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Tour Code: COT-B-015C
Start in: Beijing
End in: Beijing
Special Experience: Dumpling dinner and Tang Dynasty show in Xian, Peking Duck Banquet in Beijing, silk making process in Suzhou
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China Golden Route with Silk Tour

          

Trip Highlights

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 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 Bell Tower in Xian, which is an ancient great building with unique Chinese architectural style.

As home to 13 dynasties, Xian boasts a treasure trove of cultural and historical splendors, including the Eighth Wonder of the World - the awesome Terracotta Warriors.

Climb Fubo Hill, which owes its exquisite beauty to geological disruptions over 200 million years ago.

Visit Ludiyan (Reed Flute Cave), where the rocks, bathed in soft lights, refecti in the water in a landscape much like that of the best scenery along the Lijiang.

Lijiang River Landscape: a landscape gallery

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

The Bund, a symbol of Shanghai and an epitome of Shanghai's modern history.

Shanghai has long been the most famous shopping city in China and almost all Chinese products and souvenirs find their way here. The traditional shopping streets have always been Nanjing Road.

A number of modern buildings have been added to the city, such as the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai Museum, ect.. They have become new scenic sights in Shanghai.

Est. in 1577, Yu Garden is a maze of classical Ming & Qing Dyn. pavilions, rock gardens, arched bridges & sparkling ponds, surrounded by a lively bazzar.

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.

Visit Jade Buddha Temple, a famous Buddihist temple, where buddhist ceremonies are cunducted all the time.

Visit the Turtle Head Isle which is the principal Tai Hu pleasure spot.It is certainly a relaxing place to stroll around.

Visit Li Garden,which is a splendid place with ponds, a walkway, mini-bridges, mini-pagodas and souvenir stalls dotted here and there, the garden appears full of life and is like a mysterious labyrinth.

The happy Fat Buddha with a hundred playful Buddha babies climbing all over him.

Visit the The No.1 Silk Factory, you can see how the silk is processed from the silk worm to the final woven cloth.

Fully loaded with the cocoons, the small boats are shuttling along the Grand Canal. The stone roads are extending, and the black roofed and the white-washed walls houses are appearing from time to time.

At the southwestern end of the encient city of Suzhou, the Panmen Scenic Zone is famed for three tourist attractions: water and land city gates, Ruiguang Pagoda and Wumen Bridge.

Visit the Lingering Garden.It is well-known for the exquisite beauty of its magnificent halls, and the various sizes, shapes, and colors of the buildings.

Visitthe East Garden of Ouyuan,you can see the Thatched Cottage at the City Corner,a principal structure of the garden,is made up of a group of double-roofed and muli-storied buildings.

Visit the Cold Mountain Temple,which was later given its present name because Han Shan, an eminent monk in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), had lived there.

Visit Lingyin Temple, the most ancient Buddhist temple of the West Lake.

Many grotesque stones in the shapes of a charming dragon, a prostrate tiger, a walking elephant, and a scared ape are scattered about the mountainside. Their unusual colors make this mountain distinctive among the nearby hills and mountains.

Find Dragon Well. Ancient people thought it was where the dragon lived and so named it as "Dragon Well".

Visit The Six Harmonies Pagoda which is octagonal, has thirteen levels on the exterior but seven levels on the interior, stands 59.89 meters high, and is one of the tallest pagodas in southern China.

We believe a trip on the water of the West Lake is most essential, because, it is by taking to the water that gets you closest to the core beauty of the West Lake.

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 Temple of Heaven, which in the ancient China the Emperor used to communication directly wtih Heaven there.

Climb the Great Wall of China, an outstanding architectural wonder of thousandes of years from Warring States Period to Ming and Qing Dynasties in acient China.

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

Visit Ding Tomb, the only Ming tomb to have been excavated. And the emperor and the empress still lie within the underground vaults today.

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