12 Days Top China Tourism Cities Tour

Upon arrival at Beijing Capital Airport, you will reclaim your luggage and clear the customs first. Our local guide will meet you outside the customs, holding a sign on which your name is written. A comfortable private transfer will take you to check in the hotel. The rest of the day is free. Your private guide does have suggestions for your Beijing night and free time activities.

Today's visit starts from the world's largest city square, Tiananmen Square, which is an important venue for most of the national ceremonies. Walking northwards across the square, you will come to today's highlight, the Forbidden City, namely the Palace Museum. It is the existing largest and best-preserved cluster of imperial palace of the country. The typical imperial architecture of red walls and golden roofs and thousands of exquisite historical relics will show you a vivid picture of the royal life of 600 years ago. Around noon, have nice typical Chinese lunch at a nice local restaurant. In the afternoon, continue the visit to the Temple of Heaven, which is the imperial altar of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties to worship for the gods of heaven. In the evening, a lively Chinese Kung Fu Show at the Red Theatre will light your night. You will not only enjoy the fancy Kung Fu Show in the form of acrobatics and dancing, but also learn more about Chinese Kung Fu.

After the breakfast, you will start your Badaling Great Wall tour. 'He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a hero', as the famous saying comes, it may be a little bit exhausted when climbing the steps, but the unique Chinese history and culture as well as the beautiful scenery will make all your efforts worthy. Also, you will have a brief stop at a Jade Store. Then, we will drive you to have typical Chinese lunch  at a popular local restaurant.

In the afternoon, visit the Sacred Way and the Ming Tomb, which is a group of tombs of the 13 emperors and their wives and sons and is reputed as the existing largest imperial mausoleum that buries the most emperors and empresses. On the way back to downtown, we will drive you by the Bird's Nest, where you will have a short stay to take some photos with the huge nest.

Today's first stop will be the Summer Palace, which is the largest and best-preserved imperial garden of the nation, and where garden design perfectly merges into the natural beauty. Then continue your journey to visit a Pearl Factory. The best way to know about “the culture of courtyard” is by visiting Hutongs. Then a classic Hutong tour passing Shichahai, Yinding Bridge, Yandaixiejie, Drum tower or Bell tower is arranged for you to feel the original old Beijing Culture. Then you will have a typical Chinese lunch at an elegant local restaurant. Late in the afternoon, you will take a flight to Xian. Our local guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area of the airport and then a comfortable private transfer will take you to check in the hotel.

The morning will be devoted to the best-known city attraction, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. You will be taken back to the Qin Dynasty of over 2,200 years ago to see the orderly ranged warriors and horses as well as the exquisite Bronze Chariots and Horses and weapons. Afterwards, you will visit a Pottery-making Workshop. Then, have typical Chinese lunch at a nice restaurant. In the afternoon, proceed to the best museum in China, the Provincial History Museum. Then you will go to the City Wall. Standing on it, you can not only learn about the history of ancient Xian, but also have a bird's eye view of the modern city. If time permits, you can also walk or rent a bicycle to ride on the wall by yourself. In the evening, we will serve you a typical Dumpling Dinner and a colorful Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Performance at Shaanxi Opera Theater (Addr: No. 165, Wenyi Road). The performance which imitates the royal music and dance will show you the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the 7th to 10th century.

In the morning, you will visit Xian Museum, where you will visit the exhibition hall with more than 130,000 valuable historical and cultural relics, the ancient Jianfu Temple built in the Tang Dynsaty and the elegant and exquisite Small Wild Goose Pagoda with its primitive features. All these make the museum a historic park for local people's leisure activities and tourists' cultural appreciation. To offer you a chance to get a close touch of the local people's life, we specially arrange a local family visit for you. You will not only dine together with the families to taste the true home cooked food, but also learn to cook Chinese dishes from our Chinese food cooking class menu if you are interested. After that, you will take a flight to Shanghai. Our local guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel.

Your city trip starts from Shanghai Museum this morning, where you will learn more about the splendid history of our country from the vast storage of bronze wares, chinaware and Chinese paintings. Then to the Yuyuan Garden, an elegant private garden built 400 years ago. After that, we will take you to visit a Silk Factory. At noon, an a la carte lunch will be served at a fancy and famous local restaurant, which offers authentic Shanghai and Cantonese cuisines. After lunch, take a cruise on the Huangpu River. You will be deeply impressed by different scenes along the both banks of the river - rows of skyscrapers on the east showing the modernness of the city while old western buildings on the west illustrating the history. Continue to have some free time to explore the Bund area and then visit an old street.

Whole free morning for your personal preference. In the afternoon, you will take a flight to Guilin. Our local guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel. With wonderful natural scenery, Guilin is the perfect place for family holiday or honeymoon vacations.

Today you will take the Li River Cruise from Guilin to rural Yangshuo. During the four to five hours' cruise downstream to Yangshuo, you will see the best scenery along the charming Li River. The limpid river under blue sky, water buffalo patrolling the fields, peasants reaping rice paddies, fisherman floating by on bamboo rafts, all these will let you completely escape from the bustling cities, and have a closest touch with the pristine nature. Lunch will be provided on the cruise today and since it may not meet your expectations, we suggest you have a larger breakfast at the hotel. After disembarking, you will follow our guide to visit the exotic West Street and ride a bicycle to the countryside of Yangshuo (car transfer as an alternative). You will be invited to visit a local farmer's home during the cycling trip. After finishing the journey in Yangshuo, we will drive you back to Guilin.

After breakfast, you will visit one of the most famous attractions in the city, the Reed Flute Cave, which is well-known for the exquisite stalagmites and stalactites in variety of shapes. After having a short stay at a Pearl Store, you will go to the Seven Star Park, which is a complex park comprising Seven Star Cave of Karst formation, historical sites of temple and stone tablets, and beautiful landscape of hills and rivers. The last stop in the city will be the Elephant Trunk Hill, which is the symbol of Guilin landscape. The hill is named so because it resembles an elephant drinking water in the riverside. You will be surprised by the power of nature at the first sight of the huge elephant. Late in the afternoon, our guide will see you off at the airport for your flight to Hong Kong.

As Hong Kong is an international metropolis with easy transportation system, it is quite convenient for you to explore the city by yourself. In this case, we only reserve the hotel accommodation with breakfast for you there. Upon your arrival at Hong Kong airport, please follow the signs to take the Airport Express and get off at Kowloon station by yourself. The train will take you 20 minutes to Kowloon station, where you could connect to the free shuttle bus K3 to the hotel directly.

For our standard series clients who stay at the 4-star Regal Kowloon Hotel, you could walk down to the Avenue of Stars, which is located in Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront of Victoria Harbor. To the west of the Avenue, there is the terminal of the Star Ferry, by which you will get to Central on Hong Kong Island via Victoria Harbor. It is suggested that you walk to the nearby bus station at Exchange Square and take bus 6, 6A, 6X, 60, and 260 to Stanley on the south of the island.

Today you will head to the airport for your homebound flight by yourself. Please take free bus K3 to Kowloon station, from where you can transfer to the Airport Express directly. Alternatively, you can take a taxi to the airport. Whatever, we suggest you go to the airport at least three hours before your flight departure to avoid any traffic jam. Wish you a nice trip back home! However, if your duration is much longer, you can check our City Package to plan an extension journey.