Tripology

Commercial Flight

International flight-on your arrangement.

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. Accommodations: Jiulong Hotel Shanghai.

Museums

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


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.

Sightseeing

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.

Shopping

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

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: Jiulong Hotel Shanghai. Meals: B.

Private Car Service

One full-day tour to Suzhou (100km away from Shanghai), which has been known as the Venice of the East. After your arrival, be met by your local guide. Your tour in Suzhou includes: the attractive Lingering Garden, the ancient Tiger Hill Park and the No.1 Silk Factory.

Sightseeing

Lingering Garden: is one of the four most famous gardens in China and was constructed in 1593 during the Ming Dynasty. It is famous for its artistic way of dealing with the spaces between various kinds of architectural forms and garden courts.

Sightseeing

Tiger Hill Park: a symbol of the city, with a history of over 2,500 years, the Tiger Hill has had the reputation of being the No.1 sight of Suzhou, with a Song-dynasty leaning pagoda on top which was built in brick to imitate wood architecture.

Sightseeing

The No.1 Silk Factory: Suzhou is famous for its silk production. In the factory you can learn more about silk production and detailed steps of the silk making process, and you will have an opportunity to purchase some of the incredibly delicate works as well.

Hotel

Back to Shanghai after the tour in Suzhou. Accommodations: Jiulong Hotel Shanghai. Meals: B

Sightseeing

After breakfast, you will tour the Bund and the Nanjing Road, and then visit the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.

Shopping

Nanjing Road: known as "China's No.1 Shopping Street" with a huge selection of merchandise on sale.

Shopping

The Bund : where the great trading houses and banks had their headquarters in the 1920s and the 1930s. The Bund is about about a mile long, it is the city's fulcrum.

Oriental Pearl TV Tower: It stands opposite to the Bund in the Pudong area of Shanghai. Located on the bank of the Huangpu River, it is 468 meters high which makes it the highest TV tower in Asia and the third highest tower in the world. From the sightseeing floor, you can get a bird's eye view of the exciting city of Shanghai.

Commercial Flight

Before our local guide meet you and escort you to the airport for the evening flight to Guilin.

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 Osmanthus Hotel. Meals: B

Private Car Service

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.

Hotel

Free time in the afternoon after checking in the hotel in Yangshuo. Accommodations: New Century Hotel. Meals: B,L

Bicycling

After breakfast, you will experience an interesting and enjoyable cycling tour to the Moon Hill and the Big Banyan Tree Park by taking the countryside road partly along the picturesque Yulong River. Pay a visit to one of the local farmers' home en route

Sightseeing

Moon Hill: viewed from different places, the moon takes on different shapes, sometimes full moon, sometimes half-moon and sometimes crescent, forming a marvelous spectacle in Yangshuo. Climbing about 800 steps up to the very top, you will have a fantastic view of the whole county.

Sightseeing

Big Banyan Tree: more than 1500 years old, with its crown covering more than half a hectare, it was once the spot where Third Sister Liu, the folk song singer of Zhuang people, sang beautiful melodies according to the legend.

Sightseeing

Yulong River: a tributary of Li River, it is like a green ribbon winding peacefully through the rice fields and small villages. The unique-shaped pinnacles, the bamboo groves, the rice fields and the roaming water buffalos are all combined together to create a charming countryside picture.

Hotel

Accommodations: New Century Hotel. Meals: B

Private Car Service

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

Sightseeing

Fubo Hill: where you can see lots of Buddha statues left about 1000 years ago in the Returned Pearl Cave and have a birds' eye view of the whole city after climbing up to the very top.

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.

Hotel

Upon you arrival at Shanghai, our local guide meet you and escort you to the hotel.

Free in today until our local guide meet you and escort you to the airport for the flight to your sweet home.