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Discover a China rich in natural and cultural resources with this 20 nights, 21 days tour to Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, Dazu, Chongqing, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-la, Suzhou and Shanghai.
(Tour Code: EK)
Day 01 Australia/Beijing
Fly from Australia to Beijing, the dynamic capital of the People’s Republic of China. Once the imperial city of Mongol, Ming and Manchu emperors, Beijing today is still extraordinarily rich in historical sites and cultural relics. After clearing airport formalities, you will be met by our CTS guide and transferred to your hotel.
Day 02 Beijing (B/L/D)
Tour the Tian’anmen Square, the biggest public square in the world. If permitted, we visit Mao’s mausoleum. After lunch, visit Forbidden City, the vast complex of palaces, which was home to successive Emperors for more than 500 years. Included is admission to the living quarters, museum and jewelry sections. Enjoy our traditional Beijing Duck banquet dinner.
Day 03 Beijing (B/L/D)
Morning tour to the Great Wall, stretching almost 4,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the sands of Central Asia and befittingly crowned one of the ten wonders of the world. Along the way, you will stop at a jade carving factory where you can watch artisans at work. Continue to the Summer Palace, the largest and the best preserved of all imperial palace gardens, which boasts such delights as the famous Marble Boat and the ornately painted ‘Long Corridor’, and take a boat ride on its Lake Kunming if weather permit. After dinner, acrobatic show.
Day 04 Beijing (B/L)
Morning, enjoy a pedicab tour of Hutong, the ‘old city’ neighbourhoods of narrow alleyways and courtyard gardens, experience local life on a family visit and kindergarten if opens. After our special lunch in a local family home, tour to the Temple of Heaven, the 500 year old Temple houses altars on which sacrifices and offerings were laid to the gods in a glorious setting of gardens, tress and sculptures. Visit a local market if time permit. Evening at leisure.
Day 05 Beijing/Xian (B/D)
Morning, transfer to the airport for a flight to Xian. Upon arrival, visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Have sumptuous dumpling dinner, and enjoy a traditional Tang Dynasty show after dinner.
Day 06 Xian (B/L/D)
Morning tour to the greatest archaeological discovery of the century, more than 2,000 year-old Terracotta Warriors interred with the Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Included are the Circle Vision Movie and Bronze Chariot. Afternoon, we visit to the Great Mosque, a best-preserved Islamic mosque in China and focus for the 30,000 Chinese Muslims of Xi’an.
Day 07 Xian (B)
Xian is rich in historical discoveries. The cultural and historical significance of the area, as well as the abundant relics and sites, help Xi’an enjoy the laudatory title of ‘Natural History Museum’. Apart from the Museum of Terracotta Warriors & Horses, which is listed on the World Heritage List, the City Wall of the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) is the largest and most intact Ming Dynasty castle in the world. In the city, there is the 3,000-year-old Banpo Village Remains from the Neolithic Age (approximately from 8,000 BC to 5,000 BC), and the Forest of Stone Steles that holds 3,000 stone steles of different periods from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Around Xian, the Famen Temple enjoys the reputation of being the ‘forefather of pagodas and temples in Central Shaanxi,’ because it holds the finger bones of Sakyamuni — the founder of Buddhism. Today is a free day for you to explore this city at your own pace.
Day 08 Xian/Chengdu (B/L/D)
Morning fly to Chengdu. Upon arrival, take a drive to Dujiangyan Water Project, which was built more than 2,000 years ago and made the region a breadbasket in the nation. Have a local cuisine dinner , Sichuan style hot & spicy. Check into the hotel.
Day 09 Chengdu-Dazu (B/L/D)
Visit the renowned Panda Breeding and Research Centre in Chengdu before take a coach ride to Dazu County. The giant pandas are not only a Chinese national treasure but are also beloved by people the world over. They are found only in Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu provinces. In total there are fewer than 1000, of which 80% are distributed within the territory of Sichuan province. Therefore, when visitors from home and abroad come to Chengdu, one of their main objectives will be to see the giant pandas for themselves.
Day 10 Dazu-Chongqing (B/L/D)
The Dazu Rock Carvings was built from 650 in the Tang Dynasty and continued to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911). It is as famous as the Mogao Cave in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. The rock carvings in these places are very distinguished both at home and abroad. Among the rock carvings, there are more than 5,000 statues and over 100,000 Chinese characters of inscriptions and epigraphs. The Buddhist statues dominate in this rock-carving group, and the Taoist and the Confucian stone figures can also be seen. After our tours in Dazu, take coach back to Chongqing.
Day 11 Chongqing/Kunming (B/L/D)
Visit the Three Georges Museum before transferred to the airport and fly to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province is called ‘City of Perpetual Spring’ with beautiful sceneries and historical sites. Check in your hotel.
Day 12 Kunming (B/L/D)
Visit the Stone Forest, known as ‘No.1 wonder under heaven’, is the highest karst terrain in the world. The unique natural sights and Sani folklore are characteristics of the Stone Forest Scenic Area. Visit Western Hills and Dragon Gate in the afternoon.
Day 13 Kunming / Dali (B/L/D)
Take morning flight from Kunming to Dali (45 minutes). Standing against the Cangshan Mountains in the west and adjoining the Erhai Lake in the east, embraced by undulating hills around, Dali was the capital of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdom as early as 1,300 years ago. It is home to Bai minority. Upon arrival in Dali, proceed to visit the Bai village Xizhou or Zhoucheng, the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple, and visit the old town of Dali, known as ‘state of literature’, which has a long history and splendid culture.
Day 14 Dali-Lijiang (B/L/D)
Coach journey to Lijiang. On the way, enjoy the natural countryside scenery. Upon arrival, visit Black Dragon Pool Park. Naxi people are the main ethnic group in the town. Dongba Culture Museum makes you have a well understanding of the well-preserved Naxi minority’s people’s culture, which is one of very few ancient photographic scripts in the world still in use. River zigzags surrounding the town, take a walk along the street of the old town of Dayan, you will see a combination of human being, nature and culture. Dayan Town has been on the list of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites since 1997.
Day 15 Lijiang (B/L)
Morning visit the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yak Meadow section), which has rich vegetation coverage, featuring distinct and complete alpine vertical ecosystem from subtropical zone to Frigid Zone. You will take cable car up and down the mountain. You might meet the minority’s people singing and dancing on the Yak Meadow. Afterwards take tour to Baisha Village to see the ancient Fresco. While back to the town, you will have more time to explore the old town of Lijiang. Dinner will be on your own arrangement.
Day 16 Lijiang-Shangri-la (Zhongdian) (B/L/D)
Morning drive to Zhongdian, 250KM away, on the way will pass Shigu (Stone Drum) County, visit the First Bend of Yangtze River, and Tiger Leaping Gorge, which is one of the most dangerous and deepest Canyons in the world. Overnight at a hotel Zhongdian.
Day 17 Shangri-la (Zhongdian) (B/L/D)
Morning visit to Songzanlin Monastery, one of the 13 famous Yellow Hat Tibetan Monastery in Tibet areas constructed following an edict by the fifth Dalai and Emperor Kangxi in 1679. After lunch, tour to the Huge Napahai or Shudu Lake, the water spreads away far below while yaks graze at the shore, also a place where black-necked cranes come to spend winter. This prefecture is inhabited by 13 ethnic groups of Tibetan, Lisu, Han, Naxi, Yi, Bai, Hui and etc.
Day 18 Shangri-la/Kunming/Shanghai (B/D)
Morning fly back to Kunming, and then takes a connecting flight to metropolitan Shanghai. Upon arrival, transferred to your hotel.
Day 19 Shanghai-Suzhou-Shanghai (B/L/D)
In the morning, take a side trip to Suzhou, a small town famous for its classic gardens in the south of China and often so-called ‘Oriental Venice’. You will visit the Garden of the Master of Fishing Net, Silk Spinning Mill and take a boat cruise on the Canal constructed over 1300 year ago in Sui Dynasty. If time permit, we take a short visit to newly renovated Shan Tang Street. Late afternoon, travel back by coach to metropolitan Shanghai. In 1997 the Classical Gardens of Suzhou were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Day 20 Shanghai (B/L)
Morning tour to the Bund, a popular promenade along the Huangpu River, where the old meets the modern in Shanghai. We may experience local life on the Bund to see early morning Tai Chi if you want to be an early bird. Then to the Old Town with its winding alleyways, lined with shops, teahouses and restaurants, and to the elegant and tranquil Yu Garden. Afternoon tour the Shanghai Xintiandi, which is a new tourist attraction in downtown Shanghai, featuring the city’s unique “Shikumen” houses and a maze of narrow alleys, which have been converted into cafes, restaurants, bars, art retail shops. Dinner will be on your own arrangement.
Day 21 Shanghai/Australia (B)
Today you will have free time to go shopping or explore more of Shanghai by yourself. In the evening you will be transferred to the airport for your flight back to Australia.
Day 22 Australia
Arrival in Australia.
