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Tour Code: L-BJ10
- 7 Days Luxury of Beijing - Lhasa
- Starting from $1039 per person
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Departure: Daily
Day 01: Arrival in 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: Crowne Plaza
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: Crowne Plaza
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: Crowne Plaza
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: Crowne Plaza
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 Ming Tomb and the Summer Palace. The a la carte dinner is served at a famous Cantonese cuisine restaurant in the Wangfujing area. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Crowne Plaza
Day 04: Beijing - Lhasa
Take a morning flight to Lhasa where the altitude is 3,650 meters above sea level. Transfer to the finest hotel in Lhasa and acclimatize yourself to the high altitude in the afternoon. The a la carte dinner will be arranged for you at a local best Sichuan cuisine restaurant. (B+D)
Accommodation: Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa
Day 05: Lhasa
Visit the magnificent Potala Palace. After a western-style lunch, visit the Sera Monastery, the Norbulingka Park and a Tibetan family. Dinner is served at your hotel. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa
Day 06: Lhasa
Visit the Jokhang Temple and the thriving bazaar of the Barkhor Street. After having a western-style lunch, go ahead to visit the Tibet Museum, the Tibetan Traditional Medicine Hospital and the Carpet Factory. Dinner is served at your hotel. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa
Day 07: Departure from Lhasa
See off. (B)
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 Ming Tomb and the Summer Palace. The a la carte dinner is served at a famous Cantonese cuisine restaurant in the Wangfujing area. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Crowne Plaza
Day 04: Beijing - Lhasa
Take a morning flight to Lhasa where the altitude is 3,650 meters above sea level. Transfer to the finest hotel in Lhasa and acclimatize yourself to the high altitude in the afternoon. The a la carte dinner will be arranged for you at a local best Sichuan cuisine restaurant. (B+D)
Accommodation: Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa
Day 05: Lhasa
Visit the magnificent Potala Palace. After a western-style lunch, visit the Sera Monastery, the Norbulingka Park and a Tibetan family. Dinner is served at your hotel. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa
Day 06: Lhasa
Visit the Jokhang Temple and the thriving bazaar of the Barkhor Street. After having a western-style lunch, go ahead to visit the Tibet Museum, the Tibetan Traditional Medicine Hospital and the Carpet Factory. Dinner is served at your hotel. (B+L+D)
Accommodation: Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa
Day 07: Departure from Lhasa
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 | $1559 | $1369 | $1249 | ||
| Sole Occupancy | $2039 | $1859 | $1709 | |||
| Low season | Double Occupancy | $1409 | $1219 | $1039 | ||
| Sole Occupancy | $1749 | $1559 | $1279 | |||
| Remark : Quotations listed are valid excluding the periods of Olympic Games staying in Beijing; Aug 01 to Aug 31 staying in Lhasa. | ||||||
Inclusions- Internal flights & taxes;
- Hotels with daily western breakfasts;
- Daily lunches and/or dinners at China's finest restaurants or hotels;
- Excellent individual guide & driver;
- Private air-conditioned car or van;
- Entrance fees to all tourist sites;
- Tibet Travel Permit application fee;
- Two bottles of mineral water per day;
- Government taxes.
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All official taxis have license plates beginning with the letter "B", as in "京B". "Black cabs" may look like taxis but their license plates will start with letters other than B. It's nearly impossible to hail a black cab on the streets; they generally hang out around tourist sights like the Great Wall and the Summer Palace or around subway stops. Black cabs will charge you a higher fee for the journey, unless you are a good bargainer, know where you are going, and know what the right fare should be. Sometimes they drop foreign tourists in wrong places. In some extreme cases, the driver may even take them to the countryside and rob them. If you find you hired a fake taxi and are overcharged, don't argue if you are alone, pay the driver and remember the car's license plate number, then call police later.
To avoid being taken advantage of, it is a good idea to know the rough direction, cost, and distance of your destination. You can easily find this out from asking locals before calling a cab. Verify these values with the taxicab driver to show them that you are in the know, and are probably too much trouble to cheat. Keep track of the direction of travel with a compass and/or the sun. If the cab goes in the wrong direction for a long distance, verify the location with the taxi driver. For scamming drivers, that is usually enough for them to go back on the right track (without ever acknowledging that they were trying to cheat you). Honest drivers will explain why they are going that way.
Keep in mind that central Beijing can be off limits at certain times, forcing cabs to reroute. And some roads forbid left turns (with big road signs) either at certain hours or all the time, so the driver might make a detour.
I just returned from a month of teaching and touring in China, so here are my tips.
Anyone else have something to add?
1. Bring little packages of kleenex to use in the toilets (although Beijing was better for having tp than most cities)
2. Carry a card with your hotel's name and address in Chinese
3. Be prepared to bargain for items when shopping 20-30% of what the shop keepers price is.
4. Make sure you tell the taxi drivers to put the meter on and that you want a receipt
5. Be careful with your personal items, there are huge crowds of people everywhere
6. A local guide can be very helpful in touring sites, making arrangements and acting as a middle-man translator. I used an excellent guide that I would highly recommend (send me a message if you would like his e-mail)
7. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is spectacular, and suposedly less touristy.
8. Snacks from home are a good thing and so is Immodium.
9. Bring bug spray.
10. Bring an open mind, things are different and not necessarily as sanitary as in the Western world