TRIP NOTES Totally China 15 days | Beijing to Shanghai PRIVATE TOUR: Visiting the What's Included please turn right once you’ve passed customs to reach the pick up point. If arriving into nation’s capital - Beijing, Xi’an, • 14 breakfasts, 11 lunches and 11 dinners Terminal 3, you will be met just outside of the Guilin and Yangshuo, Hangzhou, • 13 nights Superior hotels (Deluxe restricted area. Suzhou and cosmopolitan available on request) and 1 night sleeper Overnight - Beijing Shanghai. This cultural rollercoaster train (4-berth soft sleeper cabin) • of a tour is filled with top UNESCO Xi’an - bike ride on medieval City Wall Day 2 : The Forbidden City • Guilin/Yangshuo - Yulonghe River Li sites, spectacular scenery and cruise unique experiences, guaranteed to • Huangshan - cable car ride to Yellow captivate and enthrall. Mountain • Suzhou - historic Grand Canal cruise HIGHLIGHTS AND INCLUSIONS • Shanghai - Huangpu River cruise • Economy class flights: Xi’an - Guilin - Trip Highlights Hangzhou • Airport arrival from Beijing Capital Airport • Beijing - Tiananmen Square, Forbidden on day 1 and departure transfer Shanghai City, UNESCO-listed Great Wall, UNESCO- on day 12 Enjoy a tour of the nation’s capital today. Visit listed Ming Tombs, UNESCO-listed • Touring and excursions as per itinerary Beijing's famous Tiananmen Square which Summer Palace • English speaking specialist guides at local is home to the mausoleum of Chairman • Xi’an - UNESCO-listed Terracotta sights Mao Tse-tung, the father of the Communist Warriors, clay warrior workshop, Huaqing • All relevant transfers and transportation People’s Republic and the striking Monument Hot Springs, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, City to the People’s Heroes. Then explore the Wall, Muslim Quarter What's Not Included remarkable Forbidden City which is a vision • Guilin/Yangshuo - Yangshuo cruise • International flights and visa in grandeur with its imperial yellow roofs and • UNESCO-listed Huangshan Mountain • Laundry, drinks, items of a personal vermilion walls. The Forbidden City, was the (Yellow Mountain) nature seat of the great emperors and the innermost • Suzhou - UNESCO-listed gardens, • Tipping - an entirely personal gesture sanctum of the Beijing. Built between 1406 Grand Canal and waterways, Humble and 1420, it served as the imperial palace for Administrator’s Garden, Silk factory the Ming and Qing dynasties. Take a guided • Shanghai - Shanghai Tower, The Bund DETAILED ITINERARY walk through the city’s many temples, grand and Old Shanghai, Yuyuan Garden, halls and courtyards. This evening, enjoy a Huang River skyline of Pudong City Day 1 : Beijing Welcome to Beijing! Arrival transfer from the airport to our hotel. If arriving into Terminal 2, Totally China - 15 days updated on 23-09-2021 06:00:58 www.onthegotours.com This information has been compiled with care and good faith. They give an accurate illustration of the proposed arrangements for this holiday. Circumstances beyond our control such as changes in local conditions, inclement weather or other reasons could force us to make changes to UK 020 7371 1113 [email protected] this itinerary. Any costs shown are subject to change, though are an accurate reflection of costs at time of writing. Please also note that visa AUS 1300 855 684 [email protected] requirements are subject to change and are the responsibility of the traveller and not that of On The Go Tours. NZ 0800 44 77 69 CAN 1 866 890 7038 - 1 - USA 1 866 606 2960 SA 0800 990 311 TRIP NOTES Totally China dinner at a city restaurant. Overnight - Beijing Day 5 : Terracotta Warriors Day 7 : Yangshuo (B, D) Day 3 : The Great Wall Xi’an is perhaps most famous for the Guilin - Yangshou - Guilin. Guilin is renowned discovery of Emperor Qin’s Terracotta for its striking scenery, with vast areas of Warriors. Discovered in 1974 by local farmers karst limestone outcrops that rise up from flat Today, travel beyond Beijing to Badaling, digging a well, the 2,200 year old Terracotta rice paddy fields. Today we take a relaxing where you can walk (almost climb on some Warriors comprise more than 7,000 life-sized cruise down the Yulonghe River to Yangshuo sections) on the Great Wall. Following a ridge soldiers standing battle-ready in excavated passing an endless procession of peaks of barren hills through northern China, it pits under the cover of a modern protective and simple villages. The local fishermen use stretches as far as the eye can see - at hanger. No two faces are alike – each is trained cormorants to catch fish and local least 6,700 kms! You'll have time to enjoy said to be an individual portrait. Today, we village boys paddle out to the river boats with and explore the wall before visiting a Jade visit the archaeological site of the Terracotta all manner of souvenirs. We spend some time Carving Centre to learn about this ornamental Warriors, Huanqing Hot Springs, a scenic in charming Yangshuo, with its little shops and rock and its importance in Chinese culture. spot in the shadow of Li Mountain and a cafes, before returning to Guilin and visiting After lunch visit the Ming Tombs, where 13 workshop where crafts people make clay the Reed Flute Caves which have beautiful emperors were interred. You'll approach the warrior replicas. Overnight - Xi'an (B, L, D) stalactites and stalagmites in different shapes tombs via the Sacred Road which is lined with and sizes. Overnight - Guilin (B, L, D) stone statues of people and animals which Day 6 : Big Wild Goose guard the royal graveyard. Overnight - Beijing Pagoda Day 8 : Dragon's Backbone (B, L) Day 4 : The Summer Palace Xi’an - Guilin. Visit the iconic Big Wild Guilin - Longsheng - Hangzhou. Drive to Goose Pagoda this morning before enjoying Longsheng this morning to walk along the a leisurely bike ride on Xi’an’s medieval City rice terraces of the striking Longji Terrace, Beijing - Xi’an. This morning visit the beautiful Wall, which dates from the Ming dynasty. Then known as the Dragon’s Backbone. Beginning Summer Palace which has the largest imperial there's free time to explore the fascinating at the base of Mt Longji the verdant green garden in China. Walk along the elegant Muslim Quarter and Great Mosque before rice fields coil up the steep mountain, layer Promenade, see stone boat, visit Kunming flying from Xi’an to Guilin. Overnight - Guilin upon layer, climbing to its summit. Taking a Lake and Longevity Hill. Then there's time to (B, L, D) walk along the stone paths no more than test your bartering skills at the bustling Pearl a metre wide, you’ll pass many of the Yao Market which sells everything from clothes, and Red Yao minority women, baskets on cosmetics and electronics to bags, jewellery their backs, who are also climbing skyward. and as the name suggests, an incredible Reaching the ‘Seven Stars accompanying selection of pearls. Tonight catch an overnight Moon’ lookout, soak up the spectacular views. sleeper train to Xi'an. Overnight - Sleeper The full panorama offers thousands of ribbon Train (B) like terraces cascading to the meandering Totally China - 15 days updated on 23-09-2021 06:00:58 www.onthegotours.com This information has been compiled with care and good faith. They give an accurate illustration of the proposed arrangements for this holiday. Circumstances beyond our control such as changes in local conditions, inclement weather or other reasons could force us to make changes to UK 020 7371 1113 [email protected] this itinerary. Any costs shown are subject to change, though are an accurate reflection of costs at time of writing. Please also note that visa AUS 1300 855 684 [email protected] requirements are subject to change and are the responsibility of the traveller and not that of On The Go Tours. NZ 0800 44 77 69 CAN 1 866 890 7038 - 2 - USA 1 866 606 2960 SA 0800 990 311 TRIP NOTES Totally China streams and valley floor beneath. Later today the top. On day 11 enjoy a full day tour to Suzhou - Shanghai. This morning take a train fly from Guilin to Hangzhou. Overnight - Huangshan Mountain, visiting Beginning-to- or bus to Shanghai. Perhaps China’s most Hangzhou (B, L, D) believe Peak, Brush Pen Peak, Bright Summit, modern city, Shanghai's amazing Pudong Flying-over and the Cloud-dispelling Pavilion. skyline is breathtaking. After breakfast at Day 9 : Hangzhou Overnight - Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) your hotel, take a tour of the many city Scenic Hangzhou is unusual for a Chinese (B:2, L:2, D:2) sights including the highest in Shanghai - the city in that it encompasses large tracts of Shanghai Centre, Yuyuan Garden and The greenery which might normally be classified Days 12-13 : Suzhou Bund. This evening enjoy a cruise on the as countryside. This is thanks to Xi Hu, the Huangpu River with spectacular night view of large lake that Hangzhou straddles. The lake the city. Overnight - Shanghai (B, L, D) is dotted with various islands and causeways, whilst the shoreline offers wonderful vistas of Day 15 : Shanghai green trees, hills, flowers, pavilions, pagodas Hotel checkout and included onward and boats. Hangzhou is also the southern departure transfer to the airport, or consider terminus of the Grand Canal and an important extending your stay to explore more of centre for silk, tea and paper-making. Shanghai. Note: This itinerary is semi-independent First stop today is the renowned the Longjing Huangshan - Suzhou. On day 12 take a in style. The Totally China itinerary is Tea Plantation which produced some of cable car downhill to the foot of Huangshan arranged and operated exclusively for you China's best green tea.