11 Days Private Tour of Beijing Xi'an Guilin Yangshuo Shanghai

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Beijing airport pick-up & airport-hotel transfer.
1 stop
1
Beijing
Our guide will meet you outside the customs of the Capital Airport after you retrieve your luggage and clear the customs, and then transfer you to the hotel with a private vehicle. The rest of the day is free for you to have a good rest.
Admission ticket free
Day 2
Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Hutong Rickshaw Tour, Temple of Heaven, Dinner at Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant.
4 stops
2
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
In the morning, your 11 days China tour will start with visit to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. As the largest city square in the world, Tiananmen Square has seen the country's development in the past 500 years and become an important venue for most of the national ceremonies.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
3
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum
Walking through the square, you will come to the largest and best-preserved imperial palace complex - the Forbidden City. With 590 years of history, the Forbidden City will bring you back to the prosperous Ming and Qing dynasties by showing thousands of imperial architecture and precious culture relics.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
4
Temple of Heaven
In the afternoon, visit the Temple of Heaven, which is the imperial altar for the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties to worship the god of heaven. After the tour , a la carte welcome dinner at Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
5
Hutong Tour
Then, you will have a Hutong tour to experience the original Beijing culture by taking a special rickshaw riding through the various Hutongs and to know about old capital's manners and customs.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 3
Mutianyu Great Wall with a round-trip cable car, Olympic Bird's Nest outside view.
2 stops
6
Mutianyu Great Wall
Today your private visit will begin with the splendid Mutianyu Great Wall. As one of the most popular sections of the Great Wall, Mutianyu, likes a soaring dragon stretches along the mountain ranges. You will be deeply impressed by the wandering walls, spectacular passes and towers, and splendid mountain scenery. We will arrange the round-way cable car for you. For lunch today, we would leave it on your side. Our guide will help you to find a proper restaurant upon your request. The round-trip cable car fare at Mutianyu Great Wall is included in this tour price. We can also arrange for you to take the chairlift up and toboggan down the wall. Please contact your travel consultant if you are interested.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
7
Water Cube
On the way back to downtown, drive by the Bird's Nest (Olympic National Stadium), the venue of 2008 Olympic Games. You will see the full view of the huge 'nest' at a distance. Take this chance to add one memorable photo in your album. Afterwards, we will head to a local market and leave you some free time to wander around.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Summer Palace with boat ride on Kunming Lake, 798 Art Zone, Fly to Xi'an, Airport-hotel transfer.
2 stops
8
Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)
This morning, you will firstly visit the existing largest imperial garden - the Summer Palace, which is an outstanding combination of Chinese classical landscape design and natural beauty. Here, we will arrange a special Kunming Lake boat cruise for you.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
9
After visiting the 798 Art Zone, you will take a flight to Xi'an and our guide will be waiting for you outside the baggage claim area of the airport and transfer you to the downtown hotel.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
Day 5
Terracotta Army, Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, Provincial History Museum.
3 stops
10
Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum
In the morning, visit the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Terracotta Army. You will not only be attracted by the life-sized warrior figures and horses, each of which has distinct facial expressions and positions, but also be astonished by various kinds of ancient weapons which reflect the highly advanced technology in weapon-making 2,200 years ago. We do not offer lunch today. You will arrange it on you own and get some suggestions from your guide upon request.
2 hours 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
11
Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayanta)
Then, visit the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda - the well-preserved 1,300-year-old Buddhist pagoda of Tang Dynasty.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
12
Shaanxi History Museum
Just a few minutes' drive from the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, you will come to the next stop - Provincial History Museum, which exhibits over 370,000 historical relics and is regarded as 'the best museum in the country'.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 6
Xi'an City Wall, Great Mosque, Muslin Street, Tang Dynast Dancing and Dumping Dinner.
3 stops
13
Xi'an City Wall (Chengqiang)
A morning visit to City Wall, one of the best-preserved existing City Walls, to stroll around on the wall and you will have a bird's eye view of the city.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
14
Xi'an Mosque
fter lunch, visit the Great Mosque which was built in the year of 742 AD with a similar architecture style of Chinese temples.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
15
Muslim Quarter
On your way to the mosque, you will walk across the famous snack street - Muslim Street, where you may find many delicious local snacks as well as interesting souvenirs.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
Day 7
Small Wild Goose Pagoda and Xi'an Museum, Fly to Guilin, Airport-hotel transfer.
2 stops
16
Xi'an Museum
Xi'an Museum was opened to the public in 2007. It is well known for its cultural treasures displayed at the exhibition hall, the ancient pagoda of the Tang Dynasty, the morning bell chimes of the pagoda and the beautiful garden landscape.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
17
Small Goose Pagoda
As a part of the museum, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda is one of the most important architecture of ancient Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty and now is a famous historic site in the city. Then take a flight to Guilin and we will transfer you to the hotel. Your hotel is located on the bank of the Li River, and you can stroll along the bank and enjoy the picturesque scene of the city.
40 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 8
Li River cruise to Yangshuo, Countryside tour, Drive back to Guilin.
2 stops
18
Li River
Enduring memories are created today as you cruise down the Li River to Yangshuo. The length of Li River is about 50 miles, and you can see picturesque scenery all the way during your cruise. The cruise lasts around 4 hours and reaches terminal Yangshuo at about 14:00. Lunch is available on board, but the basic Chinese box lunch may fail to meet with your approval. So we recommend you prepare for the cruise with a generous breakfast at the hotel.
4 hours • Admission ticket included
19
Yangshuo County
Upon arrival in Yangshuo, take you to the countryside to enjoy the rural beauty of Yangshuo. You will also visit a local villager's home to experience the farmer's lifestyle there. After a whole day's excursion to Yangshuo, transfer back to Guilin in the late afternoon.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 9
Reed Flute Cave, Seven Star Park, Elephant Trunk Hill, Fly to Shanghai, Airport-hotel transfer.
3 stops
20
Reed Flute Cave (Ludi Yan)
Today's China itinerary 11 days starts with one of the most famous attractions in the city, Reed Flute Cave, which is renowned for the varieties of stalactites, stalagmites, columns and lime-flowers which came into being about 700,000 years ago. Walking in the cave, you will also be impressed by the interesting names of the stalactites and stalagmites, such as Palace of Crystal, Dragon Pagoda and Flower & Fruit Mountain.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
21
Your next stop will be the Seven Star Park.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
22
Elephant Trunk Hill (Xiangbishan)
Your city visit will end with the Elephant Trunk Hill. You must wonder how such a huge rock resembles an elephant drinking water on the riverside, and your guide will give you much information then. When finishing all the attractions in the city, you will take a flight to Shanghai and our guide will greet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel in downtown area.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 10
Shanghai Museum, Yu Garden, A la carte farewell lunch, the Bund and Huangpu River cruise, a cultural street.
3 stops
23
Shanghai Museum (Shanghai Bowuguan)
As one of the four largest museums in China, Shanghai Museum is famous for its vast storage of 120,000 of art relics, especially for the exhibition of bronze wares, porcelain wares, calligraphy and paintings.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
24
Yu Garden (Yuyuan)
After learning about history, you will learn about the ancient Chinese gardening - visiting one of the most famous gardens in south of the Yangtze River, Yuyuan Garden. We will serve you an a la carte farewell lunch (valued at RMB150 per person) at a fancy and famous local restaurant, which offers authentic Shanghai and Cantonese cuisines.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
25
Huangpu River
In the afternoon, we will transfer you to the Bund area, where you take a short cruise on the Huangpu River. On the banks of the river scattered almost all the major attractions of Shanghai, which symbolize the past, present and future of the city. After the cruise, you will visit the Bund area and then explore an old street.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 11
Hotel-airport transfer & see you off, A pleasant trip home!
1 stop
26
Your private guide will pick you up from the hotel and drive you to the airport so that you can board the flight back home loaded with pleasant memories of this 11 days guided tour of China.
1 hour • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers

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