Meals: No Meals
Recommended Hotel: Citadines Ritan Service Apartment  or similar ★★★★

Upon your arrival in Beijing, the capital city of China, you will be met by our professional tour guide. The guide will wait for you at the exit of the airport by holding your name board. You will be transferred to check in your hotel and then free at leisure to overcome jet lag.

Beijing City View

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel:  Citadines Ritan Service Apartment or similar ★★★★

You will enjoy a classic but exciting Beijing city tour today. With the hotel pick-up, our 1st stop is Tian'anmen Square. It is regarded as the largest public square in the world and it witnesses the development of China. Then we will step into the Forbidden City by walking through the gate of Tian'anmen. Forbidden City is today's highlight. We will spend around 2 hours to explore this magnificent royal palace. Then enjoy the authentic Chinese food at a local restaurant as your lunch. In the afternoon, we will move to visit Temple of Heaven. It is China's existing largest structure for sacrifice to heaven. Shopping time will be arranged at a tea store.

After the tour, our local guide will transfer you back to the hotel. Beijing Kungfu Show is recommended as an optional activity to you.

Forbidden City

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Citadines Ritan Service Apartment or similar ★★★★

Great Wall is really a must-visit spot when you visit Beijing. Today we will go to visit Mutianyu Great Wall. It is now more popular in foreign visitors than Badaling Great Wall. Mutianyu Great Wall is one of the best-preserved great walls in China. Our guide will leave you enough to visit it. Lunch will be arranged at a Chinese restaurant at the foot of the mountain. In the afternoon, We will drive another 1.5 hours back to downtown Beijing and have a stop at a jade store. Then we will have a stop at the Beijing Olympic Games, taking some photos of Bird Nest and Water Cube from the outside. Tour will end by dropping you off at the hotel. If you would like to enjoy more, you could discuss with the local guide to get more suggestions, such as information about night bar streets or some night shows, etc.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Somerset Xindicheng Xian similar ★★★★

After a leisure hotel breakfast, our local guide will pick you up and help you with the hotel check-out. Then move to explore Beijing's local lifestyle by taking a rickshaw to visit the Beijing Hutong area, which can not be missed also. Then we will visit the Summer Palace, the best-preserved imperial garden in China. Lunch will be arranged on the way to Beijing Xi Railway Station (West Railway Station). Take a 5-hour high-speed train to Xi'an, the 2nd stop of this trip, another must-go destination in China as a historic and cultural city. The local guide is waiting for you at the Xian Beijing Railway Station (North Railway Station) and transfer you to the hotel.

Beijing Hutong

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Somerset Xindicheng Xian or similar ★★★★

It is an exciting day today to explore this ancient city. Firstly we will drive from downtown for 1.5 hours to Terracotta Warriors this morning. It is the highlight of today as an important archaeological wonder in the world. We will arrange you to take a shuttle bus in the scenic area to make you a worry-free trip. Then we will visit a potter figurine factory. You have a chance to learn how a pottery figurine is worked out. A Chinese lunch is arranged at a nearby restaurant. In the afternoon, we will drive back. To experience more Chinese culture, Tang Bo Art Museum is definitely a good place, where you not only have a brief history and examples of Chinese art but also practice writing a couple of Chinese characters or Chinese painting. Then we will move to the Bell Tower area and have a walk around Muslim Quarter before transfer back to the hotel. Tang Dynasty Show is highly recommended as an optional night activity.

Terracotta Warriors

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
On Board: Victoria Cruise or similar ★★★★★

After leisure breakfast in the hotel, the local tour guide will pick you up from the hotel lobby and also help you with hotel check-out. Then you will have a half-day leisure tour before leaving for Chongqing. At first, we will explore the landmark of Xi'an. That is the Ancient City Wall, which represents one of the oldest but best-preserved city walls in China. You could choose to visit this city wall on foot, or by riding a bicycle, or even a sightseeing car. Then we will move to Yanta North Plaza, where we will visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.  Then take a high-speed train (duration: 5 hours) to Chongqing. Your Chongqing tour guide will wait for you at the railway station and help you to transfer to Chaotianmen wharf and check-in at the Victoria cruise, which Set sail from Chongqing at 9:00 p.m.

Xi'an Ancient City Wall

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch& Dinner
On Board: Victoria cruise or similar ★★★★★

The cruise will offer an early bird coffee and tea in the morning (06:30-08:30). You can also practice Tai Chin on the sunshine deck. After breakfast, the cruise will arrange you to take a shore excursion --- Fengdu ' Jade Emperor". Or you can also take an optional shore excursion to visit Fengdu Ghost City with an extra fee. Buffet lunch is served on board. Captain's Welcome Reception with buffet dinner is arranged in the late afternoon. In the evening, you can choose to take the additional Shore excursion---FengYan SanGuo "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Show.

Yangtze River Cruise

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch& Dinner
On Board: Victoria cruise or similar ★★★★★

The cruise will offer an early bird coffee and tea in the morning (06:30-08:30). You can also practice Tai Chin on the sunshine deck. After breakfast, the cruise arranges an optional shore excursion to visit White Emperor City with an extra fee. Then the cruise ship sails through Qutang Gorge and Wu Gorge. We could enjoy our free time on board, enjoying the great scenery along the river. In the afternoon, there is a shore excursion to Goddess Stream. Enjoy the Captain's Farewell Banquet and the crew cabaret tonight.

Qutang Gorge

Meals: Breakfast
Recommended Hotel: SSAW Boutique Hotel Shanghai Bund or similar ★★★★

Have a breakfast on board in the early morning, then disembark at Maoping cruise terminal and take the shuttle bust to visit Three Gorge Dam. After that, tourists will be transferred to the passenger center at the downtown of Yichang. Meet our local guide and take a high-speed train to Shanghai. The local guide will will greet you at the exit and help you with the hotel check-in. Free at leisure for the rest of the day.

Three Gorge Dam

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: SSAW Boutique Hotel Shanghai Bund or similar ★★★★

We will lead you to explore a cultural but also modern Shanghai. In the morning, our local tour guide pick you up from the hotel lobby. The 1st stop is Jade Buddha Temple, which is famous for the seated Buddha, encrusted with jewels, which is said to weigh 1,000 kg. Then we will drive through Lujiazui CBD and have a leisure walk on River side Promenade Bingjiang Da Dao. Before we go to have lunch, we will have a shopping stop at silk museum.

In the afternoon, we will visit Yuyuan Garden, a Chinese style garden in the downtown of Shanghai. Then enjoy a shopping time at nearby Shanghai Old Street and Nanjing Road, the earliest commercial street in Shanghai. It is a good time for you to look for some souvenirs before departure from China. Then we will have a walk along the Bund, which is famous for groups of buildings known as a gallery of world architecture. Standing on the Bund, you will have a good view of the skyscrapers on the opposite of Huangpu River. The tour will finish by dropping you off at your hotel. Acrobatic Show is recommended as an optional night activity in Shanghai.

the Bund

Meals: Breakfast

Free day at leisure and be transferred to the airport for return flight. We can arrange the Maglev train ride to Pudong airport if you are interested in, or we will drive you directly to the airport.

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