9 Day Beijing, Dunhuang, Xian and Shanghai Tour

Detailed Itinerary: Today our trip will start with an excursion to the Mutianyu Great Wall.

Mutianyu Great Wall
Great Wall was built on the mountain. Though Mutianyu seems to be not popular as section at Badaling, but it doesn’t get as crowded, we do not want you to see so many people everywhere on Great Wall.  You can walk on steps for 1 hour to the mountain top, enjoy the magnificent view of its 2.5 kilometer long Great Wall, beacons and watch towers. Woods cover over 96% of the total scenic area.

You can also take cable car up and down the mountain. The optional cable car ticket is RMB35 one way, and RMB50 round trips.

- HOUR BY HOUR SCHEDULE -
Pick up service from your hotel at 7:00am-7:30am
Coach transfer to Great Wall at Mutianyu (50 minutes)
Great Wall at Mutianyu Visiting (2.5 hours).
Lunch at the local restaurant (1 hour)
Drive back to downtown and drop-off at your hotel around 16:00-16:30

- IMPORTANT NOTICE -
There is no forced shopping to gift shops or factory outlet during all transfers and sightseeing.

- OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES AT NIGHT -
Beijing Opera with Transfers (Liyuan Theater). Optional cost is RMB280 per person, inclusive of ticket and two ways transfer. Please tell our reservation staff to plus this evening program on reservation.

Detailed Itinerary:

Detailed Itinerary: Hotel to airport transfer.  Fly to Dunhuang.   Pickup from Dunhuang airport by our tour guide and start your discover journey.  Visit Echoing-Sand Mountain, Crescent Moon Lake

Echoing-Sand Mountain: Singing Sand Dunes is a famous scenic spots in Dunhuang. It is also called Mingshan Mountain. These mountains are pale golden in color; their height is about a dozen meters and stretches across an area of more or less 40 kilometers. The dunes are huge and some measures about hundred meters while most of them are rather stable in shape though the dunes shift recurrently. 

Crescent Moon Lake: It is surrounded by the Echoing-Sand Mountain, Crescent Spring can be called a natural wonder in the Gobi Desert. Some say it reminds them of the eye of a beautiful woman, lucid, beautiful and amorous. Some say it looks like the mysterious, gentle and seductive lips of a pretty woman, or a slice of lush, sweet and crystal cantaloupe. Actually, it resembles a crescent fallen down into this desert.

Detailed Itinerary: Today you will visit Mogao Grottess.   Take late afternoon flight to Xian.   Airport pickup and transfer to hotel in Xian.

Mogao Grottes:  A shrine of Buddhist art treasures, 25 km from downtown Dunhuang on the eastern slope of Mingsha Shan (Singing sand dunes). A network of plank reinforced roads plying north to south 1600 meters. Mogao means high up in the desert.

Dunhuang Museum: A interesting city museum that documents Dunhuang's history.  There are many articles collected from the local area which give you a real insight into what life was like up to 3500 years ago.   There is a reconstruction of one of the mogao caves.  All artifacts are well presented and presented in a timeline from Neolithic to modern era. 

Detailed Itinerary:

In the morning, our guide will pick you up at your hotel and transfer you to visit Banpo Neolithic Village. 

Banpo Neolithic Village is located in Banpo Village, about three miles east of Xian City. Built on the archaeological site of Banpo, the Banpo Museum houses a collection of artifacts and relics of the Neolithic settlement. You will see exhibitions of ancient utensil and production tools unearthed.

The next scheduled site to see will be Terracotta Warriors and Horses. It is famed as “World’s Eighth Great Wonder” and the largest excavation of the 20th century. You will see artifacts of numerous life size terracotta figures of warriors and horses in different features, facial expressions, clothing and hairstyles arranged in battle formations. This will be a great chance to get a fresh idea about Chinese ancient history and culture.
 

- HOUR BY HOUR SCHEDULE -

08:00 - 08:30  hotel pickup
08:30 - 09:30  coach transfer on Xian-Lintong Highway
09:30 - 10:30  Baopo Neolithic Village
10:30 - 12:30  Museum of Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses
12:30 - 13:30  Lunch in local Chinese restaurant 
14:00 - 14:40  Emperor Qinshihuang Mausoleum
15:00 - 16:00  Visit the Terra-Cotta Replication Factory
17:30                back to your hotel

Detailed Itinerary:

Fly to Shanghai.  Hotel to airport transfer.  Our tour in Shanghai starts at 12:30.  

Zhujiajiao Water Town:  A traditional water town of Zhujiajiao. Unique old bridges across bubbling streams, small rivers shaded by willow trees, and houses with courtyards attached all transport people who have been living amidst the bustle and hustle of the modern big city to a brand-new world full of antiquity.

Huangpu River Dinner Cruise: Cruising on the Huangpu River is the best way to appreciate shanghai dramatic and splendid night view.

The Bund refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as those located in the areas nearby.  It is home to some of the most historical buildings, it was once the location for many banks and trading houses from all over the world.  Our cruise will let you have chance to enjoy night view of both banks on Huangpu River.

- HOUR BY HOUR SCHEDULE -

12:00 - 12:30  hotel pickup
12:30 - 13:30  Transfer to Zhujiajiao Water Town
13:30 - 16:00  Zhujiajiao Water Town 
17:00 - 17:30  Silk Museum
18:30 - 20:00  Dinner Cruise on Huangpu River
21:00                back to your hotel
 

Detailed Itinerary:

Today you will taste the feature of Shanghai both “Classic and Modern”.

Yu Garden
The best preserved traditional garden in Shanghai.  You will be fascinated with traditional Chinese style houses, grottoes, pavilions, natural features of rocks, ornamental ponds and flower walls.

The Bund
a waterfront area that best represents the blending of ancient and modern influences.  The word Bund means "embankment on the waterfront".  With more than 50 individual architectural styles, is reminiscent of the time when Shanghai was the center of Chinese economy and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Shanghai Old Wax Figure Museum
It will immerses you in the sights of Shanghai throughout history of showing everyday scenes of people living in Shanghai.

Old French Concession
A residential area of Shanghai once designated for the French, it is a very nice European place in Shanghai with lots of French and German cafes, tree-lined avenues, up-market stores as well as historical buildings.

- HOUR BY HOUR SCHEDULE -
Pick up service by your tour guide and driver at 7:30
Shanghai Old Street- Sightseeing (30 minutes)
Yu Garden - Sightseeing (1 hour)
Yu Garden Typical Shanghai Tea House (30 minutes)
The Bund Stroll - Sightseeing (40 minutes)
Local Restaurant-Lunch (1 hour)
Shanghai Old Wax Figure Museum- Sightseeing (1.5 hour)
Featured Shopping at Pearl City (30 minutes)
Shanghai typical alley at Tianzifang- Sightseeing (30 minutes)
Old French Concession stroll-Sightseeing (30 minutes)
Coach transfer back to your hotel before 18：00.
 

Detailed Itinerary: After breakfast, transfer to airport.