TP 01 - Beijing/ Shanghai/ Suzhou/ Wuxi/ Nanjing/ Luoyang/ Xian/ Guilin/ Guangzhou/ Hongkong
Duration of Stay  : 15Days/14Nights

D01

Date

Beijing

Day

Arrival Beijing transfer to hotel

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Visit Temple of Heaven, a praying and sacrificial place of the Ming and Qing Emperors

Visit Flea Market

Hotel accommodation

Meal: L

D02

Date

Beijing

Day

Breakfast at hotel

Full day visit Great Wall (Badaling),, that has been built from 770-475 B.C. – climbing on top on the 2484 miles long Great Wall is really an experience. Afterwards the Summer Palace, the summer-residence of the former emperors with one of the biggest and best preserved gardens in China and visit a pearl factory enroute and enjoy a 45 mins Foot Massage

Lunch at local restaurant

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D03

Date

Beijing

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit Tiananmen Square where the Mao’s Mausoleum and the Congress Hall are located, then the Forbidden City with the emperors palace in the heart of Beijing (So called because it was off limits for 500 years, covering an area of 250 acres, protected by an 10.7m high wall, marked off by towers at each corner)

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Visit the Hutongs, lanes or Alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan (a compound with houses around a courtyard) where old Beijing residents live, witness the vicissitude of the city by a trishaw

Peking Duck Dinner at local Restaurant

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L/D

D04

Date

Beijing / Shanghai

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Free for leisure

Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Shanghai

Around noon time arrival Shanghai, with a population of about 14 million, one of the biggest cities of the world.

PM

Visit Jade Buddha Temple with a 2M high sitting white Jade Buddha and the 400 years old Yu Garden, decorated with masterpieces of architecture.

Evening Acrobatic Show with dinner

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/D

D05

Date

Shanghai

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Round trip transfer to Shanghai Urban Planning exhibition Center, This museum has five floors that detail the ambitious plans of Shanghai's urban planners. Visitors are provided with a glimpse of how Shanghai will look like in a couple of decades. In the basement, old Shanghai is rebuilt with house entrances, cobble stone ways and operating shops and teahouses.

Incl. museum ticket, no guide assist

PM

Free for leisure

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B

D06

Date

Shanghai / Suzhou

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

From hotel to train station for train to Suzhou - a city more than 2500 years old and named the Garden Cities

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Visit Net Master Garden, Lion Forest Garden, Silk Factory and 30 mins boat ride on Emperors canal

The rest of day free for leisure

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D07

Date

Suzhou

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit Tongli - a picturesque and elegant town, has become world-known for its having wonderful scenery, classic building and precious relics - with lunch in very local restaurant

PM

Free for leisure

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D08

Date

Suzhou / Wuxi / Nanjing

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Transfer to Wuxi

Visit Lake Tai Hu and Li Garden with lunch at local restaurant

Transfer from Wuxi to train station for train to Nanjing

Arrival Nanjing and transfer to hotel

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D09

Date

Nanjing / Luoyang

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit Tomb of the first Ming Emperor Hong Wu, Mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge , a double-decker with a 4500m long road on top and a 6700m long railway line below

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Transfer to train station for train 22h36/10h17*to Luoyang

Overnight on train

Meal: B/L

D10

Date

Luoyang

Day

Arrival Luoyang transfer to hotel

Breakfast at hotel

Visit Shaolin Monastery to see one of China’s most famous martial art tradition that was developed by Buddhist monks, founded in the 5 th century by an Indian monk with lunch

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D11

Date

Luoyang / Xian

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit Longmen Caves with it’s 100000 images and statues of Buddha and his disciples carved into the rocks

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Transfer to train station for train to Xian

Arrival Xian and transfer to hotel

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D12

Date

Xian

Day

Breakfast at hotel

Full Day visit Terracotta Warriors with more than 6000 life-sized terracotta figures of soldiers and horses in perfect battle array are showing the superb sculptural art of that time, lunch at local restaurant. Visit  Wild Goose Pagoda and Old City Wall.

Evening Tang Dynasty Show with artists that are dressed in traditional Tang Costumes and perform dances of Tany Dynasty

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D13

Date

Xian / Guilin

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Guilin

Arrival Guilin

PM

Transfer for city tour included the Reed Flute Cave with it’s multi-coloured lighting and fantastic stalactites and stalagmites and Elephant Trunk Hill with lunch at local restaurant

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D14

Date

Guilin

Day

Breakfast at hotel

Depart for a 04 hours Li River boat cruise to Yangshuo with lunch at local restaurant, we pass some extraordinary peaks, sprays of bamboo lining, the riverbanks, fishers in small boats and picturesque villages

Transfer from Yangshuo back to Guilin by coach and pass some more nice rural scenery such as rice fields and small villages

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D15

Date

Guilin / Guangzhou / Hong Kong

Day

Breakfast at hotel

Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Guangzhou

Arrival Guangzhou

Transfer for city tour: Chan’s Ancestor Temple, walking through the old street in Shamian Island where you can see what’s left behind from the olden day with those colonial style English, French architecture and the Nanyue Museum with lunch at local restaurant

PM

Transfer from Guangzhou to train station for train to Hong Kong

Meal: B/L