15 Days Buddhist Pilgrimage to China With Tibet

After you arrive in Beijing, our local guide will pick you up and then drive to hotel for a good rest.

Private escorted tour to
Temple of Heaven
With an area of about 2,700,000 sqm, Temple of Heaven was built in 1420 A. D during the Ming Dynasty, was used to pray for the Heaven by Emperors for good harvest.

Tiananmen Square
The largest city square in the world (440,000 square meters), it has great cultural significance as several key events happened here in history.

Forbidden City
With an area of 74 hectares, this rectangular imperial palace is the world's largest palace complex. It has stunning 9,999 rooms, 6-meter-deep moat and a 10-meter-high red wall.

Peking duck dinner at night.

Private escorted tour to the Great Wall, and have a photo stop at the main venues of Beijing Olympic Games and visit Yonghe Lamasery.

Great Wall
It is a series of stone and earthen fortifications stretching more than ten thousand miles from west to east on the boundless area of Northern China. It is seen as a major architectural miracle in the world.

Yonghe Lamasery
Yonghe Lama Temple, located in the northeast corner of downtown Beijing, has more than 300 years of long imperial and Buddhist history. It boasts the largest wooden Buddha all over the world.

Visit the Summer Palace, and then transfer back to take a pedicab tour Hutong (Beijing’s traditional alleyways) to see the local people’s life. Then transfer to take an afternoon flight to Xian. Be met and transfer to hotel.

Summer Palace
Summer Palace, 12 km west of Beijing City, is the largest preserved imperial garden and a former summer retreat for emperors. It is also known as "Garden of Clear Ripples" for the beautiful Kunming Lake.

Hutong
The word "hutong" comes from the word "hottog" which means "well" in Mongolian. Rednecks excavate a well and settle there. Hutong means a lane or alley, the passage formed by lines of siheyuan in which old Beijing residents live actually.

Transfer to visit the famous Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda and have a walk at the old city quarters.

Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum
The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses are the sight not to be missed by any visitors to China. They are the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century. It is a cultural and history symbol of China, which is around 1.5 kilometers east of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum in Lintong, Xian, Shaanxi Province.

Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda or Big Wild Goose Pagoda, which is located in the southern Xian, was a Buddhist pagoda built in 652 during the Tang Dynasty. Known as a well-preserved ancient building and a holy place for Buddhists, it attracts numerous visitors for its fame in the Buddhist religion.

Transfer to take flight to Lhasa, be met and transfer to hotel. Visit Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Street.

Jokhang Temple
Located on Barkhor Square in the old section of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is the spiritual center of Tibet that almost every pilgrim in everyday from every corner of Tibet trek a long distance to the temple, and some of the pilgrims even progress prostrate by body length to the threshold of the temple.

Barkhor Street
Barkhor street, also named as Barghor, is the oldest street in Lhasa. Located in the old area of Lhasa City, Tibet, Barkhor Street is a round street surrounding the Jokhang Temple  and crowded with Tibetan ancient temples, original layout of the residences and hotels.

Visit the Potala Palace, and Norbulingka.

Potala Palace
Poatala Palace, which is situated on Mountain Maburi (Red Mountain) in Lhasa, is a magnificent 110 meters high with thirteen floors ancient Tibetan palace complex, and the whole typical Tibetan style building comprises the White Palace in the east where lives Dalai Lama and the Red Palace in the middle(contains Buddha Temple and the Dalai Lama Stupa Temple).

Norbulingka
Located in the western suburb of Lhasa City, at the bank of the Kyichu River, about one km southwest of Potala Palace, Norbulingka is the biggest man-made garden in Tibet, featuring 374 rooms in an area of 360,000 square meters. Norbulingka in Tibetan means 'Treasure Park'.

Visit Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery and Tibet Museum.

Drepung Monastery
nown as the most important monastery of Gelugpa in Tibetan Buddhism, Drepung Monastery, which is situated at the foot of the Mountain Gambo Utse (5 kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa), is considered one of the 'Three Great Monasteries' (the other two are the Ganden Monastery and the Sera Monastery) in Tibet.

Sera Monastery
Located in the northern suburb of Lhasa City and at the foot of Tatipu Hill, Sera Monastery Is one of the three famous monasteries in Lhasa (other two are Drepung Monastery and the Ganden Monastery).

Tibet Museum
Located in the southeast corner of Norbu Lingka Lhasa city, Tibet Museum was officially inaugurated in October of 1999, with a permanent collection that celebrates the History of Tibetan Culture. The design of the exhibit uses traditional Tibetan architecture such as Tibetan doors, beam-decoration, and patterns etc, in order to create the atmosphere of authentic Tibetan art.

Take flight to Chengdu. Be met and transfer to hotel. Visit Jinsha Site Museum and Jinli old street.

Jinli old street
Chengdu is known for its leisurely ambience. Jinli Street, which is situated to the east of the Wuhou Memorial Temple of Chengdu, is a distinctive representative of this city. It developed into one of the busiest commercial streets, known as the "First Street of the Shu Kingdom".

Drive to visit the largest stone-carved Buddha in the world at Leshan, then proceed to Emei Mountain. Overnight at mountain foot.

Emei Mountain
Mount Emei is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China, and is traditionally regarded as the bodhimaa, or place of enlightenment, of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra.

Take a cable car up to Wannian Temple, and see the scenic spots nearby, then walk down to see the wild monkeys on the way. Drive back to Chengdu.

Visit the Giant Panda Breeding Center, and take a late afternoon flight to Shanghai. Be met and transfer to hotel.

Giant Panda Breeding Center
Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base was established in 1987, located in northern suburb of Chengdu, 10 km away from the urban area. Giant panda has become the rare and endangered wild animals. Base in order to establish the initial rescue of six from the wild giant panda based, has succeeded in captive giant panda population to about 70. Valuable information in giant panda museum, exhibits rich to recognize giant panda an excellent return to nature places.

Full day visit in Shanghai to visit Jade Buddha Temple, Yu Garden, the Bund and Nanjing Road. Acrobatic show at night.

Jade Buddha Temple
Located in the western part of Shanghai, Jade Buddha Temple is a venerable and famous Buddhist temple in Shanghai. In 1882, Shanghai built an old temple to keep two jade Buddha statues which had been brought from Burma by a monk named Huigen. However, the temple was destroyed during the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, so in 1928 on the present site a temple was built to put the two survived jade Buddha Statues, hence the name.

Yu Garden
Located in the Anren Street of Shanghai, Yuyuan Garden was finished in 1577 by a government officer named Pan Yunduan of the Ming Dynasty for his parents as a place for them to enjoy a tranquil and happy time in their old age.

Bund
The Bund, which locates in the eastern part of Huangpu District and runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East-1 Zhongshan Rd.) within the former Shanghai International Settlement. The most famous and attractive sights

Nanjing Road
Nanjing Road, which is the main shopping street of Shanghai in China and one of the world’s busiest shopping streets, contains two sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road West. It starts at the Bund in the east and ends in the west at the junction of Jing’an Temple and Yan’an West Street.

Drive to a nearby water town - Zhujiajiao to witness the traditional life at Yangtze Delta. Free afternoon.

Zhujiajiao
Located in a suburb of Shanghai city, Zhujiajiao is an ancient water town well-known throughout the country, with a history of more than 1700 years. Covering an area of 47 square kilometers, the little fan-shaped town glimmers like a bright pearl in the landscape of lakes and mountains.

Transfer to airport and fly to your next destination.
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