China Tour of Hong Kong Beijing Xian Shanghai

Entry Hong Kong

Day 1.

Arrive at Hong Kong airport.
Hong Kong guide and driver meet you at the airport, transfer to your hotel, remainder of the day is on your own.

Half-day Hong Kong tour

Day 2.

Pick you up from your hotel, have a half -day island tour: Victoria Peak, Aberdeen Fishing, Stanley Market.

Afternoon is for your free shopping.

Breakfast

Half-day Hong Kong tour

Day 3.

Pick you up from your hotel, half –day Kowloon tour. 
Afternoon is free.
Then have an evening cruise tour. 

Breakfast

Hong Kong-Beijing

Day 4.

Be transferred to Hong Kong Airport to connect the flight to Beijing. 

Be met and regarded by Beijing private guide and driver at the airport, transfer to the hotel for check-in, remainder of the day is at leisure.

Breakfast

Beijing: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Tea ceremony, Olympic Park

Day 5.

English speaking tour guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30 am.

Visit Tiananmen Square - The biggest downtown Square of the world. Take a stroll in the square.

From the north end of Tiananmen Square, we will enter the Forbidden City -also called Palace Museum, is located at the center of Beijing. It was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Rectangular in shape, Forbidden City is the world's largest palace complex. Visit Forbidden City along the central axis from south to north for 1.5 to 2 hours.

Take a Chinese Herbal Medicine class for about 40 minutes before lunch.
Drugs that the Chinese medicine uses are usually plants, so it usually called Chinese herbal medicine.
In Chinese people's process of fighting with the disease for thousands of years, rich medical knowledge was gradually accumulated through the practice and understanding.
These medical knowledge be passed by apprentice dictation first, and then were written down in books, which helped the medical knowledge spread fast and farther.

After lunch in a local restaurant, we will drive 30 minutes to Summer Palace - 20 kilometers northwest of downtown Beijing. Summer Palace is the largest imperial garden of Ming and Qing dynasty. The whole Summer Palace covers an area of over 290 hectares including more than 3,000 buildings, such as halls, pavilions, towers, etc. Take sightseeing in this beautiful garden for one hour and twenty minutes.

Taste Chinese tea, enjoy Chinese tea ceremony and have a rest in a local tea house.
China is the hometown and birthplace of Chinese tea.
Being the national drinks of China, tea have a history of four to five thousand years.
Tea culture is one of the specific representative of Chinese culture.

Proceed to visit the Olympic Park. As the major venue of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Olympic Park contains three areas including the Forest Park in the north, major venue and supporting facilities area in the center and the completed stadiums and the reserved area. The completed stadiums contains the National Stadium (Bird's Nest), National Swimming Center (Water Cube) and the National Indoor Stadium (Folding Fans). Take an outside view of the venues.

We will transfer you back to hotel after the whole day tour.

Breakfast, Lunch

Beijing: Ming Tombs, Lunch, Badaling Great Wall

Day 6.

Be picked up from hotel at 08:30 am.

Drive 1.5 hours to the Ming Tombs. Ming Tombs is the final resting place of 13 Ming Dynasty emperors, along with 23 empresses and a number of concubines. It has a history of over 600 years. Surrounded by mountains on three sides,

the Ming Tombs features splendid landscape.
Chang Ling (the Tomb of Chang) was built by the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in 1409 AD. Chang Ling is the largest tomb in architectural scale. The hall of Chang Ling is the largest structure of nanmu wood in China.
Visit Changling for 1 hour.

On the way to restaurant, we will visit a large scale jadeware processing factory. Jade culture is one important part of Chinese culture. We hope foreign travelers can get a glimpse of Chinese Jade culture during this stop. Thousands of pieces of jade, jewelry and handicraft articles are exhibited, from small bracelet to huge carving. An open workshop is available to demonstrate Jade carving, which enable customers to get some knowledge of Chinese jade carving processes. Visit time is around 40 minutes.

Move on to the famous Badaling Great Wall. The Great Wall was built and maintained between the 7th century BC and 17th century BC. It was originally built to protect the empire from northern invaders. The Great Wall stretches through the countryside over deserts, hills and plains for 8,851.8 kilometers.
Badaling was built in 1505 during the Ming Dynasty. This section of the Great Wall is the best preserved and most visited one. It is 7600 meters long and 1000 meters above sea level,commanding a strategic position in ancient times.
Take sightseeing on Badaling Great Wall for about 2 hours.

Be transferred back to your hotel after the whole day tour.

Breakfast, Lunch

Beijing Hutong, Temple of Heaven, Lunch, Beijing-Xian

Day 7.

Be picked up from hotel at 08:30 am.

Visit Beijing Hutong. Hutongs are lanes or alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan (a compound with houses around a courtyard). Most of them were built during the Yuan (1206-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1908) dynasties surrounding the Forbidden City. Many famous operas and dramas are based on the themes of hutong life. Man-power rickshaw is arranged for you to feel the Hutong of Beijing.

Proceed to visit Temple of Heaven. Built in 1420 during Ming Dynasty, Temple of Heaven is the best preserved and largest sacrificial building complex in the world. The emperor came to the temple every winter to pray for ample harvests and good weather. Strictly built on the basis of philosophical requirements, the temple in many ways features the relationship between Heaven and Earth.
Visit Temple of Heaven for 1 hour.

Visit a pearl market. China is the most important country to produced fresh water pearl.
Chinese pearl is famous for its good quality, multi-shape, multi-color, as well as the low price.
You may find various kind of necklace, bracelet, earring as well as other pearl products.
If you are lucky, you can see a show of opening a shell to get out fresh water pearl. Visit time is around 40 minutes.

Be transferred to airport to connect flight to Xian.

Arrive in Xian. Be met and transferred to your hotel.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Terracotta, Huaqing Hot Spring, Forest of Stone Steles Museum, Tang Dynasty Show

Day 8.

Be picked up from your hotel at 08:30 am.

Visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses -the Eighth Wonder of the World. More than 6,000 different looking pottery figures depict the history of the Qin Dynasty from 221 BC-206 BC.

Then visit the Forest of Stone Steles Museum -a classical courtyard styled structure with the oldest and richest collection of steles in China.

Proceed to visit the City Wall - the best preserved, oldest and largest ancient city defense system in China. The wall has a history of over 600 years.

Taste local Dumpling Banquet -traditional food for Chinese New Year. It is a must taste food in China.

Enjoy Tang Dynasty Show -performance of Chang'an music and dances that was originated in the Tang dynasty over a thousand years ago. The musicians present the music with the Tang-dynasty-style musical instruments. You will enjoy a national art that reflects the glory and richness of the Tang Dynasty era.

Be transferred back to your hotel.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Provincial Museum, Great Mosque, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xian-Shanghai

Day 9.

Be picked up from your hotel at 08:30 am.

Visit the Provincial History Museum -a magnificent architectural complex in the Tang Dynasty style. It is the first huge state museum with modern facilities in China.

Visit the Great Mosque -the largest and best preserved mosques of China, which serves as an important spot for religious activities of over 60,000 Muslims in Xi'an.

Then we will visit the 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. Now it is Landmark of the Xian.

Be transferred to airport to connect flight to Shanghai.
Arrive in Shanghai. Be met and transferred to your hotel.

Breakfast, Lunch

Yu Garden, Nanjing Road, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, the Bund, Huangpu River Cruise

Day 10.

Be picked up from your hotel at 08:30 am.

Visit Yu Garden -one of the best Suzhou-style gardens in southern China.

Then we will visit Nanjing Road. Nanjing Road is one of the most famous and bustling business streets in the world. It is also called Chinese First Business Street. It is the window for Shanghai to open to the world and also shopping paradise for people at home and abroad.


After lunch, move on to Oriental Pearl TV Tower -the world's third tallest TV and radio tower, which combines ancient concepts with 21st Century technology.

Then visit the Bund. The Bund, also called Zhongshan Road, is a famous waterfront and regarded as the symbol of Shanghai for hundreds of years. The most famous and attractive sights are the 52 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance, which are also located at the west side of the Bund. The Bund was the centre of Shanghai's politics, economy and culture hundreds of years ago, consulates of most countries. Many banks, businesses and newspaper offices were settled there, and that's why we have these art-like buildings
Have a short Cruise on Huangpu River.

Enjoy Acrobatic Show in the evening.

Be transferred back to the hotel after the performance.

Breakfast, Lunch

Suzhou

Day 11.

Be picked up from your hotel at 08:30 am and drive to Suzhou.

Visit Garden of the Master of the Nets. Garden of the Master of the Nets is the smallest garden in Suzhou, covering a space of only 5000 sq meters. The small space is its greatest charm as it encompasses all the elements of a classic Chinese garden within close boundaries.

Proceed to visit Humble Administrator's Garden. Humble Administrator's Garden is the largest of all classical gardens in Suzhou. The garden is representative of Chinese classical gardens in the Ming Dynasty, which are focused on a central pond with pavilions, terraces, chambers, and towers located nearby.

Then visit Grand Canal. The Grand Canal, 1,764 km (about 1200 miles) in length, is the longest man-made waterway as well as being the greatest in ancient China, far surpassing the next two grand canals of the world: the Suez and Panama Canals. Running from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in the south to Beijing in the north of China, Grand Canal connects different river systems in China.

Be transferred back to Shanghai.

Breakfast, Lunch

Hangzhou

Day 12.

Pick up from your hotel at 08:00 am.
Drive to Hangzhou.

Take one-day tour of this city including Ling Yin Temple -one of the ten most famous Buddhist temples of China.

Cruise on West Lake, visit the Six Harmonies Pagoda -a masterpiece of ancient Chinese architecture.

Transfer back to your hotel in Shanghai after the whole day tour.

Breakfast, Lunch

Departure

Day 13.

Be picked up from your hotel, transferred to the airport for Departure.

Breakfast