Learning Chinese Tai Chi

Day 01Entry Xian

Our guide will hold a welcome sign to meet you outside the baggage claim area at Xian Airport and then transfer you to register in the 4-star hotel. You will start the tour with a visit to Xian City Wall, which is the existing largest and best-preserved ancient city wall in China. Standing on it, you could see a harmonious scene of the inner ancient city and outer modern developing city co-existing.

Meals: No meals
Accommodation: Grand New World Hotel

Day 02Xian

Highlight morning excursion will transfer you to the amazing Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, which is a military underground museum. Here, you could appreciate the terra cotta generals, warriors with saddled horses and kneeling archers forming an impregnable fortress to protect Emperor Qin Shi Huang. In addition, you could also have a direct impression of the excavation work on the site. At noon, to avoid the cheap tourist eateries arranged by most agencies, you will enjoy an a la carte lunch at the best local restaurant. Afterwards, the tour will be extended to the well-preserved Great Mosque, which was built in combination architectural styles of traditional Chinese and Islam. Your next stop is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, a square pyramid built 1300 years ago to house the Buddhist materials taken from India. It has been one of the ancient landmarks of Xian City. 

This evening, you will enjoy the creative Dumpling Dinner and marvelous Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show at Shaanxi Opera Theatre. (Tips: Dumplings are a traditional local food in northern China and are made of wheat flour with various indigenous fillings. This has long been a favourite food of the local people, so we have arranged for you to have a taste of this speciality today. You will also have an opportunity to learn more about the diversified Chinese food culture. However, we suggest you do not expect too much from this dinner, it is just a new and different experience during your trip.)

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, A la carte lunch, Dumpling dinner
Accommodation: Grand New World Hotel

Our clients touring the ancient City Wall, Xian

Day 03Xian - Lanzhou

This morning, you will explore Shaanxi History Museum, a complex construction in traditional Chinese style. This is a comprehensive museum with more than 370,000 historical collections of different times and kinds to display the long history and advanced civilization of ancient China. After that, you will take a flight to Lanzhou. Our Lanzhou guide will be waiting for you at Lanzhou Airport and transfer you to the 4-star hotel for a one-night stay.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Legend Hotel

Praying Tibetans at the Labrang Monastery

Day 04Lanzhou - Xiahe

Today you will journey to Xiahe to explore Sangke Prairie, where Tibetan herders inhabit for generations. Sangke means land for riding horses in Tibetan, and the prairie is large in area and slight in slope. Encircled by mountains and cut through by a river in the middle, this grassland looks like a thick green carpet with a white pure Hada on. Then you will taste the mysterious and simple Tibetan flavor and learn the local folk custom by visiting a Tibetan family. When the tour ends, you will stay overnight at the 3-star hotel.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Xiahe Wangfu Hotel

Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves, Lanzhou

Day 05Xiahe - Lanzhou

Today, you will return to Lanzhou by car. On the way, there is a visit to the Labrang Monastery. It is a vital shrine of Geluk (Yellow Hat) School of Tibetan Buddhism with 300 years history and the most important Tibetan Buddhist center out of Tibet. The monastery is also an essential place for Buddhism activities and ceremonies, which reserves the best teaching system of Tibetan Buddhism. You will also have the chance to watch the morning pray in the monastery. Upon arrival in Lanzhou, check in the hotel again for a two-night stay.

Meals: Chinese breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Legend Hotel

The retired people’s life in Lanzhou

Day 06Lanzhou

The day will be devoted to one of the three most famous Buddha caves in Gansu Province, Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves, which were engraved in the west cliff along the Yellow River. You will visit it by boat. Bingling is transliterated from a Tibetan word meaning 'ten thousand Buddhas', for the site boasts various kinds of Buddha statues. Since 420AD of the Western Jin Dynasty, the entire engraving project of the grottoes has lasted for more than 1,000 years. By now, the Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves preserves 196 caves, 694 stone statues, 82 clay sculptures and a large area of murals, which make it a site of great artistic value.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Legend Hotel

Day 07Lanzhou Exit

You will have a short visit to the Waterwheel Garden, a theme garden to display the waterwheel culture and farming civilization of ancient China. The waterwheel is a common irrigation tool in Lanzhou area along the Yellow River, the history of which can be dated back to the Ming Dynasty (1368 -1644). Here, your tour will come to the end. Our guide will transfer you to Lanzhou Airport for your departure flight. Wish you a pleasant trip!

Meals: Western buffet breakfast

• ◆2012 Price

Based on per person and in U.S. dollars, valid from Jan. 1st, 2012 to Feb. 28th, 2013

Season Group Size		2-5 travelers	6-9 travelers	10 travelers & above
High season (Mar 1st-Nov 30th)	Double Occupancy	$1159	$859	$719
	Single Occupancy	$1379	$1079	$929
Shoulder season (Dec 1st, 2012-Feb 28th, 2013)	Double Occupancy	$1129	$829	$689
	Single Occupancy	$1339	$1039	$869
Shoulder season (Jan 1st-Feb 29th)	Double Occupancy	$1079	$799	$659
	Single Occupancy	$1279	$999	$829

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