11 Days China Tour of Beijing Xian Luoyang Shanghai

Detailed Itinerary

• Day 1. Arrival at Beijing.  
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  Reach Beijing airport or railway station. Your private guide will wait at the exit and escort you to hotel for check in.
  Free for the remainder of the day.
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• Day 2. Beijing: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Olympic Park.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  Take a stroll on the largest downtown square in the world, Tiananmen Square. The square has witnessed the founding of the new China.
  Then visit Forbidden City. This world's largest palace complex was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties(1368-1911).
• Proceed to Summer Palace after lunch. Combining lakes, gardens and ancient structures, Summer Palace is the best-preserved and largest royal garden existing in China.
  Admire the most outstanding architectures in Olympic Park, Bird's Nest and Water Cube. Have an outside view of these two venues.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 3. Beijing: Ming Tombs, Badaling Great Wall.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  Visit Ming Tombs in the morning. With a history of over 600 years, Ming Tombs is the final resting place of 13 emperors of Ming Dynasty(1368-1644).
  Discover the largest and the first built tomb, Changling. It is the tomb of the third Ming Emperor Zhu Di and his wife.
• Head to the famous Badaling Great Wall in the afternoon. Badaling is the best preserved and most popular section of the Great Wall of China. It is close Beijing city and featured with magnificent architectures and breathtaking nature scenery.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 4. Beijing Hutong, Temple of Heaven, flight to Xian.  Arrive in Xian and hotel check-in.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  Visit Beijing Hutongs by rickshaws. Beijing Hutongs are narrow lanes surrounded by traditional courtyard residences. They have a history of over 700 years and represent the traditional culture and way of life of old Beijingers.
  Continue to Temple of Heaven, the largest sacrificial building complex in the world. The temple was the place where emperors came to perform worship to the God of Heaven and pray for good harvests.
• After lunch, drive you to airport to take flight for Xian.
  
  Local guide will pick you up from Xian airport and escort you to check in the hotel.
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• Day 5. Xian: Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Stele Forest Museum, Ancient City Wall, Dumpling Dinner and Tang Dynasty Show.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  Drive about 1 hour to visit Terracotta Warriors and Horses. Be honored as the Eighth Wonder in the World, Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a part of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Qin Shihuang(259-210BC). Over 8,000 life-size warriors, horses and chariots are arranged in battle formations.
• After lunch, proceed to Stele Forest Museum. It is composed of three parts: Confucian Temple, Stele Forest and Stone Sculpture Art Galleries. More than 11,000 cultural relics are housed in the museum including stone inscriptions, epigraphs and Buddhist statues.
  Move on to Ancient City Wall, one of the most important landmarks of Xian. It was built over 600 years ago as an important military defensive system to fortify the city.
• Have delicious Dumpling for dinner. With different tastes, appearances and cooking techniques, dumpling dinner become an unmissable authentic dainty for travelers to Xian.
  Enjoy Tang Dynasty Show after dinner. Tang Dynasty Show presents the essence of music and dance art of the Tang Dynasty over a thousand years ago.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Day 6. Xian: Shaanxi History Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Banpo Musuem.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  First proceed to Shaanxi History Museum. Over 1,700,000 cultural relics are displayed in this comprehensive museum to show the history and culture of Shaanxi province and ancient China.
  Then visit Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Originally built in 652 of Tang Dynasty, the pagoda is functioned to collect Buddhist materials that were taken from India by the hierarch Xuanzang.
• Go on to Banpo Musuem . The museum was built on the site of Banpo Village Ruins. It is the first prehistoric museum in China. Banpo Museum showcases a matriarchal society based on farming and displays the culture and social life of the Neolithic Matriarchal community of Yangshao about 6000 years ago.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 7. Xian flight to Luoyang.  Arrive in Luoyang, Museum of Luoyang Eastern Zhou Royal Horse and Chariot Pits.  
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  Pick you up from hotel and transfer to airport. Take flight to Luoyang.
  
  
• Local guide will meet you at Luoyang airport.
  Visit the Museum of Luoyang Eastern Zhou Royal Horse and Chariot Pits. This is a special museum mainly displays the giant horse and chariot sacrificial pit of Eastern Zhou Period (770-221 B.C). It is the only site to display the emperor’s carriage drawn by six horses in the world.
  Check in the hotel.
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• Day 8. Luoyang: Longmen Grottoes, White Horse Temple.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  Visit Longmen Grottoes. Represented by well-preserved pagodas, carvings and statues, Longmen Grottoes is the largest and most impressive Buddhist cave in China. It was included as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.
• Then drive to White Horse Temple.. As the cradle of Chinese Buddhism, White Horse Temple has a history of over 1,900 years. It consists of Main Temple, Indian Temple, Burmese Temple Thai Temple and Qiyun Pagoda. Many rare Buddhist statues and relics are housed in the temple.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 9. Dengfeng Shaolin Temple, take flight to Shanghai.  Arrive in Shanghai and hotel-check in.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  Drive to Dengfeng to visit Shaolin Temple. Built in 495AD, Shaolin Temple is the famous birthplace of Shaolin Kung Fu. The main buildings include Hall of Heavenly Kings, Pagoda Forest, Dharma Cave and Shaolin Temple Martial Art Training Center.
• Then transfer you to Luoyang Airport for the flight to Shanghai.
  
  Local guide will pick you up from Shanghai airport and escort you to check in the hotel.
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• Day 10. Shanghai: Yu Garden, Jade Buddha Temple, Nanjing Road, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, The Bund.  
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  English speaking guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30am.
  Start your Shanghai trip with Yu Garden. This well-restored Suzhou-style garden is one of the best gardens in southern China. It perfectly combines pavilions, halls, bridges, towers, ponds and rockeries.
  Go on to Jade Buddha Temple, a Buddhist temple with the architecture style of Song Dynasty(960-1279). The temple houses many ancient Buddhist sculptures, rare paintings and Buddhist scriptures.
  Take a stroll on Nanjing Road. Nanjing Road is the most prosperous shopping street in Shanghai and one of the top ten pedestrian streets in China.
• After lunch, proceed to Oriental Pearl TV Tower. This 468-meter-high tower is the most recognizable landmark of Shanghai. It has four major sightseeing observatories at different heights.
  Wander on The Bund. The Bund is a famous waterfront along the Huangpu River. It is famed as "Exhibition of International Buildings" because of 52 various buildings in different architectural styles, such as Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque and the Renaissance.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 11. Departure.  
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  Your private guide will pick you up from hotel and escort you to airport.
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