11-Day Classical China Tour

Destinations & activities: Hotel - Airport Transfer

Welcome to China! As you arrive in Beijing, you will feel warm welcome by your Beijing tour guide and driver. You will be escorted to hotel for check-in. Free time afterwards.

Destinations & activities: Temple of Heaven, Mutianyu Section of the Great Wall, Kungfu Show (at 7:30pm), a cloisonné factory

Last night's good sleep gets a full charge for your tour to the Great Wall at Mutianyu Section. Among all the sections, Mutianyu is noted for better views and less crowds. You will enjoy a round-way cable car life at this section. Have lunch in a farmhouse restaurant before get back to downtown Beijing.

Stop by a cloisonné factory before your time is dedicated to the Temple of Heaven, where Chinese emperors used to offer God their best fruits and prayers. Have some free time before the Kungfu Show at Red Theatre.

- Smart Tips:

No.3 restaurant of TripAdvisor's recommendation, Haidilao Hot Pot has its way to spice up your Beijing trip. Within 30min by a cab from the Temple of Heaven. ( Note: Transfer and meal are on your own exspense.)

Destinations & activities: Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City, Hutong visit, an old pearl store

Good day for early risers: morning firstly go people-watching on the biggest public square that is Tian'anmen Square. Enter the Forbidden City, following history's footsteps. Also known as Gugong Museum or Royal Palace Museum, here you will visit Hall of Mental Cultivation, Hall of Supreme Harmony, Palace of Heavenly Purity and Royal Garden. Pay a short visit to a time-honored pearl store before lunch at Courtyard 7 Restaurant.

Sitting in comfort, a rickshaw will weave our way in the Hutong passing Houhai area. Here, you will make a stop at a local house, a greeting and chitchat come in order.

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Destinations & activities: Free time in Beijing, Hotel - Train Station Transfer

Today you will have Beijing to your own. Here's what we suggest:

Destinations & activities: Train Station - Hotel Transfer, Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, a handicraft center

Arrive in Xi'an in the morning, your tour guide will take you to some simple breakfast and help you check in. Later, you will visit the wonder of ancient China: Terracotta Warriors and Horses. Have lunch in a Sichuan restaurant nearby before a walk at a handicraft center.

In the afternoon, you will be back to Xi'an downtown, waiting is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda inside Ci'en Temple. Climb it up and get a wonderful view of the city.

- Smart Tips:

No tricks! We will take you to visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, not the Small Wild Goose Pagoda which is free for entrance without entry into the pagoda.

Destinations & activities: Hotel - Airport Transfer, Muslim Quarter, learn to make dumplings, free time in Guilin

First stop is the Muslim Quarter, one of the biggest Muslim communities in China. A dumpling class at Hantangtianxia Dumpling Restaurant follows up.

After lunch, you will fly to Guilin. Your Guilin tour guide will be waiting for you at the airport. After check-in, you will have Guilin all to your own.

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Get Guilin's lazy feeling under your skin, take a free walk on Zhengyang Pedestrian Street, lined up with bars and restaurants.

Unfolding Li River by a Li Rive Cruise down to Yangshuo County. Have simple Chinese lunch on board whilst the landscape changes along the way.

You will get to Yangshuo in the afternoon. After check-in, here follows a cycling experience in the countryside.

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Destinations & activities: Land Transfer, Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill and a pearl museum

Guilin is famous for Karst landform, and Reed Flute Cave is one of the most beautiful place to sense Guilin's charm. Later, visit the icon of Guilin: Elephant Trunk Hill. Have lunch and stop by a pearl museum.

After lunch at McFound Restaurant, you will get to Fubo Hill, located inside Guilin city, it creates magnificent whirlpools in the Li River as it stands submerged in the waters.

Greet Guilin's bright morning. Your Guilin tour guide will take you to Guilin airport for flight to Shanghai. Your Shanghai tour guide will escort you and help you check in at the hotel. Afterwards, you will have some free time in Shanghai.

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Destinations & activities: Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai History Museum, Lilong visit, a silk factory

Overlooking the Huangpu River and the Bund, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower is absolutely Shanghai's pride and icon. Today you will be on the top of it, taking in a panoramic. Visit Shanghai History Museum, which is located inside the tower, with a great collection of waxwork detailing the history of Shanghai. Have lunch at Home's Restaurant with its artisty atmosphere.

After a stop at a local silk factory, your Shanghai tour guide will take you on a Lilong visit. Knock on a local house and get invited for teatime with the locals.

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Destinations & activities: Hotel - Airport Transfer

Good time flies fast. Today your Shanghai tour guide will see you off at the airport. Thanks for taking this China tour with China Travel. We hope to see you again soon!