11 Days 10 Nights Leisure China Tour with Yangtze River Cruise

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Beijing Arrival
1 stop
1
Arrive in Beijing, you will meet the tour guide at the airport and then be transferred to your hotel. After check-in, free at leisure for the rest of the day.
Day 2
Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven
3 stops
2
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
Tian'anmen Square, the heart of Beijing, is the world's largest city center square. The ground of the square is all paved with specially processing light-colored granite stone. The ceremony of raising the national flag in every morning and dropping flag in every sunset time is the most solemn ceremony. Tian'anmen Square was the locality of numerous major political and historical events. It is the witness of Chinese development. While strolling in Tian'anmen Square, looking up at the magnificent layout, the majestic momentum, the vast and deep landscape, you will feel China's rapid development. Tiananmen Square is the Holy Land in the hearts of the Chinese people, and is the heart of great China.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
3
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum
Forbidden City was formerly known as the Imperial Palace, which covers an area of over 720,000 m², has more than 9,000 buildings and construction area of 150,000 square meters. Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, is the existing China's largest and most complete ancient buildings. It was first built in 1406 and finished in 1420. In its 500 years of history, there were 24 emperors living here. Experiencing several times renovation and expansion during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City is still remaining its original layout.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
4
Temple of Heaven
The Temple of Heaven was the most important of Beijing's imperial temples. It was where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties (from 1420 to 1900) worshiped the god of heaven and prayed for good harvests.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 3
Mutianyu Great Wall, Olympic Park, the exterior of Bird Nest and Water Cube
3 stops
5
Mutianyu Great Wall
Mutianyu Great Wall is one of the best-preserved and best-known Great Wall sections. The Great Wall at Mutianyu has breath-taking scenery but less tourists, thus a good destination on hot holidays for a Great Wall tour at ease.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
6
Olympic Park
Beijing Olympic Park, also known as the Olympic Green, will be where the 2022 Winter Olympics takes place. It contains the main venues used during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, such as the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
7
Water Cube
The National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube, is located on Olympic Green, with the Bird’s Nest Stadium, on Beijing's north-south axis. It was built as the main natatorium for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and became known as one of the Games' iconic structures.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Hutong Tour by rickshaw, Summer Palace,Departure to Xian by high speed train
2 stops
8
Hutong Tour
The old lanes of the Beijing hutongs, many laid out hundreds of years ago during the Ming and Qing dynasty eras (1368-1912), retain some of the traditional culture and way of life of the past. Visiting the Beijing hutongs for shopping, dining, and experiencing the street life is a way to get in touch with the everyday people and experience the daily life of people in Beijing.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
9
Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)
The Summer Palace , in northwest Beijing, is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world, and the largest of its kind still in existence in China. It is only a short drive (15 km) from central Beijing, but seems like another world.
6 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 5
Terracotta Warriors, Tang Bo Art Museum, Bell Tower, Muslim Quarter
3 stops
10
The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
Visit Terracotta Warriors and explore one of the world's most important archaeological finds, with troops, horses and carriages in battle formation.
6 hours • Admission ticket included
11
Xi'an Bell Tower
Built in the 17th year (1384) of the Hongwu Period of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s reign during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Bell Tower sits in the center of Xi’an ancient city, which is the largest and the best-retained one of its kind in China, and it’s of a high historical and artistic value.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
12
Muslim Quarter
visit Muslim Quarter and enjoy your shopping time there
3 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 6
Ancient City Wall, Wild Goose Pagoda and north square,Departure to Chongqing by Hi-speed train
2 stops
13
Xi'an City Wall (Chengqiang)
Visit the Ancient City Wall, which represents one of the oldest and best preserved Chinese city walls. Bicycle or sightseeing car will be arranged on the wall to go around.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
14
Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayanta)
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda or Giant Wild Goose Pagoda is a well-preserved holy place for Buddhist with a history of over 1300 years.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 7
Yangtze River Cruising Trip
1 stop
15
Shore excursion: Fengdu "Jade Emperor" is aranged in the morning. Or take additional shore excursion to Fengdu Ghost City with extra cost. Buffet lunch is served on board.
3 hours • Admission ticket not included
Day 8
Yangtze River Cruising Trip
2 stops
16
Fengjie White Emperor City is located in the north shore of the Yangtze river of Qutang Gorge, east to KuiMen, surrounded by eight waterfall, surrounded on three sides by water, in water levels, for all previous dynasties mohican, fengjie city, 8 kilometers, 451 kilometers away from downtown chongqing.It back on high, the Yangtze river in the former, imposing manner is very spectacular, is long on three gorges punters equally famous scenic spot.
3 hours • Admission ticket not included
17
Chongqing Qutang Gorge
Qutang Gorge is the shortest of the Three Gorges (8 kilometers). It is considered the most dramatic by many visitors. The river navigates through the gorge's sheer, steep cliffs where the Meng Liang staircase from the Song Dynasty can be seen. Qutang Gorge starts at the White Emperor City in the west and ending at Daxi Stream in the east with a distance of 8 kilometers.
Day 9
Three Gorges Dam, Fly to Shanghai
1 stop
18
Three Gorges Dam Project
The Three Gorges Dam Site is 27 miles upstream from Yichang City proper, at Sandouping Town, 38km upstream from the Gezhouba Dam Lock, inside the third of the Three Gorges.
Day 10
Shanghai City Tour: Jade Buddha Temple, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Yuyuan Garden, Nanjing Road, The Bund
5 stops
19
Jade Buddha Temple
Jade Buddha Temple is located in a crowd of Shanghai City. It was first built in 1882 in Jiangwan on the southern outskirts of Shanghai. At that time, a 1.9-metre-high white jade Buddha was installed here after a monk had brought it from Burma to Zhejiang Province in 1882.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
20
Oriental Pearl Tower (Dongfang Mingzhu)
Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower has become a landmark of excellence in architecture and is a favourite sight for tourists in Shanghai. At 468 meters, it is the third tallest TV and radio tower in the World. The tower is composed of the tower base with three batter posts, and three standing pillars, within which are elevators, holding 11 steel-structures creates the poetic conception as described in the old line "large and small pearls dropping onto a jade plate".
3 hours • Admission ticket included
21
Yu Garden (Yuyuan)
Yuyuan Garden is the only fully restored classical Chinese garden in Shanghai. It was inaugurated in the Ming dynasty and has a total area of 20,000 square meters. Although the Garden occupies less than five acres, demonstrates perfectly the sophisticated art of combining several different elements to create a world in miniature - ingeniously mingling pavilions and corridors, small hills and carefully selected and well-placed rocks, lotus ponds, bridges, winding paths, and trees and shrubs.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
22
Nanjing Lu (Nanjing Road)
Nanjing Road, 5.5 km in full length, enjoys the reputation as China No.1 commercial center. It was the earliest commercial street in Shanghai since the city opened to the outside world. The street stretches across the central city of Shanghai and next to Huangpu River in the east, the cross point of Jing'an Temple and West Yan'an Road. The road is divided into east and west parts by Xizang Road. On both sides of the street, there are more than 360 malls, department stores, specialized shops, restaurants and cultural and recreational facilities, which receive more than 1.5 million customers everyday. In the day - time, the street is crowned with visitors and when the night falls, the colorful neon lights make the street more attractive.
3 hours • Admission ticket not included
23
The Bund (Wai Tan)
The Bund is located along the Huangpu River which is located in the Huangpu District, the center of Shanghai. It is the scenery line of Shanghai. In the opposite across the Huangpu River,it has a few Shanghai landmarks like Shanghai Tower, Shanghai World Finacial Centre, Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Jinmao Tower, which are among those most famous buildings in China.
3 hours • Admission ticket not included
Day 11
Shanghai Departure
1 stop
24
Free day for you. We can arrange the Maglev train to Pudong airport or we will drive you directly to the airport.

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Children must be accompanied by an adult
• Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants

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