DAY
1
Destinations:
Arrive in Guangzhou
Today's Activities:
Your guide will meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel.
Afterward, you'll be free to explore on your own or you can ask your guide for suggestions.
Try some dim sum, Guangzhou's culinary specialty!
Meals:
No meal
DAY
2
Destinations:
Guangzhou
Today's Activities:
Your guide will meet you at your hotel in the morning.
Next, you'll visit the Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall in beautiful Yuexiu Park, followed by the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall.
After lunch, we'll visit the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees and explore a city market.
Afterwards, come back to hotel.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
3
Destinations:
Guangzhou-Guilin
Today's Activities:
After breakfast, you'll fly to Guilin.
After your arrival, your guide will take you to famous Guilin landmarks Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill and Reed Flute Cave, a 790-foot deep dripstone cave, which includes myriad multicolored stalactites and stalagmites.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
4
Destinations:
Guilin-Yangshuo-Guilin
Today's Activities:
Your guide will meet you in your hotel.
Next, you'll be off to see one of China's most beautiful river landscapes and experience the charms of Yangshuo's West Street (Xi Jie), a colorful, warm and lively neighborhood in the midst of the area's romantic environs.
You'll have plenty of time to explore Yangshuo's shops and markets.
Finally, you'll dine in Guilin before being brought back to your hotel.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
5
Destinations:
Guilin-Shanghai
Today's Activities:
You'll arrive by plane in Shanghai in the morning.
Upon arrival, your guide will meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel to check in.
In the afternoon, you will visit Shanghai Museum, one of China's greatest art and history museums.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
6
Destinations:
Shanghai
Today's Activities:
Today you'll visit the Bund, Shanghai's famous riverfront, featuring outstanding examples of European colonial architecture and postcard-perfect views of the futuristic Pudong skyline. Next stop: Yu Gardens, former residence of imperial officials, featuring tranquil classical gardens. Afterwards, it's on to the Jade Buddha Temple, home of a priceless jade Buddha sculpture. Finally, an acrobatics show will light up your evening and is sure to impress with astonishing displays of skill and strength.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
7
Destinations:
Shanghai-Xi'an
Today's Activities:
You'll arrive by plane in the morning and be greeted by your local guide.
Afterwards, you'll visit Big Goose Pagoda, Xi'an's signature landmark and the home of original Buddhist scriptures brought from India during the Tang Dynasty.
Then it's off to the Provincial History Museum, which features artifa dating back over 6,000 years.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
8
Destinations:
Xi'an
Today's Activities:
You'll enjoy a tour of the Terracotta Army Museum , where life-sized infantrymen, archers, officers and their horses guard the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang.
Afterwards, you will visit the City Wall that still encompasses the center of Xi'an.
Later, you'll have a sumptuous dumpling dinner and enjoy a Tang Dynasty Show.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
9
Destinations:
Xi'an-Beijing
Today's Activities:
After breakfast, you'll fly to Beijing.
And in the afternoon, you will tour the Temple of Heaven, where the emperors prayed for good harvests, sought divine approval and atoned for the perceived sins of the people.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
10
Destinations:
Beijing
Today's Activities:
In the morning, you'll be taken to visit Tian'anmen Square, the largest public square in the world, and the Palace Museum, better known as the Forbidden City, built in 1420, it was where 24 emperors lived and ruled for over 500 years. After lunch, you'll be driven to visit the Summer Palace, a former summer resort for the imperial court, and take a boat ride on Lake Kunming. You'll have delicious Beijing Roast Duck for dinner.
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch + Beijing Roast Duck Dinner
DAY
11
Destinations:
Beijing
Today's Activities:
In the morning, you'll make an excursion to the Badaling Great Wall, one of the world's greatest architectural wonders.
After lunch, you'll visit to the Ming Tombs, with its Sacred Way and giant marble statues guarding the tombs of Ming Dynasty emperors (1368-1644AD).
Meals:
Western Breakfast + Chinese Lunch
DAY
12
Destinations:
Depart Beijing
Today's Activities:
You'll be brought to the airport after breakfast for your departure flight.
Your tour with much memories in China ends.
Meals:
Western Breakfast
