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Tour Introduction

Tour Name :14 Days of Best Selected Tour for Historical Cities & Water Towns in China

Tour Code : WT04

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

Day 2 (B, L, )Beijing
Transfer via: Full day trip to the Tian'anmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Lhama Monastery. 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.
- The Lhama Monastery: The largest 260-year-old monastery in Beijing of the Yellow sect of Lamaism.

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: AM fly
Arrive at Xian. Be met & transferred to your hotel. Have city tours to the Provincial Museum and the Ancient City Wall. Enjoy the Tang Dynasty show in the evening.
- 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.
- The Tang Dynasty show: The show that presents the palace dances and sings in the Tang Dynasty when Xian was the capital.

Day 5 (B, L, )Xi'an Visit the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, the Bell Tower and the Wild Goose Pagoda.
- 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.

Day 6 (B, L, )Xi'an / Guilin Transfer via: AM fly
Upon Arriving at Guilin, be met & transferred to your hotel with private vehicle & tour guide. Then have private city tours to the Reed Flute Cave & the Elephant Trunk Hill.
- Elephant Trunk Hill: Located at the conjunction of the Li River & the Peach Blossom River, the whole hill looks very much like a giant elephant with a long trunk, it is the symbol of Guilin city.
- Reed Flute Cave: Known as "the Palace of Natural Arts" where you can see beautiful stalactites & stalagmites,learn how they are formed.

Day 7 (B, L, )Guilin / Yangshuo Full day Li River Cruise to Yangshuo with lunch aboard and return to Guilin late in the afternoon.
- Li River Cruise: Depart from your hotel in the morning. Be transferred to the Zhujiang Pier(about 1 hour drive)for a 4.5 hours wonderful cruise. You will enjoy the picturesque mountains, peaceful green fields, farms and villages with water buffalos, cows wondering around on both sides of the river bank. Disembark at the one-thousand-year-old town Yangshuo in the afternoon. Have a short exploration to the old town. Stay in Yangshuo tonight.

Day 8 (B, L, )Yangshuo
ONE DAY TOUR IN YANGSHUO
Morning tour to Fuli ancient town located by the Li River, where most of the local people live on making art fans and farm products exchange, you may visit the local market, rice noodle factory, rice wine factory. After lunch in Yangshuo, afternoon bike ride (or motor bike ride) through the country road via Aishan to ancient Banyan Tree Park, Moon Hill and ride back to hotel; free at night on western street.

Day 9 (B, L, )Yangshuo / Shanghai Transfer via: AM fly
Arrive at Shanghai. Be met & have city tours to the Bund, Nanjing Road. Evening Shangcheng Acrobatic Show.
-The Bund: the former foreign settlement, ranged along with imposing buildings of the colonial period.
Nanjing Road: the busiest shopping street in Shanghai.

Day 10 (B, L, )Shanghai Visit Shanghai Museum, Yu Garden, Yuyuan Market, Children's Palace & Oriental Pear TV Tower.
-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 Garden: It is characteristic of the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty and it used to be a private garden with 400 years' history. In front of the garden, there is a market called Yu Market.
-Shanghai Children's Palace: The Shanghai Children's Palace provides after school education for gifted children. Children participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities such as music, dance, art, model making, science, technology and computer science. The palace hosts many art performances and science and technology contests which attracts thousands of youngsters.
-Oriental Pearl TV Tower: Standing by the Huangpu River with 468 meters high, Oriental Pearl TV Tower is the highest TV Tower in As Asia.

Day 11 (B, L, )Shanghai / Suzhou
Drive to Suzhou. Visit the Humble Administrator's Garden & Lingering Garden,then the Pan Gate, The No.1 Silk Factory,& Tiger Hill. Enjoy the Garden Show in the evening.
-Humble Administrator's Garden: The garden is the best representative of Chinese classical gardens,constructed in the Ming dynasty. Focused on a central pond with pavilions, terraces, chambers, and towers located nearby, the garden is divided into three parts: the eastern, middle and western parts.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-Tiger Hill: is one of the most famous sight in Suzhou, Entitled as "the most famous place in Wuzhong", also named "Surging Sea Hill", "Surging Sea Peak".

Day 12 (B, L, )Suzhou / Wuxi/Nanjing Transfer via: T86 17:32-19:23
Have a cruise on the Grand Canal from Suzhou to Wuxi, visit the Yuan Tou Zhu Peninsula in the Tai Lake, Li Garden & Huishan Clay Figure Workshop then catch the train to Nanjing.
-Yuan Tou Zhu Peninsula: A turtle's head like peninsula is the best place to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Tai Lake- one of the largest lake in China.
-Li Garden: Liyuan Garden is a private garden built in the early 20th century in southwest Wuxi, and is surrounded on three sides by Wuli Lake. The garden is classical Chinese in layout and architecture. It is a splendid place for visitors.

Day 13 (B, L, )Nanjing / Beijing Transfer via: PM flight
Half day tours to visit the Zhonghua Gate, Confucius Temple, Qinhuai river. Fly to Beijing in the afternoon.
-Zhonghua Gate: Zhonghua Gate, means Chinese gate, was the biggest and most splendid city gate of Nanjing city wall in the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644).
-Confucian Temple: It is for consecrating and worshipping Confucius, the great thinker and educator of ancient China.
-Qinhuai River: it is the branch of the Yangtze River. The inner river of the river used to be the most flourishing place of Nanjing since it was the red-light district famous throughout the nation.

Day 14 (B, )beijing/ Exit Transfer via: TBA International flight on your arrangement.
Be met in the hotel and be transferred to the airport for the flight to the next city. The international flight on your own arrangement.

Type	1 person ($)	2-5 persons($)	6-9 persons($)	10 up($)	Single room Supplement($)
Tourist Class	2685	2120	1787	0	373
Deluxe Class	3015	2451	2112	0	715
Superior Class	3570	3017	2660	0	1291
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