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Tour Code: COT-3865
Start in: Beijing
End in: Shanghai
Special Experience: Enjoy a famous Peking Duck Banquet for dinner. visit Hutongs by rickshaw.enjoy the savory dumpling dinner.l-day excursion of incredible Shanghai will include: Shanghai Museum, the Bund and the Nanjing Road, Yu Garden and Yuyuan Market. Enjoy a wonderful Acrobatic Show tonight.
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2008 Taste of China

          

Trip Highlights

Visit the Temple of Heaven, the place that emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties worshiped heaven and prayed for an abundant harvest.

Visit the Forbidden City, known officially as the Imperial Palace Musium. There is also a garden which features a grove of beautiful old cypress and pine trees, as well as the largest of the strange rock sculptures that are studded about the ground.

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.

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

The most well-kept tombs wtih the most emperors buried there: Ming Tombs

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.

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

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 Ancient City Wall, which has taken a new look afrer the repairs on a large scale. It is an extension on the old Sui and Tang Dynasty structure.

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

Lijiang River Landscape: a landscape gallery

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.

Approach the Big Banyan Tree.It is under this tree that The Third Sister Liu declared her admiration to her lover The A'niu.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Three Gorge Dam: the designed shipping capacity of the navigation facilities include a twin 5-flight shiplock and a one-step vertical shiplift, which can adequately handle tows up to 10,000 tons and provide immediate service.

Visit the Yuyuan Market,you may find the food is a great temptation with local delicacies such as xiao long bao, pigeon egg dumplings and spicy cold noodles from the street stalls or numerous restaurants.

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

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.

Modern high buildings in Pudong

Shanghai Museum possesses more than 120 thousand various kinds of valuable culture objects.

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