DAY
1
Destinations: Arrive in Shanghai
Today's Activities: Arrive in Shanghai. You will be
warmly welcomed by your local guide at the airport and
then you will check in the hotel. Have a good rest.
Meals: No meal
DAY
2
Destinations: Shanghai
Today's Activities: In the morning, your guide
will meet you at the hotel lobby, you will have a day’s
sightseeing in Shanghai city. Visit the famous Yuyuan
Garden, located on Anren Jie, Shanghai with a name that
means pleasing and satisfying. Despite its small size
of about five acres, it is packed full of exciting attractions.
Proceed to visit Jade Buddha Temple, located in weste
Shanghai, is a very famous Shanghai attraction. Originally,
in 1882, a temple was built to hold two jade Buddha
statues brought from Burma by monk Huigen. Then visit
the Bund, Shanghai's famous riverfront and Shanghai's
fantastic foreign buildings, can be seen from its spot
on the Huangpu River. Then visit Nanjing Road, the main
commercial street of the city,stretching west from the
Bund through the heart of Shanghai.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
3
Destinations: Shanghai
Today's Activities: In the morning, you will
be driven to Shanghai World Expo Zone, then you will
have the sightseeing on yourself. Visit the pavilions
you favor freely. In the afternoon, you will be picked
up and driven back to your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
DAY
4
Destinations: Shanghai-Suzhou
Today's Activities: After breakfast, you will
be driven to Suzhou, have a day tour in Suzhou. You
will visit the Garden of the Master of the Nets, which
is also called Fisherman's Garden, with a 0.6-hectare,
elegant garden where Song Zongyuan, an early Qing-dynasty
official used to live. Then visit the Tiger Hill, another
famoust tourist site in Suzhou.
Proceed to take a cruise on the famous Grand Canal ,
which was a water conservation project in ancient China.
Then appreciate the traditional handicraft at the Silk
Factory. Stay overnight in Suzhou.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
5
Destinations: Suzhou-Hangzhou
Today's Activities: In the morning, you will
be driven to Hangzhou. You will visit the famous West
Lake, where you will enjoy sightseeing and a cruise.
The lake is surrounded by hills on three sides and faces
downtown Hangzhou on the fourth side., where there is
a very romantic ancient love legend. Then you will visit
the Six Harmonious Pagoda, and Lingyin Temple, one of
the most famous Buddhist temples in China. Afterwards,
you will visit the Longjing Tea Village, where you can
have a nice hot cup of the famous Longjing tea.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
6
Destinations: Hangzhou-Huangshan
Today's Activities: In the morning, you will
be driven to Huangshan. Check in the hotel and have
a good rest, to make good preparation for sightseeing
in the following.
Meals: Breakfast
DAY
7
Destinations: Huangshan
Today's Activities: After breakfast, you will
be driven to Mt. Huangshan, where you will hike up to
the top of the mountain. The sightseeing will be very
wonderful during the hiking. Then you can visit the
Xihai Scenic Area, followed by a tour to Bright Summit,
Flying Rock, Whispering-Gallery, and Paiyun Pavilion.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
8
Destinations: Huangshan
Today's Activities: Try to get up early in
the morning to catch the Mt. Huangshan's magnificent
sunrise. After breakfast, you will visit the Shixin
Peak, Colorful Dreams, Lion Peak, Monkey watching the
sea and Cool Pavilion of Yellow Mountain.
Then you will take the cable car at Yuping Station down
to the foot of Huangshan Mountain and visit the Tunxi
Old Street. Then check in the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
9
Destinations: Huangshan
Today's Activities: In the morning, your guide
will pick up you at hotel and accompany you to Yixian
Country for visiting the Xidi and Hongcun villages.
Xidi and Hongcun Ancient Villages were listed as World
Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2000.
Xidi Village is called "the Land of Peach Blossom"
for its beauty and tranquility. It is also called "a
treasure house of ancient resident architecture"
for its well-preserved ancient dwelling houses in Ming
and Qing dynasties" and a famous archway built
for a prefectural governor - the Archway of Hu Wenguang.
Hongcun Village features interesting layout - a water
buffalo shape, then its environmental architectural
idea - a crisscross waterway system. Because of its
nice scenery, Hongcun has always enjoyed the name "a
village in the Chinese painting". It is also the
location for the famous prize film "Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon".
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
10
Destinations: Huangshan-Hefei
Today's Activities: After breakfast, you will
take flight to Hefei. Your local guide will pick you
up from the airport and help you check in the hotel.
You will then visit the Xiaoyaojin Park, and the Pedestrian
Street.
Enjoy a Hui style dinner at night.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Dinner
DAY
11
Destinations: Hefei-Xi'an
Today's Activities: After breakfast, check
out the hotel. You will be driven to the airport for
your flight to Xi’an.
Arrive in Xi’an, you local guide will pick you up from
the airport, and accompany you to visit the world-famous
wonder, the Terra-Cotta Warriors, which is around one
mile from Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum. This site
is especially famous because it was so strange and mysterious
to bury a whole army underground. Then you will visit
the Qin Tombs.
Afterwards, check in the hotel and have a good rest.
Meals: Breakfast
DAY
12
Destinations: Xi'an-Beijing
Today's Activities: In the morning, your guide
will meet you at the hotel lobby, you will visit the
must-see attractions. First you'll visit the Provincial
History Museum, which features artifa dating back over
6,000 years. Proceed to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi'an's
signature landmark and the home of original Buddhist
scriptures brought from India during the Tang Dynasty.
Then you will visit the Ancient City Wall that still
encompasses the center of Xi'an.
Afterwards, you will be driven to the airport for your
flight to Beijing.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
13
Destinations: Beijing
Today's Activities: After breakfast, your local
guide will pick you up at the hotel and accompany you
to Tian'anmen Square, which is the heart of modern China,
the symbol of the People's Republic, and the center
of Beijing's landmarks.
After lunch, proceed to the Forbidden City, home to
24 emperors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties during its
five centuries of use.
Next you will visit the Summer Palace, a monument to
classical Chinese architecture, in terms of both gardens
design and construction. The picturesque landscape of
Longevity Hill, Kunming Lake, numerous palaces, gardens
and other ancient-style architectural structures will
be a pleasure to your eyes.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
14
Destinations: Beijing
Today's Activities: In the morning, your guide
will pick you up from the hotel and accompany you to
the Mutianyu Great Wall, the main section of the Ming
reconstruction of the Great Wall. Mutianyu tourism region
of the Great Wall are mostly covered with luxuriant
vegetation in the long range of mountains which gives
it a great view. Enjoy hiking on the wall for 2-3 hours
or so.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
15
Destinations: Beijing
Today's Activities: You will have an early
morning visit to the Temple of Heaven, where you can
see local people doing taiji (tai chi) and morning exercises.
It was where emperors prayed for good harvests, sought
divine approval and atoned for the perceived sins of
the people.
Afterwards, You will visit Hutong in Beijing by rickshaw
for a glimpse of local life and witness the charm of
old Beijing.
Meals: Breakfast+Chinese Lunch
DAY
16
Destinations: Depart Beijing
Today's Activities: In the morning, you will be driven
to the airport for your departure flight. Your memorable
China tour ends.
Meals: Breakfast
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