Day 01 Arrive in Shanghai                          Overnight at Shanghai

Our guide will meet you after you go through the baggage claim area at Shanghai Airport and transfer you to the downtown luxury hotel. The rest of the day is your own to explore the city.

Night scene of Shanghai

 

Day 02 Shanghai                                   Overnight at Shanghai

Visit the Shanghai Museum and the Yuyuan Garden. After lunch, different schedule is arranged for luxury and standard series. The farewell dinner is served at the Central Hotel, whose restaurant Wang Bao He has a history of around 260 years and is the best place to serve Shanghai Cuisine. The memorable dinner will be followed by the Portman Acrobatic Show at the Shanghai Centre Theatre.
Descriptions: Shanghai Museum - Shanghai Museum is a noted art gallery of the nation located in the city center, possessing about 120 thousand pieces of cultural relics that range from the Paleolithic Age to modern times. Bronze, ceramic wares, calligraphic and painting masterpieces of different dynasties gathering here are the most highlighted part of the museum.

 

Day 03 Shanghai - Xi’an                               Overnight at Xi’an

Take a flight to Xian and the guide will pick you up at the airport. Visit the City Wall on the way to the hotel. After enjoying the a la carte lunch at a local famous restaurant, check in at the hotel.
Descriptions:City Wall - The majestic circumvallation is the most spectacular place of interest in Xian. The city wall has a history of 1,400 years since the Sui and Tang dynasties. In the long history, its gates changed their names for many times, which also reflect the old city's ups and downs. The South Gate was best restored based on its prototype first constructed in 582 of the Sui Dynasty, which is also the oldest gate of the City Wall. Vehicles and passersby get in and out through annex gates on its west and east sides and it has become an important cultural relic.

 

Day 04 Xi’an                                         Overnight at Xi’an

Visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. To avoid having the poor food at the site, you will be taken back to downtown Xian to have lunch at a well-known Cantonese cuisine restaurant. In the afternoon, visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
Descriptions:Terracotta Warriors Museum - When you come to China, you are suggested to visit the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, a wonder in the world. The over thousand of warrior figures have completely exemplified the achievement on art in Qin Dynasty. Most figures are full of sharp characters, vivid and lifelike. They are the unity of spirit and form, representing the model of realistic vein. The full-pulsed war horses are not mechanical imitation, but are endowed with dynamic vigor, emotion and passion.

Binglingsi Grottoes, Lanzhou

 

Day 05 Xian - Lanzhou                              Overnight at Lanzhou

Visit the Great Mosque and a local family in the morning. Take a flight to Lanzhou and transfer to the hotel.

 

Day 06 Lanzhou                                    Overnight at Lanzhou

Visit the Binglingsi Grottoes.

Descriptions:Binglingsi Grottoes - The Caves were excavated in Western Jin Dynast (the early 3rd century AD) and have a long history of 1,600 years. Because of relatively good natural conditions and little man-made damage, Bingling Buddha Caves have been preserved comparatively completely. Now there are 776 Buddha statues, murals of more than 900 square meters (1,076 square yards) and 6 stone sculptures kept.

 

Day 07 Lanzhou - Xiahe                               Overnight at Xiahe

Transfer to Xiahe and check in at the hotel. Visit the Sangke Grassland and have a visit to a Tibetan family.

 

Day 08 Xiahe - Lanzhou                             Overnight at Lanzhou

Visit the Labrang Monastery and watch the morning devotion there. Drive back to Lanzhou and stay at the hotel.

 

Camel ride along the Echoing-sand Dune, Dunhuang

 

Day 09 Lanzhou - Dunhuang                       Overnight at Dunhuang

Visit the Waterwheel Garden.Take a flight to Dunhuang and transfer to the hotel.
Descriptions:Waterwheel Garden - The wheel in the Garden was invented in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and is the oldest one as known. The designer, Duan Xu, modeled this from the irrigation machines in Yunnan Province. It resembles a chariot wheel with a diameter ranging from 10 to 20 meters (32.8 to 65.6 feet). The wheel was driven by water flow and those buckets fixed along the brim could carry water one by one in order to irrigate crops.

 

Day 10 Dunhuang - Turpan                           Overnight at Turpan

Visit the Mogao Grottoes and you will experience a short camel-ride along the Echoing-Sand Dune to reach the Crescent Lake. Take the overnight soft-sleeper train to Turpan.

Descriptions:Mogao Grottoes - The Mogao Grottoes, together with Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes, Maijishan Grottoes, are the four famous Chinese grotto groups. Stretching 1,600 meters from north to south, the Mogao Grottoes of different sizes are scattered in a cliff of the Mingsha Mountain at five different levels. The frescoes in the grottoes are the gems of classical Chinese culture, reflecting the particular styles of different ages. The frescoes are in perfect harmony with the painted sculptures in color and layout, so the grottoes provide a whole piece of well-integrated art.
 
Echoing Sand Dune - The name of Echoing-Sand Dune in Kazakh means “the voice of desert”. A total of 5 red dunes are entrenched on the top of mountain. The largest one has a vertical height of over 100 meters (328 feet). You can often hear clarion and thunder from the inner of the dunes, intermittent, rising and falling. If you grasp a handful of sands and outthrow them, immediately it will spark numerous croaks.

 

 Grape Valley, Turpan

 

Day 11Turpan                                       Overnight at Turpan

You will be met at the railway station. After having breakfast at the hotel, visit the Jiaohe Ruins, the Karez Well and the Sugong Pagoda.

Descriptions: Karez System - is an irrigation system which has been listed as one of the greatest irrigation projects of ancient China, apposing the Dunjiangyan Irrigation Project and the Ling Canal. "Karez" means "well" in Uyghur language. In ancient times, Turpan people made use of the special landform and created this special canal to bring in water for irrigation and living. This project represents the wisdom of Chinese people thousands of years ago.

 

Day 12 Turpan - Urumqi                             Overnight at Urumqi

Visit the Gaochang Ruins, the Baizikeli Thousand Buddha Cave and the Flaming Hill. Transfer to the hotel in Urumqi.
Descriptions:Flaming Mountain -is the hottest place in China. All over the bold and rough hill, there is no sign of life and it is mainly covered by weathered sand. In summer, in the searing sunlight, deep-red smoke wreathes and thermal current keeps rising. The luminous red sand stones look like the burning flame, so the mountain is called Flaming Mountain.

 

Day 13 Urumqi - Beijing                              Overnight at Beijing

Take a flight to Beijing and transfer to the hotel. Visit the Summer Palace.

 

 Karez Well irrigation system, Turpan

 

Day 14 Beijing                                       Overnight at Beijing

Visit Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. The Beijing Duck Dinner is served at a famous restaurant followed by a lively Peking Opera performance at the Liyuan Theatre.

Descriptions:Forbidden City - The Hall of Mental Cultivation (Yangxindian) in the Forbidden City is the first palace that was equipped with glass window. It was built in 1537 during the reign of the Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, later reconstructed in the Qing Dynasty when Emperor Yongzheng was crowned. It is formed by two halls, the front hall and the back hall. The front hall was the bedroom of emperors. But after the Emperor Yongzheng, emperor's bedroom was moved into the back hall, while the front hall became a place that emperors dealt with daily affairs and met his ministers.
 
Temple of Heaven - As one of the three masterpieces, the Circular Mound (also called the Altar to Heaven), used for worshiping heaven in ancient time, is located at the southern end of the Temple of Heaven. The altar was built in 1503 of the Ming Emperor Jiajing, covering an area of 13,850 square meters. This three-storey round altar is encircled by two walls - a square one outside and a round one inside. Both of the two walls have four sets of three white marble gates which are called the Lingxing Gate.

 

Day 15 Beijing                                      Overnight at Beijing

Visit the Great Wall of China at Badaling. To avoid having lunch at shopping area restaurants, you will be driven to have Sichuan food at a local popular restaurant. Visit the Sacred Way and the Ming Tomb in the afternoon. On the way back to downtown, drive by the Bird's Nest (Olympic National Stadium). You will see its appearance at a distance.
Descriptions:Great Wall - Without any modern communication facilities, the information transportation along the Great Wall just depended on the dense beacon towers which were built every 2.5 kilometers to 5 kilometers. From the Han Dynasty, the complex codes for alarm signals were listed as the nations' top secret. There are mainly two methods to transport information- heavy smoke was used in daytime and bonfire was used at night. At the early time, waving bright flags and beating drums for warning and communication were also adopted by soldiers. 
 
Dingling of Ming Tombs - Dingling is the mausoleum of Emperor Zhu Yijun (1563-1620), the thirteenth emperor, and his two Empresses, Xiao Duan and Xiao Jing. The construction of Dingling commenced in 1584 and finished in 1590. It cost about 8 million liang silver (12,860,299 ounces). The main attraction here is the underground palace, which is composed of the front, the middle, the rear, the left and the right palaces. In the rear palace lie the Emperor Zhu Yijun and his two Empresses' coffins with some precious burial artifacts.

 

Day 16 Departure from Beijing

Today you will be transferred to the airport for your homeward flight.

 

 

 

You can ask us the price when your team has more of ten persons

 

Our price includes:

Full package：

Half board: exclude all of the dinner

 

1. Pick up and drop-off from your hotel, Entrance fees;
2. Meals as listed in the itinerary, B=breakfast; L=lunch; D=Dinner.

Chinese lunch and/or dinner will be served with one cups of soft drink

3. Personal Guide(English-speaking Guide) & Driver + Private car / van for Private Transfers and sightseeing.
4. Hotels (twin share bases) as listed in the itinerary.

5. All Service Charge and Taxes.
6. Luggage Transfers between airports and hotels.
7. Travel Agency Liability Insurance during the tour.

 

Our price excludes:
1. Same domestic flights from city to city mentioned above
  Entry or Exit China International Airfare or train tickets.
2. Visa Fees.
3. Personal Expenses and tips to the guides, drivers and porters.