Start in: Beijing
End in: Beijing
Special Experience: Peking Duck Banquet, Hot Pot dinner in Chongqing, Yangtze River cruise
Beijing Tour with Yangtze River Cruise
Day-by-Day Itinerary
Day 1 Arrive Beijing
Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel 
Transfer via: International Flight on your own arrangement
Upon your arrival at Beijing airport, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure.
The Forbidden City, known officially as the Imperial Palace Musium. Can you image that it is a clock?
Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Tiananmen Square,Forbidden City,Summer Palace
Today you will first visit the historic Tiananmen Square, and then the magnificent Forbidden City. In the afternoon, you will marvel at the exquisite Summer Palace.
- Tiananmen Square: the largest city square in the world and the spiritual heart of China, where the national flag is raised exactly at sunrise everyday.
- Forbidden City: located in the center of Beijing, used to be the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties with a history of around 600 years, it is the grandest integral palace complex still remaining in China.
- Summer Palace : Located on the northwestern outskirts of the city, it was an imperial summer resort of the Qing Dynasty. With its perfect layout, magnificent buildings and enchanting landscape, it is the most splendid classical garden in China.
a little child with Tian'anmen. Beijing.
Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel
Meals: B,L,D
Sightseeing: Sacred Road,Ding Tomb,Great Wall
Special Dinner: Peking Duck Dinner
Today's full-day excursion will take you to the majestic Great Wall(Badaling section), the Ding Tomb of Ming Tombs and Sacred road. Enjoy a famous Peking Duck Banquet for dinner.
- Sacred Road: the path lined with stone statues of animals, mystical beasts and officials who are supposed to serve the emperor in his afterlife, through which the sitting emperors would go to perform memorial rituals for the ancestors once a year.
- Ding Tomb: the burial site of the emperor Wanli, the 13th emperor of the Ming Dynasty who ruled for 48 years until his death in 1620, it is the only underground tomb of the thirteen Imperial Ming tombs ever excavated.
- Great Wall: the most famous symbol of China and one of the world's most remarkable architectural wonders, it was built over 2,000 years ago and stretches about 6,700km.
- Peking Duck Dinner: Peking Roast Duck is regarded as one of the most delicious dishes throughout the world. A Peking Duck Dinner is usually a fixed item on any Beijing tour itinerary. At time-honored restaurants such as Quan Ju De, you can savor the mouth-watering traditional Beijing specialty, and at the same time the chefs will show you how they cuts the meat into exactly 108 slices from one duck, each having a piece of skin.
Enjoy the sunrise on the Great Wall. Beijing
Accommodations: On the Cruise
Meals: B,L,D
Sightseeing: Temple of Heaven
Special Dinner: Hot Pot
Transfer via: China domestic flight on our arrangement
After breakfast, you will visit Beijing's splendid Temple of Heaven. And then take the afternoon flight to Chongqing. Upon your arrival at Chongqing. Enjoy a hot pot dinner before your transfer to get on board your 4 stars ship. Departs Chongqing at 22:00.
- Temple of Heaven: the place which was visited yearly by the emperors who performed intricate rituals to insure a good harvest for the whole nation at ancient times.
- Hot Pot: The hot pot (huoguo) has a long history in China. It originated in the north, where people have to fend off the chill early in the year. It spread to the south during the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906).
Accommodations: On the Cruise
Meals: B,L,D
Sightseeing: Shibaozhai,Fengdu Ghost City
Shore excursion to Shibaozhai or Fengdu ghost city this morning. The ship company will choose one of the scenic spots as your excursion destination.
- Shibaozhai: a gem of Chinese architecture, literally means Stone Treasure Fortress in English. It is a 12-storey red wood tower which was first built in Qing Dynasty with a history of 300 years. It was built against a rectangular rock with sheer cliffs on the river bank, 56 meters high, on the top of which you can enjoy a panoramic view of the rapid river and the surrounding countryside.
- Fengdu Ghost City: constructed on the Mingshan Hill by the river bank, it is so called because of the legend which goes that about 1,700 years ago, two officials, Yin and Wang (the combination of their surnames means "Ghost King ") became Taoists here and eventually Immortals. Now with fantastic temples of underworld demons and gods, it shows the Chinese ghost culture and is a place for punishing the devil and awarding the good.
The Three Gorges.There are beautiful minnow, called " peach fish" in chinese, treasured Chinese Sturgeon, graceful dance of the Tujia nationality and the unique wedding custom.
Accommodations: On the Cruise
Meals: B,L,D
Sightseeing: Shennong Stream,Lesser Three Gorges
Shore excursion to Shennong Stream or lesser three gorges by smaller vessels. The ship company will choose one of the scenic spots as your excursion destination.
- Shennong Stream: a small tributary of the Yangtze River is 60 kilometers long and is famous for its picturesque scenery. Shennong Stream is beautiful and ancient. When you take a sampan drifting along it, which is not without risk yet exhilarating and a challenge to battle with the nature. You will be attracted and surprised by its crystal clear steam flowing swiftly from north to south through deep gorges, steep ridges and peaks, thick vegetation and wild flowers, flying birds and a plank road built along a cliff and ancient hanging coffins. Sweet love songs will be presented to you by the local ethnic people.
- Lesser Three Gorges: indicating three separate valleys along the Daning River, the chief tributary of the Yangtze River, they are called "Dragon-Gate Gorge", "Misty Gorge" and "Dicui (Emerald) Gorge" respectively. You can take a small boat to enjoy the spectacular views and experience a water-borne sensation you have never had before when the natural scenic wonders unfold in front of you with clear water flowing fast through the gorges, sheer cliffs and steep mountains rising on either side to create one fine art gallery.
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.
Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel
Meals: B,L
Sightseeing: Three Gorges
Transfer via: China domestic flight on our arrangement
Have a tour to Three Gorges Dam site(0800-1000). After lunch, disembark the ship in Yichang at 13:00. And then you will take the flight back to Beijing. Upon your arrival at Beijing, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure.
- Three Gorges: spanning the Yangtze at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China. Construction began in 1994, and the 'Three Gorges Dam' is now the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The Dam will be 2,335 meters long, 18 meters wide, and its bottom will be 130 meters wide after completion in 2009. When completed, the water level will rise to 135 meters above sea level. The reservoir began filling on June 1, 2003, and it will occupy the present position of the scenic Three Gorges area, between the cities of Yichang, Hubei, and Fuling, Chongqing Municipality.
the Plank Roads. Three Gorges.
Meals: B
Transfer via: International Flight on your own arrangement
Free in the day until our local guide escorts you to the airport for your onward flight to your sweet home.
China domestic flights as specified in the itinerary 
Accommodations for 7 nights, including
4 nights at four star or higher hotels, 3 nights at four star yangtze cruise ship
17 meals, including 7 full breakfasts, 6 lunches and 4 dinners
(including Peking Duck Dinner, Hot Pot)
Round-trip transfers---between airports, hotels and scenic spots in each city by private air-conditioned motor coaches with experienced drivers
A local English-speaking guide in each city
Entrance fees to scenic spots listed in the itinerary
Luggage transfers between airports and hotels
China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty insurance
Government taxes and service charges except tips for tour guides and drivers
The robe embroidered with dragon patterns was made for the exclusive use of an emperor during the Qing Dynasty.
At every part of the trip we were met by competent and friendly guides and drivers. The guides all speak good English and were enthusiastic, knowledgeable and flexible with the basic arrangements to meet our wishes.
- Alan Stansfield,Britain
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