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This tour will offer the dynamic experience to you in China, that is regarded as a wonderful epitome of dazzling China - firstly, Beijing, renown for its architecture wonders, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall as the representatives, and an exciting exploration to "hit" the Roof of the World - the picturesque and mystical Tibet, as well as Xian, an even older imperial capital with the amazing Terracotta Warriors, and fast shot for open and dynamic Shanghai.
Worry-free tour with Low price Guarantee, satisfy your curiosity about every aspect of China.
One-stop service, incl. tour guide, hotels, meals, transportation, attraction admissions and insurance, etc.
Caring, experienced local guide & driver will be of great help to ensure your safety and comfort on the way.
Today's Activities | May you have a good journey to Beijing, and our guide will meet you outside the customs of Beijing Airport after you clear the customs, and then transfer you to the downtown hotel. The rest of the day is flexible for your will, have a rest or take a walk near the hotel. |
Today's Activities | After having breakfast at hotel, you will visit the Tiananmen Square this morning to start your Beijing tour. Strolling round the large square is very enjoyable where you will see Beijing with ancient and modern elements, then walk north to the Forbidden City. As the largest and best-preserved imperial palace in China, it vividly indulges us with a whole impression of the royal life. Later you will appreciate Chinese featured royal park - Summer Palace, which boasts of typical Chinese architecture and splendid landscape. | ||||||||||||||||
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After breakfast at hotel, you will have an excursion to the Badaling Great Wall, which is regarded as the most popular section of China Great Walls. It is also the best-preserved section, built during the Ming Dynasty. Later you will go to the most famous tomb of Ming Tombs - Changling, it is the largest in scale and is completely preserved, inhumed the fourth emperor of Ming Dynasty. Also you will visit the Sacred Road of the tombs, which was originally built to lead to the Changling mausoleum. | ||||||||||||||||
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Today's Activities | This day you can visit the Temple of Heaven, where the Emperor of the Ming and Qing dynasties would worship heaven and pray for good harvests. After that, you will explore Beijing Hutong by rickshaw to know more about the life and culture of ordinary Beijing people. This visit can provide you with a distinctive travelling experience compared to other attraction. Also you can take a walk at Confucius Temple and Imperial Academy, which stand for the highest level academy of Qing dynasty. | ||||||||||||||||
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Today's Activities | After having breakfast at hotel, you will be transferred to airport for a fly to Lhasa. Upon your arrival at Lhasa, our Tibetan local guide and driver will pick you up at Gonggar Airport, then transfer you to downtown hotel. The rest of the day is free for you to adapt yourself to the high altitude of about 3,650 meters above sea level. |
Travel Tips | Remember that you should start taking anti-AMS medicines a week in advance before arrving in Tibet. When you arrived at the hotel, please be not so curious to walk much around the hotel, and all you need is a good rest in your room for necessary acclimatization, otherwise you may easily get mountain sickness. Besides, try to aviod catching a cold. And a first aid kit including aspirin, antibiotics and AMS medication is highly recommended. |
Today's Activities | It believes that this day must leave a lifetime memory for your whole life. In the morning, you will visit the splendid Potala Palace, which originated from 7th century and once homed to Dalai Lamas. The Jokhang Temple, we head to later, as the spiritual center of Tibet, will deeply impressed you by its magnificence and sincere pilgrims. Barkhor street, hugging the jokhang temple, is regarded as the crowded central Market in ancient section of Lhasa, and at where you can buy various Tibetan or other minorities’ souvenirs for your family and friends. | ||||||||||||||||
Travel Tips | 1. Due to the popularity of Potala Palace and restriction on visitor numbers, perhaps it has difficulty on booking entrance tickets, so the visit of Potala Palace may shift to another day. But don't worry, we will make appropriate changes accordingly. |
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After having breakfast, we will drive to the west of Lhasa about 11 km for visiting the Drepung Monastery, and which is one of the 'Three Great Monasteries' and the largest one in Tibetan Buddhism. Later that day, the next visit is Sera Monastery, the second monastery in Tibet. Distinctively its famous debating activities are holding around 3-4pm regularly every working day that you should never miss. | ||||||||||||||||
Travel Tips | 1. It is a good idea to pack some food, snacks, and drinking water along your trip. 2. When you are in a monastery or a museum, please do not smoke, consume alcohol or make unnecessary noise; neither, do not touch, walk over or sit on any religious texts, objects or prayer flags. |
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After two days' visit of Tibetan human landscapes, today we will drive about 2.5 hours to appreciate the beautiful natural views of the famous Sacred Lake of Tibet - Namsto Lake. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful lake which has been the destination of Tibetan pilgrims for centuries. The surface of the lake seemly looks like a green jade, hence it was praised as the most beautiful lake all over the world. After, we will return to Lhasa downtown, then the rest of this day is for your free arrangement. | ||||||||||||||||
Travel Tips | For amazing sceneries and beautiful legend, Namsto Lake attracts seas of travelers from all over the world, also it is an excellent spot for photographic lovers, kindly well prepare your camera for taking a valuable photo! | ||||||||||||||||
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Today you will take a train to Xi'an along the Qinghai-Tibet railway, which is the world's highest and longest plateau railroad. With comfortable soft-sleeper compartment and good service, you would gain full relaxation on the train. The beautiful sceneries of high plateau passing outside the windows would totally let you ignore this long trip of 34 hours. |
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Taking high plateau's train is a worthy experience, and you will arrive in Xi'an without noticing the long time. Our Xi'an tour guide will wait you at the Xi'an railway station's exit, then take you to the hotel. The arrival time depends on which train you have booked, commonly you will arrive in Xi'an at night. So after check-in at hotel, you would have a sound sleep before starting Xi'an tour. |
Today's Activities | After having breakfast, you will head to world-famous Terracotta Warriors to start wonderful Xi'an tour, maybe you have seen them many times on TV or magazines before, but it's a total different experienc to see them with your own eyes. Also with a sidetrip to Mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, who owned this awesome underground kingdom, you would know more about the first dynasty of China - Qin dynasty. Later you will return to downtown for seeing the Great Mosque of Xi'an, where still hold prayer services each day; With several minutes' walk to Muslim Quarter, you can buy some interesting sourviners and taste various delicious local snacks. Optionally visit: Tang Dynasty Show. | ||||||||||||||||
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Today's Activities | Deeply explore Xi'an in many fields by seeing Shaanxi Historical Museum this morning, where you can get more knowledge about Chinese national treasures and other precious cultural relics. Later you will step on Xi'an Ancient City Wall. As the best-preserved old city wall in China, you can take beautiful views of Xi'an city, and even optionally cycling on the wall is available for you. At last, tour guide will take you to airport. With about 2 hour's fly to Shanghai, you will be pick-up at airport and transferred to hotel. | ||||||||||||||||
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Today's Activities | As the biggest city of China, Shanghai definitely offers many lures. Begins from Yuyuan Garden and Yuyuan Market, you will appreciate Chinese garden construction and know more about Shanghai local people. Then with a stroll from Nanjing Road to the Bund, you will be impressed by Modern Shanghai amazingly compared with Xi'an. Later you can view the whole city at the highest floor of Oriental Pearl TV Tower, and know about the development of Shanghai with a following visit to Shanghai Municipal History Museum at the pedestal of the tower. At night, Shanghai Acrobats Show can be optionally appreciated. | ||||||||||||||||
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Today's Activities | This is the last day of your tour, you can have free activity in Shanghai, shopping or have a rest, and later the tour guide will take you to airport for your flight to next destination. We believe you will love China and keep forever memories about China in your whole life. |
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Dining: 11 breakfasts, 9 lunches. | Admissions: Entrance fee to all scenic spots listed in itinerary |
Train, Flight Tickets: all listed in itineraries; | Hotels: accommodation in mentioned cities; |
Tour Guide: a local experienced English-speaking guide | Car Driver: an experienced licensed driver |
Vehicle: a private air-conditioned car, offering Round-trip transfers | Luggage Transfers: a hand for your heavy luggage; |
Insurance: Travel Agencies Liability Insurance; | Government taxes & Service charges |
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- Other optional attractions / tours / meals and international flights; | - Tips for tour guides and drivers. |
- Breakfasts offered by hotels: just start your happy tour after having breakfast in the morning, especially for deluxe class, buffet breakfast is available;
- It supplys lunch according to different classes of tour, such as deluxe in city-famous restaurants and tourist in popular tourist restaurants;
- Dinner option is open to you, you could find your favorite place to eat, or take our recommendations.
We promises no worries about the dining quality, plus flexible choices that you can have depending on your preference. If having any special requestment, just tell our trip advisor directly. In all, we aim to satisfy your tongue and stomach with our recommendation as follows:
As the capital of China, Beijing boasts many good restaurants with featured cuisines. Our package takes you to have A La Carte dinner at Great Northeast Restaurant, Gold Palace Restaurant and Tang Yuan Restaurant, leading you to grasp the essence of Chinese classic cuisines.
Dining Hall of Great Northeast Restaurant | Main Hall of Tang Yuan Restaurant |
You do not have to eat the same food every time in tourist restaurants; It means that you can choose your favorite restaurant to have a meal. And in Lhasa, wider choices that you can have relatively, like western food, chinese set meal or something else, also you could try very local Tibetan foods, such as Buttered Tea, Zanba, dry yak and cow jerky;
Common Meals in Tibet Restaurant | Tibetan Sesame Lamb Chops |
Xi'an features distinctive cuisines of China Northwest, such as various-shapes chinese dumplings and other wheaten food. At Muslim Quarter, where gathers lots of delicious local food, like Rou Jia Mo and shish kebabs, etc.
(1) Here we highly recommend Chinese Dumpling Dinner, which also named Jiaozi, typically consist of a ground meat and/or vegetable filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough, which is then sealed by pressing the edges together or by crimping. As a must-try for visitors, it serves with Tang dynasty show. And it belongs to an [add on] item in the tour.
(2) Rou Jia Mo, also called Chinese Hamburger, is very similar to the Western hamburger essentially, but with different cooking method.
Chinese Dumpling Dinner | Rou Jia Mo ( Chinese Hamburger ) |
We say little about the dining in Shanghai, since Shanghai is regarded as a delicious kingdom, where you can taste everything almost. Here we strongly suggest you take M on The Bund into consideration.
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-- Dedicated to creating a dining experience as exciting, as sophisticated, as delectable as Shanghai itself
-- “One of the top 20 restaurants in Asia” (Miele Guide, 2009-2010)
-- “Best Global Cuisine” (City Weekend Readers’ Choice Awards, 2010)
-- “M on the Bund: Most Popular Restaurant in Shanghai” (Zaqat Survey Shanghai, 2008)
Shanghai M on The Bund Restaurant | Brandboard of M on the Bund |
Customer: Leonard Lee
Destinations: Tibet
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