Description
Highlights of China
Highlights of China
Sightseeing
Hotel
Transfer
11N/12D
- Tour Code: CKS
- Operator: Signature TT
- Duration: 11 Nights/ 12 Days
Optional Dining & Entertainment Highlights
All Optionals include roundtrip transfer from hotel
- Peking Duck Dinner Banquet ($50/person)
- Peking Opera ($45/person)
- Shaolin Kung-Fu Show ($45/person)
- Tang Dynasty Dinner & Show ($85/person)
- Tang Dynasty Show ($45/person)
- Impression of Liusanjie Show Li River ($45/person)
- Acrobatics Show Shanghai Troupe ($50/person)
Itinerary
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Day : 1 Beijing
Welcome to Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic of China. Your Tour Manager will escort you to the hotel to check in. The rest of the day is left free for you to acclimate yourself to the time change.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Intercontinental Beichen Beijing
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Day : 2 Beijing
Your comprehensive Beijing city tour begins at Tiananmen Square, followed by a walking tour of the Forbidden City. The afternoon is spent at the Summer Palace.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Intercontinental Beichen Beijing
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch -
Day : 3 Beijing
Travel outside the city center today to the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China, one of the Eight Wonders of the World. Return to the city to visit the Olympic Park, the location of the national stadium and Water Cube used during the Summer Olympics.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Intercontinental Beichen Beijing
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch -
Day : 4 Beijing - Xian
Spend the morning at the peaceful Temple of Heaven, a complex that is larger than the Forbidden City. After your visit, transfer to the airport for a short flight to Xian, the ancient capital of China. Enjoy lunch before visiting the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, a pagoda made famous by the novel Journey to the West. Check into your hotel to freshen up before enjoying dinner at your hotel.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Shangri-la Golden Flower Xian
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch , Dinner -
Day : 5 Xian
Depart for the countryside of Xian to visit the famed excavation site of the Terra Cotta Warriors. The 7,000 life-size figures of soldiers, horses, chariots, and weapons are
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Shangri-la Golden Flower Xian
arranged in battlefield formation, symbolically guarding the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in his afterlife. Return to the city center in the afternoon, spending time biking along the City Wall. Tonight’s optional entertainment features the wonderful Tang Dynasty Show that includes music and dance in traditional costumes of the Tang Dynasty.
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch -
Day : 6 Xian - Guilin
A morning flight takes you to Guilin, the ‘pearl of China.’ Enjoy lunch before an afternoon city tour visiting Elephant Trunk Hill and the Reed Flute Cave. Enjoy dinner at your hotel this evening.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Sheraton Guilin
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch , Dinner -
Day : 7 Guilin - Yangshuo
Take a leisurely cruise along the Li River, each bend and turn revealing breath taking scenery. A buffet lunch is served on board before disembarking in the small town of Yangshuo. Walk along the famous West Street, lined with cafes, restaurants, hotels, and curio shops. This evening’s optional entertainment features the Impression of Sanjie Liu show, deemed the world’s largest natural theater which utilizes the waters of the Li River as its stage.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Green Lotus Yangshuo
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch -
Day : 8 Yangshuo - Guilin
Enjoy the morning brisk air at Moon Hill, a large slice of rock with a round hole in its center that creates the image of a moon. Located north of Moon Hill is the Big Banyan
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Sheraton Guilin
Tree, towering at 23 feet high and was planted during the Sui Dynasty. Return to Guilin in the afternoon.
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch -
Day : 9 Guilin - Shanghai - Hangzhou
Fly to Shanghai in the morning. Continue to Hangzhou by coach. Your Hangzhou city tour begins at Fei Lai Feng, which loosely translates to ‘peak flown from afar.’ This pure limestone mountain stands apart from the surrounding sandstone mountains, containing many rock carvings alongside the mountain. Located next to Fei Lai Feng is the famed Ling Yin Temple, a center for the study of Buddhism. Hangzhou has long been renowned for its tea culture, the most famous named Longjing or Dragon Well. A visit to the Longjin Tea Plantation gives an informative demonstration on the growing, cultivation, and production of tea. Enjoy dinner at your hotel this evening.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Sofitel Hangzhou
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch , Dinner -
Day : 10 Hangzhou - Suzhou - Shanghai
The morning is spent on a cruise around Westlake, one of the five largest where you will visit begins at the Garden of Master of Nets, a small and quaint Chinese garden. Next visit Hanshan Temple, also called Cold Mountain Temple, is considered one of the most famous temples in Chinese history for its bell rings and Buddhism culture. Return to Shanghai in the evening.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Swissotel Grand Shanghai
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch -
Day : 11 Shanghai
A morning visit to the famous Shanghai waterfront called the ’Bund.’ Along the eastern side of the Huangpu River are colonial style buildings, remnants from Shanghai’s colonization period. Escape the hustle and bustle of the city at Yuyuan Garden located in the center of the Yuyuan Bazaar.
Hotel As Per Itinerary: Swissotel Grand Shanghai
Meals Included: Breakfast , Lunch -
Day : 12 Shanghai Departure
The morning is free for you to do some last minute shopping. Transfer to the airport for your departure flight home or continue your tour with one of our popular optional extensions.
Meals Included: Breakfast