TP 10 - Beijing/ Urumqi/ Kashgar/ Turpan/ Liuyuan/ Dunhuang/ Xian/ Beijing Duration of Stay  : 11Days/10Nights

D01

Date

Beijing

Day

Arrival Beijing transfer to hotel

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

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)

Peking Duck Dinner

Hotel accommodation

Meal: L/D

D02

Date

Beijing/ Urumqi/ Kashgar

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit Great Wall (Juyong Pass Sector) with lunch, that has been built from 770-475 B.C.

PM

Transfer to airport for flight CZ910 (1440/1820) to Urumqi and connect flight CZ6801 (2030/2215) to Kashgar

Arrival Kashgar transfer to hotel

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L

D03

Date

Kashgar

Day

Breakfast at hotel

Full day visit Kalakuli Lake, an incredible beautiful lake on the Pamirs plateau at 4500m high

Lunch at restaurant on the lakeside

Dinner at local restaurant

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L/D

D04

Date

Kashgar/ Urumqi

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit the famous Sunday Bazaar – the biggest Bazaar in the Middle East Asia, you can watch hundreds of donkey carts, horse riders, pedestrians arriving to do their trading. Tour ends at a livestock market

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Visit the old town, Id Kha Mosque, which is very different to the Chinese-style mosques, you can see a strong influence from Pakistan, then to visit Abakh Hoja Tomb in the east of the oasis that looks like a multicoloured Mini Taj Mahal

Dinner at local restaurant

Transfer to airport for evening flight to Urumqi

Arrival Urumqi transfer to hotel

Hotel accommodation at Xinjiang Grand Hotel

Meal: B/L/D

D05

Date

Urumqi/ Turpan

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit Xinjiang Museum and Red Hill with lunch at local restaurant

PM

Coach to Turpan – a desert oasis, the lowest and hottest spot in China, visit to Karez Well, an underground irrigation system created by the local people to improve the arid land.

Dinner at local restaurant

Hotel accommodation at Oasis Hotel

Meal: B/L/D

D06

Date

Turpan/ Dunhuang

Day

Breakfast at hotel

 AM

Visit Flaming Mountain, Bezeklik Thousand-Buddha Caves and ancient city of Gaochang, the captital of the Uighurs when they moved inton the Xinjiang region from Mongolia in the 9 th century

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Visit the Ruins of Ancient City Jiaohe from Han Dynasty, the 44m high Emin Minaret, we will also pay a visit to a Uygur family

Dinner at local restaurant, afterwards enjoy a traditional Uygur performance

Transfer to train station for overnight train on air-con express train N950 (2201/0841) to Dunhuang

Overnight on train

Meal: B/L/D

D07

Date

Dunhuang

Day

AM

Arrival Dunhuang and transfer to hotel

Lunch at hotel

PM

Visit White Horse Pagoda, Folklore Museum, Singing Sand Dunes and the Crescent Moon Lake, enjoy a camel ride up to the top of the dunes to have a breathtaking view back to the rolling desert sands

Dinner at local restaurant

Hotel accommodation at Silkroad Dunhuang Hotel

Meal: L/D

D08

Date

Dunhuang/ Xian

Breakfast at hotel

Full day visit Mogao Caves which are the most impressive and best preserved example of a Buddhist cave and are the highlight of a visit to Dunhuang

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Transfer to airport for flight CZ 6895 (15h10/17h30) to Xian

Arrival Xian transfer to hotel

Dinner at local restaurant

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L/D

D09

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. On the way back to the city and visit Wild Goose Pagoda.

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

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L/D

D10

Date

Xian/ Beijing

Day

Breakfast at hotel

AM

Visit Stele Forest, City Wall, Grand Mosque, if time permits, we can visit a big free market of Chinese medicinal herbs, there are thousands of herbs/ leaves/ plant roots/ tree Corsican

Lunch at local restaurant

PM

Transfer to airport for flight to Beijing

Arrival Beijing transfer to hotel

Dinner at local restaurant

Hotel accommodation

Meal: B/L/D

D11

Date

Beijing

Day

Breakfast at hotel

Departure transfer to airport for flight

Meal: B