10-Day China Private Tour of Shanghai, Guilin, Xi’an and Beijing

Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Shanghai

Welcome to Shanghai! After retrieving your luggage.Our guide will wait at the airport, holding a sign with your name on it. After a warm greeting, you will be taken to the hotel we have booked for you, which have prefect infrastructure.The rest of the day is at your disposal, you can take a warm rest or explore this city on your own.

Attractions: Yu Garden, The Bund, Nanjing Road, People’s Square, Shanghai Museum, French Concession, Tianzifang
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Shanghai

The first stop is Yu Garden, a representation of traditional Chinese gardens. Walking through its decorated bridges, you may feel like stepping back in time to 400 years ago.

Next, explore the city from the Bund and Nanjing Road to take in heritage buildings featuring architectural styles from Neoclassical to Gothic to Baroque. While walking on the streets full of various colonial architecture, the epitome of 19th-century Shanghai will come to your mind vividly. Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of Shanghai and one of the busiest shopping streets in the world.

Continue with a visit to the People’s Square and Shanghai Museum. The People’s Square was once the finest racecourse in Asia before 1949. Shanghai Museum is specially celebrated in the world for its rich and high-quality collection of 120,000 precious works.

Afterwards, explore the tree-lined avenues of the French Concession where many fine old houses in the area still retain an air of the “Paris of the East”. Explore the arts and crafts enclave in the trendy area of Tianzifang.

Attractions: Elephant Trunk Hill, Reed Flute Cave
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Xi’an

This morning we will visit the Elephant Trunk Hill – the symbol of Guilin. After that, have a trip to Reed Flute Cave – the showcase of distinctly-colored stalactites and stalagmites.Inside this water-eroded cave is a spectacular world of various stalactites, stone pillars and rock formations formed by carbonate deposition. Illuminated by colored lighting, the fantastic spectacle is found in many variations along this 240-meter-long cave.

Attractions: Li River, Yulong River, West Street, Two Rivers & Four Lakes Scenic Area
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Yangshuo

Today, you’ll take a relaxing sightseeing cruise along the Li River from Mopanshan Wharf to Yangshuo Town to explore this best landscape.

After disembarking, we will take a break and we will start exploring the Yulong River. There are a variety of ways to have fun and beauty, including cycling, hiking, sightseeing buses, bamboo rafts, and scooters. After fanciful sightseeing, you can walk the ancient West Street at your leisure and witness how Western and Chinese cultures coexist perfectly and peacefully here.

Back to Guilin in the afternoon, stroll along the Two Rivers & Four Lakes Scenic Area.

Attractions: Small Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi’an Museum, Xi’an City Wall
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Xi’an

Fly to Xian in the morning. Visit Small Wild Goose Pagoda and Xi’an Museum upon arrival. With a history of more than 1,300 years, Small Wild Goose Pagoda was built to store the Buddhist scriptures delivered from ancient India. It is a perfect example of the multi-eaved square brick pagodas built in ancient China.

Continue visiting Xian Museum. Xian Museum boasts nearly 130,000 relics that all relate to the history of Ancient China and Xian specifically. Afterwards, visit Xi’an City Wall. The City Wall of Xi’an is one of the oldest and best-preserved city walls in the world. Walking atop the Wall you can get the panorama of Xi’an skyline.

Attractions: Terracotta Warriors, Bell & Drum Tower Square, Great Mosque, Muslim Quarter
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Xi’an

The highlight of today’s journey is the awe-inspiring Terracotta Warriors. Spend 2 to 2.5 hours there to marvel at the grand array of thousands of life-size clay soldiers, horses, and chariots, and see how powerful the first emperor of China – Qin Shi Huang was.

Visit the Bell & Drum Tower Square, the Great Mosque and Xi’an Muslim Quarter in the afternoon. The area north of the Drum Tower is the Muslim Quarter of Xian which covers several blocks with an estimated 60,000 Muslims in the region. There are about seven ancient mosques in the area, among which the Great Mosque is most famous and popular among all.

Attractions: Summer Palace
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Beijing

Depart from Xi’an to Beijing in the morning. Upon arrival, visit the Summer Palace, which is the largest and most well preserved royal garden in China. The Summer Palace takes Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill as the basic framework. The natural landscape of hills and open waters is combined with the artificial landscape such as pavilions, palaces, temples and bridges, forming a harmonious whole with outstanding aesthetic value.

Attractions: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Beijing

Today, we embark on our journey of exploration of Beijing from Tnanmen Square. Tiananmen Square is now the largest city square in the world.

Passing through Tiananmen Square, you can see the five most important palaces in the world, the Forbidden City. It was the residence of the Ming and Qing emperors and represented the supreme power of ancient China.Later, climb up to the top of Jingshan Park, where you will see a magnificent panorama of the Forbidden City.

After lunch, visit the Temple of Heaven with a chance to see Beijingers enjoying morning exercise around.

Attractions: Mutianyu Great Wall, Sacred Way, Water Cube, Bird’s Nest
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: Overnight in Beijing

In the morning, visit the Mutianyu Great Wall, a less crowded but well-preserved section of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. You will take a cable car ride up the Great Wall and then hike to the most beautiful and interesting places in Mutianyu.

Then continue your journey to the Sacred Way, a 7-kilometer-long passage to the tombs of the 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Finally, drive back to Beijing and stop at the Beijing Olympic Village to admire the famous Bird’s Nest and Water Cube from the outside.

Attractions: No
Meal: Not Included
Hotel: No

Your trip to China is coming to an end ,we will escort you to the airport and you will return home or head to another flight.