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Tour Code: SD-08-406
- 9 Days Super Deluxe of Beijing - Chongqing - Yangtze River Cruise - Yichang - Shanghai
- Starting from $2789 per person
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Tour FeaturesTo really understand this huge country needs at least three trips, Yangtze River cruise tour is ideally the first trip to get the first impression over this ancient and mysterious nation.
Day by Day Itinerary
Departure: Based on the cruise sailing date, Please click.
Day 01: Arrival in Beijing
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Our guide will pick you up at Beijing airport and transfer to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the city.
Accommodation: The Peninsula Palace 
- Deluxe Room
Day 02: Beijing
Visit the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. The Beijing Duck Dinner is served at a famous restaurant followed by a lively Peking Opera performance at the Liyuan Theatre. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: The Peninsula Palace - Deluxe Room
Day 03: Beijing
Visit the Badaling Great Wall. To avoid having lunch at shopping site restaurants, you will be driven to have Sichuan food at a local popular restaurant. Visit the Sacred Way and the Ming Tomb. (B+L)
Accommodation: The Peninsula Palace - Deluxe Room
Day 04: Beijing - Chongqing
Three Gorges, Yangtze River cruise
Visit the Summer Palace. Take a flight to Chongqing. Visit the Panda House in Chongqing Zoo. After having a rich buffet dinner at 4-star hotel, Holiday Inn Yangtze, check in at the deluxe Century Star cruise ship. Your memorable Yangtze River tour begins at 23:30 as the ship sets sail. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Century Star - Presidential Suite
Day 05: Chongqing - Fengdu
Disembark for an excursion to the Snowy Jade Cave. The Captain's Welcome Party will be held in the evening. (B+L+D)
Day 06: Badong - Xiling Gorge - Sandouping
Sailing through the Qutang Gorge and later the Wu Gorge. Disembark at Wushan Daning River for an excursion to the Shennong Stream. In the afternoon, continue sailing into western section of the Xiling Gorge. The Farewell Party tonight invites you to perform dancing or musical instruments with the cruise staff. (B+L+D)
Day 07: Yichang - Shanghai
Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai
Disembark for an excursion to the under constructed Three Gorges Dam. Then pack your luggage and complete check-out procedures. After having lunch at the Yichang city, visit the Yichang Museum if time permits. Take a flight to Shanghai and transfer to the hotel. (B+L)
Accommodation: Hyatt On The Bund
Day 08: Shanghai
Visit the Shanghai Museum and the Yuyuan Garden. After lunch, take a cruise tour on the Huangpu River. The farewell dinner is served at Central Hotel, whose restaurant Wang Bao He has a history of around 260 years and is the best place to serve Shanghai Cuisine. The memorable dinner will be followed by the Portman Acrobatic Show at the Shanghai Centre Theatre. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Hyatt On The Bund
Day 09: Departure from Shanghai
See off. (B)
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Prices (based on per person and shown in US dollars)Prices (Valid from Mar. 1st, 2008 to Feb. 28th, 2009)
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2-5 travelers | 6-9 travelers | 10 travelers & above | |||
| High season | Double Occupancy | $3679 | $3289 | $3149 | ||
| Sole Occupancy | $5759 | $5369 | $5229 | |||
| Low season | Double Occupancy | $3319 | $2929 | $2789 | ||
| Sole Occupancy | $5039 | $4659 | $4509 | |||
| Remark : Quotations listed are valid excluding the periods of Olympic Games staying in Beijing and F1 Grand Prix staying in Shanghai. | ||||||
Inclusions- Internal flights & taxes;
- Super-deluxe hotels with daily western breakfasts;
- Daily lunches and/or dinners at China's finest restaurants for the land tour;
- Deluxe cruise suite with full board;
- Cruise shore excursions;
- Outstanding individual guide & driver for the land tour;
- Deluxe private air-conditioned car or van for land transportation;
- Entrance fees to the tourist sites;
- Two bottles of Evian Mineral Water per day;
- Government taxes.
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After the Yangtze cruise, we arrived in Yichang and were taken to the Yichang Museum, also we were led to the musem shop, where the museum staff informed us that the items for sale were real antiques recovered from the Three Gorges Dam site. They informed us that this was guaranteed, since the shop was state-run, etc. They showed us a number of items that they attested were jade and about 100 years old.
On the basis of this representation, we purchased an incense burner that the museum staff insisted was jade and 80-100 years old. We paid over USD1000 for it, and they gave us an "official" certificate, stamped by the museum, attesting to the object's authenticity. When we arrived at home, we unpacked the incense burner, to find that it had been scratched and chipped in transit. These scratches and chips revealed that the object was not made of jade at all, but probably soapstone, painted to make it look like jade! It is in fact very fragile, and can be scratched with just a fingernail!
We were really upset about this. That is a terrible fraud. We would like to suggest you not go to that shop, or you should be careful when you purchase and you need to bargain with them.