Day 1
City: Arrive Beijing Transportation: Air Meal: No meals
Sights: Airport-hotel transfer service
Beijing is the cultural heart of China and the nation's top travel destination.Upon arrival in Beijing,our guide will meet you at the exit of the luggage claim area,and transfer you to the hotel.On the way to the hotel,the guide will give you some information of the city,and recommendation of restaurants and shops near your hotel.The rest of the day is at your leisure.
Day 2
City: Beijing Transportation: Car Meal: B+L+D
Sights: Tiananmen Square,Forbidden City,Temple of Heaven
Culture: Locals' Daily Morning Exercise in Beijing
After breakfast in the hotel,you will take the morning tour to the Temple of Heaven-Beijing's emblem,a place for ancient Chinese emperor pray for a good harvest.Then,walk on the world's largest public square-
Tiananmen Square,visit the
Forbidden City-home to 24 Chinese emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties.Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.Dinner is on your own arrangement
Day 3
City: Beijing Transportation: Car Meal: B+L+SD
Sights: Great Wall,Ming Tombs
Culture: Cloisonne Making Process
After breakfast in the hotel,you will take one hour drive to one of the 13 Ming Tombs-Changling Mausoleum.Stop at Beijing Cloisonne Factory en route,you will learn how this unique articraft is made.Lunch will be at a local restaurant.Afternoon you can explore the
Great Wall on your own-the only construction seen from universe.Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.Special Peking Duck dinner awaits for you tonight.
Day 4
City: Beijing/Xi'an Transportation: Air Meal: B+L
Sights: Hutong tour,Summer Palace
Culture: Hutong Tour with Rickshaw Ride
After breakfast in the hotel,you will take the morning tour to a local Beijinger,ride on the rickshaw to see the Hutong-old Beijing's alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan.Lunch will be at local's house. Then,you will visit the
Summer Palace-Royal summer resort for Chinese Empress Dowager CiXi and her family.Then,you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Xi'an.Xi'an served as the ancient Chinese capital for 13 dynasties,and is home to the world famous Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses.Upon arrival in Xi'an,our guide will meet you at the airport,and transfer you back to the hotel.
Day 5
City: Xi'an Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum,Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Culture: Making Terracotta Figures
After breakfast in the hotel,depart for the full day excursion to visit the
Big Wild Goose Pagoda-a Buddhist Temple where the famous Monk Xuanzang translated his famous scriptures from India.You will have lunch at a local restaurant to try the local noodles.Then visit the
Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum-the pottery figurines that guard the Emperor's after life of the Qin Dynasty.Then visit the Terracotta factory to learn how people make Terracotta Warriors 2000 years before.After the tour,our guide will transfer you back to the hotel.
Day 6
City: Xi'an/Chengdu Transportation: Air Meal: B+L
Sights: Great Mosque,Ancient City Wall of Xi'an,Shaanxi Provincial History Museum
Culture: Bike Ride on Xi'an City Wall
After breakfast in the hotel,you will take the morning tour to the
Great Mosque,residence of 60,000 muslins,visit the
Great Mosque where they pray every day is hidden behind the streets.After lunch at a famous dumpling restaurant,refresh up and climb the City Wall of Xi'an as well as ride the bicycles on the wall.Visit
Shaanxi Provincial History Museum and you will have dinner at the Tang Dynasty-a theater restaurant with the cultural performance included.Then transfer you back to the hotel after the show.
Day 7
City: Chengdu/Leshan/Emei Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Mount Le,Mount Le Giant Buddha
After breakfast in the hotel,our guide will take you to visit Leshan Giant Buddha,the largest stone carved sitting Buddha in the world,a boat trip will be also provided here for you to fully enjoy the Buddha.Then transfer to today's destination,E'mei Mountain.Stay overnight at the foot of the Mount Emei.
Day 8
City: Emei/Chengdu Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Mount Emei,Baoguo Temple,Wannian Temple
Today you will start to visit Mount Emei by cable car,one of the four most famous Buddhist Mountains in China.You will visit Baoguo Temple,Wannian Temple,etc.Then transfer back to Chengdu.
Day 9
City: Chengdu Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Dujiangyan Irrigation,Qingcheng Mountain
Culture: Sichuan Opera with Face Changing
Today you will start to visit the world's first irrigation system. It was built between 306-251BC by the local people under the guidance of Libing and his son.After lunch you are going to visit
Qingcheng Mountain which is the headstream of Chinese Taoism,the initiator of Taoism.There were 40 Taoism temples.You will back to Chengdu around 06:00pm.
Day 10
City: Chengdu/Shanghai Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Center,Shanghai Maglev Train
Culture: Shanghai Maglev Train Ride
Today you will start to visit the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Center.Then transport to the airport for your Shanghai tour.Shanghai is China's future.Located at the mouth of Asia's longest and most important river,Shanghai has its magnificent past and promising future.Upon arrival in Shanghai at Pudong international airport,our guide will meet you and help you to load the luggage on your car. Then the guide will take to experience the world's first commercial "Maglev" train to transfer you back to your hotel.Before the guide take you to the hotel,the orientation city tour will get you familiar with the bustling environment.The rest of the day is at your leisure.
Day 11
City: Shanghai Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Shanghai Museum,Jade Buddha Temple, Xintiandi, Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai Bund,Nanjing Road,Shanghai Silk Factory
Culture: Knowing Chinese Silk
After breakfast in the hotel,you will visit
Shanghai Museum-China's best museum with the country's premier collection of relics and artifacts arranged by catergory.Then you will visit
Jade Buddha Temple after Lunch.You will take your time at the
Xintiandi -a wonderful way to pass this afternoon. Visit the
Yuyuan Garden-a former private residence with the atmosphere of peace and beauty amid the clamor of the city,
Shanghai Bund-China's famous waterfront boulevard flanked with art-deco buildings of the 30s.Free walk along China's first pedestrian shopping street-Nanjing Road. You will have the chance to know China's silk worms with their growing process, and the silk producing procedure. After the tour,our guide will transfer you back to the hotel
Day 12
City: Depart Shanghai Transportation: Car Meal: B
Sights: Shanghai World Financial Center
Culture: Hotel-airport transfer service
After breakfast in the hotel,you will head to the top of China-Shanghai
World Financial Center for a bird's eye view of the city and its surroundings.Then you will be transferred to the airport for your international flight home!