Itinerary of Top 10 China Tour - 12 Days Beijing Xian Lhasa Shanghai Flight Tour

• Day 1: Arrival at Beijing
  Arrive at Beijing. Our tour guide will meet you at the airport and then transfer you to the hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day.

 
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  Day 2: Beijing (B, L, D)
  Pick you up from your hotel and visit the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. Enjoy the Peking Duck Dinner and Evening show(Peking Opera or Kungfu show or Acrobatics show) in the evening. After the tour, transfer back to your hotel.
  - Tiananmen Square: is said to be the largest public square in the world. It is 880 meters from north to south, and 500 meters from east to west, with a total area of 440,000 square meters and can hold one million people.
  - Forbidden City: the largest ancient imperial palaces where 24 emperors, 14 of the Ming and 10 of the Qing, ruled the country from here over a span of nearly 500 years. It takes pride in its precious collections of more than 900, 000 cultural and art objects.
  - Temple of Heaven: The perimeter of the Temple of Heaven is 6,369 meters with 6 meters high. The temple was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests.

 
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  Day 3: Beijing (B, L)
  Pick you up from your hotel and visit the Badaling Great Wall. After lunch, visit the Sacred Way, the Ming Tomb, the exterior of Bird's Nest (Olympic National Stadium) and the Water Cube (Olympic Aquatic Center) in the afternoon. After the tour, transfer back to your hotel.
  - Badaling Great Wall: As its name implies it gives access to every direction. With an elevation of 600 meters it is the most famous and best-preserved section of the Great Wall.
  - Ming Tomb: it is the largest clusters of imperial cemeteries in China. They are mausoleums of thirteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty. Dingling and Changling were open to the tourist. Dingling is the tomb of Emperor Shenzong and his two empresses, it is an underground palace. Changling, the tomb of Emperor Chengzu and his empress, is the largest and most magnificent one of the Ming Tombs.
  - Sacred Road: Which means the road leading to heaven is lined with 18 pairs of stone human figures and animals, they are important decorations of the mausoleum.

 
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  Day 4: Beijing - Xian (B, L)
  Pick you up from your hotel, and then transfer to visit Summer Palace and Beijing Zoo. Then take flight to Xian. The tour guide will pick you up at the airport and transfer to the hotel. The rest of this day is on your own.
  - Summer Palace: the largest and best preserved imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty extant in Beijing, as well as a famous classical imperial garden.
  - Beijing Zoo: Beijing Zoo is China's largest treasure house of animals and birds and has become one of the ten biggest ZOOs in the world.

 
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  Day 5: Xian (B, L, D)
  Pick you up from your hotel and visit the Terra Cotta Warriors. After lunch,  visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the afternoon. This evening you will be entertained with the marvelous Tang Dynasty Show in and dumpling dinner. After the day tour, transfer back to your hotel!
  - Terra Cotta Warriors: It is a part of the Qin emperor's tomb complex, the Terra Cotta Warriors is the greatest findings in the archeology world.
  - Big Wild Goose Pagoda: the symbol of the long history of Xian, and a well-preserved ancient building and holy worshipping shrine for Buddhists.

 
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  Day 6: Xian (B, L)
  Pick you up from your hotel and visit the Provincial History Museum, the Great Mosque and a City Wall. Transfer back to your hotel!
  - Provincial History Museum: Opened in 1991, the museum is a giant architectural in the Tang-dynasty style and it successfully symbolizes the great extent of Shaanxi history and its remarkable culture.
  - Great Mosque: It can seat 1,000 worshippers and is the largest and best-preserved mosque in China. The Islamic architecture is perfectly integrated with traditional Chinese elements in this complex.
  - City Wall: the most complete city wall survived in China as well as one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world.

 

• Day 7: Xian - Lhasa (B)
  Pick you up from your hotel and transfer to the airport. Fly to Lhasa and transfer to the hotel.

 
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  Day 8: Lhasa (B)
  Pick you up from your hotel and visit the magnificent Potala Palace, the Sera Monastery, the Norbulingka Park and a local Tibetan family. After the tour, transfer back to your hotel!
  - Potala Palace: A UNESCO endorsed world cultural heritage site. It was where Dalai Lama lived. The palace consists of White Palace and Red Palace, with nearly 10,000 rooms.
  - Sera Monastery: It is dedicated to the Gelugpa Sect, a branch of Tibetan Buddhism and is famous for debates on Buddhist doctrines. Almost 10,000 Buddhist statues are preserved here.
  - Norbulingka: The biggest man-made garden in Tibet. It consists of palaces such as Kelsang Potrang, Golden Potrang and Takten Migyur Potrang, with totally 374 rooms.

 
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  Day 9: Lhasa (B)
  Pick you up from your hotel and visit the Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Street, the Tibet Museum, the Tibetan Traditional Medicine Hospital and the Carpet Factory. After the tour, transfer back to your hotel.
  - Jokhang Temple: built in 647 as the earliest wood-masonry structure in Tibet. It is dedicated to a statue of Sakyamni. It has a collection of cultural relics dating back to the Tang, which includes statues of Songtsan Gambo and Princess Wencheng.
  - Barkhor Street: Also called Bajiao Street - an ancient circular street with strong Tibetan flavor. It's a route where pilgrims holding prayer wheel walk clockwise. And now is a famous commercial street.

 

• Day 10: Lhasa to Shanghai (B)
  Pick you up from your hotel and transfer to the airport, take flight to Shanghai. When you arrival at Shanghai, pick you up from the airport and then transfer to the hotel.

 
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  Day 11: Shanghai (B, L)
  Pick you up from your hotel and visit the Shanghai Museum and the Yuyuan Garden.  After lunch, transfer you to the Bund area, where you will take a cruise tour on the Huangpu River. The cruise will start at 14:00pm, reach the Wusongkou pier and then get back to the Bund at 17:00pm. Leave you some free time to explore the Bund area on your own.
  - Shanghai Museum: ranked as China's best museum.
  - Yuyuan Garden: is considered one of the most lavish and finest Chinese gardens in the region.
  - The Bund: the picturesque bund with tall building of various tower over the river, looking as a museum of modern world architecture.
  - Nanjing Road: Shanghai's most famous thoroughfare for shopping and entertainment.
  - Huangpu River: the most important shipping artery of Shanghai. Cruises are available every day, including the shorter cruises and the complete cruises.

 

• Day 12: Departure from Shanghai (B)
  Transfer you to the airport and see off. China Tour Package end!

 

Tour Price (exchange rate: 1US$ = 6.1CNY)