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Beijing - Xian - Chengdu -Tibet - Guilin  1980 USD P/P

Day01 Arrival in Beijing
Arrival in Beijing, the capital of China. To be met at the airport then transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure in the evening.

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Meals To Be Included: none

Day02 Beijing
Sightseeing: Badaling Great Wall / Ming Tombs / Sacred Way.

Depart from your hotel after breakfast. Spending about 1.5 hours to be transferred outside the city to the surrounding countryside to visit the Badaling Great Wall, one of the most remarkable feats of mankind, built over 2,000 years ago. You will be able to climb and walk one of the best preserved sections of the ancient wall, admiring the splendid mountain scenery.
After lunch at a local restaurant, visit the fabled Ming Tombs, the resting places of thirteen emperors and their splendid treasures. Passing down the Sacred Way, a road lined with statues of dignitaries, as well as huge elephants, lions, camels and horses, you will encounter the marble tombs of the Ming Dynasty emperors. Visit one of the spectacular tombs-Dingling-featuring an underground palace.
Enjoy your special Peking Duck dinner.

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Meals To Be Included: breakfast, lunch & dinner

Day03 Beijing
Sightseeing: Tiananmen Square / Forbidden City / Temple of Heaven / Summer Palace.

Depart from your hotel in the morning to have city tours to visit Tiananmen Square, the symbolical heart of China and gathering place for the masses. It is the biggest public square in the world, which can hold one million people. Have a free walk there, imagining the great historic events of the 20th century that took place there. You will also see legendary landmarks including the Great Hall of the People and the towering 125 foot granite obelisk, Monument to the People's Heroes, honoring those who died in revolution.
Walking across the Golden River Bridge, enter the Forbidden City, the inner sanctum and palace where for centuries Chinese emperors ruled their world. It has a 9000-room maze of courtyards, palaces, and ceremonial halls, where 24 emperors used to live. The Forbidden City was indeed a forbidden place, where commoners were kept out for nearly 500 years. Tour the palace and imagine the mystery, intrigue and incredible power that reigned here.
After having lunch at a local restaurant, visit the Summer Palace. Built in 1888, it was once a summer retreat and thrre imperial for emperors. Have a lakeside cruise on lovely Kunming Lake, enjoy the magical views of the hills, bridges and pagodas that grace the Palace grounds.

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Meals To Be Included: breakfast, lunch

Day04 Beijing - Xi'an
Sightseeing: Arrive at Xian, visit Shaanxi Provincial Museum / Old City Wall / Bell Tower

Check out and depart from your hotel. Take morning flight to Xian. To be met at the airport & transferred to your hotel. Have city tour to visit the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, the largest comprehensive museum in the province. It is also the fist national-level grand museum equipped with modern facilities. It exhibits primarily historical relics of past dynasties and displays precious art treasures and stone carvings of the Han and Tang dynasties. Walking through the exhibits in the museum is like walking through 3000 years of Chinese history.
After having lunch at a local restaurant, visit the Old City Wall. It is the most complete surviving city wall survived in China as well as one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world. The wall was built in the Tang dynasty (618-907) and enlarged in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
Finally, have a tour to the Bell Tower,which is the most well-preserved and best-known one among many ancient cities of China. The Bell Tower was originally built in the Yingxiang Temple in 1384, at the intersection of West Street and Guangji Street. Then in 1582, it was moved to its present pivotal position, in the very heart of the city at the junction of four main streets extending to the east, south, west and north, for rebuilding and later restorations. With magnificent carved beams and painted rafters, this classical building is truly elegant.
Then be transferred back to your hotel.

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Meals To Be Included: breakfast, lunch

Day05 Xi'an
S ightseeing: Full day private tours to Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses / Huaqing Hot Springs / Big Wild Goose Pagoda / Tang Dynasty Show with dinner.

Today will be your highlight in Xian. Depart from your hotel after breakfast. To be transferred outside the city to visit the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses. The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses are the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century. It has been regarded as THE 8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD! Over 2,200 years ago, the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, in search of immortality, ordered the construction of a vast army of 8,000 life-sized Terra-cotta warriors and buried them with him to protect his empire after his early death. They were discovered accidentally in 1974 by farmers digging a well. For history lovers, the sight is truly breathtaking.
After lunch at a local restaurant, visit the Huaqing Hot Springs. Located 35 kilometers east of Xian at the foot of Lishan Mountain in a large park where there are a number of public baths and some modern palaces built in the Tang style, the hot springs, rich in minerals, were highly regarded more than 3,000 years ago.
After coming back to the city, have another tour to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Situated in the south of Xian, as one of the main constructions in the famous Buddhist temple-Da-Ci-En Temple, the pagoda is one of the most distinctive and outstanding landmarks of Xian.
Enjoy your special Tang Dynasty Show with dinner.

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Meals To Be Included: breakfast, lunch & dinner        

Day06 Xi'an - Chengdu
Morning Transfer to Xian Airport for the flight to Chengdu. Upon arrival in Chengdu, transfer to your hotel. Afternoon visit of the Dufu's thatched cottage, one of the key tourist attractions in Chengdu to dedicate the greatest poet of the Tang Dynasty 1200 years ago, followed by is the visit to Temple of Marquis Wu, a memorial shrine for the famous prome minister, statesman and stratigist in the period of the three kingdom. Evening entertaiment will be Sichuan Opera and Sichuan Snacks.

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Meals To Be Included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner

Day07 Chengdu - Lhasa
Morning transfer to Chengdu Airport for the flight to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Upon arrival, be met by your local Tibetan Guide and transfered to your hotel. For the rest of the day, we suggest you to relax and rest in the hotel, due to the altitude reason.

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Meals To Be Included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner

Day08 Lhasa
Sightseeing: PotalaPalace, Barkhor Market, Jokhang Monastery.
An extraordinary day of sightseeing shows the spectacular architecture at the world-famous PotalaPalace. Former living quarters of the Dalai Lama, its massive 1000-room structure towers over this mountain city. Then visit famous Barkhor Market, where you can shop for rare Tibetan items. See one of Tibet's holiest shrines, revered 7th century JokhangTemple, with its statue of the Sakyamuni Buddha, lavishly enthroned in gold.

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Meals to be included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner

Day09 Lhasa
Sightseeing: Norbulinka Summer Palace, Sera Monastery, Tibetan Hospital and Tibetan Family Visit.
Morning tour to the Norbulinka, the summer palace of the Dalai Lama and a tour of the Sera Monastery. The Sera monastery, home to 400 monks, fels more intimate than the Potala, and you are invited to see the day-to-day living and working spaces. In a kitchen blackened by dung fire, large pots and copper ladles hang on the wall; a monk offers visitors cups of yak butter tea, a staple of the Tibetan diet.
Next visit to TibetanHospital and Local Tibetan Family.

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Meals to be included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner

Day10 Lhasa - Gyantse-Shigatse
Sighteeing:YamdrokLake, Kumbum, Pelkor Chode Monastery.
Drive to via YamdrokLake, one of Tibet's holiest lakes & important centre for pilgrimage. Gyantse (3950 m), in the Nyang Chu valley 254km south-west of Lhasa, is one of the least Chinese influenced towns in Tibet and is worth a visit for this reason alone.
The main attractions in Gyantse are the Gyantse Kumbum, a magnificent tiered structure that has only one ruined and remote contemporary in the Buddhist world, Pelkor Chode Monastery and the Gyantse Dzong. TRansfer to Shigatse.
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Meals to be included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner


Day11 Shigatse - Lhasa
Sightseeing: Tashlunpo Monastery and Shigatse local market.
Visit Tashilunpo Monastery, spectacular chapels and tombs of the Panchen Lamas & the Shigatse Free Market. Transfer back to Lhasa.

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Meals to be included: Breakfast, lunch & dinner 

Day12 Lhasa - Chengdu
Morning transfer to Lhasa airport for the flight Lhasa / Chengdu. Upon arrival in Chengdu, transfer to your hotel. Afternoon visit of the giant panda breeding center.

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Meals to be included: Breakfast, lunch

Day13 Chengdu - Guilin
Chengdu To Guilin Transfer via: am flight
Be transferred to the airport for your Flight to Guilin, a romantic scenic beauty that inspired poets and artists for centuries. In the afternoon tour the Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill, Reed Flute Cave.

- Elephant Trunk Hill: Located at the conjunction of the Li River & the Peach Blossom River, the whole hill looks very much like a giant elephant with a long trunk, it is the symbol of Guilin city.
- Fubo Hill: You can see lots of rock stone carvings & Buddha statues since Tang Dynasty.Have a wonderful bird's-eye view of Guilin city if you climb to the summit.
- Reed Flute Cave: Known as "the Palace of Natural Arts" where you can see beautiful stalactites & stalagmites, learn how they are formed.

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Meals to be included: Breakfast, lunch

Day14 Guilin
Li River Cruise
Morning drive to Zhujiang Dock (varies in low water season) from hotel for about 1 hour before embarking your ship, cruise down stream to Yangshuo for about 4 to 5 hours (time varies in different season). Enjoy the cruise on the mirrored waters of the Li River striking you with its poetic scenery of misty pinnacles, gentle green riverbanks and quiet river activities, Lunch will be onboard. Disembark the ship upon arrival to Yangshuo. Walk through the local market before taking 1 hour and 30 minutes drive back to Guilin.

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Meals to be included: Breakfast, lunch  

Day15 Guilin - Beijing
Morning transfer to Guilin airport for the Flight Guilin / Beijing. Upon arrival in Beijing, transfer to your hotel. Afternoon is free at your leisure.

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Meals to be included: Breakfast

Day16 Exit China
Transfer to airport and exit Beijing with fond memory.

Hotel Accommodation: none
Meals to be included: Breakfast   
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The quote includes all China's domestic air fares with airport tax, all 4 star-hotels with western breakfast, meals(lunch&dinner), indicated in the above itinerary, all tour sites entrance fee, all air-conditioned coaches or vans or car or land cruisers with guides.

The quote does not include international air fares.

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