15-Day China Biking & Walking 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 (No meal)
Upon your arrival at the Beijing Capital International Airport, you're met and transferred to the hotel. Balance of the day is at leisure. 

Day 2 Beijing (B, L)
Today, you will take a city walking tour to immerse into local people's life. After breakfast in hotel, the guide will meet you at the hotel lobby and walk or take metro to Tiananmen Square and visit the largest city square in the world. Explore the Forbidden City including a walk on its newly opened city wall, from which you can have a panoramic view of this imperial palace. In the afternoon, continue the walk to pay a visit to the Temple of Heaven, where you may see not only the Temple but also many local people doing different exercises or playing chess. Take metro back to hotel after the visit.

Optional night shows: Beijing Opera or the Legend of Kungfu

Day 3 Walking on Jinshanling Great Wall (B, L)
Drive out Beijing and head to Jinshanling after breakfast in hotel. Starting from the East entrance, you will walk along the steps up to the wall at the Nine Holes Tower. Walk westwards along the wild walls for around 2.5hrs to Jinshanling Scenic Area, in which the walls are restored. Descend after another one hour walking, you will meet your car and transfer to hotel in Gubei water town. You can take an optional night Great Wall trip on Simatai Great Wall.

Day 4 Walking from Jinshanling to GubeiKou Great Wall   (B, L)
Today's walk is from Jinshanling to Gubeikou on the Great Wall, partially on the path at the foot of the wall. Total distance is 14km and takes around 5hrs. After the walk, transfer back to Beijing and check in your hotel.

Day 5 Beijing To Xi'an (B, L)
Take a leisurely biking tour to explore the Hutongs this morning. After lunch in local restaurant, take high speed train to Xian in the afternoon. The train journey is around 4.5hrs. You will be met upon arrival and then transfer to hotel by private car. 

Day 6 Xi'an (B, L, D)
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. In the afternoon, after a visit to the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, you will take a home visit to local family, in which you will learn dumpling making from the host and enjoy what you make for dinner. 

Optional night show: Tang Dynasty Song and Dance Show

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, Transfer back to downtown and visit the Grand Mosque and take a walk at the Muslim Quarters. Walk out of the quarters, you will view the Drum Tower and the Bell Tower. 

Day 8 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.

Day 9 Biking tour along Huajiang River (B, L)

Today, you will take a leisure biking tour out of city. According to your biking experience, you can start from hotel or be transferred to the starting point. Ride along the river, through rice fields and orchards with views of karst hills. After the ride, visit Daxu ancient town before transfer back to hotel.

Day 10 Guilin to Longji Ping'an Village (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. Visit No. 2 viewing point for a sunset view if weather permits. Overnight in the village. 

Day 11 Walking tour from Ping'an to Dazhai Yao Village (B, L)
Walk to No. 1 viewing point for sunrise if wether permits, and then continue the walk to Dazhai.  

Day 12 Walking along Li River to Xingping (B, L)
Drive out of the city to the starting point and walk 1.5 hours to Li River. Have home-cooked lunch in local farmer’s family and continue the walking along the river to Xingping town. Enjoy the Li River  flanked by numerous incredibly beautiful karst hills. It was listed on the 10 top watery wonders by the National Geographic Magazine [America] in 2010. Overnight in Xingping, a quiet town at night.

Day 13 Xingping to Guilin (B, L)
Half day walking tour to Fishing Village in the morning. After lunch, you will be transferred to Yangshuo and take a bamboo rafting tour on Yulong River.

Optional night activities: Impression Liu Sanjie or Cormorants Catching Fish

Day 14 Yangshuo (B, L)
Take an one hour Taichi Boxing course from a master in the morning, and then a biking tour to the countryside for around 2 hours. The rest of the day is on your own arrangement to explore Yangshuo or its around area.

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

Transfer to Guilin and visit the Reed Flute Cave Before taking flight to train to next destination.

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