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11-Day Small-Group China Tour: Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin, Yangshuo and Shanghai

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Highlights

The 11-day China Small Group Tour to Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin and Shanghai tops the list of the most favorite travel routes in China. It captivates and amazes visitors throughout Chinese history and tradition, the beautiful scenery, and the modern culture. This tour includes all the must-see destinations, such as Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Terracotta Army, Li River Cruise, Shanghai Bund, etc.

Itinerary

Beijing Airport Pick-up
  • Beijing Capital International Airport

    30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Your local tour guide will meet you at Beijing Airport after reclaiming your luggage and clearing customs. The driver will transport you to the hotel in a comfortable vehicle. They will assist you with the check-in process. The rest of the day is left for you to have a good rest or become familiar with our capital city on your own.
  • Accommodations
    Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong (5 stars)
Tiananmen, Forbidden City, Yonghe Temple, Temple of Heaven
  • Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)

    30 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    This morning, your tour guide will pick up you at the hotel and take you to visit Tiananmen Square. You will see what the biggest urban city square in the world looks like.
  • Forbidden City-The Palace Museum

    3 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    From Tiananmen Square, you will enter the Imperial Palace, also known as the Forbidden City to explore its fascinating halls and pavilions. Here, you will not only learn how the emperor handled political affairs and lived their lives, but appreciate numerous ancient art treasures. At noon, an a la carte welcome lunch will be served at a superb local restaurant, where you can have a taste of authentic Chinese food and the most famous Peking Roast Duck.
  • Lama Temple (Yonghegong)

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    In the afternoon, visit Yonghe Temple, a solemn imperial lamasery that has survived over 300 years and features a blend of Han, Mongolian, and Tibetan architecture.
  • Temple of Heaven

    1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Finally, you will see the Temple of Heaven, with its unique architecture, where the emperors worshipped the heavens in hopes of good harvests.
  • Liyuan Theatre

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    Tonight, you will enjoy a live Beijing Opera Show at Liyuan Theatre and have enough time to see how the actors apply makeup.
  • Accommodations
    Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
    Lunch - A la carte welcome lunch
China Great Wall Tour
  • Mutianyu Great Wall

    3 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    This morning, you will be taken to Mutianyu Great Wall to experience at first hand the wonder of the Great Wall. The round-trip cable car will be arranged. Standing on the wall and looking at it stretching up and down into boundless distance is an exciting experience and will leave you a life-long memory. To celebrate and commemorate this moment, we specially provide red wine for a group-toasting on the Great Wall.
  • Niaochao National Stadium

    20 minsAdmission Ticket Not Included
    Drive back down and take a photo stop at the Olympic National Stadium (Bird's Nest), you will see its magnificent appearance from a distance.
  • Hutong Tour

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    Afterwards, you will take a rickshaw tour to explore the original Hutong alleys and have a chance to visit a local family.
  • Accommodations
    Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
Summer Palace, Fly from Beijing to Xi'an
  • Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)

    3 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    After seeing giant pandas in the morning, you will visit the Summer Palace - the largest existing imperial garden with a graceful landscape and magnificent constructions.
  • Xi'an

    2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    After that, transfer you to the airport and you will fly to Xi'an. Upon your arrival, your local guide will meet you at the airport and escort you to the downtown hotel.
  • Accommodations
    Crowne Plaza Xi'an (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
    Lunch
Terracotta Army, Ancient Pagoda & Tang Dynasty Dancing Show
  • The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses

    4 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    The visit to the magnificent Terracotta Army will begin your day's trip. In the museum, there are three excavated pits displaying amazing warrior figures and Chinese ancient weapons. Afterwards, take a family visit to the home of the first discoverer of the Terracotta Army. And then make a mini clay warrior by yourself with the help of a local artisan.
  • Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayanta)

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    In the afternoon, you will the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, which was built in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD) to store the Buddhist scriptures brought from ancient India.
  • Tang Dynasty Show

    1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    A splendid evening awaits when you will be entertained by the Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show while partaking in the famous Dumpling Dinner. Since the theater is not open in January, February, March, and December, the tour prices do not include the show and dumpling dinner for tours that start during those months.
  • Accommodations
    Crowne Plaza Xi'an (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
    Dinner - Dumpling dinner with the show
Xi'an City Highlights Tour
  • Xi'an City Wall (Chengqiang)

    2 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    The day begins with a leisure visit to the City Wall Park, where you can observe the day-to-day life of the locals. Here you can also learn to practice Tai Chi with the master. Tai Chi, a soft form of Chinese martial arts, is considered the quintessential Chinese culture. After that, you will pay a visit to the City Wall. It is the most complete existing urban fortification in China. Cycling on the ancient wall is an exciting experience that many people like to try (bike rental fee is not included).
  • Muslim Quarter

    1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Afterwards, you'll have lunch at a well-known restaurant in the Muslim Quarter. Here you will find various local snacks or flavors, like sweet steamed rice, green bean cake, persimmon cake, rice cake, etc.
  • Great Mosque of Xi'an

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    Extend to Great Mosque, one of the largest and best-preserved Islam mosques in China. Here you can appreciate the integration of different cultures, which has combined the characteristics of Chinese classical architecture with religious colors.
  • Small Goose Pagoda

    2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    After that, you will come to the Small Wild Goose Pagoda which also houses Xi'an Museum.
  • Accommodations
    Crowne Plaza Xi'an (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
    Lunch
Xi'an to Guilin by Plane, Visit Reed Flute Cave & Elephant Trunk Hill
  • Guilin

    2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    Catch a morning flight to Guilin. Upon your arrival, your local guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area and take you to the hotel for check-in.
  • Reed Flute Cave (Ludi Yan)

    1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Your Guilin sightseeing starts with the famous Reed Flute Cave, which is a 240-meter karst cave that has various shapes of stalactites and stalagmites.
  • Elephant Trunk Hill (Xiangbishan)

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    Then you will head to Elephant Trunk Hill. The hill is shaped like a giant elephant drinking water from the river with its long trunk, hence the name. After that, you will be transferred back to the hotel.
  • Accommodations
    Sheraton Guilin Hotel (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
Li River Cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo
  • Li River

    4 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    Take a cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo. Li River is the essence of the landscape in this area, especially the section from Guilin to Yangshuo, which is reputed as 'A Hundred Miles Gallery'. The cruise ship will arrive at Yangshuo in about 4.5 hours.
  • West Street

    4 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    After docking at Yangshuo, you will walk through the well-known West Street. Then you will enjoy the amazing rural scenery as we drive along the country roads of Yangshuo. En route, you will be invited to visit a villager's home. After that, transfer you back to Guilin.
  • Accommodations
    Sheraton Guilin Hotel (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
    Lunch - Box lunch on the cruise ship
Guilin to Shanghai by Plane
  • Shanghai

    3 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    In the morning, you will be escorted to Guilin airport and take your flight to Shanghai. Upon landing, you will be picked up by your local guide and driver and be transferred to your hotel. The remainder of the day is left free for you.
  • Accommodations
    Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai New World (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
Shanghai City Tour
  • Shanghai Museum (Shanghai Bowuguan)

    2 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    This morning, Your local tour guide will pick you up at your hotel. You will visit one of the four largest museums in China, the Shanghai Museum, which specializes in exhibiting artworks from ancient times.
  • Yu Garden (Yuyuan)

    2 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
    After that, explore Yu Garden and its nearby traditional bazaar. The symbol of the Garden is the Nine Zigzag Bridge built of granite and grass-white jade and the quaint, elegant mid-lake pavilion. Around noon, an a la carte farewell lunch will be served to you at a very nice restaurant.
  • The Bund (Wai Tan)

    1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    After that, enjoy a panorama of the city at Duo Yun Bookstore on the 52nd floor of Shanghai Tower. And then go to the thriving Bund area.
  • Huangpu River

    1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Take a one-hour cruise along the Huangpu River - the mother river of Shanghai. As the symbol and a microcosm of the city, the river has witnessed the glory, humiliation, despair, and prosperity of Shanghai. Enjoy some free time on the Bund. Upon returning to the hotel, your guide will see you into the lobby to say bon voyage.
  • Tianzifang

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    Finally, explore Tianzifang in the Former French concession, where modern art meets the old Shikumen houses and narrow alleyways. Upon returning to the hotel our guide will see you into the lobby to say bon voyage
  • Accommodations
    Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai New World (5 stars)
    Food And Drinks
    Breakfast
    Lunch - A la carte farewell lunch
Leave Shanghai by yourself
  • Shanghai

    1 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    After breakfast at the hotel, please find your own way to the airport for your homeward flight. Due to different flight schedules, the hotel-airport transfer service is not included. However, we would be happy to assist you if needed.
  • Food And Drinks
    Breakfast

What's included

INCLUDED

Professional English-speaking guides
Lunch (5)
Dinner
Drivers & air-conditioned vehicles
Breakfast (10)
Economy-class airfare from Beijing/ Xi'an/ Guilin/ Shanghai
Entrance fees to tourist sites
Hotel accommodation based on twin-sharing room
Two bottled water per person per day

NOT INCLUDED

Gratuities to guides and drivers (recommended)
China visa fees
International airfare
Airport drop-off service in Shanghai on Day 11

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Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Good To Know
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
NO shopping detours, no factory stores, no tea ceremony, no shopping site restaurant. Avoid wasting time at any shopping motive stop.
Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
A minimum of 2 people per booking is required

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