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Tour Code: COT-B-015
Start in: Beijing
End in: Beijing
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Chinese Culture and Sightseeing Tour

          

Trip Highlights

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.

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

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 best part of the Ming Tombs is the road there. Along the path are bizarre, mythical stone monster standing guard.

Survey the spectacular achievement of the Great Wall.

Visit Ding Tomb, the only Ming tomb to have been excavated. And the emperor and the empress still lie within the underground vaults today.

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

The most well-kept royal garden with the most abundant scenic spots and the concentrated constructions: the Summer Palace

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

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.

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

Visit Fubo Hill, where a 100-year-old Buddha image is etched into the wall.Somewhere, are many portraits and autographs by famous calligrapher of ancient China.

The banks of the Lijiang River are inhabited by people of a dozen or so ethnic minority groups, including Zhuang, Yao,Dong, MIao, Shui and Maonan.

Traveling to Yangshuo is an experience to be with the landscape, with the people, with the soul, and with yourself.

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.

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.

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 top temple,which was inaccessible because of its elevation,but later an iron chain was attached to the cliff ,so you could access it.

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.

The early Ditch at Tianjing Gorge in Fengjie County is a typical Karst vally, which is as narrow as a thread, when you look up at the sky in the valley.

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

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.

The Yunyan Pagoda was built in the second year of the Jianlong region period of the Song Dynasty ( 961 ). As it leans towards the northwest, it is known as the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" in the East, being one of the symbols of Suzhou.

As you walk about the gardens and along the walkways, there are often views through windows onto beautiful flowers or plants framing them from a distance and drawing you to a single sight, a moment of peaceful natural beauty.

Visit the Jade Buddha Temple,you can see the jade Buddha inlaid with diamonds and agates sitting leisurely at the moment of his enlightenment.

Pudong has the main attractions in three parts. One is Zhangjiang, Waigaoqiao, Jinqiao and Sunqiao Development Zone, which are mainly for industrial and agricultural trips.

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.

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."

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