CHN12D11N-HKSH-340
12 Days/ 11 Night
We will arrange a professional guide as well as a driver to accompany you on this 11-day tour. Depart from Hongkong. Visit top attractions around Hongkong, Shanghai,Chengdu, Xi’an,and Beijing,including UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven. Come for a walk in Tiananmen Square to experience the daily life of the locals, enjoy the Olympic National Stadium (Bird's Nest) from a distance, and the Kung Fu show you've expect will be seen on the street corners.
Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Hong kong
When you arrive at Hong Kong, you can take your own taxi or airport shuttle to the hotel we have booked for you. During the rest of the day, you can explore the city on your own. Hong Kong is an international city with easy access to all destinations.
Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Hong Kong
Today is a free activity day where you can enjoy the beautiful scenery at your own pace. You can wander around Kowloon and spend half a day browsing the food courts and shopping malls; You can also take a taxi or subway to Hong Kong Island and stroll along the cultural Garden Avenue.
Attractions: Repulse Bay, Aberdeen floating community
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Shanghai
Today, you will explore Hong Kong's unique blend of Chinese heritage and colonial influences, including the Victoria Peak, Victoria Harbour is named after Queen Victoria of England. Free access all year round. Victoria Harbour has always influenced Hong Kong's history and culture, led Hong Kong's economic and tourism development, and is one of the keys to Hong Kong's becoming an international metropolis.
Afterwards, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Shanghai. Upon arrival in Shanghai, you will be met by our guide and transferred to your hotel for check-in.
Attractions: the Bund, Yu Garden, Shanghai Museum, Jade Buddha Temple, silk workshop, Shanghai Old Street
Meal: Not included
Hotel: Overnight in Shanghai
After breakfast, our guide and driver will be waiting for you at the hotel lobby. Today's tour begins with a relaxing stroll on the Bund. The Bund is located on the banks of the Huangpu River in Huangpu District of Shanghai, that is, the Outer Huangpu Beach, which is a Chinese historical and cultural district. The Bund stands 52 classical revival buildings with different styles, known as the Bund International Architecture Exhibition group, is an important historical site and representative architecture in modern China, and one of the landmarks of Shanghai. Across the river from the Bund in Lujiazui, Pudong, there are Shanghai's landmark buildings such as the Oriental Pearl, Jinmao Tower, Shanghai Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center, which have become the symbol of China's reform and opening up and the epitome of Shanghai's modernization drive.
Afterwards, head to the Shanghai Museum and the old private Yu Garden, Yu Garden was originally a private garden in the Ming Dynasty, which was built in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years as of 2015. Followed by Shanghai Old Street where you can enjoy the vibrant and sophisticated cityscape. Afterwards, visit the Jade Buddha Temple and a silk workshop.
Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Chengdu
On this day we have no schedule in the morning, you are free to arrange your time. You can take a walk in People's Park, immerse yourself in Mocha Shanghai or Shanghai Grand Theatre and have coffee in the former French Concession.The former French Concession is the geographical area of Sycamore-lined streets and alleys that make up what used to be the French-administered part of town (late 19th century to mid-twentieth). And by the way, all those trees (called platane in French), were imported from France. Walking through it make you have a first impression of Shanghai’s History.
In the afternoon, your guide and driver will transfer you to the airport for your flight to Chengdu. When you arrive in Chengdu, your guide will greet you and then escort you to your hotel for check-in.
Attractions: the Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Jinli Old Street
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Chengdu
Enjoy a special morning with the adorable pandas at the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base. At the Panda Base. Here is the world famous scientific research and breeding base, public education base and educational tourism base. The base covers an area of 1000 mu. As the "Giant Panda ex situ Ecological Protection Demonstration Project", it is famous for protecting and breeding endangered wild animals unique to China such as giant pandas and red pandas.
In the afternoon, take a city tour to Wenshu Temple and Jinli Old Street.
Attractions: Drum Tower, Muslim Street, Pi family compound
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Xi’an
This morning, took a high-speed train to Xi'an. Upon arrival, be picked up at your hotel. After a short rest at the hotel, start the city tour to the Drum Tower. The Bell and Drum Tower Square is a comprehensive project for the protection of monuments and the renewal of the old city. The environmental art design extends along the theme of "morning bell and evening drum" to both the ancient and the modern, drawing on the experience of traditional Chinese spatial grouping in spatial processing, and combining it with the theory of modern urban external space to provide an "urban living room" for the ancient city of Xi'an.
Late go to Muslim Street, Muslim Quarter is a famous food and cultural neighbourhood in Xi'an, a snack street in Xi'an. Muslim Quarter is located in Beiyuanmen, where was originally an official district in the Qing Dynasty.
Attractions: Terracotta Warriors, City Walls
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Xi’an
The highlight of the day is the amazing Terracotta Warriors. Generally speaking, all of the terracotta warriors have the unique majesty and calmness of the Qin people in their faces, with distinctive personalities and strong characteristics of the times. The terracotta sculptures are painted and sculpted in a combination of ways, although the age is far away, but in the freshly excavated can still be vaguely seen on the face of the characters and clothes painted in the colours.
Afterwards, drive back to the city for about an hour to see the night lights of the ancient City Walls, the largest and best-preserved ancient city wall in China, is one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units and a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. .
Attractions: Beihai Park, Wangfujing Street
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Beijing
Take a high-speed train to Beijing. Upon arrival, your local guide will pick you up and take you to the hotel for check-in. We do not have an itinerary for this day, so you are free to spend your time as you please. Wangfujing Street is lined with various stores and restaurants, or Beihai Park, where you can rest, will be a good place to go.If you have any problems, feel free to ask your guide for some help.
Attractions: Tiananmen Square, Jingshan Park, hutongs,the Forbidden City
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Beijing
After breakfast today, our guide and driver will meet you in the hotel lobby at the agreed time. You will first visit Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen Square is the centre of Beijing and the symbol of China. It is the largest city square in the world, covering an area of 440,000 square metres and can accommodate 1 million people. Then explore the Forbidden City. It is located in the centre of Beijing's central axis, was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is also the world's largest and most well-preserved wooden structure of palace-type buildings. On your way out, head to Jingshan Park.Jingshan Park is located in Jingshanqian Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, located on the central axis of the Ming and Qing dynasties of Beijing, facing the North Sea in the west and the Shenwu Gate of the Forbidden City across the street in the south. Jingshan Mountain in the center of the park was made of piles of earth and was once the commanding point of the city.
Finally, you will end the day by walking through authentic hutongs. Beijing's hutongs are not only the veins of the city and the thoroughfares of the traffic, but also the places where the common people of Beijing live and the important stage for the historical and cultural development of the capital.
Attractions: Great Wall, Heaven Temple
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Beijing
During your holiday in China you can make an impressive trip on the magnificent Great Wall. Here, you can take a cable car up and down the mountain. On the Great Wall, you may want to do some moderate hiking to enjoy more majestic views. In the afternoon, drive back to the city for about 2 hours to visit the Heaven Temple, formerly known as the Temple of Heaven and Earth, is located on the east side of Yongdingmen Street in Dongcheng District, Beijing. It was the place for the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties to worship heaven, pray for grain and rain. It is the largest remaining ancient sacrificial complex in China.
After the tour, return to your hotel.
Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: No
At the end of the tour, your trip to Beijing will come to an end. Near check-in time our tour guide will take you to the airport and you will be ready to go home.