Code: TCE-Y23 

Shanghai - Changsha - Jishou - Fenghuang - Zhangjiajie - Yichang - Yangtze River Cruise - Chongqing -X i'an - Beijing 19 Days

Day 01 Shanghai (D)

Arrive in Shanghai. Shanghai, the largest and most cosmopolitan city, as modern any in the world.Visit Nanjing Road, the most famous shopping street in Shanghai, the riverfront Bund where foreign traders left a legacy of European-style buildings and Jade Buddha Temple. Stay at hotel for 2 nights.

Day 02 Shanghai (BLD)

You have a full-day visit of Yuyuan Garden with its quintessential Chinese zigzag bridges, rockeries, and pavilions and the Qibao Old Town. Enjoy acrobatic show after dinner.

Day 03 Shanghai - Changsha (BLD)

Enjoy this morning by yourself, visit old Hutong Street. Take night overnight train to Changsha.

Day 04 Changsha (BLD)

Arrive in Changsha in the morning. Round out your tour stops at the Provincial Museum. Stay in hotel 1 night.

Day 05 Changsha - Jishou (BLD)

Embark on a coach to Jishou, enjoy the beautiful rice field, mountains of the western of Hunan Provicinc. Arrive in Jishou in the afternoon, capital of Miao minority of Western Part in Hunan (Xiangxi). Stay in hotel 1 night.

Day 06 Jishou - Fenghuang (Phoenix)  (BLD)

Enjoy the Beautiful view of lake in Jishou, and take bus to Fenghuang old city. Walk round in stone paved streets, Chinese architectural houses. Stay in 3-star hotel in fenghuang.

Day 07 Fenghuang (Phoenix - Wangcun Town - Zhangjiajie (BLD)

Embark on a coach to Zhangjiajie, parts of the Wulingshan mountains in north-western Hunan were set aside in 1982 as nature reserves collectively known as the Wulingyuanfengjingqu (Scenic Area ), encompassing the locations of Zhangjiajie, Tianzishan and Suoxiyu. Zhangjiajie is the best known, and many Chinese refer to this area by that name. Stay in 4-star hotel.

Day 08 Zhangjiajie (BLD)

You will take cable car to visit Huangshizhai Valley, Six Strange Tower, Dinghaishenzhen and the Golden Whip Stream. This afternoon is on your own. Stay in hotel 1 night.

Day 09 Zhangjiajie (BLD)

Our English-speaking guide will show you around Mt.Tianzishan by cable car, Sightseeing Lift,Ten-mile art Gallery and water Surrounding Four Gates. Take bus back to Zhangjiajie, stay in 4-star hotel 1 night.

Day 10 Zhangjiajie - Yichang (BLD)

Embark on the coach to Yichang, get on your cruise at night.

Day 11 - Day 13 Three Gorges Tour (BLD)

Visit the Three Gorges dam in the morning. Then pass the ship lock and continue on the cruise. Sail on through the Xiling Gorge. Tonight the captain hosts a welcome dinner on board. You will take the shore excursion to Shennong Stream or Little Three Gorges. Continue this afternoon through Qutang Gorge and Wu Gorge and see the fabled Twelve Peaks. Take shore excursion to Fengdu, the “Ghost City” or Shibaozhai.

Day 14 Chongqing - Xi'an (BLD)

Arrive in Chongqing in the morning. Chongqing, known as Ba in ancient times, is located in Southwest China. It is also known as a city of oven, mountains. Guide will pick you up on the boat. Visit the Eling Park. Take flight to Xi'an in the afternoon, 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 hotel for 2 nights.

Day 15 Xi'an (BLD)

Round out your tour with stops at the Museum of Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses of Qinshihuangdi and Big Wild Goose Pagoda

Day 16 Xi'an - Beijing (BLD)

Round out your tour with stops at Shaanxi History Museum, enjoy the brilliant history and 372,000 exquisite historical relics in the museum and 600 years old City Wall. Take overnight train to Beijing, the capital and cultural center of China, where virtually every boulevard and building exudes an air of importance. Take overnight train to Beijing, the capital and cultural center of China, where virtually every boulevard and building exudes an air of importance.

Day 17 Beijing (BLD)

Arrive in Beijing in the morning. 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 Temple of Heaven. Stay in hotel 2 nights.

Day 18 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, ione of the world's most awe-inspiring sights, the great Wall snakes along nearly 4000 miles of impossibly steep hills and harsh, ruggedplains. 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. Taste your imperial-style Peking Duck dinner before returning to hotel.

Day 19 Beijing - 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