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Tour Introduction

Tour Name :15 Days of Ancient China with Yangtze Cruise (Upstream) Discovery

Tour Code : YZ06

Day 1 ( ) Somewhere / Shanghai
Transfer via: International flight-On your own arrangement Arrive at Shanghai. Be met & transferred to your hotel.

Day 2 (B, L, )Shanghai
Visit Oriental Pearl Tower,Shanghai Museum & Yu Yuan Garden. Enjoy Shangcheng Acrobatic Show in the evening.
-Shanghai Museum:The biggest museum in China, with a collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese art & cultural relics. The museum is especially famous for its treasures of bronzes, ceramics, paintings, and calligraphy.
-Yu Yuan Garden, the most celebrated classical Chinese garden in Shanghai, around which a nice shopping mall for all kinds of light products, specialties and local snacks.

Day 3 (B, L, )Shanghai / Suzhou
Drive to Suzhou. Have a cruise on the Grand Canal, then visit the Pan Gate, Lingering Garden,The No.1 Silk Factory.
-Grand Canal: The Grand Canal ranks alongside the Great Wall of China as the country's greatest engineering achievement and it is the longest man-made waterway in world. Cruising on the Canal, you can see the local peoples' life.
-Pan Gate: Pan Gate is an ancient city gate with land and water entrances. One gate with land and water entrances was quite typical in ancient China. Pan Gate is the only one left.
-Lingering Garden: Suzhou is famous for the gardens. Lingering Garden is an elaborate succession of small gardens. Lingering in the garden you would marvel at this unique architecture art.
-The No.1 Silk Factory: Suzhou is also famous for its silk production. In the factory you can see how the silk is processed from the silk worm to the final woven cloth.
Drive back to Shanghai in late afternoon.

Day 4 Deluxe (B, L, )Suzhou / shanghai/Wuhan
Transfer via: AM flight In the morning, be transferred to the airport for the flight to Wuhan.Upon arrival Wuhan, be met & transferred to dock, boarding on the ship, The ship departs Wuhan at 1900.
Comfortable (B, L, )Suzhou / shanghai/Wuhan
Transfer via: AM flight
In the morning, be transferred to the airport for the flight to Wuhan.Upon arrival Wuhan, be met & transferred to dock, boarding on the ship, the ship departs Wuhan at 1700.
Budget (B, L, )Suzhou / shanghai/Wuhan
Transfer via: AM flight (shanghai/Wuhan)
Express Bus (wuhan/Yichang) In the morning, be transferred to the airport for the flight to Wuhan.Upon arrival Wuhan, be met & transferred from airport to bus station for the 4 hours express bus to Yichang, pre-boarding on the boat tonight.

Day 5 Deluxe (B, L, D )Yangtze
The ship passes Xiling Gorge. Comfortable(B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to Jingzhou.
Budget (B, L, D )Yangtze
The ship departs Yichang at 0630. Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam site. The ship passes through the dam ship locks.

Day 6 Deluxe(B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam site. The ship passes through the dam ship locks.
Comfortable (B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to the Three Gorges Dam. The ship passes through dam ship locks.
Budget (B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to Shennong Stream or Lesser Three Gorges.

Day 7 Deluxe (B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to Lesser Three Gorges.
Comfortable (B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to the Shennong Stream.
Budget (B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to Fengdu. Day 8 Deluxe (B, L, )Yangtze
Shore excursion to Wanxian. Comfortable(B, L, D )Yangtze
Shore excursion to Shibaozhai. Budget (B, L, )Yangtze / Chongqing
The ship arrives in Chongqing at 0900.Arrive at Chongqing.Be met at the dock & transferred to take a half day city tour:
Visit Erling Park,Chongqing Zoo & Ciqikou old street.
--Erling Park.Take a bird's eye view of the whole city of Chongqing in Erling Park. --Chongqing Zoo,the Giant pandas & Lesser pandas & Golden hair monkeys & South China Tigers can be seen.
--Ciqikou is an old town with traditional Chongqing style buildings,tea houses,and Sichuan Opera houses.

Day 9 Deluxe (B, L, )/Yangtze / Chongqing /Xi'an/Transfer via: AM flight.
The ship arrives in Chongqing at 0900.Take the 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.
Comfortable (B, L, ) Yangtze / Chongqing /Xian
Transfer via: AM flight The ship arrives in Chongqing at 0900.Take the 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.
Budget (B, L, ) Chongqing / Xian
Transfer via: AM flight
Take the 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.

Day 10 (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 11 (B, L, )Xian / Beijing
Transfer via: PM flight
Visit the Hanyang Tomb. Take noon flight to the next destination. Arrive at Beijing. Be met & transferred to your hotel. Have city tour to the Summer Palace.
- The Hanyang Tomb: The Jing Emperor's tomb in Han Dynasty which was opened in 2001 and is famous for its rich collections of different kinds of tombs.
- The Summer Palace: The largest and best-preserved royal garden in China with a history of over 800 years.

Day 12 (B, L, )Beijing
Full day trip to the Tian'anmen 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 13 (B, L, D )Beijing
l day trip to the Great Wall and 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 14 (B, L, )Beijing
sit the Hutongs by rickshaw and Xiushui Street.
- 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 Infant and local people's houses among them.
- Xiushui Street: A market near the embassy area where you can find a number of duplicates of clothing in traditional Chinese style such as clothes, caps, gloves. Enjoy bargains with sellers and pleasant surprise of finding a real treasure if you are lucky enough.

Day 15 (B, )beijing/ Somewhere
Transfer via: International flight-On your own arrangement Free at leisure until to be transferred to the airport for flight to.

Type	1 person ($)	2-5 persons($)	6-9 persons($)	10 up($)	Single room Supplement($)
Tourist Class	2727	1973	1622	0	232
Deluxe Class	3044	2100	1744	0	373
Superior Class	3637	2495	2141	0	576
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