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| Tour Name :15 Days of Silkroad Exploring & Historical sites viewing in China |
| Tour Code : SR01 |
Day 1 ( ) Arrival / Beijing
Transfer via: International flight to Beijing-On your own arrangement
Arrive at Beijing. Be met & transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day.
Day 2 (B, L, )Beijing \Full day trip to the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven. Enjoy the Peking Opera Show in the evening.
- The Tian'anmen Square: The largest city square in the world.
- The Forbidden City: The largest imperial palace in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties with a history of around 600 years.
- The Temple of Heaven: The place where the ancient emperors used to pray for the God's bless of the whole nation.
Day 3 (B, L, D )Beijing \Full day trip to the Great Wall, Ming Tomb and Sacred road. Enjoy a famous Peking Duck Banquet for dinner.
- The Great Wall: One of the seven wonders in the world and the symbol of China.
- The Ding Tomb: The only underground tomb of the thirteen tombs of the emperors in the Ming Dynasty.
- The Sacred Road: The way guarded on both sides with stone statues by which the ancient emperors went to hold a memorial ceremony for the ancestors.
Day 4 (B, L, )Beijing/ Xi'an
Transfer via: PM flight-on our arrangement
Visit Hutongs by rickshaw. Take afternoon flight to Xian. Arrive at Xian. Be met & transferred to your hotel. Have city tours to the Provincial Museum and the Ancient City Wall.
- The Provincial Museum: One of the main museums in China which holds numerous unearthed cultural relics of China.
- The Ancient City Wall: An extension of the old Tang Dynasty structure boasting the most complete city wall that survives through Chinese long history.
- Hutongs: The old narrow paths where common people lived. All the Hutongs crisscross with each other, dotted with the Kindergarten, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, the Tea House, and the lake, House of Gong Infante and local people's houses among them.
Day 5 (B, L, )Xian/Visit the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, the Bell Tower and the Wild Goose Pagoda. Enjoy the Tang Dynasty show in the evening.
- The Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses: The greatest archaeological findings of the century: the army of terra-cotta warriors and the bronze chariots entombed in vast underground vaults at emperor Qin's tomb.
- The Bell Tower: The emblem of Xian city.
- The Wild Goose Pagoda: The pagoda where widely renowned Master Xuanzang (Monk Tripitaka) stored his classics brought from India.
- The Tang Dynasty show: The show that presents the palace dances and sings in the Tang Dynasty when Xian was the capital.
Day 6 (B, L, )Xian / Lanzhou
Transfer via: Am flight-on our arrangement In the morning take flight to the Lanzhou. Upon arriving at Lanzhou, be met and then visit the Grottoes around the Bingling Temple and have a short boat cruise in the Liujiaxia Reservoir.
- The Binglingsi Grottoes: The grottoes was originally constructed in the Qin Dynasty. On both sides of it the landscape is splendid.
Day 7 (B, L, )Lanzhou / Wuwei
Be transferred to Wuwei, visit Lei Tai and Culture Temple.
Day 8 (B, L, )Wuwei / Zhangye/Jiuquan
Drive to Zhangye, visit Zhangye grand Buddha Temple. After that be tranferred to Jiuquang, visit Jiuquang Garden.
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Day 9 (B, L, )Jiuquang / Jiayuguan / Dunhuang
Drive to Jiayuguang, Visit the Jiayuguan Pass and then be transferred to Dunhuang.
- The Jiayuguan Pass: It is the western end of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty as well as the most magnificent and best-preserved pass among the over thousand passes along the Ming Great Wall.
Day 10 (B, L, )Dunhuang /Have tours to the Mogao Caves and the Crescent Lake in the afternoon.
- The Mogao Caves: Constructed over a millennium, from the 4th to the 14th centuries, the caves hold the world's richest treasure house of Buddhist sutras, murals and sculptures.
- The Crescent Lake: The lake and the Sounding Sand Dune which can make sounds when the wind passes are located in the place where the sand and the oasis meet.
Day 11 (B, L, )Dunhuang / over night train
Transfer via: TrainT295(2327-0736)-on our arrangement Visit the Yumen Guan Pass, the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty(about 2000 years ago), the Hecang Fortress and the Yang Guan Pass. In the afternoon, be transferred to railway station to take the overnight train to Turpan.
- The Yumen Guan Pass: Once as one of the west gates out of the country of the Han Dynasty (206 B. C. -220 A. D.), it is quite ruined by the shifting sands but still shows the ever splendor.
- The Great Wall of the Han Dynasty: Though made in clay and bulrushes, the wall still remains very well.
- The Hecang Fortress: Supplies like food and wine were tranported here from nearby towns to be stored for the armies that guarded the Yumen Guan Pass.
- The Yang Guan Pass: Together with the Yunmen Guan Gate, it is also one of the west gates out of the country of the Han Dynasty.
Day 12 (L, )over night train / Turpan
Arrive at Turpan in the morning, be met at railway station and then visit the Gaochang Ancient City, the Bezaklik Thousand Buddha Grottoes, the Karez Well, the Flaming Mountain and the Grape Valley, Enjoy the cultural show of Uygur songs and dances.
- The Gaochang Ancient City: The city's name means "the King City". It is laid in the first century B.C. and abandoned roughly in the 15th century.
- The Bezaklik Thousand Buddha Grottoes: It contains 67 caves dating from the Northern and Southern dynasties (317 - 589) to the Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368).
- The Karez Well: It is an irrigation system of wells connected by underground channels and is considered as one of the three great ancient projects in China.
- The Flaming Mountain: Crustal movements and years of efflorescence fashion its unique geological feature. When the sun's rays beat down in mid-afternoon, the red rocks on the crisscross gullies and ravines reflect and the heat is intense as if the hillsides were engulfed by tongues of fire, hence the name.
Day 13 (B, L, )Turpan / Urumqi
Morning tour to visit the Heavenly Lake.
- The Heavenly Lake: The lake is 1900 meters above the sea level. It is particularly refreshing for travellers arriving in Urumqi from the barren deserts in Xinjiang.
Day 14 (B, L, )Urumqi \Visit the Southern Pasture and the Erdaoqiao Bazaar.
- The Southern Pasture: Located in the valley of Tian Mountain, the pasture is a very beautiful place for graze with mountains, valleys, fountains, waterfalls, cypress and pine trees.
- The Erdaoqiao Bazaar: It is the largest Uigur bazaar in Urumqi. Here, you'll find a bustling market filled with fruit, clothing, crafts, knives, carpets and more.
Day 15 (B, )Urumqi / Guangzhou/HongKong
Transfer via: Flight-on our arrangement
In the moring be transferred to the airport for the flight to Guangzhou, then take a connect flight to HongKong. |
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| Starting City : Beijing |
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| Length of Trip : 15 |
| Destinations :Beijing,Xi'an,Lanzhou,Wuwei,Zhangye,Jiuquan,Jiayuguan,Dunhuang,Turpan,Urumqi,Guangzhou |
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