Start in: Guilin
End in: Shanghai
Special Experience: Cool Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo, ethnic culture experience and unique landscape tour in Yunnan, spectacular night view of Shanghai, amazing winter scenes at Mt. Huangshan.
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Winter Landscape Tour of China
Day-by-Day Itinerary
Day 1 Arrival in Guilin
Accommodations: Guilin Osmanthus Hotel 
Transfer via: International flight on your own arrangement
Upon your arrival in Guilin, the most scenic city in China, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. You could explore this lovely small city all by yourself and get advice about different local food from your private guide.
Twin Tower standing in the centre of the Shanhu Lake. Night view of the city of Guilin.
Accommodations: New Century Hotel
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Li River Cruise,Yangshuo County,West Street(Yangshuo)
After breakfast, drive to Zhujiang Pier (about 40-minute drive) to start the boat cruise along the tranquil Li River, the highlight of your sightseeing tour in Guilin, until you get to Yangshuo County. Free time in the afternoon after checking into the hotel in Yangshuo.
- Li River Cruise: Along the river, you will be inspired by the breathtaking views of peaks and pinnacles, crystal-clear water and reflections in the water together with the serene pastoral views of rice paddies and water buffaloes.You will certainly feel like you are walking into a traditional Chinese painting by cruising on this wonderful river.
- Yangshuo County: founded in 590 AD, Yangshuo County has been booming because of tourism. With so many beautifully shaped mountains surrounding this county, it is described as "the world of green lotus and jade bamboo shoots".
- West Street (Yangshuo): a busy and exotic slate street in Yangshuo County, about 2km long crammed with shops, pubs, cafes and hotels, where you can relax yourself and do some souvenir shopping.
Reputed as "Earth Village in China", West Street has received countless foreigners from all over the world.
Accommodations: Jinjiang Hotel
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Reed Flute Cave,Elephant Trunk Hill
Transfer via: China domestic flight arranged by us (about 1 hour flight)
Today, drive back to Guilin (1.5-hour drive) and have a city tour to the Elephant Trunk Hill and the Reed Flute Cave before your transfer to the airport for your flight to Kunming. Upon your arrival at Kunming, "the Spring and Flower City", our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure.
- Reed Flute Cave: 5 kilometers away from the city center, famed as "A Natural Palace of Art", in which you can see lots of stalactites & stalagmites illuminated by the lights of different colors. You will also learn how they were formed.
- Elephant Trunk Hill : the symbol of Guilin, which resembles a giant elephant drinking water from the Li River.
Inside the Reed Flute Cave, you will find the fantastic world of stalactites, stalagmites and rock passages.
Accommodations: Jinjiang Hotel
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Stone Forest
Today, you will enjoy a full day trip to the Stone Forest which is about 90km to the south of Kunming.
- Stone Forest: a 270-million-year-old limestone karst formation of tightly bundled gray rocky outcrops, a natural wonder acknowledged as "World Karst Landscape Museum", the Stone Forest shows a variety of unique shapes, such as sword, mushrooms, tower, pillar and castle, representing the greatest miracle that nature can present to human beings.
Stone Forest in Yunnan - a natural wonder with remains of ancient sea floor uplifted with movement of continents. Manmade footpaths form an out-of-this-world maze within the vertical rock walls.
Accommodations: Grand Hotel Lijiang
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Lion Hill,Lijiang Ancient Town
Transfer via: China domestic flight arranged by us (about half an hour flight)
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Lijiang. Upon your arrival at Lijiang County,"an UNESCO World Cultural Heritage" site, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. In the afternoon, you will have an excursion to the Ancient Town and the Lion Hill.
- Lion Hill: the name is derived from its resemblance of a lion playing a ball. The mountain is best known for its vast and green pines and cypresses planted mostly in Ming Dynasty with over 500 years old. From the Tower of Eternity (Wangoulou) on the top of the mountain, you can enjoy a bird's eye view of the ancient town and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain far away.
- Lijiang Ancient Town: also called Dayan Town, built in the late Song dynasty and the early Yuan dynasty with a history of more than 800 years. This ancient town consists of clean streams flowing freely through the road network, the colorful cobbled streets, age-old swaying willow trees, age-old buildings and stone bridges. There are over 22 different ethnic minorities making Lijiang their home. Now and then you may see local folks in their own tradtional dress. Strolling around this charming ancient town, you will be attracted by the unique atmosphere and surprised by its ancient yet simple sense of "Harmony of Heaven and Man."
A walk through the narrow streets in Lijiang Ancient Town will give you a glimpse of the real life in Lijiang.
Accommodations: Grand Hotel Lijiang
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain,Baisha Mural Paintings,Black Dragon Pool Park
Today, you will enjoy a full day trip to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and the Baisha Mural Paintings, the Black Dragon Pool Park and Museum of Naxi Dongba Culture inside the park.
- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain: it is so called because it looks like a flying jade dragon from afar. The mountain consists of 13 peaks and sprawls 35 km from north to south. Its glacier is the closest to the equator in the Northern Hemisphere. By taking the cable car up to a certain height, you can enjoy the expansive mountains views and snowy scenery.
- Baisha Mural Paintings: located in Baisha Township, 8km north of Lijiang, there are altogether 53 groups of mural paintings in different temples with fine and smooth lines, bright colors,vivid patterns and harmonious composition. Painted from the early days of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),these mural paintings are an artistic representation of the different religious cultures such as Buddhism, Lamaism, Daoism and the Naxi Dongba religion.
- Black Dragon Pool Park: where you can see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain from afar and the reflection of the mountain in the pool in a clear day. This park is the source of the water system of the Old Lijiang Town as the clean spring from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain gathers here.
Great panoramic view of the snow-capped Jade Dragon Snow Mountain! More than 5000 meters high, it is said to be the guarding mountain of Lijiang.
Accommodations: Jiulong Hotel Shanghai
Meals: B
Sightseeing: Nanjing Road,The Bund
Transfer via: China domestic flight arranged by us (about 4.5 hour flight)
Free during the day until our local guide escorts you to the airport for your flight to Shanghai. Upon your arrival at Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, our local guide will meet you at the airport. Then you will enjoy a fabulous visit to the Bund and Nanjing Road at night.
- Nanjing Road: known as "China's No.1 Shopping Street" with a huge selection of merchandise on sale.
- The Bund : where the great trading houses and banks had their headquarters in the 1920s and the 1930s. The Bund is about about a mile long, it is the city's fulcrum.
Walking along the Bund at night is fascinating, as the entire skyline across the river is illuminated, including the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.
Accommodations: On The Train
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Shanghai Museum,Yu Garden,Yuyuan Market,Jade Buddha Temple
Transfer via: Overnight soft-seat(First class) train on our arrangement (About 11 hours train trip)
Today you will first visit the Shanghai Museum, Yu Garden, Yuyuan Market and then the Jade Buddha Temple before you are transferred to your overnight soft-sleeper train to Huangshan.
- Shanghai Museum: often ranked as China's best museum, it is the biggest museum in China with a fine collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts.
- Yu Garden: located in the Old Town of Shanghai and laid out in 1559 AD by a powerful Ming official, Yu Garden recreates a beautiful landscape of pagodas, pavilions, rockeries, fountains, ancient trees and precious flowers.
- Yuyuan Market: outside the Yu Garden, a bustling market with different snacks and trinkets.
- Jade Buddha Temple: named after its exquisite milk-white jade Buddha brought from Burma in the 19th century by a Chinese monk, it is a spiritual oasis in the midst of a modern metropolis.
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai. The biggest white jade buddha in the world is housed here.
Accommodations: Huaxi Hotel
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Xidi,Hongcun,Yixian County
Upon your arrival at Huangshan city (Tunxi), our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The tour in the afternoon will bring you to Yixian County, 54km away from Huangshan city(about 1-hour drive), where you are going to visit two ancient villages--Hongcun and Xidi. After the visit, you will be driven back to Huangshan city.
- Xidi: with a history of over 1000 years, Xidi is 700 meters from east to west, 300 meters south to north, 300 old dwellings in the village left from Ming and Qing Dynasties form the shape of a boat. Embraced in the mountains, abundant in resources and autarkic inhabitants who are accustomed to a life of leisure, all these make Xidi famed as "the reclusive utopian land".
- Hongcun: a model of the ancient villages in China with the features of beautiful lake, first class old dwellings, peaceful streets and lanes, and the perfect natural background, where the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was partly shot. Hongcun was first built during the Southern Song Dynasty, about 900 years ago, by the Wang Clan. The layout of the village resembles the outline of an ox, hence it is popularly called as "Ox-shapedVillage". The early ox-shaped village came into being in the Ming Dynasty when Wang Siqi, their 76th generation ancestor, hired a famous fengshui expert He Keda as their advisor. His advice resulted in the construction of ponds and water channels flowing through nearly every household within the village so as to keep the "internal Yang (masculine) water" and assure for "eternal prosperity extending to all later generations". Due to the scientific construction, the buildings in the Hongcun are in great harmony with nature, showing the traditional Chinese philosophy that Nature and Man are one.
- Yixian County: located to the southwest of Mt.Huangshan, with over 2000 years of history and as many as 3,594 well preserved old dwellings left from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. These dwellings are highly praised as "Treasure of Chinese Old Dwellings Architecture".
Autumn color, morning mist, water lily ponds and white houses ... all elements of Chinese traditional landscape painting. Therefore Hongcun Village has always enjoyed the name "a village in the Chinese painting".
Accommodations: Beihai Hotel
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Mt. Huangshan
After breakfast, you will be driven 80 kilometers (1.5 hour-drive) to Huangshan Scenic Area and take the cable car at Yungu Station to the top of the mountain. After check-in and lunch, you will view Brush Pen Peak, tour Begin-to-Believe Peak to see the grotesque pinetrees, Lion Peak, Xihai Grand Canyon, and enjoy the sunset glow at the Cloud Dispelling Pavilion, etc. Stay overnight at the summit.
- Mt. Huangshan: located in the southern Anhui Province, extending about 40km from north to south and 30km from east to west, the Huangshan Scenic Area is comprised of numerous peaks of various heights and grotesque rocks of different formation, and is well known for its extraordinary aesthetic mountainous features. Here we can find all of the beauties of nature, with its charm lying especially in its oddly-shaped pines, fantastic rocks, sea of clouds and hot springs--the four supreme sights on the mountain. The picturesque Mt.Huangshan has been a famed destination for scholars, poets and the occasional hermits in Chinese history, and has long been effusively described as "awesome," "a wonderland" and "Heaven on Earth."
A surreal experience to see Huangshan in rain and mist
Accommodations: Jiulong Hotel Shanghai
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Ink Stone Factory,Tunxi Ancient Street
Transfer via: China domestic flight arranged by us (about 1 hour flight)
Try to get up early in the morning to catch the magical sunrise. After breakfast, visit the Begin-to-Believe Peak to see the grotesque pinetrees. After all the exercise, take the cable car down to the foot of the Mt. Huangshan, and then you will be driven back to Huangshan city and visit Tunxi Ancient Street and Ink Stone Factory before your transfer to the airport for the flight back to Shanghai. Be escorted to your hotel after your flight arrives at Shanghai.
- Ink Stone Factory: ink stone is the important part of "Four Treasures of the Study" in China. Because of its solid texture, the ink stone can be handed down from one generation to another. The Ink Stone Factory in Huangshan is one of the most famous ink stone factories in China, where you can see the whole working process.
- Tunxi Ancient Street: a well preserved bustling center of trade since the Southern Song Dynasty. It is paved with slabs of stone and is one mile long with old shops lining both sides of the street. These old shops are in perfect order and an unmistakable Huizhou architectural style.
Tunxi Ancient Street is lined up with antique shops, medicine shops, steelyard stores, teahouses, restaurants and galleries in typical Chinese style.
Meals: B
Transfer via: International flight on your own arrangement
Free in the day until our local guide escorts you to the airport for your flight home.
China domestic flights as specified in the itinerary . 
Accommodations---for 11 nights at four star, or higher, hotels as well as the cruise in comfortable twin-bedded rooms with private bath, air-conditioning, television, telephone and minibar. 
On this incredible tour you will receive 20 meals--11 full breakfasts,9 lunches and 0 dinners
Round-trip transfers---between airports, hotels and scenic spots in each city by private air-conditioned motor coaches with experienced drivers
Services of local English-speaking guides in each city
China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty insurance
Government taxes and service charge except tips to tour escort and driver
Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) in southeast China. You have to climb up thousands of steps. But the climb is so rewarding! On top op of this mountain you see what poets and painters were inspired by for centuries.
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