The Tour We Join: Shanghai Bus Day Tour

Since this is my first time visit Shanghai so booked local tour should be the best choice. We did reserve a quick, short trip, one day trip explore Shanghai famous sites with this group tour. Start from the early morning, our guide picked us up on time then first visit to Yuyuan Garden.

Yuyuan Garden was crowded with locals visitors, even the weather was cool that day. This garden is a pleasant place, well-contained classical Chinese garden.

This is one of the classical old Chinese buildings with authentic design we did see around the complex. Strolling Yu Garden will be a little bit confusing if you do not come with guide.

At last stop at Yu Garden, we find this building where actually houses lots of stores sells foods, snacks, drinks, souvenirs etc. Lots of people including us took pictures in front of it.

Located not far from Yu Garden, the Bund is our next destination. As the symbol of Shanghai, here is the place where visitors get close to the old and new Shanghai. Strolling around the Bund and heard our guide explained about the city was just nice and interesting.

After visit the Bund then we had lunch and next continue to the Jade Buddha Temple. A short trip to this temple was memorable. I was personally loves the environment, quiet and calm atmosphere filled with locals burn incense everywhere.

The last place we did visit called Xintiandi. It is a place where local and expatriates will come gathered have dinner or just hanging out. Lots of stores, cafes, bars, restaurants, a night spot of Shanghai. Overall, this tour was informative, took us visit lots of iconic spots of Shanghai within short time with organized itinerary and comfortable transportation.

The Tour We Join: 1 Day Xian Bus Tour: Terracotta Warriors, Huaqing Hot Spring

This time was my second visit to China and my choice was Xian. Xian is an ancient capital of China, become famous for its reign of Tang Dynasty. But apart from Tang Dynasty, Xian has become so popular for its Terracotta Army, a large burial complex of Qin emperor (the First Emperor of China).

Terracotta Army is one of the most fabulous archaeological reserves in the world. This is the Pit 1 where we could see 2,000 clay warriors and horses, the largest of the three pits.

Visitors could have a close look for the details of unique facial expressions and positioned which different from one to another.

Thousand clay soldiers were buried with China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, to accompany him during his eternal rest. From our guide we could knew a lot about facts of this unbelievable historical site, such as there was more than 700,000 laborers worked on the project which order by the Qin emperor shortly after taking the throne.

Together with my family, we explored all of the whole area of this huge tomb. We could personally felt some mysterious feeling around. That site was amazing and a little bit sacred!

After that, we continued our tour to Huaqing Hot spring, the place that known was an imperial bathing pool with long romantic love story during Tang Dynasty of China. Overall, the hot spring was beautiful with lots of picturesque scenery and old buildings. Overall, we had a nice and organized 1 day city tour in Xian, short tour but meaning a lot for us. Thank you for this arrangement.

This one day Beijing group tour offer great chance for us to explore the magnificent Great Wall outside the capital. Tour guide picked us up on time in the morning and took us to explore the first destination called Ming Tombs especially visit the Underground Palace.

One famous spot among tourists in huge Ming Tombs called Underground Palace (Dingling), the tomb of Emperor Shenzong, the only one underground palace exploited in the Ming Tombs.

Strolling around the Underground Palace of Ming Tombs, we found one interesting spot, I think it was the place for worshipped. We also did see numerous ancient cultural heritages, some antiques combines with its sacred atmosphere of the underground.

Next destination after have lunch, moved to the Great Wall, Mutianyu section. The weather was not so cold, with less crowded. Like all the Great Wall was ours. We could took so many great photos with no strangers appear.

Besides, it is another photo of ours while hiking the peaceful Mutianyu. That was a good experience even only climbed little part of this long Great Wall. Still a looong way to go since our guide gave us 2 hours hike on Great Wall.

That was the last part we did see on the Wall before we headed back to the place where we should meet the guide. Time goes so fast, faster than our expectation. It was a memorable short trip to the Great Wall that we cannot forget.