Day 1
City: Arrive Shanghai Transportation: Air Meal: No meals
Sights: Shanghai Maglev Train
Culture: Shanghai Maglev Train Ride
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.It will only take you 7 min from Pudong international airport to Longyang subway station.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 2
City: Shanghai Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Shanghai Museum,Yuyuan Garden,Shanghai Bund, Nanjing Road
Culture: Knowing Chinese Silk
After breakfast in the hotel,you will start the tour of this modern city by visiting 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 Chin'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 breakfast at a local restaurant,you will visit
Shanghai Museum-China's best museum with the country's premier collection of relics and artifacts arranged by catergory.After the tour,our guide will transfer you back to the hotel
Day 3
City: Shanghai/Yichang Transportation: Air Meal: B+D
Sights: Xintiandi,Shanghai World Financial Center,Chinese Sturgeon Museum
Culture: Explore Shanghai Xintiandi
After breakfast in the hotel,you will climb the tallest building in China and Aisa-Shanghai World Financial Center.Then you will have the chance to walk around
Xintiandi in Shanghai.
Xintiandi and the City Center contain some of the finest restaurants of the city.
Xintiandi's beautiful restored traditional shikumen (stone gatehouse) dwellings house world class restaurant like T8.After lunch at a local restaurant,our guide will transfer you to the airport for your onward flight to Yichang.
Yichang is situated at the eastern mouth of the gorges,and is the administrative center of nine surrounding counties.Yichang has become popular and rich because of the Gezhou dam and
Three Gorges Dam built near it.Upon arrival at Yichang,our guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the
Chinese Sturgeon Museum to learn some knowledge on this living fossil.Then we will serve you dinner at local restaurant before letting you embark the ship. The ship will leave Yichang at about 21:00.Overnight on board the ship.
Day 4
City: Sandouping Transportation: Cruise Meal: B+L+D
Sights: Three Gorges Dam
Culture: Yangtze River Cruising Activities
After breakfast on the ship,you will visit the
Three Gorges Dam-by far the largest hydro-electric project in the world-in the morning.It is located inside the first of the Three Gorges-Xiling Gorge,about 44 km (27 mi) upstream at Sandouping village.After lunch,the ship will sail through the first gorge-Xiling Gorge.It starts at Xiang Xi and zigzags for 76 km (47 mi) down to Yichang,and is the longest and historically the most dangerous of the Three Gorges. The ship will also sail through the five ship locks of the
Three Gorges Dam.You will also go through one of its three ship locks of the massive 20-meter high Gezhouba Dam.
Day 5
City: Wushan Transportation: Cruise Meal: B+L+D
Sights: Lesser Three Gorges
Culture: Yangtze River Cruising Activities
After breakfast on the ship,you will have the shore excursion for a boat trip up the Daning River through the Lesser Three Gorges,namely Dragon Gate Gorge,Misty Gorge,and Emerald Green Gorge.You will be transferred to a ferry boat,then to a wooden peapod boat to enjoy this breathtaking scenery alongside the Daning river.Your lunch will be served buffet style on the boat.Dinner is family style around the table.
Day 6
City: Fengdu Transportation: Cruise Meal: B+L+D
Sights: Fengdu Ghost City
Culture: Yangtze River Cruising Activities
You will reach Fengdu, on the north bank of the river,was in the past more popularly known as the "City of Ghosts".After breakfast on the ship,you will have the chance to meet Chinese underworld Gods in the temples on the mountain at Fengdu.You will have both lunch and dinner on the ship.
Day 7
City: Chongqing/Xi'an Transportation: Air Meal: B+SD
Sights: General Stillwell Museum, Ancient City Wall of Xian
Culture: Bike Ride on Xi'an City Wall
Chongqing became one of the four municipalities in China only in 1997.It also got its name as the "Mountain City".And it is not just a dump that's only visited as a jumping-off spot for the ride down the Yangtze.Chongqing comes alive at night.Finally Chongqing is rich in early-20th-century Chinese historical sites.Upon your arrival at Chongqing,our guide will meet you at the pier,and transfer you to the General Stillwell Museum for a visit-US general who came to help China during WWII.Then we will transfer you to the airport for your onward flight to Xi'an.
Xi'an served as the ancient Chinese capital for 13 dynasties,and is home to the world famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses.Upon arrival in Xi'an,our guide will meet you at the airport,and transfer you back to the hotel. After check-in at the hotel,refresh up and climb the Ancient City Wall of Xi'an as well as ride the bicycles on the wall.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 8
City: Xi'an Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum,Banpo Museum,Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Culture: Jade Carving Process
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. Then visit the Jade Carving factory to learn why jade is so important to the China and its people.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.After the tour,our guide will transfer you back to the hotel.
Day 9
City: Xi'an/Beijing Transportation: Air Meal: B+D
Sights: Great Mosque,Temple of Heaven,Lama Temple
Culture: Xi'an Muslim Street
After breakfast in the hotel,our guide will take you to downtown Xi'an,you will have the chance to see the old
Bell Tower and
Drum Tower of the Ming Dynasty located in the city center.Then you will walk through the Muslim quarter of Xi'an with 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,our guide will transfer you to the airport for your onward flight to Beijing.
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.Then,visit the
Lama Temple.And visit the Temple of Heaven-Beijing's emblem and places for ancient emperors to pray for good harvest.Transfer back to the hotel after the visit.
Day 10
City: Beijing Transportation: Car Meal: B+L
Sights: Tiananmen Square,Forbidden City,Summer Palace, Hutong Tour
Culture: Hutong Tour with Rickshaw Ride
After breakfast in the hotel,you will start the tour to 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.Lunch will be at local's house.After lunch,be a local Beijinger,ride on the rickshaw to see the Hutong-old Beijing's alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan.Learn the process of making the Pearl.Then,you will visit the
Summer Palace-Royal summer resort for Chinese Empress Dowager CiXi and her family.Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.Dinner is on your own arrangement.
Day 11
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 Chinese 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 12
City: Depart Beijing Transportation: Air Meal: B
Sights: Transfer from hotel to the airport
After breakfast in the hotel,you will be transferred to the airport for your international flight home!
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