Day 01Arrival in Beijing

Our guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area at Beijing Airport and transfer you to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the city.

Temple of Heaven, Beijing

Day 02Beijing

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)

Descriptions:
Tiananmen Square - To the west of the Tiananmen Square, there is the Great Hall of the People which is the site of the National People's Congress of China. Occupying an area of 171,800 square meters, the 46.5-meter-high Great Hall is larger than the Forbidden City, spanning 336 meters south-to-north and 206 meters west-to-east. The huge construction work and decoration of the Great Hall was finished in ten months in 1959. Therefore, it is said to be one of the pioneering undertakings in the Chinese architecture history.
 
Forbidden City - The Forbidden City has four gates, among which the Meridian Gate is the frontispiece. With a retuse surface, it looks quite spectacular. Behind the Meridian Gate, there are five exquisite white marble arch bridges leading to the Gate of Supreme Harmony. The other four gates are the West Gate, the East Gate and the Gate of Divine Prowess. On the four corners of the Forbidden City stand four refined turrets. The turrets are 27.5 meters high. With crossed roofs and three overlapping eaves, they are very remarkable buildings.

Great Wall of China

Day 03Beijing

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 in the afternoon. On the way back to downtown, drive by the Bird's Nest (Olympic National Stadium). You will see its appearance at a distance. (B+L, D is included for luxury series)

Differences
Luxury Series: we arrange an a la carte dinner at a famous Cantonese cuisine restaurant in the Wangfujing area.
Standard Series: we intend to leave the dinner on your own. You may ask for some suggestions from your local guide.

Descriptions:
Great Wall - From the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC, the Great Wall of China was constructed in large-scale. However, without any technological support, the heavy building materials were difficult to transport, so the builders were required to use the local resources, such stones of mountains and rammed earth along rivers. In this sense, the wall of the Qin Dynasty has a marked feature that most of them were built of stones and earth. This solid fortification was still used by the following Han Dyansty to defend the opposing army, but few were left nowadays. 
 
Ming Tomb - Serving as the front entrance, the Red Palace Gate is located due south of the Ming tomb complex. As the rule said, the officials who came here for worship should dismount here and enter the mausoleum on foot. Originally, it had two corner gates connected by a 40 meters long red wall. The wall had another small red gate and ten entrances heavily guarded by the guards.  The civilians were forbidden to enter the necropolis. Unfortunately, the red wall has already collapsed. Only can some remnants be seen now.

Cruising on the Li River, Guilin

Day 04Beijing - Guilin

Visit the Summer Palace and the Lama Temple. Take flight to Guilin and transfer to the hotel.(B+L)

Descriptions:
Summer Palace - Wandering inside the Summer Palace, you will find a place which resembles the street scenery of Suzhou City in Jiangsu Province. That is the Suzhou Market Street (Suzhoujie). You can see more than 60 stores in ancient style extending around 300 meters (328.1 yards) long. This street used to serve as an entertainment site for the emperor and his concubines of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). When they went there, eunuchs and maids would disguise themselves as peddlers and customers to make the royals feel as if they were on a commercial street of common people.

Day 05Guilin - Yangshuo

Enduring memories are created today as you cruise down the Li River to Yangshuo. Transfer to the hotel. A short bicycle trip to the countryside will then be arranged. You will visit a local villager's home to experience the farmer's lifestyle there. Alternatively, you can take our electric car instead of taking bicycles. (Tips: Since the lunch on the Li River cruise can not meet your expectation, TCG suggests that you have enough breakfast at the hotel today.)(B+L)

Descriptions:
Li River -The 83-kilometer-waterway from Guilin to Yanshuo is the masterpiece of the Li River scenery. It is the most typical karst topography in northeastern Guangxi. The valleys in this area are broad and shallow. The rolling hills rise sharply from the ground in many different shapes. The hillsides are steep, creating a breathtaking view. Plains are embedded between green hills and limpid water, which is fantastic Chinese scenery painting. Grotesque limestone caves, verdant hills, limpid water and odd-shaped rocks are praised as the Four Wonders of Li River.

Our clients cycling in rural Yangshuo Photo by our client Ms. Janice Johnson

Day 06Yangshuo

We intend to leave the day free. You can find West Street with the breathtaking scenery and have a pot of tea in a sidewalk cafe feeling totally relaxed. You can rent a bicycle to visit the Moon Hill and the Tall Banyan.(B)

Descriptions:
Yangshuo - In the world famous tourist destination Yangshuo, there is a famous small street, West Street, which is one of the oldest streets of the town. Low brick wooden houses and local residences on stilts spaced on both sides of the road paved with gray flagstone. Since it was first found by western travelers in 1970s, the West Street has been frequently written in travel guide book and introduced to more people to come around for its unsophisticated residential houses and distinctive folk culture.

Day 07Departure from Guilin

Drive back to Guilin. Visit the Reed Flute Cave, the Seven Star Park and the Elephant Trunk Hill. Then our guide and driver will see you off at the airport .Hope next time we still have the chance to serve you again.(B+L)

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