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Tour Code: COT-B-018-A
Start in: Beijing
End in: Guilin
Special Experience: Peking duck dinner and Beijing Hutong tour by rickshaw, Tibet tour, Xian Tang Dynasty show, Yangtze River cruise, Guilin Li River cruise and cycling in Yangshuo
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17 nights & 18 days
Splendid China Culture and Nature Tour

          

Trip Highlights

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

Visit Tian'anmen. On holidays and special occasions the Square is filled with flower arrangements and fountains.

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

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.

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.

Explore the Hutong in Beijing. There you wil find that men cllect outside their gates,drinking beer, playing chess, smoking and chewing the fat.

Visit Potala Palace in Tibet. Important political and religious ceremonies of Tibet are held there.

Visit Jokhang Temple, Tibet's holiest shrine, where often prayers led by monks on the roof.

Sing and dance in great rejoicing throughout the night in the Barkhore Street, along which display nutter sciulptures of fugures, flowers, birds and animals.

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.

There are no ¡®typical¡¯ Tibetan families; some are rich, some are poor, some are nomadic others are urban, some families live in Tibet but there are also a great number living in exile in other countries.

Visit Yangpachen, you can enjoy a bath in the heaven of the world,sometimes you are lucky enough to experience snow falling.

Visit Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, the first modern national museum of China.

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

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.

While the long steps from the wharf to the ancient town on the slope will lend you to Badong County, and you will find yourself in a world of baskets carried on the back.

Amazingly, there is a Smaller Three Gorges in the Small Three Gorges of Wushan, in which the peaks are very strange and beautiful and the water from the spring in the cliff.

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.

Climbthe Shibaozhai.On its yellow-glazed entrance gate is an inscription inviting you to climb a ladder and ascend into a 'Little Fairyland' (the top temple).

Fengdu Ghost City, the major town 170 km from Chongqing, which is said to be the place of devils. And There are numerous temples containing sculptures of demons and devils that were built since Tang Dynasty.

Freely wander, explpore and discover Yangshuo. By bicycle or by foot, Yangshuo has it all from rugged limestone karst peaks, sparking clear rivers, emerald green to gold paddy fields, colourful varieties of citrus grooves...

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.

Have a relaxing cruise on the Meeting Dragon River, which is also called Mini River. The river is so beautiful that it is possible to see the bottom of the river when you have a cruise with a bamboo raft.

There is a saying about Yangshuo that 'half is village while the other half is stores'.

Hire a bike in town and padal out into the countryside.The 10-km journey to Moon Hill is fabulous and highly recommended.

Climb the Crescent Mountain,which has a history of more than 100 year,is reputed for its maigre food.The Nun Noodles are really worth tasting.

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