China Tour of Beijing Xian Lhasa Tsetang Nyingchi Lhasa 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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  Your private guide 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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  Your private guide 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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  Your private guide 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, Huaqing Pool, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Tang Dynasty Show.  
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  Your private guide 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 Huaqing Pool. Huaqing Pool had been a resort palace for many dynasties because of its natural beauty and hot spring resources. It has become a landmark site for Chinese Tang Culture.
  Move on to 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.
• 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 show.
•   Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Day 6. Xian: Shaanxi History Museum, Great Mosque, Ancient City Wall, Bell and Drum Tower Square.  
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  Your private guide 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 Great Mosque. With a history of over 1,200 year, Great Mosque is one of the oldest and largest mosques in China. It was designed with traditional Chinese architecture style and decorated with Islamic culture.
• Go 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.
  Continue to Bell and Drum Tower Square. The square offers good views of Bell and Drum Tower. It is the good place for local people to relax and enjoy leisure time.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 7. Xian flight to Lhasa.  Arrive in Lhasa, Nietang Buddha.  
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  Pick you up from hotel and transfer to airport. Take flight to Lhasa.
  
  
• Local guide will meet you at Lhasa airport.
  View the Nietang Buddha on the way to your hotel. Nietang Buddha is the biggest stone statue engraved on a cliff in Tibet and the first attraction to welcome visitors to Lhasa.
  Check in the hotel and have a good rest.
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• Day 8. Lhasa: Potala Palace, Sera Monastery, Norbulingka Park.  
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  Your private guide will pick you up from hotel at 09:00am.
  Visit the landmark of Lhasa, Potala Palace. With a history of over 1,300 years, Potala Palace is the highest ancient palace in the world, integrating palace, castle and monastery.
  Then drive to Sera Monastery. As one of the three largest monasteries in Lhasa, Sera Monastery houses many vivid Buddhist statues such as Maitreya, Bodhisattvas and keeps a lot of fine murals.
• Move on to Norbulingka Park, is the largest and finest garden in Tibet. Norbulingka Park was served as a summer palace for the Dalai Lama where they handled political affairs and practiced religious activities.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 9. Lhasa: Drepung Monastery, Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Street.  
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  Your private guide will pick you up from hotel at 09:00am.
  Drive to Drepung Monastery. The monastery is the most important monastery of Gelugpa in Tibetan Buddhism. It houses many rare cultural relics.
• Proceed to the ultimate pilgrimage destination of Tibetan Buddhists, Jokhang Temple. It was first built in 647 A.D. to house sacred image of the Buddha, which the king's Nepalese wife brought with her as a dowry.
  Continue to the thriving bazaar of the Barkhor Street. Tibetan culture, economy, religion and arts assemble here.
  Transfer you back to the hotel after the tour.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 10. Lhasa – Tsetang.  
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  Your guide will pick you up from hotel at 09:00am.
  Drive to Tsetang along Brahmaputra River.
  Arrive in Tsetang and visit Samye Monastery. First built in 775 AD, the monastery is the first monastery in Tibet and the first monastery housing the three Buddhist jewels, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
• Overnight in Tsetang.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 11. Tsetang –Nyingchi.  
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  Your guide will pick you up from hotel at 09:00am.
  Go to visit Yumbulagang Palace, the first palace in Tibetan history. The palace was built in 1623 for the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo. You can find the various statues of Tibetan rulers, thinkers, ministers and governors, and some murals recording the early history of Tibet in the monastery.
  Then visit Trandruk Monastery. Built in the 7th century during the reign of Songtsan Gampo, the monastery is the earliest imperial monastery in Tibet. The most important treasure in the monastery is the Thangka embroidered with thousands of pearls, which is one of the three Thangkas made by Princess Wencheng.
  
• Then drive to Nyingchi. You can enjoy the exquisite sceneries of Nyang River on the way.
  Visit Basum Lake, a holy lake of the Red Sect. Surrounded by snow-capped peaks and natural forest, Basum Lake is the most beautiful place in the eastern Tibet.
  Arrive in Nyingchi and stay overnight.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 12. Giant Cypress Forest, back to Lhasa.  
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  Your guide will pick you up from hotel at 09:00am.
  Proceed to Giant Cypress Forest. There are hundreds of ancient cypresses in this area. The biggest and oldest cypress has a history of 2000-2500 years.
• Then drive back to hotel in Lhasa.
•   Breakfast, Lunch,
• Day 13. Take flight to Shanghai.  Arrive in Shanghai and hotel check-in.  
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  Pick you up from hotel and transfer to airport. Take 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 14. Shanghai: Yu Garden, Jade Buddha Temple, Nanjing Road, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, The Bund.  
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  Your private guide 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.
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• Day 15. Departure.  
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  Pick you up from hotel and transfer to airport for departure.
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