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3. Beijing (B,L,D)
Beijing is the Capital of China, once served as the
Capital City for 5 dynasties over a period of 800 years.
We start today’s tour from the Tiananmen Square – the
largest square in the world. The present Tiananmen Square
has an area of 440,000 square meters and has become
a relaxing place for the common people to fly kites
and walk. Behind the Tiananmen Gate Tower is the Palace
Museum, also known as the Forbidden City. The City was
built between 1406 and 1420 and served as the Imperial
Palace for 24 Emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
This complex, being the world largest Imperial Palace,
features more than 800 buildings with resplendent golden-glazed
roofs, red lacquered pillars and vermilion walls. In
the afternoon we will tour the Temple of Heaven where
the Ming and Qing Emperors worshipped the God of Heaven
and preyed for a good harvest. You can visit the most
brilliant buildings there, the Circular Mound Altar
(Yuanqiutan), Imperial Vault of Heaven (Huangqiongyu)
and Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest (Qiniandian) from
south to north. What’s more, you can have a chance to
experience the magnificent atmosphere of the Echo Wall
around the Imperial Vault of Heaven.
We will enjoy the famous Beijing Duck banquet for dinner,
with Chinese traditional folk dancing entertainment.
4. Beijing – Chengdu (B,L,D)
We will go to the Summer Palace, which was built in
1750 as a royal recreational resort. Among its famous
features are the 700-meter-long corridors with its wonderful
Painted Gallery, the Marble Barge, and several magnificently
painted pavilions and pagodas. Enjoy a delicious lunch
at a local restaurant and have some rest. Then we will
leave for Chengdu.
5. Chengdu – Wolong Nature
Reserve (B,L,D)
In the morning we will go to the Panda Breeding Center.
First we goto Giant Panda’s birth place---Wolong Nature
Reserve.
We stay at the Panda Resort over night. Morning is the
best time to observe pandas, as they are most lively
at that time. We will have an expert with us to explain
the habits of those living fossils. You can also enjoy
the beautiful natural scenes there.
6. Wolong --Chengdu (B,L,D)
This morning you can have tow-hour photographing time
for pandas as they eat their breakfast. You will also
have a chance to take a close-up look at baby pandas
in their nursery, and watch adult pandas frolic, slumber
and forage. Then we will go to the fascinating panda
museum at the Reserve, where the educational exhibits
will tell us everything we want to know about pandas.
After lunch we will climb over a 4000 meters pass, and
then wind steeply down the other side to Relong, a Tibetan
village at the foot of the four peaks of Four Maindens
Mountain.
7. Chengdu - Shanghai (B,L,D)
Today we have a whole day for hiking and admiring the
views of the Four Maindens Mountain, its precipitous
slopes, steep ravines, and hanging glaciers. Our route
can be as gentle or challenging as we like. But whether
we walk a lengthy route, or something close and easy,
we admire the carpets of summertime wildflowers, the
forest of larch and other conifers, and the spectacular
mountain peaks soaring above us. We take our lunch with
a Tibetan family, or we enjoy a picnic lunch in a meadow,
depending on your preference. In the evening we stroll
along the streets of Relong, browsing in shops seling
mountain herbal medicine, Tibetan handicrafts, and many
kinds of dried mushrooms that we do not encounter in
the markets of the big cities.
Fly to Shanghai in the afternoon.
8. Shanghai-Tongli-Suzhou (B,L,D)
Shanghai is the largest commercial city in China. But
today you will have the chance to view another face
of this modern city. We will visit the beautiful Yuyuan
Garden, a finely designed maze of elegant pavilions
and ponds in the old part of this city. Leave for Tongli
after lunch, where we will see the Grand Canal, and
also the beautiful small bridges built hundred of years
ago, and the traditional Chinese style residences built
in ancient times. Drive along to Suzhou.
9. Suzhou (B,L,D)
Resting in the arm of the ancient Grand Canal, Suzhou
is well known for its old delicate garden. After breakfast,
we will first go to Zhuo Zheng Garden and enjoy the
wonderful scenes there. Then we will visit the Lion
Forest Garden，the Garden of the Master of the Nets.After
lunch we will go to visit the Tiger Hill and the famous
Lingering Gardens. Afterwards visit the Han Shan Temple.
Suzhou is the centre of textile industry in China and
today you have a chance to visit a Silk Factory. There
you will witness the born of world-famous Suzhou silk
and silk embroidery.
10. Suzhou-Shanghai - USA(B,L)
Say farewell to the oriental Vanice—Suzhou and drive
back to Shanghai. After a short rest we go to admire
the Jade Buddha Temple, which is famous for its two
big Jade Buddha, each of them was carved out from a
single piece of Jade. Then transfer to the airport and
take the flight back home.
Land Only Cost: $950
Single Room Supplement: $320 |
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