Day 1 Arrive at Hong Kong (-/-/-)
Transfer via: International arranged by you
Welcome to Hong Kong. You local professional guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to your hotel. After check-in, you have free time to relax.
Day 2 Hong Kong (B/-/-)
After breakfast, you local guide will pick you up at hotel and accompany you on your tour. The tour will last a time of maximum 5 hours. Hong Kong is a fascinating combination of East and West but it has its own unique and distinctive culture. Your half day tour will take in Victoria Peak, Hong Kong's number one tourist destination. It features the 112 year old Peak Tram and Hong Kong's most unusual building, The Peak Tower. Next stop is Aberdeen Harbor which is home to hundreds of people living on fishing junks. If you would like close up look at this unusual way of life, you can take a sampan ride (US$10-12). Repulse Bay is the last stop today; it is one of Hong Kong's most exclusive residential areas.
Day 3 Hong Kong / Guilin (B/-/-)
Transfer via: International Flight arranged by us
 After breakfast, you local guide will meet you at hotel and accompany you on your tour. First visit Hong Kong's largest monastery-Bamboo monastery and Route 3. The tour continues to Lok Ma Chau, a vantage point where one can look across the Pearl Estuary to glimpse the remarkable skyline of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone of China. Then visited Kam Tin Walled Village. Be transfer to the airport for the flight to Guilin. Upon arrival, be met by your local guide and transfer you to the hotel.
Day 4 Guilin (B/L/-)
Today's highlight is cruising down the Li River, which stretches 83 kilometers from Guilin to Yangshuo. The cruise will give you a chance to savor the lovely view of the area's extraordinary limestone peaks. The cruise ends in Yangshuo. Visit local markets. Yangshuo is a charming small town with its main street lined with small hotels, countless souvenir shops and restaurants. Take the private van back to Guilin in the afternoon.
Day 5 Guilin / Chongqing (B/L/-)
Transfer via: Internal flight arranged by us
Visit the Reed Flute Cave which is one of the largest known examples of what each tropical limestone cave cone conceals within it, the Elephant Trunk Hill which is the simple of Guilin, and the Fubo hill. Escorted to the airport for the flight to Chongqing. Arrive in Chongqing, your local guide will meet you and escort you the board on the cruise ship. As the ship departs from Chongqing at about 21:00, your relaxing Yangtze River cruise begins.
Day 6 Yangtze River Cruise (B/L/D)
 Shore excursion to Fengdu Ghost City (1:00-3:00pm)
Fengdu is where the devil lives, according to Chinese legend. They say that spirits go to heaven, and evil goes to Fengdu. The town is overlooked by Ming Shan Hill, home of Tianzi, the King of the Dead. The whole place has an eerie feel to it with deserted streets, tower blocks, empty shops and banks. The only people here are those who make a living from visiting cruise boats.
Day 7 Yangtze River Cruise (B/L/D)
Shore excursion to Lesser Three Gorges (8:00am-1:00pm)
The Lesser Three Gorges are the three separate valleys of the Daning River: Dragon Gate Gorge, Misty Gorge and Emerald Gorge. These lie on the lower reaches of the Daning, which flows into the Yangtze. The gorges are truly spectacular. Sheer cliffs soar up towards the sky from the brown-green water. Mountain tops hover above the ribbon of mist, disconnected from their roots. Its "subtle mountains, clear waters, pretty rocks, dangerous rapids, sharp turns, fantastic caves, and stalactites in various shapes" create the timeless beauty that you see in Chinese landscape paintings. Monkeys, mandarin ducks and other water birds can be seen loitering on big boulders in this area.
Day 8 Yichang / Xian (B/L/-)
 Transfer via: Internal Flight arranged by us
Shore excursion to The Three Gorges Dam Site. Arrive in Yichang at 1:30pm. Disembark the ship then you local guide will escort you to visit the Sanyou Cave and Research Institute of Chinese Sturgeon. Afterwards, transfer to the airport for the flight to Xian. Upon arrival, your local guide will greet you and transfer you the hotel.
Day 9 Xian (B/L/-)
Begin the day's activity with an once-in-a-lifetime viewing of the extraordinary 2,200-year-old Terracotta Warriors of China's first feudal Emperor, Qin Shihuang. On your way back to the city, stop at a mountain village and meet local residents. After lunch, you will visit to Big Wild Goose Pagoda which was built in 652 A.D. It contains a large volume of Buddhist scriptures which were obtained from India by the eminent monk of Xuanzang.
Day 10 Xian / Beijing (B/L/-)
Transfer via: Internal Flight arranged by us
After breakfast, visit Shaanxi Provincial Historical Museum. This roomy, modern museum contains over 370,000 relics chronicling Shaanxi civilization and culture from as far as prehistoric times. The collection is strong in ceramics, bronzes, jade pieces, gold and silver items, ancient coins, and calligraphy mainly from the pre-Ming periods. After lunch, you will visit Xian ancient City Wall, which is the most complete city wall survived in China as well as one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world and Great Mosque. Then take the flight to Beijing. Upon arrival, your local guide will meet you and escort you to the hotel.
Day 11 Beijing (B/L/-)
After breakfast, begin the day's activity with a visit to Tian'anmen Square, the largest urban square in the world. Then, move on to the Imperial Palace, also known as the "Forbidden City", the biggest palace complex in the world. In the afternoon, visit Temple of Heaven, the place where the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvest. The Beijing Duck Dinner is served as Dinner.
Day 12 Beijing (B/L/D)
 You will be accompanied by our local professional guide to one of the greatest world heritage sites - the Great Wall, Badaling section in the morning. After lunch, continue to the Sacred Way and the Ming Tomb in the afternoon. Conclude the day tour after seeing the appearance of the Bird's Nest (Olympic National Stadium) in the distance on the way to the downtown. The cheering Peking Opera (the national opera) is scheduled as the evening delight after dinner.
Day 13 Beijing / Shanghai (B/L/-)
Transfer via: Internal Flight arranged by us
After a relaxed breakfast at hotel this morning, tour to Summer Palace, one of China's largest and best-preserved imperial gardens. In the afternoon, you will take a ride in rickshaw through some old "Hutongs", lanes or alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan (a compound with houses around a courtyard) where you will visit some family. After visiting, take a flight to Shanghai, which is one of the most modern cities in China. Upon arrival in Shanghai, be met by the local professional tour guide and transfer to the hotel.
Day 14 Shanghai (B/L/-)
 This morning you will visit the Shanghai Museum which houses large collections of historical items. Then go ahead to the famous Yuyuan Garden an ancient classical garden, and Yuyuan Market. After lunch, visit Bund and Nanjing Road. After dinner you will enjoy a fabulous Acrobatic Show.
Day 15 Shanghai / Departure (B/L/-)
Transfer via: International / Internal Flight arranged by you
After breakfast, you will be escorted to the airport for your flight to your next destination
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