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Beijing - Hangzhou - Shanghai - Suzhou - Nanjing - Luoyang - Xi'an - Guilin - Guangzhou - Hongkong 19 Days

Day 01 Beijing (D)

Arrive in Beijing, the capital and cultural center of China, where virtually every boulevard and building exudes an air of importance. Transfer on arrival to your 4-star hotel. Stay in hotel 3 nights.

Day 02 Beijing (BLD)

Enjoy a full-day tour of the sights that make Beijing a spectacular destination: The Summer Palace, an oasis of tea gardens, pavilions, painted corridors, and shimmering Kunming Lake with Empress Dowager 's eccentric marble boat. Badaling Great Wall, one of the world's most awe-inspiring sights, the Great Wall snakes along nearly 4000 miles of impossibly steep hills and harsh, rugged plains. Today you will climb Badaling Great Wall in your leisure and marvel at the manpower that went into building the world's longest structure entirely by hand.

Day 03 Beijing (BLD)

Today you will enjoy the sprawling Forbidden City, home to 24 Ming and Qing emperors and now a repository of precious art and antiques; Tiananmen Square, the largest man-made square in the world and the Yonghe Palace in the afternoon, the most renowned Tibetan Buddhist temple in China, outside Tibet itself. Taste your imperial-style Peking Duck dinner before returning to hotel.

Day 04 Beijing - Hangzhou (BLD)

Fly to Hangzhou, the paradise, regarded as the paradise by Chinese people. Guide will pick you up in the airport and visit West Lake, showing its willow-draped islands, inspiration by artists and poets and Six harmonies Pagoda. You also drink Longjing tea, one of the most famous green tea in the country in Tea garden. Stay in 4-star hotel 1 night.

Day 05 Hangzhou - Shanghai (BLD)

Take train to Shanghai, the largest and most cosmopolitan city, as modern any in the world. You are greeted on arrival and escorted to your 4-star world-class hotel. Stay in hotel 2 nights. You visit Nanjing Road, the most famous shopping street in Shanghai and the riverfront Bund where foreign traders left a legacy of European-style buildings. Stay in 4-star hotel 2 nights.

Day 06 Shanghai (BLD)

You have a full-day visit of Yuyuan Garden with its quintessential Chinese zigzag bridges, rockeries, and pavilions; the Qibao Old Town and Longhua Temple complete the day at a thrilling show by the Shanghai acrobats.

Day 07 Shanghai - Suzhou (BLD)
This morning is on your own, take train to Suzhou after lunch, the paradisiacal garden city. Visit the Garden of the Master of Nets and the Garden for Lingering in. Step into small, harmonious designed with rock, water, trees and showy vegetation, then visit silk factory. Stay in 4-star world-class hotel.

Day 08 Suzhou - Nanjing (BLD)

You have Grand Canal cruise and tour of old town in the morning. Embark on a coach to Nanjing. Nanjing is one of China's more attractive cities. It sports a long historical heritage and has twice served briefly as the nation's capital, firstly, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty (AD1368 - 1644) and secondly as the capital of the Republic of Chins in the early years of the 20th century. Most of Nanjing's major attractions are reminders of the city's former glory under the Ming Dynasty. Stay in 4-star hotel 1 night.

Day 09 Nanjing - Luoyang (BLD)

Visit Ming Xiaoling Tomb (the Tomb of Hongwu ) and Zhongashan Ling ( Sun Yatsen Mausoleum ). Take overnight train to Luoyang, capital of 7 dynasties until the Northern Song Dynasty moved its capital to Kaifeng in the 10th century AD. Today, it's hard to imagine that Luoyang was once the centre of the Chinese world and home to more than 1300 Buddhist temples.

Day 10 Luoyang (BLD)

The guide will meet you up at the platform of railway station and transfer to hotel for breakfast. Visit Shaolin Monastery, at the foot of Wuru Peak on the northern slope of Shaoshi Mountain was originally built in 495 during the Northern Wei Dynasty(368-534). It is known as the “most famous temple under heaven”, for it was here that , in 527, the Indian monk Bodhi Dharma( or Dharma) founded the Chan sect of Buddhism in China. Since Dharma was regarded as the ancestor of the Chan sect, the Shaolin Monastery was called Zuting - the Ancestor's home.

Day 11 Luoyang - Xi'an (BLD)

You have a visit in Luoyang; Dragon Gate Grottoes, located 12 Km south of Luoyang. The grottos are among the greatest treasure troves of ancient stone carving in China, together with Dunhuang in the north-west province of Gansu and Yungang in the Shanxi Province. Take train to Xi'an, a vital center of history, culture and archaeology. It is impossible to overstate Xi'an's importance in China's history. Here began the fabled Silk Road, here a string of dynasties made their capital, here a Neolithic culture built a village 6000 years ago, and here lies a highlight of your trip: the

excavation site of 8000terra-cotta soldiers and horses, buried around the tomb of emperor Qinshihuangdi, builder of the Great Wall and other massive endeavors. Stay in 4-star hotel 3 nights.

Day 12 Xi'an (BLD)

Round out your tour with stops at the Museum of Terre-Cotta Warriors and Horses of Qinshihuangdi and City Wall of Ming Dynasty and free market.

Day 13 Xi'an (BLD)

Round out your tour with stops at Shaanxi History Museum, enjoy the brilliant history and 3000 exquisite historical relics in the museum and Big Wild Goose Pagoda, built by pilgrim monk Xuanzang in the Tang Dynasty 1400 years ago.

Day 14 Xi'an - Guilin (BLD)

Fly to Guilin, the green hills of Guilin, whose ethereal landscapes have been immortalized by poets and painters through the ages is one of the major attractions of the country. Guide will meet you at airport and transfer to hotel for check-in. Round out your tour with stops at the immense Reed Flute Cave, filled with impressive grottos, pillars, and inscriptions over 1000 years old Stay in 4-star hotel 2 nights

.Day 15 Guilin (BLD)

A popular tourist trip is the boat ride from Guilin down the Lijiang to Yangshuo, enjoy the beautiful landscape of mountains of both banks of Lijiang. Disembark to Yangshuo in the afternoon, return to Guilin.

Day 16 Guilin - Guangzhou (BLD)

Fly to Guangzhou, as known as Canton, Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province and one of the most prosperous cities in China. There may not be much in the way of sights, but wandering the streets of Guangzhou is an interesting insight into the extremes of poverty and wealth in China. Visit the Chen's Family Temple and Bright Peace Market. Stay in 4-star hotel 2 nights.

Day 17 Guangzhou - Hongkong (B)

Take train to Hongkong. Hongkong enjoys big fame in the world, reputed as an international financial, trading, shipping, information, tourism and free port. You have a visit of Hongkong islands. Stay in 4-star hotel 2 nights.

Day 18 Hongkong (B)

Today is on your own.

Day 19 Hongkong - Hometown (B)

With new insights and found memories of China, you embark on your homebound journey aboard your select airline.

Meals Symbol: B=Breakfast L=Lunch D=Dinner

The trip price includes:
1. Hotel accommodations with breakfast as specified (but hotels are subject to change to the same category before finally confirmed).
2. All meals as specified in the itinerary.
3. Transfers among airports & hotels as specified in the itinerary by private car or coach with driver & English-speaking guide.
4. Entrance fees for sightseeing as outlined in the itinerary with English speaking guide.
5. Domestic flights, trains or buses as specified in the itinerary.
6. Domestic airports departure taxes have been charged with the flight tickets.
7. Travel insurance in mainland China during the above travel period.
8. Arrangements for the planning, handling, operational and communication charges.

The trip price does not include:
1. Any meals which are not included in the "The trip price includes."
Single Room Supplements (as the above quotation for accommodation is based on twin sharing room).
2. International air and train tickets for coming to & leaving mainland China. Air tickets or train tickets not specified in the itinerary on the first arrival day and last departure day.
3. Excess Baggage Charges.
4. Personal expenses: Items of a purely personal nature such as drinks, laundry, tips to guides or drivers, FAX, telephone, excess baggage charges, or sightseeing or meals which are not included in the day-to-day itinerary.
5. Insurance coverage of personal loss, illness or damages incurred during your trip.
6. Gratuities, Tips to Guides and Drivers.
7. Visa fees