China with Yangtze River Cruise - ICA 2019 | Departure: Sept. 18, 2019
INCLUDING Beijing | Xian | Guilin | Yangtze River Cruise | Shanghai | Op onal Hong Kong
and visit the Three Gorges Dam; one of L P C : the world’s largest dams. Then transfer $2,475* per person to Wuhan to board your flight to *internal flight and train included; 20kg Shanghai. A light lunch is included today. check-in + 7kg carry on
Upon arrival, meet your local PKT
representa ve and transfer to enjoy I A : SFO > PEK x PVG > SFO = XXXXX* dinner in the evening. A erwards, head *subject to change and availability to the hotel for the night. [B,L,D] H ( ): DAY 12 S : Beijing—Four Points by Sheraton Haidian B : dinner and a cultural Tang Dynasty A er breakfast today, visit Jinmayo Xian — Days Hotel & Suites Xinxing Xian DAY 1 Show. [B,L,D] Mansion for sky view, and enjoy a Guilin — Guilin Royal Garden Hotel Welcome to Beijing! A er you arrive, cruise on the Huangpu River. Enjoy a Shanghai — Shanghai Radisson Blu Hotel you’ll meet your PKT Tours DAY 6 X / G : sightseeing tour of Shanghai, dynamic Quan representa ve and transfer to your home to more than 16 million people. Hong Kong — Holiday Inn hotel. In the evening, enjoy an Indian Today you’ll be transferred to the airport to catch a flight to Guilin. Upon Explore classical Yu Gardens, featuring dinner and re re for the night. [D] over 30 pavilions. Also visit the Jade M + W (1 ) arrival (or prior to departure depending Daily breakfast in your hotel; Western/local/ DAY 2 B : on flight me), enjoy a light lunch and Buddha Temple followed by a vegetarian lunches as indicated; Indian/local/ A er breakfast set out for a full day city visit Reed Flute Cave. Have dinner in Magne c Train ride. Also visit TV vegetarian dinners as indicated; 1 (one) 500ml Tower and return on the fastest train. bottle of water per person per day tour that will include Tiananmen Square, the evening and spend the night in Forbidden City, and Summer Palace. Guilin. [B,L,D] In the evening enjoy the Acrobat show and then have dinner and return to T + S : Tour the Summer Palace, once a retreat All transfers, and extensive sightseeing with for the Forbidden City emperors. The the hotel. [B,L,D] entrance fees (as specified in itinerary) by an air- immaculate grounds cover over 700 G : conditioned coach, mini-coach, or van. Hotel DAY 7 and train station portage included. acres with temples, shrines, ceremonial A er breakfast today, enjoy a day of DAY 13 S / halls, bridges, and extensive gardens sightseeing in Guilin. You’ll visit H K (OPTIONAL): N I : bordering Kunming Lake. Climb aboard a Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill, Yaoshan International airfare, visa fees, gratuities dragon boat for a lake cruise and palace Mountain, and an evening Water Transfer to the airport for your flight (mandatory $25 per person for Cruise; views from across the water. In the Fountain Show. Enjoy a light lunch at home or Hong Kong (op onal). suggested: $5 per person per day), excess baggage fees, personal expenses of any evening have dinner and return to the the appropriate me. Dinner will be in This morning we transfer to the airport kind, travel insurance, anything not hotel. [B,L,D] Guilin tonight. [B,L,D] for your flight to Hong Kong. Upon mentioned DAY 3 B : arrival, enjoy a tour of Hong Kong. You will visit Golden Bauhinia Square, the Today you’ll travel to the Great Wall, T B C : DAY 8 G / Peak Tram to Victoria Peak, Repulse Subhash Desai finished in 210 BC and running for C / Y Bay, Tin Hau Temple, Aberdeen Fishing T: 408.676.7873 thousands of miles. Ride a cable car to Village and Market, Golden Bauhinia E: [email protected] the highest point, and walk along the R C : Plaza, and then late a ernoon ancient ramparts that wind over the A er breakfast today, you will drive to shopping in Harbour City or Tsim Sha hilltops. Return to town visit the 15th‐ Chongqing for your Yangtze River Tsui. In the evening, enjoy a night O H K : century Temple of Heaven, a round, Cruise. Before boarding, visit $555 pp | PVG > HKG Airfare = $175** cruise with dinner to view Hong Kong three‐ ered wood structure that is Chongqing Zoo. Enjoy a light lunch at at night. A erwards, enjoy dinner intricately decorated with gold leaf and the appropriate me. Check‐in on your before transferring back to the hotel colorful designs. It’s considered one of cruise ship and relax for the evening. for the night. [B,L,D] China’s best examples of tradi onal Dinner is served on board. [B,L,D] architecture. Take the Hutong Tour and enjoy an Indian dinner. [B,L,D] DAY 9 Y R DAY 14 H K DAY 4 B /X C : (OPTIONAL): Today bullet train to Xi’an, the ancient Visions of knobby, mist‐shrouded A er breakfast today, enjoy a tour of seat of power for thousands of years at mountains steeped in the mys que of Lantua Island via NP 360 (subject to the eastern end of the Silk Road. old China travel with you, as you repairs being complete). A erwards, Transfer to your hotel and enjoy a day at experience the Yangtze from dawn to enjoy dinner before doing some leisure to explore the city. [B,L,D] dusk aboard one of the finest ships on shopping and transferring back to the hotel for the night. [B,L,D] DAY 5 X : the river. Today’s ac vi es will include visits to Fendu, Shibaozai, and Wanzhou. Today you will get to see the Big Wild Meals are aboard your ship today. [B,L,D] DAY 15 H K goose Pagoda, visit the Provincial History Museum, and see the Ancient City Wall. (OPTIONAL) / D : As the symbol of the old‐ line Xian, the DAY 10 Y R A er breakfast, enjoy the day at Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a well‐ C : leisure un l your transfer to the preserved ancient building and a holy Today you will pass the Three Gorges— airport. [B] place for Buddhists. It a racts numerous Qutang, Wu, and Xiling, during which visitors for its fame in the Buddhist you will take a tour through Daning religion, its simple but appealing style of River Lesser Three Gorges. In the construc on, and its new square in front evening, sail through the ship locks. of the temple. Xian City Wall is the most [B,L,D] complete city wall that has survived in China, as well being one of the largest DAY 11 Y / ancient military defensive systems in the world. In the evening enjoy a vegetarian S : Disembark from the ship in Yichang, Breakfasts, Lunches and Dinners as indicated (BLD)