7-Day Beijing and Shanghai Highlights 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.

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Destinations & activities: Mutianyu Section of the Great Wall, Bird's Nest and Water Cube at National Olympic Stadiums, a cloisonné factory

Have breakfast at your hotel. Later, start our morning with a visit to the Great Wall at Mutianyu Section, one of the easiest section with stunning views. You will take a cable car uphill and trek downhill. Have lunch in a farmhouse-style restaurant after a visit at a local cloisonné factory. In the afternoon, you will pass through Beijing's skyscrapers to the National Olympic Stadiums, where the funky-looking Bird's Nest and Water Cube are located.

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Destinations & activities: Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City, Beihai Park, an old pearl store

As Beijing's landmark, Tian'anmen Square means more to Chinese people than a public square. This morning, you will take a look-around on the square before march into the Forbidden City. Forbidden City, or Royal Palace Museum, Gugong Museum, Purple Forbidden City, it was home to over 20 emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Learn how to spot a real pearl from a fake one at an old pearl store before lunch time. Lunch will be served inside a lovely courtyard house restaurant.

In the afternoon, you will take a leisure walk in Beihai Park,get a distance vision of the Lama pagoda, White Pagoda inside the park. Free time for your solo adventure.

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

Have a free morning in Beijing. At around 10am, your Beijing tour guide will take you to the train station. You will take a high speed train to Shanghai at 11am. In less than 5 hours, you will meet up your Shanghai tour guide. Check in hotel and relax.

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Destinations & activities: Shanghai Museum, The Bund, Old French Concession, Tianzifang, a silk factory

Learn something about Shanghai in Shanghai Museum, with an English guide device. Take a walk along the Bund, glance at the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Stop at a local silk factory before lunch. Lunch is served in a popular Cantonese restaurant.

Afternoon, we keep on walking to the Old French Concession, where history lives and echos along the sideways lined up with plane trees. Take a turn into Tianzifang, which was renewed from the old Shikumen buildings and now a place for fashion and arts.

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Destinations & activities: Free time in Shanghai

Today you will enjoy some solo adventure in Shanghai. Have fun!

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Cherish every moment in China, and today we are to say goodbye. Your Shanghai tour guide will escort you to the airport. Thanks for traveling with China Travel. Hope to see you again soon!