Ancient & Modern China

Day01 Arrival in Beijing

Airport pick-up & airport-hotel transfer.

Day02 Beijing

Tiananmen Square: The symbol square of Beijing and China. Tiananmen (“Gate of Heavenly Peace”) The square contains the Monument to the People’s Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
Forbidden City: The home where emperor used to live in feudal dynasty. It is magnificent and historical.
A la carte lunch: Local Beijing food, mixed many flavors of other provinces` dishes.
Temple of Heaven: The place for emperors holding annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest.
Kung Fu Show.

Day03 Beijing

Badaling Great Wall: one part of the Great Wall, the most visited section of the Great Wall, Many world leaders have made a trip to the site.
Sacred Way: From the Yongle Emperor onwards, 13 Ming dynasty emperors were buried in the this area, called Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty. It is symbol of Feudal nobility funeral in China.
Bird’s Nest (drive by): The main stadium to hold on Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

Day04 Beijing – Xian

Summer Palace: It was an imperial garden in Qing Dynasty. In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace “a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.

A la carte lunch
Hutong visit: Living habit of old Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences.  Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong.

Fly to Xian, Airport-hotel transfer.

Day05 Xian

Terracotta Warriors: the figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses.
A local family visit, Home-cooked lunch: Spending time with one local family to know more about local lifestyle and habit is also one kind of pleasure of this trip.
Xian Museum and Small Wild Goose Pagoda: The pagoda has a brick frame built around a hollow interior, and its square base and shape reflect the building style of other pagodas from the era.
Tang Dynasty Show with dumpling dinner: The music and performing show of ancient China, Showing the peaceful and prosperous scene of the Tang Dynasty.

Day06 Xian – Chongqing

City Wall: It was built under the rule of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as a military defense system.
Fly to Chongqing.
Ciqikou if time permits: an old Chinese proverb: “One flagstone road, and one thousand years’ Ciqikou”.
Yangtze River tour begins at 22:00: Taking a boat on Yangtze River and watch the beautiful night view of Chongqing. Chongqing night view is famous as little Hong kong

Day07 Shibaozhai

An excursion to Shibaozhai: At the top of Shibaozhai is a three-storied hall dedicated to Manjusri built during the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor (1850–1861), called the Purple Rain Pavilion.
Captain’s Welcome Party: local peoples` welcome party.

Day08 Badong – Xiling Gorge – Sandouping

Yangtze Three Gorges with an excursion to Shennong Stream:
Ship trip, enjoy beautiful view of two sides and some historic relic on the mountains.

Day09 Yichang – Shanghai

Three Gorges Dam: the world’s largest power station in terms of installed capacity.

Disembark the cruise.
Fly to Shanghai. Airport-hotel transfer

Day10 Shanghai

Shanghai Museum: museum of ancient Chinese art, it is considered one of China’s first world-class modern museums.

Yuyuan Garden: A historic garden built by ancient people, and has a sense of traditional beauty.

A la carte lunch: small stuffed buns pot sticker wonton
the Bund, Huangpu River cruise: The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from European countries. And it is a good place to see night view and Yangtze River.

Day11 Departure from Shanghai

Hotel-airport transfer is on your own arrangement. A pleasant trip home! (B)