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Tour Code: COT-B-020-B
Start in: Beijing
End in: Shanghai
Special Experience: Xian Tang Dynasty show, Shanghai Acrobatic show, Yangtze River cruise, Mt. Huangshan, water town Zhouzhuang, etc.
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China Ancient Civilization Tour

          

Trip Highlights

Visit the city of Datong, which is famous all over the world for the Yungang Grotto art.

Visit Yungang Grottoes in Datong, which providi important information for research into China's ancient culture and arts.

Visit Nine Dragon Screen, which was constructed of glazed tiles and still remains intact today, It is over 350 years older and three times larger than the one in Beijing.

Visit Huayan Temple in Datong. A Buddhist sect known as Huayan was established during the Tang Dynasty and monasteries were named after it.

Visit Hanging Temple in Datong., which seem to be hanging in the middair on the cliffs. It is unique in structure. Within the temple are numerous pictures and 78 color statues made of copper, iron or stone.

Visit the the Wooden Pagoda,you can set the Buddhist statues in each story and paintings on the inner walls of the first story are all works of the Liao Dynasty.

Visit Mt. Wutai, which stands at 3058 meters above sea level. It was seen as the "roof of northern China."

Visit the Jin Ancestral Temple,you may see a cypress looked like a old dragon in shape,It's crest still extending like a big umbrella,casting a big shadow on earth.Standing in the shade of the ancient tree,you would say,what a charming place it is.

Visit Qiao Family's Compound, where the famous Chinese film "Raise the Red Lantern" was shot. It was constructed at the turn of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Visit Shuanglin Temple in Pingyao, where 2050 color statues from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, for which the temple enjoys a high reputation in China's history of art.

Visit Pingyao, a small town and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has a twelve hundred year history.

Visit the Ancient City Wall of Pingyao, which enjoys the longest history compared with the other across China and remains almost intact.

Visit Ming and Qing Street in Pingyao. It was so commercially vigorous that it was reputed as "a miniature Beijing". Its brilliance is visible even today: lining up one after another are old trade marks with their charm of Ming and Qing Dynasty.

Rishengchang Exchange Shop, the father of Chinese banks. In particular, the decoration is not redundant wood and brick carving, but elegant, firm, plain, and practical, in conformity with the bank's bussiness style of realistic, steady and efficient.

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, the first modern national museum of China.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Baidicheng Town ( White King Town ) is one of the famous historical sites in the Three Gorges.It is also called Town of Poems.

Shanghai Museum 's exterior design is a combination of a square base, a huge circular roof and arch raflers, symbolizing the ancient concept of "circular sky and square earth."

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 Yu Garden in Shanghai, a classical garden, where halls, chambers, towers and pavilions, rockeries and flowing streams all express the essence of Ming and Qing Dynasty garden architecture of the South.

Visit the Jade Buddha Temple,it closes for lunch between noon and 1 pm, and is open daily except on special occasions, such as the Lunar New Year.

Visit Honcun, a picturesque village of China, which lies at the southwest of Mt. Huangshan.

To present Time, the Three Excellencies (shrine, archway, folk house) and the Three Carvings ( stone, brick, wood ) characteristic of Anhui folk architecture are perfectly preserved in Xidi village.

Huangshan Mountains is a place where strangness, depth, magnifice, sheerness and mystery concentrate in a single body.

Visit the Quanfu Temple,which contains 21 gold Buddhas plus one large bronze Buddha measuring over 5m in height.

Visit the Twin Bridge.There seven-storey pagodas were built during the Northern Song dynasty by candidates for the imperial examination who wanted to pay tribute to their teachers.

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.

The murmuring streams under small bridges and courtyards, each surrounded by dwelling quarters, are the typical features of Zhouzhuang and even the whole area of East China.

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.

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 the Children's palace.Here gifted children attend and learn to dance & sing, the theater, play folk or Western musical instruments, Wushu, ballet, computer science as well as other art skill.

Visit Jade Buddha Temple, one of Shanghai's few active Buddihist temples.

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

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