9-Day China Dreams Tour

Destinations & activities: Hotel - Airport Transfer

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

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Destinations & activities: Shanghai Museum, The Bund, Yuyuan Garden, Lilong Visit, 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 Chinese restaurant.

Afternoon, we keep on walking to the Lilong, where you can visit a local house and chitchat with a Shanghai family. Follows up, is a visit to the Yuyuan Garden, a speaker for Suzhou-style gardens.

Destinations & activities: Free time in Shanghai, Hotel - Airport Transfer

Have yourself a solo adventure before the flight to Guilin.

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Destinations & activities: Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill, Solitary Beauty Peak, a gallery

Today you will visit Guilin's highlights: Reed Flute Cave, countless stalactite spring up from the earth or drop down from the ceiling of the cave, offering a stunning view. Later, get to the icon of Guilin: Elephant Trunk Hill. Have lunch after a visit to a gallery.

In the afternoon, you will visit the beautiful campus of Guangxi Normal University, also the Mansion of Prince Jingjiang, where you can climb up the Solitary Beauty Peak. (* Note: Depending on your physical condition, Fubo Hill is an alternative.)

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Destinations & activities: Li River Bamboo Raft, Yangshuo Countryside Cycling, West Street

In the morning, your Guilin tour guide will escort you to Yangshuo. You will take a bamboo raft ride on the Li River downstream to Xingping Fishing Village, where your guide will pick you up and drive back to Yangshuo. Have simple but nice lunch in Yangshuo.

Afternoon, you will spend some time cycling through the rice paddies in Yangshuo countryside. Or, you can get on a golf-car for a relaxing and scenic drive. When you get back to Yangshuo, your guide will take you around the famous West Street.

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Destinations & activities: Land Transfer

Have some free time wandering in Yangshuo. Later, your Guilin tour guide will escort you to the airport for the flight to Beijing. Shortly, you will meet up your Beijing tour guide, who will take you to hotel and help you check in. Have some free time on your own.

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Destinations & activities: Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City, Bird's Nest and Water Cube, Summer Palace, 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.

In the afternoon, you will visit the Summer Palace, enjoy a boat trip on Kunming Lake. Later, take a leisure walk around the Bird's Nest and Water Cube.

Destinations & activities: Mutianyu Section of the Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, Hutong Visit, 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 nearby restaurant after a visit at a local cloisonné factory. In the afternoon, you will visit the Temple of Heaven. Trying to get a bit of real life, you will get into a Hutong and visit a local family.

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