight train to Beijing.

-The Qiao Family Courtyard House: With 8724 square meter, it is one of the best reserved Qing Dynasty residential architecture in Pinyao.

-Jinci Temple: Dating from AD 1023, this Buddhist temple is at the source of the Jin River and is a good start for those who interested in Shanxi impressive collection of ancient wooden buildings

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