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Tour Code: COT-B-016
Start in: Beijing
End in: Beijing
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China Inviting Culture and Landscape Tour

          

Trip Highlights

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.

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

Visit Tiananmen Square, the largest square in the world, which is recognizable instantly by the huge portrait of Mao Zedong hanging on the Tiananmen Gate.

Climb the Great Wall, the total length of the Great Wall can add up to 50.000 kilometers.

Visit the Nine-Dragon Screen,which is composed of 424 seven-color glazed bricks in bas-relief. There are nine coiling dragons on either side of the wall.

Enter north from the Gateways, you will be confronted by a wide straight road which was used for the carriages of the emperors and their wives during the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911).

Whisper along the inner wall of the Echo Wall, your voice can be heard all the way around the other side. Why is the Echo Wall constructed in such a way? You will find the answer there.

Located north of Beihai Park, this area is surrounded by dozens of winding hutongs and thousands of common siheyuan (quadrangle courtyards.) Biking is the best way to tour this area.

Visit the Forest of Stone Steles Museum,which is not only one of the centers of ancient Chinese stone-engraving classics, but also the focus of the works of art of celebrated calligraphers of past dynasties.

Visit the Terra-cotta warriors and Hoses,

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

Visit Bell Tower in Xian, which is an ancient great building with unique Chinese architectural style.

Entering the park,you can see the longest antithetical couplet.The first part of the couplet describes the beautiful and magnificent natural views before your sight, tell you to enjoy and treasure.

Visit West Hill and Dragon Gate, known as the " sleeping beauty of Dianchi Lake".

Yulongxueshan ( Jade Gragon Snow Mountain ) is home to half of Yunnan's 13,000 plant species, 400 kinds of trees, dozens of flower types, and one-third of China's known species of medicinal herbs and plants. Have a Tout There!

Visit the Baisha Mural Painting,you can see not only Buddhas painting but also ordinary people such as bureaucrats, criminals, tourists and executioners.

Visit Heilongtan( Black Dragon Pool), where was built the Dongba Research Institute.There retired Naxi scholars translate the old religious manuscripts.

Visit Lijiang Ancient Town, where the most distinguished features of the buildings are "river aligned" and "mountain oriented".

Climb to the top of the Lion Hill,you can see a magificent structure named WanGu tower.It was the sign of building in Lijiang city and was 33m high,16 chief pillar,exceedingly high 22m.

The style of clothing that the Zhuang people wear differs according to different areas.

Visit The Longji.The Terraces were first built in the Yuan dynasty and completed in the Qing dynasty by the Zhuang people.

A typical Yao house is a rectangular wood-and-bamboo structure with usually three rooms -- the sitting room in the middle, the bedrooms on both sides.

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.

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.

Yangshuo is your break from all the major cities in China, here you can experience the rural China you have come to expect. Yangshuo is a very laid back town with excellent facilities for visitors.

The Bund, a symbol of Shanghai and an epitome of Shanghai's modern history.

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 Jade Buddha Temple,which was built in 1882 and destroyed in 1911, then rebuilt in 1918.The reconstruction was done in the very photogenic architectural style of the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

Visit Yu Garden in Shanghai, which offers you a different scene of every step.

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.

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

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