Dynastic China - 9 days

Tour Highlights

Tiananmen Square • Great Wall • Temple of Heaven • Terra Cotta Warriors • Forbidden City • Summer Palace • Kowloon • Wild Goose Pagoda • Shaanxi Provincial Museum • Yu Yuan • The Bund • Nanjing Road • Yu Yuan Garden • Jade Buddha Temple • Nanjing Lu • 3 Performances

Overnights

Beijing 3, Xian 2, Shanghai 2

Itinerary

DAY 1: OVERNIGHT FLIGHT

DAY 2: BEIJING
Arrive in Beijing where you meet your full time Chinese Tour Manager. Transfer to your hotel for check in and dinner.

DAY 3: BEIJING
Enjoy a full day’s tour of Beijing. At Tiananmen Square, view the impressive monuments and buildings such as the Great Hall of the People. Visit the Forbidden City, a maze of buildings also known as the Imperial Palace that was off-limits to the public for 500 years. Late this afternoon you’ll present a concert for the locals. Feast on a Peking Duck dinner at a local restaurant.

DAY 4: BEIJING
Today’s activities include a full day’s tour to the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, with lunch en route. Explore the Juyong Pass and the long valley called Guan Gou. Visit Dingling Tomb, where the 13th Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun was buried. The Tombs are famous for the life size stone animal figures lining the long path to the burial sites. Return to Beijing for dinner, followed by your first concert performance.

DAY 5: XIAN
Start the day with morning Taiji exercise in a public park. Visit the Temple of Heaven complex, known for outstanding examples of Ming and Qing architecture. Transfer to the airport for a flight to Xian. Upon arrival transfer to your hotel, and begin your afternoon guided city sightseeing, including the Forest of Stone Steles, a treasure house of Chinese calligraphy with a huge collection of stone tablets. Dine together as a group this evening after a concert at a local concert hall.

DAY 6: XIAN
Full day tour to the eighth wonder of the world, the life-size Terra Cotta warriors. View the Bronze Chariot and see a Circle Vision movie. Lunch. Afternoon visit to the Wild Goose Pagoda and Shaanxi Museum. Drive past the unexcavated tomb and visit a local family home.

DAY 7: SHANGHAI
Transfer to the airport for a morning flight to Shanghai. Lunch, followed by a visit to a neighborhood hospital to learn the methods of Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Dinner is followed by your final performance. Overnight in Shanghai

DAY 8: SHANGHAI
A full day sightseeing tour of Shanghai shows you the city's old town highlights, including the Yu Yuan, as well as modern Shanghai's City Planning Exhibition Center, the Bund and Nanjing Road. At Yu Yuan Garden, view the only fully restored classical Chinese garden in Shanghai. After lunch, visit the Jade Buddha Temple and the lively district of Nanjing Lu for some last minute souvenir purchases. Dinner is followed by an acrobatic show.

DAY 9: RETURN TO THE USA
Transfer to the airport for your return flight to the United States.