Day 1 Arrive in Beijing (no meals)
Meet you guide at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Then you are picked up to your hotel and the guide will recommend you some famous restaurants. The rest of the day is for your own leisure.
Day 2 Beijing (B, L, D)
Today, you will have a full-day tour to visit the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven. After completing the day sightseeing, you will enjoy the Beijing Roast Duck Dinner at the Bianyifang Roast Duck Restaurant. After dinner, experience local culture at the Beijing Opera, including a behind-the-scenes look at the colorful make-up being applied to the performers.
Day 3 Beijing (B, L, D)
After breakfast, take your private car (about 1 hour drive) to visit the Mutianyu Great Wall. Then lunch at a local restaurant, and drive straight to visit the Sacred Way and the Dingling Tomb (one of the 13 Ming Tombs).
Day 4 Beijing/Xian by flight (B, L)
This morning you will visit the Beijing old lanes (Hutong) by rickshaw then take the afternoon flight to Xi'an. You are met at the Xi'an Xianyang International Airport by the Xi'an local guide with your name sign, and then be collected to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own arrangement.
Day 5 Xian (B, L)
Have a full day tour to the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum, Xi'an Beilin Museum, Shuyuanmen Market and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Free evening for your own exploration.
Day 6 Xian (B, L, D)
Go on a visit to the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, the Bell Tower, Muslim Quarters and the Ancient City Wall. In the Evening, you will enjoy a delicious dumpling dinner with the wonderful Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show at the Shaanxi Grand Opera House.
Day 7 Xian/Shanghai
Drive to the Han Yang Mausoleum, where you will visit a spectacular ‘underground archaeological museum'. It was built on the site beside Han Jingdi's Mausoleum and incorporates. In the museum, apart from appreciating thousands of relics, you can also watch a complex SpectraVision program for the Han Yang Mausoleum, which is devised and produced by the Shirley Spectra, a company based in Australia. Transfer to visit the Shaanxi Cave Dwellings — for centuries, the southern Shaanxi people have lived in these unique-designed caves, their crops and trees are planted above the caves.
Say good bye to your Xian local guide and driver at the airport. Meet you Shanghai travel guide and transfer to the hotel.
Day 8 Shanghai (B, L, D)
Have a full day visit to Yu Garden, Yuyuan Market, and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the former French Concession Xintiandi. In the evening watch Acrobatic Show at a local Theatre.
Day 9 Shanghai (B, L)
Drive about 1.5 hours to Zhouzhuang Water Village (aka Zhouzhou Water Town) to see the Shen Family Residence, Zhang Family Residence, the Mi Tower, and then have a river cruise through the village. Drive back to your hotel.
Day 10 Shanghai(B)
After breakfast, you will be accompanied to the Shanghai Expo site to have a full day exploration of the various pavillions. Drive back to the hotel.
Note: Standard day ticket holders can enter the Expo area once on any day except for peak days. (Standar day: from May 1 to Oct 31, 2010, excluding May 1 to 3, October 1 to 7 and October 25 to 31).
Day 13 Shanghai / Departure (B)
Be free until your local guide escorts you to the Shanghai Pudong International Airport for your homebound flight.
Services End
·Hotel Accomodation-the hotel accommodation is based on two persons sharing one twin room with private facilities.
·All transportation, transfers and tours with private guide and car or van in each destination.
·All the admission tickets, English speaking guide service.
·Daily breakfast at the hotel, Chinese lunch and dinner with one cup of soft drink are offered outside the hotel or as specified in the itinerary.
·The government tax.
·Travel Agencies' Liability Insurance with the tour inside China. (Include China Life Tourist Accident Insurance/Casualty Insurance. We highly recommend that you purchase full coverage travel insurance from you country of origin.)
·Charge of obtaining your visa to enter China.
·In/out flight, domestic airport fee and departure tax is not included. (We can help you book the cheap tickets!)
·Gratitude to guide and driver is not included.
·Expenses of a personal nature such as laundry, drinks, telex, optional activities or sightseeing, telephone calls or overweight baggage charges or meals not indicated etc.
·The airport construction tax.
·The hotel, guide and transfer are all based on double occupancy. If the visitor travels alone, he or she must pay for the other person. This additional charge is called single supplement.
· If the traveler number is odd (such as 3, 5, 7...), the odd number person who stays in one single room has to pay the single room supplement. Since the hotel is on the double occupancy.
The tour doesn't need to pay deposit. You can pay by credit card, bank transfer or Paypal (5% service fee) before you start your tour (advance 7 days). Both RMB and USD are acceptable.