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Beijing - Shanghai - XI AN
Tour Overview
China is a populous nation in East Asia whose vast landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14,000km of coastline. Capital Beijing mixes modern architecture with historic sites such as the Forbidden City palace complex and Tiananmen Square. Shanghai is a skyscraper-studded global financial center. The iconic Great Wall of China runs east-west across the country's north. Xi’an is a large city and capital of Shaanxi Province in central China. Once known as Chang’an (Eternal Peace), it marks the Silk Road’s eastern end and was home to the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties' ruling houses. At archaeological sites in Xi’an’s surrounding plains are the famed Bingmayong (Terra Cotta Army), thousands of life-size, hand-molded figures buried with China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.Shanghai, on China’s central coast, is the country's biggest city and a global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sprawling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds.
Day 1: Beijing
Welcome to Beijing! Meet your guide at the airport and transfer to your hotel. Spend the rest of the day to explore Beijing's historical yet dynamic ambience on your own. Dinner at local restaurant and overnight at the Hotel.
Day 2: Beijing – Great Wall of China & Ming Tombs
Attractions: Great Wall Of China,Ming Tomb
After breakfast, a full day tour to the Great Wall of China, the number one attraction and the only man made construction on earth visible from space, which was built some 2000 years ago, and the Ming Tombs, a complex of Tombs set into the hillsides sheltering well-preserved artifacts of 13 Emperors from the Ming Dynasty. Dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight at the Hotel.
Day 3: Beijing – Half Day City Tour
Attractions: Tiananmen Square,Chinese architectural art,Temple of Heaven
After breakfast, the day begins with sightseeing. The tour includes Tiananmen Square - the largest public square in the world surrounded by many of China's most impressive monuments, government buildings and museums, the Forbidden City- the best preserved and most complete group of palace in China showing the unique style of ancient Chinese architectural art, the Temple of Heaven, where ancient China rulers worshipped heaven and prayed for harvests and the Summer Palace a complex of pavilions, temples and galleries situated on an immense man-made lake. Dinner at the local restaurant. Overnight at the Hotel.
Day 4: Beijing – Xi’an
Attractions: Wild Goose Pagoa Square,Bell and Drum Tower
After breakfast, transfer to Train Station for your high speed train to Xian. Upon arrival Meet your guide and transfer to your hotel. En-route visit Wild Goose Pagoa Square along with Bell & Drum Tower (Entrance not included) Dinner at the local restaurant. Overnight at the Hotel.
Day 5: Xi’an – Half Day City Tour
Attractions: Terra-cotta Museum,City Wall,Huaqing Hot Springs
Arrive in Xi 'an early morning, visit to Terra-cotta museum with horses, Huaqing hot springs, Wild goose Pagoda and City Wall. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight at the Hotel.
Day 6: Xi’an – Shanghai
Attractions: Yu Garden,Museums,Yuyuen Gardens
Today transfer to train station for your train to Shanghai, Arrive Shanghai, meet and greet by our local guide and transfer to the hotel. En-route Yu Garden (UNESCO). Owing to its ingenious design in Ming and Qing dynasties, it becomes a real museum of Chinese ancient architecture. Walk around the Old Downtown with its maze of walkways, reflecting ponds, pavilions and stone bridges. Temple of Jade Buddha – the large Buddha fashioned out of a single piece of jade and the elegant Yuyuen Gardens, built in 1559 noted for an extraordinary beauty that is unrivaled south of the Yangtze River Dinner at the local restaurant. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 7: Shanghai – Full Day City Tour
Attractions: Historical Buildings,Jade Buddha Temple,Shanghai Museum
After breakfast, proceed for Wander through the bustling Bund, featuring outstanding European colonial architectures, new skyscrapers and historical buildings in Shanghai. Photo stop at oriental pearl TV Tower, visit 94th floor of shanghai world financial center, Lunch on own, Then head to the Jade Buddha Temple that is famous for two precious jade Buddhist statues. Continue to visit the Shanghai Museum, with its 120,000 piece collection of Chinese ancient treasures. Dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight at the Hotel.
Day 8: Depart Shanghai
After breakfast, check out and proceed to the airport for your flight.
Inclusions / Exclusions
Tour price includes:
1. Accommodation in the hotel.
2. Transfer and sightseeing as per the itinerary in private car, Soft Sleeper PEK – XIA.
3. Service of English speaking guide.
4. Acrobatic show in Beijing.
5. Meals as specified in the itinerary (Any meal upgrade to Indian meals, then there will be a supplement cost where option of Indian restaurant is available.
Tour price does not include:
1. Passport and China Visa.
2. International & domestic Airfare & Airport taxes
3. Any increase in the rate of exchange, surface transportation & land arrangements, which may come into effect prior to departure.
4. Porterage, tips, insurance, laundry, wine, mineral water, telephone charges, optional tours and all items of personal nature and also food and drinks not forming part of the group menus.
5. Anything not specifically mentioned in “Tour Price Includes” box.