12 days China Landscape Tour


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Detailed Trip Description

China is a land of ferocious contrasts. Shanghai's ambitious skyline is a triumphant statement. If you are after history, indulge yourself in China's imperial monuments, stretching from Beijing and beyond. Seekers of modernity will find their requirements met in Shanghai and Beijing. If you are a nature lover, the amazing landscape and country scenery in Guilin, will never disappoint you. You will enjoy many places including Peking Duck Banquet and Hutong tour by rickshaw in Beijing, Guilin Li River cruise and countryside cycling in Yangshuo and overnight at the summit of Mt. Huangshan.


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Trip Itinerary

Day 1 - Beijing

 
Arrival/Beijing.
Commercial Flight

International flight on your own arrangement.

Hotel

Upon your arrival at Beijing airport, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel.

Beijing Hotel picture

Day 2 - Beijing

 
Visit Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace in Beijing.
Sightseeing

Today you will first visit the historic Tiananmen Square, and then the magnificent Forbidden City. In the afternoon, you will visit The Summer Palace. Enjoy a famous Peking Duck Banquet for dinner.

Tiananmen Square: the largest city square in the world and the spiritual heart of China, where the national flag is raised exactly at sunrise everyday.

Beijing  picture
Sightseeing

Forbidden City: located in the center of Beijing, used to be the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties with a history of around 600 years, it is the grandest integral palace complex still remaining in China.

Beijing Sightseeing picture

Summer Palace : Located on the northwestern outskirts of the city, it was an imperial summer resort of the Qing Dynasty. With its perfect layout, magnificent buildings and enchanting landscape, it is the most splendid classical garden in China.

Peking Duck Dinner: Peking Roast Duck is regarded as one of the most delicious dishes throughout the world. A Peking Duck Dinner is usually a fixed item on any Beijing tour itinerary. At time-honored restaurants such as Quan Ju De, you can savor the mouth-watering traditional Beijing specialty, and at the same time the chefs will show you how they cuts the meat into exactly 108 slices from one duck, each having a piece of skin.

Beijing  picture
Hotel

Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel. Meals: B,L,D


Day 3 - Beijing

 
Full-day excursion in Beijing.
Sightseeing

Today's full-day excursion will take you to the majestic Great Wall(Badaling section), the Ding Tomb of Ming Tombs.

Sightseeing

Sacred Road: the path lined with stone statues of animals, mystical beasts and officials who are supposed to serve the emperor in his afterlife, through which the sitting emperors would go to perform memorial rituals for the ancestors once a year.

Ding Tomb: the burial site of the emperor Wanli, the 13th emperor of the Ming Dynasty who ruled for 48 years until his death in 1620, it is the only underground tomb of the thirteen Imperial Ming tombs ever excavated.

Great Wall: the most famous symbol of China and one of the world's most remarkable architectural wonders, it was built over 2,000 years ago and stretches about 6,700km.

Beijing  picture
Hotel

Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel. Meals: B,L


Day 4 - Guilin

 
Beijing/Guilin

After breakfast, you will visit Hutongs by rickshaw.



Hutongs: the old narrow paths with lots of courtyard homes where common people are living. They are like villages within a megalopolis. Through the hutongs' teeming maze of alleyways, you will see the old houses and learn about the daily life of ordinary Beijing citizens.

Guilin  picture
Commercial Flight

After then take the afternoon flight to Guilin. China domestic flight arranged by us.

Hotel

Upon your arrival at Guilin, the most scenic city in China, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel.The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. Accommodations: Guilin Park Hotel. Meals: B,L

Guilin Hotel picture

Day 5 - Guilin

 
Guilin/Yangshuo
Sightseeing

After breakfast, drive to Zhujiang Pier (about 40-minute drive) to start the boat cruise along the tranquil Li River, the highlight of your sightseeing tour in Guilin, until you get to Yangshuo County.

River or Barge Cruise

Li River Cruise: Along the river, you will be inspired by the breathtaking views of peaks and pinnacles, crystal-clear water and reflections in the water together with the serene pastoral views of rice paddies and water buffaloes.You will certainly feel like you are walking into a traditional Chinese painting by cruising on this wonderful river.

Guilin River or Barge Cruise picture
Bicycling

Enjoy cycling tour along the road in Yangshuo. Yangshuo County: founded in 590 AD, Yangshuo County has been booming because of tourism. With so many beautifully shaped mountains surrounding this county, it is described as "the world of green lotus and jade bamboo shoots".

Hotel

Check in the hotel in Yangshuo. Accommodations: New Century Hotel.

Guilin Hotel picture

Day 6 - Shanghai

 
Yangshuo/Guilin/Shanghai
Private Car Service

Today, drive back to Guilin (1.5-hour drive) and have a city tour of the Elephant Trunk Hill and the Reed Flute Cave.

Sightseeing

Elephant Trunk Hill : the symbol of Guilin, which resembles a giant elephant drinking water from the Li River.

Shanghai Sightseeing picture
Sightseeing

Reed Flute Cave: 5 kilometers away from the city center, famed as "A Natural Palace of Art", in which you can see lots of stalactites & stalagmites illuminated by the lights of different colors. You will also learn how they were formed.

Commercial Flight

Transfer to the airport for your flight to Shanghai. China domestic flight arranged by us.

Hotel

Upon your arrival at Shanghai, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure.

Shanghai Hotel picture

Day 7 - Shanghai

 
Full-day excursion in Shanghai.
Sightseeing

Today, your full-day excursion of incredible Shanghai will include: Shanghai Museum, Yu Garden, Yuyuan Market and the Jade Buddha Temple.

Museums

Shanghai Museum: often ranked as China's best museum, it is the biggest museum in China with a fine collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts.

Shanghai Museums picture
National Parks

Yu Garden: located in the Old Town of Shanghai and laid out in 1559 AD by a powerful Ming official, Yu Garden recreates a beautiful landscape of pagodas, pavilions, rockeries, fountains, ancient trees and precious flowers.

Shanghai National Parks picture
Shopping

Yuyuan Market: outside the Yu Garden, a bustling market with different snacks and trinkets.

Shanghai Shopping picture

Jade Buddha Temple: named after its exquisite milk-white jade Buddha brought from Burma in the 19th century by a Chinese monk, it is a spiritual oasis in the midst of a modern metropolis.

Hotel

Accommodations: Holiday Inn Shanghai -Downtown. Meals: B,L.


Day 8 - Shanghai

 
Explore the Shanghai.
Sightseeing

You will have a free day today to explore this modern city by yourself.

Hotel

Accommodations: Holiday Inn Shanghai -Downtown. Meals: B.


Day 9 - Shanghai

 
Shanghai/Mt. Huang.
Commercial Flight

Free in the day until our local guide escorts you to the airport for your flight to Huangshan. China domestic flight arranged by us.

Hotel

Upon your arrival at city of Huangshan, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. Accommodations: Huangshan Media Hotel. Meals: B

Shanghai Hotel picture

Day 10 - China

 
Visit Mt. Huangshan.
Sightseeing

After breakfast, drive 69 kilometers to Huangshan Scenic Area and take cable car to the top of the mountain. After check-in and lunch, you will tour Begin-to-Believe Peak, Brush Pen Peak and Lion Peak, the Cloud Dispelling Pavilion, etc.

Mountain Climbing

Mt. Huangshan: located in the southern Anhui Province, extending about 40km from north to south and 30km from east to west, the Huangshan Scenic Area is comprised of numerous peaks of various heights and grotesque rocks of different formation, and is well known for its extraordinary aesthetic mountainous features. Here we can find all of the beauties of nature, with its charm lying especially in its oddly-shaped pines, fantastic rocks, sea of clouds and hot springs--the four supreme sights on the mountain. The picturesque Mt.Huangshan has been a famed destination for scholars, poets and the occasional hermits in Chinese history, and has long been effusively described as "awesome," "a wonderland" and "Heaven on Earth."

China Mountain Climbing picture
Hotel

Stay overnight at the summit. Accommodations: Beihai Hotel. Meals: B,L

China Hotel picture

Day 11 - Shanghai

 
Mt. Huang/Shanghai.
Sightseeing

Try to get up early in the morning to catch the magical sunrise at Huangshan. After breakfast, descend first by foot down the western side of the mountain. Along the way you will see Flying Rock, climb over the Brightness Apex--the second highest peak on Huangshan and Turtle Peak, pass the Lotus Peak(climb up it only when you feel energetic and strong enough)--Huangshan's highest peak, on the top of which you will get panoramic views of Huangshan. After all the strenuous exercise, take the cable car down to the foot of Huangshan.

Commercial Flight

Transfer to the airport for the flight to Shanghai. China domestic flight arranged by us.

Hotel

Upon you arrive at Shanghai, our local guide meet you and escort you to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own leisure. Accommodations: Holiday Inn Shanghai -Downtown. Meals: B,L.


Day 12 - Shanghai

 
Fly back home.

Free in the day until our local guide escorts you to the airport for your flight to your sweet home.


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