Beijing

Arrive in Beijing

Meet at airport and transfer to your hotel.

Beijing

Visit Badaling Great Wall & Ming Tombs.

In the early morning, we will drive to the Badaling Great wall.  The Great Wall symbolizes Chinese ancient history. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site built in stages throughout the ages, designed as defense from attacks from the north.  It is often said that the Great Wall stretches around one-twentieth of the worlds circumference, and is the only man-made object visible from space with the naked eye.  The section of the Great Wall that is most often visited was built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.).  The sheer scale of the wall can only be appreciated with a visit to marvel at the human endeavor needed to create such a magnificent structure.

After that, visit Ming Tombs (Shi San Ling).  Located about 50 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the Ming Tombs lies scattered at the southern foot of Tianshou Mountain in Changping country.  Within the Ming Tombs are 13 of the 16 emperors of the Ming Dynasty.  Two tombs are open to the public for viewing.  One is Chang Tomb, the largest of the tombs, and the other is Ding Tomb. You will visit either one.

Beijing/Xian

Visit Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, late afternoon fly to Xian, check in the hotel.

Directly to the south of The Forbidden City lies Tiananmen Square.  This famous square houses The Great Hall of the People and is the final resting place of Chairman Mao Zedong, of which a huge portrait hangs at the entrance to The Forbidden City, keeping watch over Tiananmen Square.  It was also in this square that Chairman Mao Zedong made his 1949 speech proclaiming the founding of the Peoples Republicof China.

Get early to visit The Forbidden City, formally known as the Palace Museum, is located in the exact centre of Beijing.  It is the base around which all of Beijinghas since evolved.  The building was completed in the early 15th century, and it served as an imperial palace for the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties, ruling over china for nearly 500 years.  The museum boasts many ancient artifacts, art pieces and priceless antiques.  Popularly known as the venue for the film "The Last Emperor," this is a must-see cultural highlight during any visit to Beijing.

Then, visit the former summer resort of the famous Empress Dowager Cixi, the Summer Palace is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape and garden design.  It is built to overlook Kunming Lake, and features Longevity Hill, which is 60 m high and offers views of the surrounding palaces and gardens.

Xian

Visit Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Ancient City Wall,and Shaanxi History Museum.

As the symbol of the old-line Xian, Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayan Pagoda) is a well-preserved ancient building and a holy place for Buddhists.  It is located in the southern suburb of Xian City, about 4 kilometers (2.49 miles) from the downtown of the city. Standing in the Da Cien Temple complex, it attracts numerous visitors for its fame in the Buddhist religion, its simple but appealing style of construction, and its new square in front of the temple.  It is rated as a National Key Cultural Relic Preserve as well as an AAAA Tourist Attraction.

The first landmark visitors will encounter in Xian is the Ancient City Wall, which stretches round the old city.  The northern side runs parallel to the railway.  Xian was originally a walled city, and even today the wall is considered a landmark dividing the city into the inner part and the outer part.  The city wall is massive - tall, long and thick. TheSouth Gate and North Gate are the two main entrances to the inner city.  The city itself is neatly arranged along the city wall.

The Shaanxi History Museum in Xian, regarded as “the pearl of ancient dynasties and house of Chinese treasures”, gives a miniature overview of the thousands of years of Chinese history and the splendid ancient cultures of olden times.

Xian

Visit Terra Cotta Warriors, Hua Qing Spring Pool.

The Terra Cotta museum is not only a treasure house, but also a main scenic spot of Xian city.  Today the eighth wonder of the world has almost become synonym of the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses in 1987; the Emperor Qins Mausoleum was put on the list of the UNESCO as a world-class cultural heritage site.  Now the museum is widely known as a huge modern site museum and it is going to be one of the best in the world.

Situated at the northern foot of Mt.Lishan in LintongCounty, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from Xian City, Huaqing Hot Spring (also called Huaqing Pool) is famed for both its dainty spring scenery and the romantic love story of Emperor Xuanzong (685-762) and his concubine Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).  Its long history and location among the wonderful landscapes of Xian should entice any visitor to visit and bathe in this hot spring.

Guilin

Fly to Guilinin the morning, visit the Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill. 

Reed Flute Cave is a famous scenic spot, located at the northwest of Guilin City, 5 kilometers away from the centre of the city, mainly offering a magic fairyland of stalactites, stalagmites, stone columns, curtains and flowers in fantastic shapes and colors while appreciating landscape and rural scenery.

Elephant Trunk Hill, also called the elephant hill, lies on the conjunction of the Li River and the peach blossom river.  It is the badge of Guilin city.  The whole hill looks exactly like a huge elephant stretching its trunk drinking water of the Li River.  It is the masterpiece of karsts landscape, composed of pure limestone deposited on seabed 360million years ago.

Guilin

Take Li River Cruise, afternoon transfer to airport.

The Li River is famous for its fine views: verdant mountains, fragrant waters, mysterious grottoes, and exquisite rocks.  Its unusual karsts topography hillsides have often been compared to those at Halong Bay, Vietnam.  Along the 100-kilometer stretch of the River Li, mountain peaks rise into the sky.  The Li River brimming with crystal-clear waters twists and turns between magnificent and beautiful mountains.  Its banks are covered with lush bamboo and luxuriantly green woods. LuohanMountain, ChaobanMountain, WuzhiMountain and Luosi Mountainrise up from under the waters.