Day 01 Saturday Arrive
at Beijing ( Meals: -/-/- )
Arrive at Beijing, the capital of China. To be met
at the airport then transferred to your hotel. Free
at leisure on your own for the rest of the day.
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Day 02 Sunday Beijing ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing: Badaling
Great Wall / Ming Tombs / Spirit Way
A full day excursion by seat-in coach to the Great
Wall - the landmark of China. Depart from your hotel
after breakfast. Spending about 1.5 hours to be transferred
outside city to the surrounding countryside to visit
the Badaling Great Wall, one of the most remarkable
feats of mankind, built over 2,000 years ago. You
will be able to climb and walk one of the best preserved
section of the ancient wall, admiring the splendid
mountains scenery.
After having lunch at local restaurant, visit the
fabled Ming Tombs, the resting places of thirteen
emperors and their splendid treasures, passing down
the Spirit Way, a road lined with statues of dignitaries,
as well as huge elephants, lions, camels and horses,
you will encounter the marble tombs of the Ming Dynasty
emperors. Visit one of the spectacular tombs.
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Day 03 Monday Beijing ( Meals: B/L/D )
Sightseeing: Tiananmen
Square / Forbidden City / Summer Palace
A full day seat-in coach city tour. Depart from
your hotel in the morning to have city tours to visit
the Tiananmen Square, the symbolical heart of China
and gathering place for the masses. It is the biggest
public square in the world, which can hold one million
people. Having a free walk there, imagining the great
historic events of the 20th century took place there.
You will also see legendary landmarks including the
Great Hall of the People and the towering 125 foot
granite obelisk, Monument to the Peoples Heroes, honoring
those who died in revolution.
Walking across the Golden River Bridge, enter the
Forbidden City, the inner sanctum and palace where
for centuries Chinese emperors ruled their world.
It has 9000-room maze of courtyards, places, and ceremonial
halls, where 24 emperors used to live. Forbidden City
was indeed a forbidden place, where commoners were
kept out for nearly 500 years in the past. Tour the
palace and imagine the mystery, intrigue and incredible
power that reigned here.
After having lunch at the local restaurant, visit
the Summer Palace. Built in 1888, it was once a summer
retreat and thrre imperial for emperors. Have a lakeside
cruise on the lovely Kunming Lake, enjoy the magical
views of the hills, bridges and pagodas that grace
the Palace grounds.
This evening you will be treated to a delicious Beijing
roasted duck dinner.
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Day 04 Tuesday Beijing  Xian ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing: Temple
of Heaven / Ancient City Wall
Depart from the hotel in the morning to visit the
Temple of Heaven, which was built in the 15th century,
a sacred site for ancient Beijing, where the emperor
and his 1000 member entourage would retreat twice
a year for religious ritual. Surrounded by enormous
grounds designed in accordance with fengshshui, the
Temple complex consists of the Celebrated Hall of
Prayer for Good Harvests, a unique wooden and blue-tiled
structure built without a nail. It is considered the
supreme achievement of traditional Chinese architecture.
After lunch, take a two-hour flight to Xi'an, the
great ancient capital and the eastern end of the Silk
Road. Be met at the airport then to visit the Old
City Wall. It is the most complete city wall survived
in China as well as one of the largest ancient military
defensive systems in the world. The wall was built
in the Tang dynasty (618 -907) and enlarged in the
Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
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Day 05 Wednesday Xian ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing:
Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses/ Big Wild Goose Pagoda
This exciting day of sightseeing will include the
Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses at the Tomb of Qin
Shi Huang, the first Qin Emperor, and the Bronze Chariots.
After lunch at a local restaurant, visit the Big Wild
Goose Pagoda which was built in 652 AD. It contains
a large volume of Buddhist scriptures which were obtained
from India by the eminent monk Xuanzang, Remainder
of day is at leisure.
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Day 06 Thursday Xian Chongqing ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing: Shaanxi
Provincial Museum / Victoria Cruises
This morning, visit the Shaanxi Provincial Museum
where you will discover how Xian became the cradle
of Chinese culture. After lunch at a local restaurant,
you will be transferred to the airport for your flight
to Chongqing
Arrive at Chongqing, be met & transferred to embark
your ship Dragon Cruises. The ship departs from
Chongqing at 22:00 in the evening.
Stay tonight: 4-star cruiser
Day 07 Friday Yangtze
Cruises ( Meals: B/L/D )
Sightseeing: Yangtze
cruise arrive at White Emperor City
Arrive at White Emperor City. Disembark to have shore excursion
to visit the White Emperor City.
Stay tonight: 4-star cruiser
Day 08 Saturday Yangtze
Cruises ( Meals: B/L/D )
Sightseeing: Shore
excursion to Daning River or Shennong Stream
Enter the Qutang Gorge. Arrive at Wushan, disembark
to take small boats to have cruise on Daning River
or Shennong Stream which is the tributary of the Yangtze
River. Back to the ship and keep on sailing and passing
through the Wu Gorge.
Stay tonight: 4-star cruiser
Day 09 Sunday Yichang Shanghai ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sail through the beautiful Xiling Gorge in the morning.
Cruise
ends at Yichang at 12:00 in the morning. After lunch,
to be transferred to the airport for your flight to
Shanghai, a cosmopolitan, bustling and heavily populated
city in China. Be met & transferred to your hotel.
Free at leisure for the rest of the day.
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Day 10 Monday Shanghai ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing: Yuyuan
Garden / the Bund / Jade Buddha Temple / Acrobatic
show
Depart from your hotel in the morning to visit the
Bund. Have a stroll along the waterfront to experience
the smells, sights and sounds of the old "Wall
Street" in Shanghai. Banks, trading houses, residences,
hotels and clubs all had a view of bustling Huangpu
River traffic as they shared in the city's rising
and falling fortunes. Then walking along the famous
shopping street-Nanjing Road. It is said that shopping
in Shanghai is the most varied and rewarding in China
Then visit the Yu Garden. This delightfully restored
labyrinth of tiny specialty shops, tea and snack houses
centered around a Ming -dynasty mandarin Suzhou-style
garden is a fascinating spot to people-watch over
a pot of tea, to shop for unique souvenirs and to
get a feel for Old Shanghai. It is well worth a meander
through the Yu Garden, which has many scenic courtyards
decorated with baroque rockery, pools and flora, all
connected by corridors and passageways.
After having lunch at a local restaurant, visit the
Jade Buddha Temple. Built in 1911, it is the most
famous and one of the most active Buddhist temples
in Shanghai. Named for its two bejeweled white jade
Buddha, one is 1000kg, 1.9 meter-high figure carved
from Burmese jade brought to China in 1882, and a
smaller reclining Buddha, the temple receives thousands
of visitors and worshipers daily. Although Chinese
New Year and the Buddha's birthday are the most
popular time to visit the temple for the faithful,
it is possible to witness ceremonies at other times.
Enjoy an acrobatic show for your evening entertainment
after dinner.
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Day 11 Tuesday Shanghai Guilin ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing: Shanghai
Museum
Visit Shanghai Museum in the morning. As a museum
of ancient Chinese art, Shanghai Museum possesses
a collection of 120,000 precious works of art. Its
rich and high-quality collection of ancient Chinese
bronze, ceramics, painting and calligraphy is specially
celebrated in the world. The present Shanghai Museum
has eleven galleries and three special temporary exhibition
halls.
After lunch, fly to Guilin, a city known for its beautiful
landscape, the spectacular pointed mountains, the
winding rivers and the limestone rock formation. Be
met & transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure
for the rest of the day.
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Day12 Wednesday Guilin ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing: One
day Li River Cruise
Depart from your hotel in the morning. Be transferred
to the Zhujiang Pier your Li River Cruise. This cruise
is by far the main reason to visit Guilin. Double-decker
and triple-decker river boats which weigh anchor from
Zhujiang, about 40 minutes from Guilin by bus, and
meander through the sleepy countryside are relaxing
way to enjoy the superlative river scenery and life
along its banks. In contrast to the burgeoning cities
of the north, it is quiet here; the rural scenery
is magnificent. 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.
After about 4.5 hours, the one-thousand-year-old town
- Yangshuo, the disembarking point, comes into sight.
It is well-worth browsing around this quaint town
and its environs. Have a short exploration to the
old town before to be transferred back to Guilin city.
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Day 13 Thursday Guilin Guangzhou ( Meals: B/L/- )
Sightseeing: Reed
Flute Cave / Fubo Hill
A city tour this morning includes descending into
the most extraordinary scenery underground in the
Reed Flute Cave, and climbing up the Fubo Hill for
a panoramic view of the city. After lunch at a local
restaurant, take a one-hour flight to Guangzhou, capital
of Guangdong Province and the southern China's most
dynamic and developed commercial center. City sightseeing
features Six Banyan Tree Temple and then see the city's
free market.
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Day 14 Friday Gaungzhou - Hong Kong ( Meals: B/L/-
)
Sightseeing: Memorial
Hall of Dr. Sun Yat-sen / Ancestral Temple of Chen
Family
This mornin Depart from your hotel to visit the
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, which is the most symbolized
building of Guangzhou, and a key venue for the large-scale
meetings and performances as well. It was built in
1931 in memory of Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of China's
bourgeois democratic revolution. The memorial hall,
occupying an area of 12,000 square meters with a height
of 46 meters, has magnificent exterior and elegant
interior decorations. The whole building, in octagonal
shape, is designed with typical Chinese architecture
style.
Then visit the Ancestral Temple (memorial hall )of
the Chen Family, also known as Guangdong Folk Art
Museum, was built in the 1890s. It is now the largest
and best preserved and decorated ancient architecture
existing in Guangdong province. The decoration combines
wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, clay sculpture,
ash sculpture, brass and iron foundry, grotto, etc.
The special historical, artistic, and scientific aspects
of the temple have made it an important attraction
in Guangzhou. Ancestral Temple of Chen Family. After
lunch, you will be transferred to the wharf for your
onward journey to Hong Kong by jetfoil.
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