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Tour Introduction

Tour Name :16-day China Picturesque Tour

Tour Code : CHCT12

Day 1 ( ) Arrival / Beijing\Transfer via: Flight TBA on your own arrangement.
Arrive at Beijing. Be met & transferred to your hotel.

Day 2 (B, L, )Beijing \Full day trip to the Great Wall, Ming Tomb and the 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 3 (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 4 (B, L, )Beijing / Huangshan\Transfer via: Flight-on our arrangement
Visit Hutongs by rickshaw & The Summer Palace. Take afternoon flight to Huangshan . Arrive at Huangshan, be met and trasfered to your hotel.
- 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.
-The Summer Palace:The largest and best-preserved royal garden in China with a history of over 800 years.

Day 5 (B, L, )Huangshan \Take cable car to the top of Mt.
Huangshan,tour to Jade valley and other peaks; Stay overnight on top of the mountain.
Mt. Huangshan: known as "the loveliest mountain in China", famous for its magnificent scenery made up of many granite peaks and rocks emerging out of clouds.

Day 6 (B, L, )Huangshan / Shanghai-Suzhou\Transfer via: Huangshan-Shanghai: Flight-on our arrangement
Shanghai-Suzhou: Car-on our arrangement
Take cable car down from the mountain. Then visit Hong Cun Village. Be transferred to the airport for the flight to Shanghai. Arriving in Shanghai, be met & transferred to your Suzhou hotel.

- Hong Cun Village: An ancient town over 800 years old leaning against Mt. Huangshan, it is folded in the fog of the Mt. which makes it look like a river and mountain picts. It enjoys the reputation of "The Chinese town in the pictures". Especially, the whole town distributes like a "cow", which made it one of the wonders in the world culture heritage. The famous film"Crouching Tiger" was made here.

Day 7 (B, L, )Suzhou \One day city tour of the Grand Canal, Pan Gate, Lingering Garden,The No.1 Silk Factory,and enjoy the Garden Show in the evening.
- 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 people's 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: Shouzhou is famouse for its the Gardens. Lingering Garden is an elaborate succession of small gardens. Linging in the garden you would marver 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.
- Garden Show: You can engjoy the tranditional Chinese darmars, folk instruments performance and so on in the Garden.

Day 8 (B, L, )Suzhou / Shanghai\Transfer via: Car-on our arrangement Take a 30 minutes Rickshaw ride then visit Ouyuan, Hanshan Temple & Tiger Hill. Be transferred to your Shanghai hotel tonight.
- Rickshaw ride: Sitting on the rickshaw through the old town of Suzhou, you will see the small Hutongs,the open markets and the local people's life.
- Ouyuan: one of the famous garden in Suzhou, where you can see the local opera under the Pavilion of the Ou garden.
- Tiger Hill: is one of the most famous sight of Suzhou, Entitled as "the most famous place in Wuzhong", also named "Surging Sea Hill", "Surging Sea Peak".
- Hanshan Temple: It used to be one of ten most famous temples in China where ther are a lot of cultural relics.

Day 9 (B, L, )Shanghai \One day visit of Shanghai Museum, Yu Garden, the Yu Market and the bund.
- 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. Infront of the garden, there is a market called Yu Market.
- The Bund: the former foreign settlement, ranged along with imposing buildings of the colonial period.

Day 10 (B, L, )Shanghai / Xian\Transfer via: Flight-on our arrangement Be transferred to the airport for your flight to Xi'an. 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 11 (B, L, )Xian \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 12 (B, )Xian / Guilin\Transfer via: Flight-on our arrangement Visit the Hanyang Tomb. Take flight to the next destination. Arriving in Guilin, be met & transferred to your hotel.
- 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.

Day 13 (B, L, )Guilin \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 before to be transferred back to Guilin city.

Day 14 (B, L, )Guilin / Hong Kong\Transfer via: Flight-on our arrangement Half a day city tours to Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill & Reed Flute Cave.To be transferred to the airport in the afternoon.Arrive at Honkong, be met and transferred to your hotel.
- Elephant Trunk Hill: Located at the conjunction of the Li River & the Peach Blossom River, the whole hill looks very muh like a giant elephant with a long trunk, it is the symbol of Guilin city.
- Fubo Hill: You can see lots of rock stone carvings & Buddha statues since Tang Dynasty.Have a wonderful bird's-eye view of Guilin city if you climb to the summit.
- Reed Flute Cave: Known as "the Palace of Natural Arts" where you can see beautiful stalactites & stalagmites,learn how they are formed.

Day 15 (B, )Hong Kong \Full day tour to Victoria Peak, Aberdeen, Stanley Market and Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kowloon Walled City Park.

Day 16 (B, )Hong Kong / Exit\Transfer via: Flight TBA on your own arrangement \transfer to airport
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