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Tour Code: COT-S-017-A
Start in: Shanghai
End in: Beijing
Special Experience: Shanghai Acrobatic show, Fast ferry boat to Putuo Mountain, Li River cruise in Guilin, Tibet tour, Peking Duck Banquet in Beijing
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16 nights & 17 days
China Classic Tour (including Tibet)

          

Trip Highlights

Visit Shanghai Museum, whose architectural statement is home to one of the most impressive collections of art in China. Shanghai Musuem is designed to recall the shape of an ancient Chinese Ding vessel.

Visit the Bund, which is symbolic of Shanghai. To the Europeans , it was Shanghai's Wall Street, a place of feverish trading, of fortunes made and lost.

Nanjing Road, the most bustling shopping centre in Shanghai and enjoying the reputation of "China's No.1 Street". Bussiness Hours are from 10 am to 10 pm.

Visit Yu Garden in Shanghai, a classical garden, where halls, chambers, towers and pavilions, rockeries and flowing streams all express the essence of Ming and Qing Dynasty garden architecture of the South.

Visit the Yuyuan Market,you may find the food is a great temptation with local delicacies such as xiao long bao, pigeon egg dumplings and spicy cold noodles from the street stalls or numerous restaurants.

The banks of the Lijiang River are inhabited by people of a dozen or so ethnic minority groups, including Zhuang, Yao,Dong, MIao, Shui and Maonan.

The heart of Yang Shuo is its cobble stoned "West Street" ( Xijie ), but mostly "locals" just call it "Western" street. Do yourself a favour and try Yangshuo's most famous culinary delights of "Li Jiang Beer Fish", which cooked in beer and spices.

Visit Fubo Hill, where a 100-year-old Buddha image is etched into the wall.Somewhere, are many portraits and autographs by famous calligrapher of ancient China.

Climb Elephant Trunk Hill, one of Guilin's best known sights. It's actually resemble an elephant dipping its snout into Li River.

Enjoy Ludiyan (Reed Flute Cave). The amazing journey passes numerous stalactites and stalagmites in ever-changing shapes suggesting pagodas, mushrooms , lions, waterfalls and icicle chandeliers.

Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, lies on the northern bank of the Lhasa River.Throughout the year, there is sparse cloud rain. This has earned Lhasa the tile "Sunshine City".

Visit Potala Palace, which fully retains the Tibitan residence-blockhouse tradition, while here and there it also has decorations or structures that are of Han nationality or Nepal left by the craftsmen from interior China and west Asia.

Visit Jokhang Temple, Tibet's holiest shrine, which is 1300 years old.

You can get everything Tibetan you could hope for in barkhore street, such as the prayer-wheels, thankas, knives, carpets and golden and silver containers.

Visit Norbulingka Park, the former summer residence of the Dalai Lama.

Sera Monastery is a typical of Tibetan architecture.Covering an area of 114,964 square meters, the structure is imposing, pictuesque in disorder, and splendid in green and gold.

Tibet has diversified physiognomy with mountains, desert, grassland and forestry, as one of the largest grassland and forestry in China.

Visit Bell Tower, which is situated in the center of Xi'an City. It gains tis name as "the Bell Tower" because there is a big old bell hanging on the tower and reporting time every morning.

Visit the Terra-cotta warriors and Hoses, which is famed as the eighth wonder of the world.

Visit Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, which is regarded as the "Bright pearl of Ancient Xi'an " and " Treasure House of China", for its imposing and elegant building, its 370,000 pieces of stored relics.

Visit Ancient City Wall, which has taken a new look afrer the repairs on a large scale. It is an extension on the old Sui and Tang Dynasty structure.

Visit Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, one of the best museum in China.There you will find China's prehistory and the early dynastic period. They are particularly impressive.

Visit Tiananmen Square. There are people all over the Square hawking kites, as it is a popular site for locals to go and fly their kites, which range from simple one-piece jobs, to elaborate meters-long dragons.

Visit the Forbidden City, known officially as the Imperial Palace Musium. There is also a garden which features a grove of beautiful old cypress and pine trees, as well as the largest of the strange rock sculptures that are studded about the ground.

Visit the Summer Palace, which was used by emperor for 800 years.

The best part of the Ming Tombs is the road there. Along the path are bizarre, mythical stone monster standing guard.

Known as the "13" Tombs," Ming Tomb is the burial site of 13 out of 17 emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Visit the incredible Great Wall of China, which began construction almost 2500 years ago under the direction of one of the most notorious, short-lived, and influential of China's emperors, Qin Shihuang.

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