Day 1 – Shanghai
Arrival Shanghai transfer to hotel.
Lunch at local restaurant.
We take along the riverside at the famous Bund.
Meal: Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): The Bund Hotel or similar
Day 2 – Shanghai
Breakfast at hotel.
Visit the famous Jade Buddha Temple with 2m high sitting white Jade Buddha and the 400 years old Yu Garden, decorated with masterpieces of architecture with lunch on route.
Round trip transfer to Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, This museum has five floors that detail the ambitious plans of Shanghai's urban planners. Visitors are provided with a glimpse of how Shanghai will look like in a couple of decades. In the basement, old Shanghai is rebuilt with house entrances, cobble stone ways and operating shops and teahouses.
(Including museum ticket and no guide assist.)
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): The Bund Hotel or similar
Day 3 – Shanghai / Suzhou
Breakfast at hotel.
From hotel to Suzhou by car with the guide (the train station in Suzhou is a big construction site) – a city more than 2500 years old and named the Garden Cities.
Arrival Suzhou.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit Net Master Garden, Lion Forest Garden, Silk Factory and 30 minutes boat ride on Emperors canal.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): Suzhou Hotel or similar
Day 4 – Suzhou / Hangzhou
Breakfast at hotel.
Transfer to train station for train to Hangzhou.
Arrival Hangzhou.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit 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 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 Jade Fountain, Tiger Spring, afterwards visit the Ling Yin Monastery, 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.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): Zhejiang Grand Hotel or similar
Day 6 – Hangzhou / Guilin
Breakfast at hotel.
Visit Dragon Well tea Plantation.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Transfer to airport for flight to Guilin.
Arrival Guilin transfer to hotel.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): Park Hotel or similar
Day 7 – Guilin
Breakfast at hotel.
4 hours boat trip to Yangshuo on the Li River, 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 multi-coloured lighting and fantastic stalactites and stalagmites, and then the Elephant Trunk Hill.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): Park Hotel or similar
Day 8 – Guilin / Xian
Breakfast at hotel.
Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Xian.
Arrival Xian.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Visit the old City Wall, Grand Mosque and the Chinese Medicine and Herbs Free Market.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): Bell Tower Hotel or similar
Day 9 – Xian
Breakfast at hotel.
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 with lunch at local restaurant.
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 10 – Xian / Beijing
Breakfast at hotel.
Visit the Wild Goose Pagoda.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Transfer to airport for flight to Beijing.
Arrival Beijing transfer to hotel.
Rest the day free for leisure.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): New World Courtyard Hotel or similar
Day 11 – 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 mile3s long Great Wall is really an experience. Afterwards visit the Summer Palace, the summer-residence of the former emperors with one of the biggest and best preserved gardens in China and visit a peal factory and enjoy a 45 minutes Foot Message.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): New World Courtyard Hotel or similar
Day 12 – 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.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Hotel(☆☆☆☆): New World Courtyard Hotel or similar
Day 13 – Beijing
Breakfast at hotel.
Departure transfer to airport for flight.
Meal: Breakfast.
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. Air ticket (economy class) with tax and fuel surcharge of HGH/KWL, KWL/XIA, XIA/PEK.
05. Train ticket SHA/Suzhou, Suzhou/HGH, of soft seat.
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. D07 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.