15-Day China Biking Tour

Tour Overview
This easy China tour package is a perfect balance of Chinese history, culture, architecture and picturesque landscape. It will bring you many special biking experiences.

Day 1 Arrive in Beijing (D)
Upon your arrival at the Beijing Capital International Airport, you're met and transferred to the hotel. Balance of the day is at leisure. Hotel: North Garden Hotel (4-star)

Day 2 Beijing (B, L)
After breakfast, you will be given a briefing on customs of cycling in China as well as the traffic regulations. Then ride your bike to Tiananmen Square. Explore the Forbidden City and enjoy riding between the red wall of the Forbidden City and the moat. In the afternoon, pay a visit to the Hutongs - on your bike, you shuttle between the beautiful Houhai Lake and the old narrow lanes, and get lost in the traditional Beijing quadrangle dwellings.

Day 3 Beijing (B, L)
Ride to and visit the Temple of Heaven in early morning, where you may see not only the Temple but also many local people doing different exercises. After lunch, drive to visit the Sacred Way and the Ding Ling Tomb.

Optional night shows: Beijing Opera or the Legend of Kungfu

Day 4 Beijing to Simatai Great Wall (B, L)
Today's excursion takes you to the stunning Simatai Great Wall, where you can make a hike along the 5.4-km-long wall. (There are cable lifts up and down the wall, you are optional to take)

Day 5 Beijing To Xi'an (B, L)
Ride along the canal to the Summer Palace, enjoy a free afternoon and board the overnight train to Xi'an.

Day 6 Xi'an (B, L)
Arrive in Xi'an early in the morning. Breakfast will be served at the hotel. Your cycling tour today is starting from riding on the 14-km-long Ancient City Wall which was built 600 years ago. Then visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. End the day with a traditional Dumpling Banquet while enjoying the wonderful Tang Dynasty Song and Dance Show. Hotel: Garden Hotel (4-star)

Day 7 Xi'an (B, L)
The highlight of the whole morning is a visit (by car/van) to the amazing archeological relics -- the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, included is a full circle movie presentation which provides the historical perspective for what you will see in the main exhibition halls where excavation and restoration work is still going on. After lunch, proceed to visit the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum.

Day 8 Xi'an (B, L)
Enjoy full day tour of the Muslim Quarters, the Temple of Eight Immortals, the Bell Tower, and the Xi’an Steles Forest with its extraordinary collection of ancient stone “books".

Day 9 Xi'an To Guilin (B, L)
Drive to the Han Yang Mausoleum (Hangyang Ling Tomb), 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. Later fly to Guilin, the most scenic city in China. Hotel: Bravo Hotel (4-star)

Day 10 Guilin to Longsheng (B, L)
Drive to the Ping'an Village in Longsheng, where you will view the beautiful Longji Terraced Rice Fields. Then hike about 30-minute to visit the Old Zhouang Village. Hotel: Star Wish Resort (3-star)

Day 11 Longsheng To Guilin (B, L)
Drive back to Guilin for a visit to the Reed Flute Cave and the Elephant Trunk Hill.

Day 12 Li River To Yangshuo (B, L)
Enjoy a wonderful cruise along the Li River from Guilin to Yangshuo--the Li River is flanked by numerous incredibly beautiful karst hills. It was listed on the 10 top watery wonders by the National Geographic Magazine [America] in 2010.  Hotel: Green Lotus Hotel (4-star)

Optional night activities: Impression Liu Sanjie or Cormorants Catching Fish

Day 13 Yangshuo (B, L)
Today, your guide will hire bike with you to get lost in the charming Yangshuo countryside. 

Day 14 Yangshuo (B, L)
After breakfast, learn Taichi Boxing from a master on the bank of the Li River. The rest of the day is on your own arrangement to explore Yangshuo or its around area.

Day 15 Yangshuo To Guilin Exit
Take coach back to Guilin. Be transferred from the bus station to the airport.

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