China Tour of Hong Kong Shanghai Yellow Mountain Beijing Hong Kong

Hong Kong – Shanghai

Day 1.

Arrive at Shanghai airport.
Be picked by private vehicle and English-speaking tour guide from Beijingservice.com.
Be transferred to hotel for check in.
Remainder of the day is at leisure.

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

Day 2.

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

Hangzhou Tour

Day 3.

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

Shanghai – Huangshan

Day 4.

Transfer from the hotel to the airport in Shanghai.

Arrive in Huangshan, our local guide and private vehicle will meet you and transfer to the hotel.

Breakfast

Huangshan

Day 5.

After breakfast, drive to Huangshan Scenic Area and take cable car at Yungu Station to the top of the mountain.

After check-in and lunch, you will view Brush Pen Peak, tour Lion Peak and Xihai Grand Canyon, enjoy the sunset glow at the Cloud Dispelling Pavilion, etc.

Stay overnight at the summit.

Breakfast, Lunch

Huangshan, Tunxi Ancient Street

Day 6.

Try to get up early in the morning to catch the magical sunrise.

After breakfast, visit the Begin-to-Believe Peak to see the grotesque pine trees.

Take the cable car down to the foot of the Mt. Huangshan and drive back to the city of Huangshan to visit Tunxi Ancient Street. Located in the center of the Huangshan City, the Ancient Street was built 700 years ago in the Song dynasty. Its total length is about 1.5 km and the sides of the street are laid with slab stones.

Visit Ink Stone Factory. Ink stone is the important part of "Four Treasures of the Study" in China. The Ink Stone Factory in Huangshan is one of the most famous ink stone factories in China, where you can see the whole working process.

Transfer to the airport to connect the flight to Beijing.

Pick you up at the airport, transfer to your hotel in Beijing.

Breakfast, Lunch

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

Day 7.

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 8.

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-Hong Kong

Day 9.

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 Hong Kong.

Breakfast, Lunch