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Tour Code: COT-B-017-B
Start in: Beijing
End in: Shanghai
Special Experience: Peking Duck Dinner and Hutong tour by rickshaw in Beijing, Dumpling dinner and Tang Dynasty Show in Xian, Li River cruise and cycling tour in Yangshuo.
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China Extensive Tour Route D

          

Trip Highlights

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.

Exploring the Forbidden City, China centre power for over 500 years. Find its arcane secrets with COT.

Stand in the middle of the Round Alter, anything you say is amplified several times. Why is the alter constructed in such a way? You will find the answer there.

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.

Climb the Badaling Great Wall, which is the outstanding part of the Great Wall, because it provides vital protection for the Juyong Pass, one of the key passes of the Great Wall.

Explore Hutong in Beijing, which nearly all run east-west to ensure that the main gate faces south, satisfing feng shui requirments.

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

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.

Vistit Big Wild Goose Pagoda, which is one of national monument, looks simple and natural, solemn and majestic.

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

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.

Visit The Great Mosque, the whole complex can be divided into four courtyards:the Fourth Courtyard contains a big prayer hall which can accommodate over thousands people at a time.

Li River is like a green silk belt, and the hills are like turquoise jade hairpins.

Yangshuo and the surrounding countryside is an incredibly beautiful place. The landscape is dotted with Karst peaks and the Li river winds its way around them.

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.

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.

Visit the Lion Forest Garden.The ponds are not deep, but has multi-layered, curving edges and many waterfalls next to flower beds, and many old, famous trees of beautiful appearance.

Today the Master-of-Nets Garden has 22 buildings, 2 doors with richly carved earthen ornamentation,15 plateaux, 9 parallel couplets,15 brick and stone carvings, 32 stelae, and 8 rare species of old trees, namely Sabina chinensis ,Pinus bungeana,etc.

Enter the garden,you will find buildings, trees, and flowers blend harmoniously with their surroundings.

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 the Humble Administrator's Garden, the largest classical garden in Suzhou, the largest private garden in China and a model of freehand landscape garden for Chinese scholars.

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

Together wirh the Great Wall, the 2000-year-old and 2000km-long Grand Canal is considered as one of the two wonders of ancient China.

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.

In Hangzhou, the West Lake and city are a single entity. Take a trip on the water and you fall in love with the city.

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

Feilai Peak, also named Lingjiu Peak, stands in front of Lingyin Temple in HangZhou.

Visit Dragon Well Tea Planation. Emperor Qianlong who lived in ancient China, made six trip to the areas south of the Yongtze River, four of which to Dragon Well.

Visit Shaoxing. Shaoxing Rice Wine is one of Chinese most famous wines and has enjoyed a history dating back to Yue Kingdom.

Visit the Former Home of Luxun,there is a small room projects northward from the middle of the north house, is the bedroom and study room of Lu Xun. It is the famous "Tail of Tiger", and been called as "Greenwood Study Room" by Lu Xun.

The sea of clouds over Huangshan is a unique natural spectacle.

After climbing Mt.Huang, visit Xidi and Hongcun. Xidi and Hongcun have been inscribed on the World Heritage List of Cultural Value.

Wandering along the old bridge,finding shoots of bamboo on the slope, or standing under a tree and listening to the birds whistle, it is easy for you to rest and attain mental tranquility by getting back to the nature.

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