Classic China with Tibet for students

Day01/Day02  Your place – Beijing

Day03 Beijing

Tiananmen Square:  the center of Beijing, where you can visit Tiananmen Tower, Monument to the People’s Heroes, Great Hall of the People, Mao Zedong Memorial Hall and see the national flag raising ceremony.
Forbidden City: also known as the Palace Museum, and Gu Gong in Chinese, lies at the city center of Beijing, and once served as the imperial palace for 24 emperors during the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911).
A la carte lunch: special and local food of Beijing.
Temple of Heaven:  It is the largest existing one in Beijing among several royal altars to Heaven, Earth, the Sun, the Moon and other deities or symbolic forces of Nature.

Day04 Beijing

Badaling Great Wall：the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China, approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of urban Beijing city in Yanqing District.
Bird’s Nest (drive by)：officially the National Stadium, was jointly designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, project architect Stefan Marbach, artist Ai Weiwei, and CADG which was led by chief architect Li Xinggang.
Summer Palace： a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing.

Day05 Beijing – Lhasa

Fly to Lhasa
Airport to hotel transfer
Free time in the afternoon

Day06 Lhasa

Tibet museum: Located in the southeast corner of Norbu Lingka, Lhasa city, Tibet Museum covers an area of 23,508 square meters (5.8 acres) including the exhibition area of 10,451 square meters (2.6 acres).
Sera Monastery: one of the “great three” Gelug university monasteries of Tibet. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Drepung Monastery.
Norbulingka Park: It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama’s exile in 1959.

Day07 Lhasa

Potala Palace: The residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India during the 1959 Tibetan uprising. It is now a museum and World Heritage Site.
Jokhang Temple: This temple as the most sacred and important temple in Tibet as considered by Tibetans. The temple is currently maintained by the Gelug school, but they accept worshipers from all sects of Buddhism.
Gyangjian Tangka Art Store: Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk appliqué, or human skin usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala.
A Nunnery and Barkhor Street: The Barkor is a popular devotional circumambulation for pilgrims and locals. The walk was about one kilometre long and encircled the entire Jokhang.

Day08 Lhasa – Xian

Fly to Xian
Airport to hotel transfer
Free time in the afternoon

Day09 Xian

Terracotta Warriors:  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.
Xian Museum and Small Wild Goose Pagoda: During the Tang Dynasty, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda stood across a street from its mother temple, the Dajianfu Temple. Pilgrims brought sacred Buddhist writings to the temple and pagoda from India, as the temple was one of the main centers in Chang’an for translating Buddhist texts.
Tang Dynasty Show with dumpling dinner: performing ancient life in Tang dynasty by singing and dancing.

Day10 Xian – Guilin

Fly to Guilin
Airport to hotel transfer
Free time in the afternoon

Day11 Guilin – Yangshuo – Guilin

Li River cruise to Yangshuo, Countryside trip:
With regard to China’s scenic beauty, there are two popular Chinese sayings known to many: “In heaven is paradise, on earth are Suzhou and Hangzhou.” “Guilin’s mountains and waters rank first in China and Yangshuo’s are the best in Guilin” B As for China’s tourist attractions.

Day12 Guilin – Shanghai

Reed Flute Cave:  known as “the Palace of Natural Arts” is a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China.
Elephant Trunk Hill:  it looks like an elephant drinking water.
Seven Star Park: Seven Star Park takes its name from its seven peaks which are laid out like the Big Dipper constellation (with its handle bent forward). The park is on the eastern side of the Li River in central Guilin City. Attractions in the park include: Seven Star Cave, Dragon Hiding Cave, Flower Bridge, the Zoo, Maping Mosque, Guihai Forest of Steles, and much more. Covering an area of 1.34 square kilometers, it is the largest park in Guilin, and contains some of the finest sights in the city.

Day13 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.

Day14 Shanghai – Your place

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