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Tour Name: China Tour of Beijing Lhasa Shanghai
Tour type: private tour
Departure: daily
Duration: 9 days
Escorted: yes
Language: English
Level: easy
Accommodation: included
Kids or elders: possible
Shopping: include
Starting place: airport, train station in Beijing
Finishing place: airport, train station in Shanghai
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Itinerary
Entry Beijing | Day 1. |
Arrive at Beijing airport.
Be picked by private vehicle and English-speaking tour guide from Beijingservice.com.
Be transferred to hotel for check in.
Remainder of the day is at leisure.
Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Tea ceremony, Temple of Heaven | Day 2. |
English speaking tour guide and private vehicle will pick you up from hotel at 08:30 am.
Visit Tiananmen Square - The biggest downtown Square of the world. Take a stroll in the square.
From the north end of Tiananmen Square, we will enter the Forbidden City -also called Palace Museum, is located at the center of Beijing. It was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Rectangular in shape, Forbidden City is the world's largest palace complex. Visit Forbidden City along the central axis from south to north for 1.5 to 2 hours.
Take a Chinese Herbal Medicine class for about 40 minutes before lunch.
Drugs that the Chinese medicine uses are usually plants, so it usually called Chinese herbal medicine.
In Chinese people's process of fighting with the disease for thousands of years, rich medical knowledge was gradually accumulated through the practice and understanding.
These medical knowledge be passed by apprentice dictation first, and then were written down in books, which helped the medical knowledge spread fast and farther.
After lunch in a local restaurant, we will drive 30 minutes to Summer Palace - 20 kilometers northwest of downtown Beijing. Summer Palace is the largest imperial garden of Ming and Qing dynasty. The whole Summer Palace covers an area of over 290 hectares including more than 3,000 buildings, such as halls, pavilions, towers, etc. Take sightseeing in this beautiful garden for one hour and twenty minutes.
Taste Chinese tea, enjoy Chinese tea ceremony and have a rest in a local tea house.
China is the hometown and birthplace of Chinese tea.
Being the national drinks of China, tea have a history of four to five thousand years.
Tea culture is one of the specific representative of Chinese culture.
Proceed to visit Temple of Heaven. Built in 1420 during Ming Dynasty, Temple of Heaven is the best preserved and largest sacrificial building complex in the world. The emperor came to the temple every winter to pray for ample harvests and good weather. Strictly built on the basis of philosophical requirements, the temple in many ways features the relationship between Heaven and Earth. Visit Temple of Heaven for 1 hour.
We will transfer you back to hotel after the whole day tour.
Breakfast, Lunch |
Ming Tombs, Lunch, Badaling Great Wall | Day 3. |
Be picked up from hotel at 08:30 am.
Drive 1.5 hours to the Ming Tombs. Ming Tombs is the final resting place of 13 Ming Dynasty emperors, along with 23 empresses and a number of concubines. It has a history of over 600 years. Surrounded by mountains on three sides,
the Ming Tombs features splendid landscape.
Chang Ling (the Tomb of Chang) was built by the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in 1409 AD. Chang Ling is the largest tomb in architectural scale. The hall of Chang Ling is the largest structure of nanmu wood in China.
Visit Changling for 1 hour.
On the way to restaurant, we will visit a large scale jadeware processing factory. Jade culture is one important part of Chinese culture. We hope foreign travelers can get a glimpse of Chinese Jade culture during this stop. Thousands of pieces of jade, jewelry and handicraft articles are exhibited, from small bracelet to huge carving. An open workshop is available to demonstrate Jade carving, which enable customers to get some knowledge of Chinese jade carving processes. Visit time is around 40 minutes.
Move on to the famous Badaling Great Wall. The Great Wall was built and maintained between the 7th century BC and 17th century BC. It was originally built to protect the empire from northern invaders. The Great Wall stretches through the countryside over deserts, hills and plains for 8,851.8 kilometers.
Badaling was built in 1505 during the Ming Dynasty. This section of the Great Wall is the best preserved and most visited one. It is 7600 meters long and 1000 meters above sea level,commanding a strategic position in ancient times.
Take sightseeing on Badaling Great Wall for about 2 hours.
Be transferred back to your hotel after the whole day tour.
Breakfast, Lunch |
Beijing - Lhasa, Nietang Buddha | Day 4. |
Be transferred to airport to connect flight to Lhasa.
Arriving in Lhasa, be met by tour guide and private vehicle in airport.
Visit the Nietang Buddha on the way from airport to your hotel. Nietang Buddha is named after Mt. Nietang. It is located 40 km southwest of Lhasa City. Nietang Buddha is the biggest stone statue engraved on a cliff in Tibet and it is the first attraction to welcome visitors to Lhasa.
Check in Hotel. Remainder of the days is at leisure.
Breakfast, Lunch |
Potala Palace, Sera Monastery, Norbulingka Park and typical Tibetan Family | Day 5. |
Be picked up from your hotel at 09:00 am.
Visit the Potala Palace. Originally built in the seventh century, Potala Palace is landmark of Lhasa. It is famous for its grand buildings, complicated constructions, devotional atmosphere and splendid artworks.
Then we will visit the Sera Monastery - one of the three largest monasteries of Gelugpa. Completed in 1419, the collection of murals is maintained in perfect, original condition.
Move on to visit the Norbulingka Park. Built in the 1740s, Norbulingka Park was Dalai Lama's summer palace.
Visit a Tibetan family to get some information of Tibetan's life and local custom.
Be transferred back to your hotel.
Breakfast, Lunch |
Drepung Monastery, Jokhang Temple, the Barkhor Street, Local Carpet Factory | Day 6. |
Be picked up from your hotel at 09:00 am.
Visit the Drepung Monastery - known as the most important monastery of Gelugpa in Tibetan Buddhism. Established in 1416, Drepung Monastery houses many cultural relics, which make it more superb.
Then we will visit the Jokhang Temple -the holiest site in Tibet and is the ultimate pilgrimage destination for Tibetan Buddhists.
Move on to visit the thriving bazaar of the Barkhor Street -
Tibetan culture, economy, religion and arts assemble and a place to which a visit must be paid.
Visit the Tibetan Traditional Hospital and the local Carpet Factory.
Be transferred back to your hotel after the tour.
Breakfast, Lunch |
Tibet Museum, Lhasa-Shanghai | Day 7. |
Be picked up from your hotel. Visit Tibet Museum.
Transferred to airport to connect flight to Shanghai.
Be picked up by English speaking tour guide and vehicle from Shanghai airport.
Breakfast |
Yu Garden, Jade Buddha Temple, Nanjing Road, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, the Bund | Day 8. |
Be picked up from your hotel at 08:30 am.
Visit Yu Garden. Located in the southern part of Shanghai, Yu Garden is a well-restored Suzhou-style garden. It is one of the best gardens in southern China. With pavilions, halls, chambers, towers, ponds and rockeries, it presents more than 40 scenic spots. No wonder people say "Those who have come to Shanghai missing Yu Garden and the City God Temple Bazaar can not claim that they have been to the city."
Visit Jade Buddha Temple. Built in 1882, Jade Buddha Temple has 2 jade statues of the Sakyamuni Buddha, one seated and one reclining. The seated Buddha is 1.9 meters tall and was carved out of a single piece of white jade, wearing a robe inlaid with precious jewels. The temple also houses a number of ancient sculptures, rare paintings and Buddhist scriptures.
After lunch, we will visit Nanjing Road. Nanjing Road is one of the most famous and bustling business streets in the world. It is also called Chinese First Business Street. It is the window for Shanghai to open to the world and also shopping paradise for people at home and abroad.
Move on to Oriental Pearl TV Tower -the world's third tallest TV and radio tower, which combines ancient concepts with 21st Century technology.
Then visit the Bund. The Bund, also called Zhongshan Road, is a famous waterfront and regarded as the symbol of Shanghai for hundreds of years. The most famous and attractive sights are the 52 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance, which are also located at the west side of the Bund. The Bund was the centre of Shanghai's politics, economy and culture hundreds of years ago, consulates of most countries. Many banks, businesses and newspaper offices were settled there, and that's why we have these art-like buildings.
Be transferred back to your hotel.
Breakfast, Lunch |
Departure | Day 9. |
Be picked up from your hotel, transferred to the airport to connect the flight for departure.
Breakfast |
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City | Deluxe | Standard | Comfort |
Beijing | Capital Hotel | Holiday Inn Temple of Heaven | Red Wall Hotel |
Lhasa | Brahmaputra Grand Hotel | Jardin Secret Hotel | Tibet Hotel |
Shanghai | Grand Central Hotel Shanghai | Central Hotel Shanghai | Pacific Hotel Shanghai |
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