TP 04 – Hong Kong/ Kunming/ Guilin/ Shanghai/ Suzhou/ Luoyang/ Xian/ Beijing
Duration of Stay : 15Days/14Nights |
D01 |
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Hong Kong/ Kunming |
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Departure Hong Kong for flight to Kunming, also known as a city of perpetual spring with a mild climate |
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Arrival Kunming, we make a small city tour with lunch at local restaurant, and visit the Night Market |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: L |
D02 |
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Kunming |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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AM |
We drive around 120km southeast of Kunming to the famous Stone Forest, a massive collection of grey limestone pillars, split by rain water and eroded to their fanciful forms, the tallest standing 30m high |
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Lunch at local restaurant |
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Return to Kunming and go on with some city-sightseeing |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D03 |
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Kunming/ Guilin |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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AM |
Visit the West Hill which can be reached by chairlift and provides spectacular views to lake Dian, walk your way down from the hill on a narrow stone-footpath which is cut into the cliff to the Dragon Gate, passing a series of famous shrines and temples |
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Lunch at local restaurant |
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PM |
Transfer to airport for flight to Guilin |
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Arrival Guilin and transfer to hotel |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D04 |
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Guilin |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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AM |
4 hours boat trip to Yangshou on the Li River, we pass some extraordinary peaks, sprays of bamboo, lining, the riverbanks, fishers in small boats and pictures villages with lunch at local restaurant |
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PM |
Coach back to Guilin, on the way, we will visit one of the most extraordinary sceneries, which is underground – the Reed Flute Cave with it’s multicoloured lighting and fantastic stalactites and stalagmites, and then the Elephant Trunk Hill |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D05 |
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Guilin/ Shanghai |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Shanghai |
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Arrival Shanghai, we visit the famous Jade Buddha Temple with a 2m high sitting white Jade Buddha and the 400 years old Yu Garden, decorated with masterpieces of architecture with lunch at local restaurant |
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Evening Acrobatic Show |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D06 |
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Shanghai |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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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 |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B |
D07 |
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Shanghai/ Suzhou |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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Transfer from hotel to train station for train to Suzhou – a city more than 2500 years old and named the Garden Cities |
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Arrival Suzhou |
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Lunch at local restaurant |
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PM |
Visit Net Master Garden, Lion Forest Garden, Silk Factory and 30 mins boat ride on Emperors canal |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D08 |
Date |
Suzhou/ Luoyang |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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AM |
Visit Tongli Village with lunch in very local restaurant |
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Back to Suzhou |
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PM |
Transfer to train station for train 1658 17h45/10h17* to Luoyang |
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Overnight on train |
Meal: B/L |
D09 |
Date |
Luoyang |
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Arrival Luoyang transfer to hotel |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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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 |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D10 |
Date |
Luoyang/ Xian |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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AM |
Visit Longmen Caves with it’s 100000 images and status of Buddha and his disciples carved into the rocks |
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Lunch at local restaurant |
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PM |
Transfer to train station for train to Xian |
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Arrival Xian and transfer to hotel |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D11 |
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Xian |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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AM |
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 |
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Evening Tang Dynasty Show with artists that are dressed in traditional Tang Costumes and perform dances of Tang Dynasty |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D12 |
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Xian/ Beijing |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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Transfer from hotel to airport for flight to Beijing |
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Arrival Beijing and transfer to hotel |
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Lunch at local restaurant |
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AM |
Free for leisure |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D13 |
Date |
Beijing |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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Full day visit Great Wall (Badaling), that has been built from 770-475 B.C. – climbing on top on the 2484 mile3s long Great Wall is really an experience. Afterwards visit the Summer Palace, the summer-residence of the former emperors with one of the biggest and best preserved gardens in China and visit a peal factory enroute and enjoy a 45 mins Foot Message |
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Lunch at local restaurant |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L |
D14 |
Date |
Beijing |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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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) |
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Lunch at local restaurant |
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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 |
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Peking Duck Dinner |
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Hotel accommodation |
Meal: B/L/D |
D15 |
Date |
Beijing |
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Breakfast at hotel |
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Departure transfer to airport for flight |
Meal: B |
