Short tour of essential China

Day01 Arrival in Beijing

Airport pick-up & airport-hotel transfer.

Day02 Beijing

Tiananmen Square: Tiananmen Square is within the top ten largest city squares in the world, It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history.
Forbidden City: World Heritage Site, the former seat of Imperial Chinese Dragon Throne from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty
A la carte lunch: local restaurant with good reputation.
Temple of Heaven: The place for emperors holding annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest.
Kung Fu Show: The show of Chinese martial arts.

Day03 Beijing

Badaling Great Wall: the most visited section of the Great Wall, Many world leaders have made a trip to the site including Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Richard Nixon.
Sacred Way: From the Yongle Emperor onwards, 13 Ming dynasty emperors were buried in the same area, called Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty.
Bird’s Nest : 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
A high speed train to Shanghai, Railway station to hotel transfer.

Day05 Shanghai

Shanghai Museum: a museum of ancient Chinese art, it is considered one of China’s first world-class modern museums.
Yuyuan Garden: Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the imperial palace in Beijing, but was salvaged after the boat sank off Shanghai.

A la carte lunch: small stuffed buns pot sticker wonton
the Bund(Waitan): 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.