Golden Triangle with start and end in Shanghai

Day01 Arrival in Shanghai

Airport pick-up & airport-hotel transfer.

Day02 Shanghai – Beijing

Hotel-railway station transfer. A high speed train to Beijing, Railway station to hotel transfer.

Day03 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.

Day04 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.

Day05 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: A type of narrow streets or alleys, commonly associated with northern Chinese cities, most prominently Beijing.
Fly to Xian Airport-hotel transfer.

Day06 Xian

Terracotta Warriors: It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.
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: The theme of museum is “Ancient Capital Xi’an”. Xian is the ancient capital of the 13 dynasties, more than a thousand years of capitalist history, based on the display of historical relics, it highlights the history of the capital city of Xi’an and the social life of the capital.
Small Wild Goose Pagoda: one of two significant pagodas in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang’an. The other notable pagoda is the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda.
Tang Dynasty Show with dumpling dinner: The music and performing show of ancient China, Showing the peaceful and prosperous scene of the Tang Dynasty.

Day07 Xian – Shanghai

City Wall: It exhibits the “complete features of the rampart architecture of feudal society”. It is situated at the end of the ancient Silk Road.
Shaanxi History Museum: one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest.
A la carte lunch: Rougamo ( Chinese hamburger ) Pita Bread So awked in lamp Soup Biangbiang noodles
Fly to Shanghai. Airport-hotel transfer.

Day08 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.
Huangpu River cruise: Taking a boat and floating along Huangpu River, you could see city panorama on boat.

Day09 Departure from Shanghai

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