9-Day Beijng Shanghai Tour

Day 1 Arrive in Beijing (no meals)
Be met at the Beijing Capital International Airport in the afternoon. The rest of the day is at your own leisure.

Day 2 Beijing (B, L)
After breakfast, pay a visit to the the Temple of Heaven and the Qianmen Dajie.  

After lunch (Beijing Roast Duck for lunch), proceed to visit the world biggest public square -Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (aka Palace Museum).

After dinner, enjoy the Kungfu Show (or Beijing Opera, it's your option)

Kungfu Show: Kungfu Show is an absolute highlight that will stun you! The show tells an emotional story and shows the very wonderful chinese kungfu. It  lasts about 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Qianmen Dajie: an old district south of Tiananmen. It has been renovated before the Beijing Olympics.

Temple of Heaven: a famous historic monument in Beijing, built in 1420. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, emperors came yearly to the temple to worship the God of Heaven and pray for a good harvest. If we go there early enough, we may see the locals do various morning activities, such as sword, Yangko or fans dancing, Taiji boxing, shuttlecock kicking etc.

Day 3 Beijing (B, L)
In the morning, we drive to the stunning Jingshanling Great Wall and make a great hiking  to the Simatai Great Wall (12 km, about 5 hrs).

Day 4 Beijing (B, L)
Pay a visit to the Eastern Royal Tombs of the Qing Dynasty (aka The Eastern Qing Tombs)

The Eastern Qing Tombs
The Eastern Qing Tombs, located in Zunhua, 125 kilometers northeast of Beijing, are among the finest and largest extant Mausoleum complexes in China. Altogether 5 emperors, 15 empresses, 136 imperial concubines, 3 princes, and 2 princesses of the Qing Dynasty were buried here.

Day 5 Beijing (B, L)
After breakfast, be driven around the old alleyways (Beijing Hutongs) in a cycle rickshaw. You stop at a traditional courtyard home for a cup of tea and get a historic view of hutong life. On school day mornings you may visit a Chinese kindergarten. You then go up in the Drum Tower and hear the drums play, the ancient way of keeping time. In the afternoon, we proceed to the Summer Palace.

Day 6 Beijing/Shanghai (B, L)
After breakfast, be escorted to the airport for your flight to Shangahi. Upon you arrive at the Shanghai airport, you will be picked up to the hotel. In the afternoon, take a stroll on the Bund and Nanjing Road. After that, proceed to Shanghai Silk Factory to see how silk is produced.

Day 7 Shanghai (B, L)
Proceed for a morning excursion to Yu Garden, Yuyuan Market and Shanghai Museum. After lunch, visit the Jade Buddha Temple, and then get a bird's eye view of Shanghai from the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.

Recommended Night Activities: Chinese Acrobatics Show or Huangpu River Cruise (optional, not are included into the itinerary. If you are interested, please talk with your guide)

Day 8 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 9 Shanghai/Departure (B)
Be escorted to the airport for your homebound flight.

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Beijig
★★★★ Best Western Premier Hotel

Shanghai
★★★★ Anting Villa Hotel

·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.