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Tour Code: COT-16152
Start in: Shanghai
End in: Beijing
The tour is designed completely according to the specific requests of Mr.John Michael Finch and.Mrs.Judith Anne Finch . Your travel consultant would like to work out an itinerary based on this one, with new flight schedules and accommodations.

    

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15 nights & 16 days
Chinese Culture and Sightseeing Tour

          

Trip Highlights

Shanghai Museum possesses more than 120 thousand various kinds of valuable culture objects.

When night falls, colourful lights illuminate the whole Bund area and turn into a scene of the "Wonderland".

Brightly lit Nanjing Road is a wonderful view at night in a sea of lights. It's worth a stroll to or from the Bund.

Visit Yu Garden in Shanghai, which offers you a different scene of every step.

Visit the Yuyuan Market,which is a bazaar of stores.The stores sell a mish-mash of items including chopsticks, Chinese medicine, walking sticks, fans, silk umbrellas, bamboo and rattan furniture, goldfish, pottery, plus much more.

Visit the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou. Growing trees around the house, loving a carefree and contented life...watering vegetables at the garden for us to eat everyday..it is a life that a hunmble administrator should live

In autumn, the temple fair of Tiger Hill is organized to display strong local customs and folk arts of south and north China.

Experiencing some of the local customs offers much delight to you. You can have an opportunity to enjoy good food while appreciating the surrounding scenery.

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

Visit Zhouzhuang and walk futher in, then you will come to a archway, the Ancient Memorial Archway.You can see The Quanfu Pagoda on your right side when walking towards the archway.

Visit the Quanfu Temple,which is a typical Buddhist temple and scenic garden. The temple has an imposing atmosphere with grand halls and serene atmosphere.

Visit the Hall of Shen's residence.It is made up of more than 100 rooms and courtyards and was built to be the private residence of a wealthy merchant family.

Visit the Twin Bridge,you can see a pagodas stand in the centre of a lovely garden filled with stone sculptures and a teahouse at the far end.

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

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

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.

The Lijiang River area, which it typical of karst landscape and Guangxi sub-tropical karst topography, boasts diverse beautiful landscapes, peak forests, karst caves, deep pools, dangerous shoals, precipitous crags and rushing waterfalls.

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 the White Emperor City,there are over 70 poems, carvings, and cultural relics of the Sui, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Visit the Rice Flowing Well.Legend has it that enough rice would flow out of the small well hole each day to feed the monks. However, one day a greedy monk chiseled a bigger hole in the rock, thinking he would get more rice.Then, the rice flow cease.

Closely connected with the Wu Gorge, the Daling River and the Shennong Brook are quieter, deeper, simpler and more primitive, in which the vally is narrower, the water is cleaner, the mountains are greener and the peaks are stranger.

Water in the Three Gorges is famous for its fantasticality and sinisterness. It is really amazing but terrifying.

The Three Gorge Dam: the designed shipping capacity of the navigation facilities include a twin 5-flight shiplock and a one-step vertical shiplift, which can adequately handle tows up to 10,000 tons and provide immediate service.

Meander among the mysterious and imposing Army of Terracotta Warriors, an unforgettable experience.

Visit Xi'an Ancient City Wall, one of the most famous wall through the long history.

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

Visit Tiananmen Square, the largest square in the world, which is recognizable instantly by the huge portrait of Mao Zedong hanging on the Tiananmen Gate.

Visit the Forbidden City in Beijing, which was off limits for 500 years. It is the largest and best preserved culster of ancient buildings in China.

The Tour to the Great Wall is a worship to the civilization and the ancestry of China.

The most well-kept tombs wtih the most emperors buried there: Ming Tombs

The best part of the Ming Tombs is the road there. The Sacred Road is the path leading to the mouth of the tomb.

Walk inside Hutong with strong Beijing's folkway, visit ordinary people's quadrangles, and fing out people's living custom.

Visit the new Xiushui Market, a modern five-story building that stands just next to the former grounds of the Silk Street clothes market, just opened to the public recently.

Whisper along the inner wall of the Echo Wall, your voice can be heard all the way around the other side. Why is the Echo Wall constructed in such a way? You will find the answer there.

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