Shanghai Nanjing Road

Day 01Arrival in Shanghai

Our guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area at Shanghai Airport and transfer you to the hotel. Visit the Bund and the Nanjing Road.

Accommodation: Majesty Plaza Shanghai

Descriptions:
Shanghai City - Shanghai is famed as a paradise for gourmets or 'city of cates'. Different styles of food can be found in Shanghai. You can taste delicious food of more than 30 countries there. Shanghai cuisine is a combination of the appealing aspects of exotic cuisines and other national styles of food. Various snack streets offer delicacies from other regions of China with the Old Town God Temple Snack Street being the most famous one.

Shanghai Bund area

Day 02Shanghai

Visit the Shanghai Museum and the Yuyuan Garden. After lunch, transfer you to the Bund area, where you will take a cruise tour on the Huangpu River. The cruise will start at 14:00, reach the Wusongkou pier and then get back to the Bund at 17:00. Leave you some free time to explore the Bund area on your own. Tonight an a la carte 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: Majesty Plaza Shanghai

Descriptions:
Shanghai Museum - Owning about 120,000 pieces of valuable ancient relics, Shanghai Museum is one of the four greatest museums in China, together with Beijing Palace Museum, Nanjing Museum and Shaanxi Museum. Its main features are ancient bronzes, porcelain and ceramic wares, calligraphy and Chinese paintings.
 
Yuyuan Garden - Built of thousands tons of huangshi stone, the Great Rockery features peculiar peaks, cliffs, caves and gorges. It was created by Zhan Nanyang, a famous artist of the Ming Dynasty. Standing on the top of the 14 meters (46 feet) high rockery, the visitors will have a panoramic view of Yuyuan Garden.
 
Huangpu River - The night view of the Huangpu River is very quiet and beautiful. When the night falls, the banks along the river are ablaze with lights. The “Museum of International Architecture” is illuminated brightly during the night, which is a spectacular scene.

Naxi minority people dancing in Lijiang old town

Day 03Shanghai - Lijiang

Take a morning flight to Lijiang and transfer to the hotel. Visit the Square Street of the Lijiang Old Town. As you walk through the old town, you will immediately get overwhelmed by small bridges, swift streams, cobbled streets and grey tiled roofs of the Residential Houses. It is an ancient legacy of Naxi people. Naxi women in all types of clothing and hair-dressing appeal to visitors enormously. The Naxi Ancient Music performance at Dongba Palace is arranged in the evening.(B+L+D)

Accommodation: Jian Nan Chun Hotel

Descriptions: 
Lijiang Old Town - As one of the most popular tourist destinations in Yunnan Province, the Lijiang Old Town was included in the World Heritage List in 1997. The dwellers of the Old Town of Lijiang mostly belong to the Naxi ethnic minority. The old town features its brilliant and mysterious Dongba Culture, Naxi Ancient Music and Baisha Frescoes. Being one of the three Naxi scripts, Dongba script is famed as the "only living pictographic writing system in the world". Naxi script only has approximately 1,400 words. However, Naxi people can use these words to express their thoughts and ideas fully, even write poems and articles.

Yuhu Village near to Lijiang

Day 04Lijiang

Visit the Baishui Tableland, the Dry Sea, take the cable car to Spruce Plateau and overlook the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and visit the Baisha Village and a local Naxi family, the Baisha Murals, the Rock Joseph's Former Residence in Yuhu Village.(B+L)

Accommodation: Jian Nan Chun Hotel

Descriptions: 
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain - The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is the southernmost snow mountain in the Northern Hemisphere. In the meantime, it is a holy mountain for the Naxi people. The legend has it that San Duo who is the patron saint of the Naxi people is the avatar of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

Day 05Departure from Lijiang

Your pleasant China tour ends as we transfer you to the airport and help you board the flight back home.(B)

B-- Breakfast     L-- Lunch     D-- Dinner