Day 1 – Beijing
Arrival Beijing transfer to hotel.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit Temple of Heaven, a praying and sacrificial place of the Ming and Qing Emperors.
Visit Flea Market.
Meal: Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: New World Courtyard Hotel or similar
Day 2 – Beijing
Breakfast at hotel.
Full day visit Great Wall (Badaling), that has been built from 770-475 B.C. – climbing on top on the 2484 miles long Great Wall is really an experience. Afterwards the Summer Palace, the summer-residence of the former emperors with one of the biggest and best preserved gardens in China and visit a pearl factory and enjoy a 45 minutes Foot Massage.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: New World Courtyard Hotel or similar
Day 3 – Beijing
Breakfast at hotel.
Visit Tiananmen Square where the Mao’s Mausoleum and the Congress Hall are located, then the Forbidden City with the emperor’s palace in the heart of Beijing (So called because it was off limits for 500 years, covering an area of 250 acres, protected by a 10.7m high wall, marked off by towers at each corner).
Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit the Hutongs, lanes or Alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan (a compound with houses around a courtyard) where old Beijing residents live, witness the vicissitude of the city by a trishaw.
Peking Duck Dinner at local Restaurant.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: New World Courtyard Hotel or similar
Day 4 – Beijing / Hangzhou
Breakfast at hotel.
Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Hangzhou.
Arrival Hangzhou and transfer to hotel.
Pm free for leisure.
Meal: Breakfast.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: Zhejiang Grand Hotel or similar
Day 5 – Hangzhou
Breakfast at hotel.
Boat trip on the West Lake, to enjoy the placid lake, beautiful gardens, reflecting pools, lavish temples and friendly lakeside teahouse.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit Ling Yin Temple, built in 326. It ranks among China’s most celebrated Buddhist temples and is worth visiting, due to war and calamity it has been destroyed and restored no fewer than 16 times, then visit to the Six Harmonies Pagoda that has not been destroyed during the cultural revolution as it is located dangerously close to an enormous rail-and road-bridge.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: Zhejiang Grand Hotel or similar
Day 6 – Hangzhou / Shanghai
Breakfast at hotel.
Transfer from hotel to train station for train to Shanghai.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit 400 years old Yu Garden, decorated with masterpieces of architecture and take a walk along the riverside at the famous Bund.
Evening Acrobatic Show.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: The Bund Hotel or similar
Day 7 – Shanghai / Xian
Breakfast at hotel.
Am visit the famous Jade Buddha Temple with a 2M high sitting white Jade Buddha.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Transfer to airport for flight to Xian.
Arrival Xian and transfer to hotel
Evening Tang Dynasty Show with artists that are dressed in traditional Tang Costumes and perform dances of Tang Dynasty.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: Bell Tower Hotel or similar
Day 8 - Xian
Breakfast at hotel.
Full day visit Terracotta Warriors with more than 6000 life-sized terracotta figures of soldiers and horses in perfect battle array are showing the superb sculptural art of that time. Lunch at local restaurant. On the way back to the city and visit Wild Goose Pagoda.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: Bell Tower Hotel or similar
Day 9 – Xian / Guilin
Breakfast at hotel.
City tour and see the old City Wall, cultural street and the Chinese medicine and Herbs free market with lunch.
Transfer to airport for flight to Guilin.
Arrival Guilin and transfer to hotel.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: Park Hotel or similar
Day 10 – Guilin
Breakfast at hotel.
For a 4 hours boat trip to Yangshuo on the Li River and we pass some extraordinary peaks, sprays of bamboo lining, the riverbanks, fishers in small boats and picturesque villages with lunch at local restaurant.
Coach back to Guilin, on the way, we will visit one of the most extraordinary sceneries, which is underground – the Reed Flute Cave with it’s multicoloured lighting and fantastic stalacitites and stalagmites and then Elephant Trunk Hill.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel（☆☆☆☆）: Park Hotel or similar
Day 11 – Guilin / Guangzhou / Hong Kong
Breakfast at hotel.
Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Guangzhou.
Arrival Guangzhou.
Transfer for city tour: Chan’s Ancestor Temple, walking through the old street in Shamian Island where you can see what’s left behind from the olden day with those colonial style English, French architecture and the Nanyue Museum with lunch at local restaurant.
Transfer from Guangzhou to train station for train to Hong Kong.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Above Quotation included:
01. Accommodation, breakfast and meals as mentioned above.
02. All private transfer and tours as mentioned above with English/German/French speaking guide.
03. Sightseeing entrance fee.
04. Domestic air ticket (economy class) with tax and fuel surcharge of PEK/HGH, SHA/XIA, XIA/KWL, KWL/Guangzhou.
05. Train ticket HGH/SHA of soft seat.
06. Train ticket from Guangzhou to Hong Kong.
Above Quotation not included:
01. Other than the above itinerary.
02. China visa fee.
03. Personal expenses.
04. Service during free time.
05. Tips for tour guide, driver and luggage boy.
Remarks:
01. Blackout dates:
Golden week: 01-03 May and 01-07 Oct 2009 and Chinese New year: 26 Jan-01 Feb 2009.
02. D10 lunch served on Li River cruise is not suitable for European tourist (taste, hygiene), so lunch will be provided in Yangshuo, after the Li river cruise.
