12 Days China Homeland Tour 2024 for Adoptive Family

Visits & Activities: Tian’anmen Square, Forbidden City, Rickshaw riding and  local family visiting in Hutong.

Tian’anmen Square: The center of Beijing, where you can visit Tian’anmen 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).

Hutong: We will ride a rickshaw and visit a local family in Hutong. Hutong is the name given to a narrow lane, alley, or small street between rows of single-storey Siheyuan dwelled by Beijingers in the past. When viewed from the air the interlaced lanes resemble a maze or a chessboard with delicate gardens, fine rockeries and ancient ruins which makes them a wonder in the world.

Dinner: Real authentic Peking Duck in a local restaurant

Chinese Kung Fu Show: a thrilling modern day theatrical production, bringing together traditional Chinese martial arts and a vibrant show atmosphere. Performed daily at the widely acclaimed Beijing Red Theatre, it’s one of the best kungFu Show in China.

Hotel: Four Stars, family room and connecting room available.

Visits & Activities: Mutianyu Great Wall, Bird’s Nest, Summer Palace visiting and Boating

Mutianyu Great Wall: Pick you up at the lobby of your hotel at 7:00am (it is holiday, we may meet traffic jam), we will drive you to Mutianyu Great Wall, It will take around 2 hours to arrive the Great Wall, depends on the traffic. The round trip cableway will take you up to the 14th watch tower to save your time and strength. You can hike for about 2 hours with your guide on the Great Wall.

Lunch: picnic lunch on the Great Wall.

Bird’s Nest: It was designed as the main stadium of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Olympic events of track and field, football, gave-lock, weight throw and discus were held there.

Summer Palace Visiting and Boating: Visit the largest and most complete existing royal garden, reputed as the royal garden museum. We will be boating on kunming lake in the Summer Palace, you will have the best view of the Hill of Longevity from then lake. it’s a good way to explore this largest and best-preserved imperial garden in China.

Hotel: Four Stars Hotel with Deluxe 1/2 Bedroom Suite.

Visits & Activities: Temple of Heaven

Temple of Heaven: Built in 1420, this huge structure is where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped the god of heaven and offered sacrifices to heaven to ensure a good harvest. It is now a cultural museum that chronicles the history of China through its architecture, art, music and more.

Bullet train to Xi’an: Take a bullet train to Xi’an (G87 14:00 – 18:20), meet your Xi’an local guide at train station.

Hotel: Wyndham Grand Xian South, Somerset Xindicheng Xi’an, Gran Melia Xi’an, Crowne Plaza Xi’an, Shangri-La Hotel, Xian, Sofitel Xian on Renmin Square, Merlinhod Hotel

Visits & Activities: Terracotta Army, Shaanxi Provincial Museum, Giant Goose Pagoda, Muslim Street

Terracotta Army: Funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.

Shaanxi Provincial Museum: One of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest.

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.

Chinese Calligraphy experience: learn and try basic chinese calligraphy, try to write some simple simple chinese vocabulary and your name with Ink brush. It last for 30 – 60 minutes.

Option of Muslim Street Visit: It’s very crowded. Delicious snacks are not hard to find on Muslim Street, from Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup, Chinese hamburgers, cool noodles, Jingao rice pieces and steamed stuffed buns and the like. The restaurants in the streets are all owned and operated by Muslims, and various Islamic foods are easily available here, such as the local favorite roasted beef, roasted fish, and pancakes. Food on Muslim street is diverse and quite affordable.

Hotel: Wyndham Grand Xian South, Somerset Xindicheng Xi’an, Gran Melia Xi’an, Crowne Plaza Xi’an, Shangri-La Hotel, Xian, Sofitel Xian on Renmin Square, Merlinhod Hotel

Visits & Activities: City Wall of Xi’an with option biking on the City Wall.

City wall of Xi’an: Represent one of the oldest, largest and best preserved Chinese city walls. It was built under the rule of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as a military defense system. Option biking on the City Wall is available.

Bullet Train Xi’an – Chengdu: Take a bullet train to Chengdu (D1937 14:00 – 17:43), pick up from Chengdu Trainstation, transfer to hotel in chengdu.

Hotel: Four Stars Hotel, family room and connecting room available.

Activity: Panda Keeper Volunteer Program at Dujiangyan Panda Base

Dujiangyan Panda Base is the most easily accessible base in China to join the Panda Keeper Program. Highlights of this program: -Spend the day with pandas as a Panda Keeper! -Feed the Giant Panda twice a day! -Learn more about China’s pandas up close and personal. Spend half a day getting to know the Middle Kingdom’s most cuddly denizen at the Dujiangyan Panda Base while working together in the panda enclosures with the panda keepers as a volunteer.

Hotel: Foure Stars Hotel, family room and connecting room available.

Visits & Activities: Sichuan cuisine cooking class and family dumpling making, Jinsha Site Museum

Sichuan cuisine cooking class and family dumpling making experience: Choose one person from each family to learn how to cook 2-3 dishes of the most classic Sichuan cuisines, at the same time, the others from the family will make dumpling together. Your Lunch are what you made.

Visit of Jinsha Site Museum: Under the comprehensive protection system, a large number of precious cultural relics have been collected in Jisha Site Museum such as the Sun and Immortal Bird gold decoration, gold mask, jade, ivory and so on.At Jinsha,you will experience the brilliance of Chengdu’s history and splendor of the ancient kingdom .Jinsha Site is selected as National Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National Archeological Site Park. The museum is National Top Class Museum. Jinsha site is also tin the list of tentative world heritage sites.In this nice Archeological Site and Museum, you will see amazing Ancient Archeological Dig and Artifacts.

Fligh Chengdu – Guilin: in late afternoon take flight from chengdu to guilin,  transfer to hotel in Guilin.

Hotel: Four Stars Hotel, family room and connecting room available.

Visits & Activities: Lijiang River Cruise, Xianggong Shan Mountain

Lijiang River Cruise: Li River(Li Jiang) Cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo

Xianggongshan Mountain: A few years ago, a local photographer took some pictures on the top of this mountain and won the bronze prize in an international photography contest, making Xianggong Mountain famous overnight. From then on, it became a popular tourist destination beloved by enthusiastic photographers.

Hotel: Four Stars Hotel, family room and connecting room available.

Visits & Activities: Silver Cave, Bamboo Rafting on yulong river

Silver Cave: It is the largest karst cave in Guilin and fully shows the charm of the typical karst landform in south China. Numerous crystal stalactites extend from the roof of the cave like stars in a falling Milky Way. They glitter like silver and diamonds under the colorful lights, giving the cave its name: Silver Cave.

Bamboo Rafting on yulong river: Taking a bamboo raft ride on the Yulong River (or dragon river), a tributary of the Li River, is a very relaxing way to enjoy the highly scenic area south of Yangshuo. Here you can enjoy the stunning scenery and views of country life on a non-motorised raft in the traditional way with a gondolier who steers you over the breakwaters past many small mud-brick villages and farmlands.

Visits & Activities: Longsheng Rice Terraces (Dragon’s Backbone) visiting and hiking

Longsheng Rice Terraces: Located about 100 km west of Guilin, the terraces fields are built along the slope from the riverside up to the mountain top, resembling a dragon’s backbone (means Longji in Chinese). Most of these terraces fields were built 500 years ago and developed by the local minority people living in the 13 villages. Views are stunning when taking a few short hikes to the mountain top and into the fields from any villages, among which Ping’an, Dazhai and Jinkeng are most popular. Depending on the different time of year, you will see different colours: water glittering in spring, green rice shoots in summer, golden rice in fall, and silvery frost in winter.

Hotel: Selected Hotel in Rice Terraces (Dragon’s Backbone), family room limited available.

Today you will be private transferred to either airport or train station for traveling to orphanage visit. Group tour service ends.