7-Day China Classic Tour of Hong Kong Xi’an and Beijing

Attractions: No

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Hong Kong

Welcome to Xi'an, our guide and driver will greet you on arrival with a sign with your name on it, they will escort you to your booked hotel, where your guide will help you check in and the rest of the day is yours to explore the city on your own.

Attractions: Shanxi Provincial History Museum, The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Bell Tower

Clock Tower, The Muslim Quarter, Shanxi Grand Theatre

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Xi’an

On this day, we will come to your hotel to pick you up and start the day. First visit Shanxi Provincial History Museum. Shaanxi History Museum is located in Yanta District, Xi 'an City, Shaanxi Province. It was built in 1983 and opened to the public on June 20, 1991. Open to the public for free on March 27, 2008. It is a national first-class museum, a national AAAA tourist attraction, and a social science popularization base in Shaanxi Province.

Then visit The Big Wild Goose Pagoda. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is the earliest and largest surviving four-sided pavilion-style brick pagoda of the Tang Dynasty. It is typical evidence of Indian Buddhist temple buildings such as pagoda blend into Central Plains and Huaxia culture. It is the integration of the ancient Chinese working people's wisdom of the crystallisation of the landmark building.

After lunch, we will take you up to the Bell Tower and the Clock Tower. The two are located in the center of Xi'an city, connecting the east, south, west and north roads within the city walls. On top of the Clock Tower, you will see a panoramic view of the city of Xi'an.

Finally, visit The Muslim Quarter (not including a visit to the Grand Mosque). 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.

After the day tour, you will arrive at Shanxi Grand Theatre around 6:00 p.m. Our guide will help you find seats for dinner inside the theatre. Afterwards you will enjoy an exquisite show related to the theme of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty show showcases the costumes, music and dances of the Golden Age of China: the Tang Dynasty. After the show, we will transfer you back to your hotel.

Attractions: Terra-cotta Army, The City Walls

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Xi'an

From your hotel in Xi'an, drive to the Terra-cotta Army. 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.

After returning to Xi'an, you are free to choose a restaurant and enjoy your lunch. After lunch, visit The 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.

After finishing the tour of Xi'an City Wall, we will transfer you back to your hotel.

Attractions: Temple of Heaven

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Beijing

After breakfast at hotel, transfer to Xian Airport and take morning flight for Beijing. On arrival in Beijing, you will be met by our tour guide and transferred to your hotel in Beijing. After a short a break at your hotel, visit the Temple of Heaven ( 1.5 hours ), 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.

The rest of the day is at your leisure.

Attractions: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Beijing

After breakfast at the hotel, start your visit to Tiananmen Square (40 minutes). Then proceed to the Forbidden City (2 hours).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.

You are free to have lunch at a restaurant of your choice.

After lunch, continue your visit to the Summer Palace (2 hours), a royal garden in China during the Qing Dynasty, formerly known as the Garden of Clear Ripples, is situated in the western suburbs of Beijing, 15 kilometres from the city, with the entire garden covering an area of 3.009 square kilometres (of which the Summer Palace World Cultural Heritage Area covers an area of 2.97 square kilometres), with the water surface accounting for about three-quarters of the area.

Attractions: Thirteen Ming Tombs, Mutainyu Great Wall

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Beijing

After breakfast, you will be picked up at your hotel around 8:00. Drive to the Thirteen Ming Tombs. The Ming 13 Tombs, a national scenic spot, is located at the southern foot of Tianshoushan Mountain in Changping District, 50 kilometres north of Beijing, and is the mausoleum complex of the thirteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), which is characterised by a grand scale, a complete system and a relatively complete preservation. The area has a beautiful natural landscape and an abundance of cultural relics and monuments.

After Chinese lunch, proceed to Mutianyu Great Wall. The Mutianyu Great Wall is connected to the Juyongguan Great Wall in the west and the Gubeikou Great Wall in the east, which has been the military stronghold guarding Beijing since ancient times, and is known as the "Dangerous Ridge Pass".

Finally, we will transfer you back to your hotel.

Attractions: Shichahai Area, Yandai xiejie, Drum Tower

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: No

After breakfast at the hotel, proceed to Shichahai Area (2.5 hours), a national 4A-level tourist attraction, is located in Xicheng District, the centre of Beijing, adjacent to the central axis of the city. With a water area of 336,000 square metres, Shichahai is the largest and most well-preserved piece of historical district in Beijing, and occupies a unique position in the history of the city's planning and construction.

Get off at Yinjiao Bridge and walk along the 800-year-old Yandai xiejie. The street is located in front of the Drum Tower on Di'anmenwai Street in Beijing, which is the boundary of Factory Bridge in Xicheng District. In the Qing Dynasty to the twenties and thirties, the street is mainly engaged in the operation of dry tobacco bag, water pipe and other tobacco products, antiques, painting and calligraphy, painting and framing, stationery and flavourful snacks, service industry, etc.

Climb the 67-meter high two-story Drum Tower. Architecture is frozen music. The Beijing Bell and Drum Tower are like two powerful and solemn notes. The sound of the bells and drums echoes in the sky of the city, writing history with sound and carrying the echoes of the city's time over the centuries.

On this day, you will be escorted to the airport or train station for your flight or train to next destination!