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Silk Road

Tour Code: B-603

24 Days Budget of Beijing - Urumqi - Korla - Kuqa - Aksu - Kashgar - Hetian - Minfeng - Korla - Turpan - Dunhuang - Xian - Shanghai: Starting from $2409 per person; Luxury| Standard| Budget

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Tour Features
Traveling on the route where it was flourishing once in history and you may wonder why the history chose them then and abandoned them later. Was there really something worked like Fengshui? The remains of the old cities somewhere were the only way they record their past.

Day by Day Itinerary

Departure: Thursday

Fruit venders in the bazaar, Kashgar

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: Golden Palace Silver Street Hotel

Day 02: Beijing
Visit the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. (B+L)

Accommodation: Golden Palace Silver Street Hotel

Day 03: Beijing
Visit the Badaling Great Wall, the Sacred Way and the Ming Tomb. (B+L)

Accommodation: Golden Palace Silver Street Hotel

Day 04: Beijing
The hotel accommodation with breakfast is provided today. We intend to leave the day free for you to absorb something of the vibrant atmosphere of Beijing. (B)

Accommodation: Golden Palace Silver Street Hotel

Day 05: Beijing - Urumqi
Visit the Summer Palace. Take a flight to Urumqi and transfer to the hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: City Hotel

Day 06: Urumqi - Korla
Drive to Korla. Visit the Tiemen Pass. (B+L)

Accommodation: Loulan Hotel

Day 07: Korla - Kuqa
Drive to Kuqa and transfer to the hotel. Visit the Subashi Ruins. (B+L)

Accommodation: Kuqa Hotel

Abakh Khoja Tomb, Kashgar

Day 08: Kuqa - Aksu
Visit the Kizil Thousand-Buddha Caves. Drive to Aksu and transfer to the hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: Hongfu Jinlan Hotel

Day 09: Aksu - Kashgar
Drive to Kashgar and transfer to the local best hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: Qinibagh Hotel

Day 10: Kashgar - Karakuri Lake - Kashgar
Drive to the Karakuri Lake and have a visit there. Drive back to Kashgar and transfer to the local best hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: Qinibagh Hotel

Day 11: Kashgar
Visit the famous Sunday Market, the Id Kah Mosque and the Abakh Khoja Tomb. (B+L)

Accommodation: Qinibagh Hotel

Day 12: Kashgar - Hetian
Drive to Hetian. Visit the Yarkant King Mausoleum and the Yingisar Uigur Knife Making. Stay overnight at the hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: Hetian Hotel

Day 13: Hetian - Minfeng
Visit the Silk Village, hundred years' old walnut tree and Paper Making. On the way to Minfeng, you can visit a local bazaar and the unique minority people's costume in Yutian city. Stay at the hotel in Minfeng. (B+L)

Accommodation: Ni Ya Hotel

Taste the local food in the street, Hetian

Day 14: Minfeng - Korla
Drive to Korla through the Taklamakan Desert and enjoy the scenery of sand dune. Stay overnight at the hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: Loulan Hotel

Day 15: Korla - Turpan
Drive to Turpan and transfer to the hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: Oasis Hotel

Day 16: Turpan
Visit the Bizaklik Thousand Buddha Caves, the Gaochang Ruins and the Flaming Hill. (B+L)

Accommodation: Oasis Hotel

Day 17: Turpan - Dunhuang
Visit the Jiaohe Ruins, the Karez Well and the Sugong Pagoda. Take an overnight soft sleeper train to Dunhuang. (B+L)

Accommodation: an overnight soft sleeper train

Day 18: Dunhuang
Pick you up at the railway station and transfer to the hotel. Breakfast is on your side. Visit the Mogao Grottoes and the Dunhuang Museum. (L)

Accommodation: South or North Wing of Dunhuang Hotel

Day 19: Dunhuang - Xian
You will experience a short camel-riding along the Echoing-Sand Dune to reach the Crescent Lake. Take a flight to Xian and transfer to the hotel. (B+L)

Accommodation: City Hotel

A local market in Turpan

Day 20: Xian
Visit the Terracotta Warriors Museum, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Provincial History Museum. (B+L)

Accommodation: City Hotel

Day 21: Xian - Shanghai
You are suggested to visit the City Wall, the Great Mosque and have some free time to explore the Bazaar near the Mosque by yourselves. Then you are advised to take a shuttle bus to the airport and the bus stop is very near to your hotel. Board the flight to Shanghai by yourselves. Upon arrival, please go to the hotel we have booked for you by yourselves. (B)

Accommodation: Zhongya Hotel

Day 22: Shanghai
The hotel accommodation with breakfast is provided today. You are suggested to visit the Shanghai Museum, the Yuyuan Garden and the Bund on your own. (B)

Accommodation: Zhongya Hotel

Day 23: Shanghai
The hotel accommodation with breakfast is provided today. The full day's activities are arranged by yourselves. (B)

Accommodation: Zhongya Hotel

Day 24: Departure from Shanghai
You will get to the airport to board your homeward flight by yourselves. (B)

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Important note:

In Shanghai we only book the comfortable hotel for you. Our listed itinerary is just for your reference, which is not included in our package tour price. Shanghai is an international metropolis with modern transportations to be easily accessed, and English is widely used, so it is quite convenient to find the way to your destinations, there's no need to have a guide and private car according to our experiences. Thus, to save the cost for you, we, TravelChinaGuide, would like to leave this part on your own. Particularly, we have made a sketch map for the suggested itinerary. Hope it helps. Alternatively, if you want to avoid being a little bit adventurous and enjoy your stay in Shanghai in a sit-back manner, we are also glad to make arrangements for you. Your tour specialists will quote you the price for this part upon your requirements.

Differences can be only made by comparison. Our Making a Difference page for all private tours will let you know extra benefits we offer over and above those on tours available from other operators. We welcome suggestions and comparison as to ways in which we can further improve our tours. Thank you for considering Travel China Guide and we warmly invite you to join us for a truly unforgettable experience!

Prices (based on per person and shown in US dollars)

Prices (Valid from Mar. 1st, 2008 to Feb. 28th, 2009)

Group size

Season

2-5 travelers

6-9 travelers

10 travelers & above

High season

Double Occupancy

$4039

$3069

$2579

Sole Occupancy

$4759

$3779

$3269

Low season

Double Occupancy

$3889

$2919

$2409

Sole Occupancy

$4459

$3489

$2929

Remark : Quotations listed are valid excluding the periods of Olympic Games staying in Beijing; May 01 to May 07, Oct 01 to Oct 07, Jan 26 to Feb 01, 2009 staying in Xian; F1 Grand Prix staying in Shanghai.

Inclusions

Internal flights & taxes and train tickets;
Hotels with daily breakfasts;
Daily lunches as specified;
Professional individual guide & driver;

Private air-conditioned car or van;
Entrance fees to the tourist sites;
Two bottles of mineral water per day during the guided tour;
Government taxes.

For our special terms of quotation, reservation, payment and cancellation, Please click here.

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The above private guided tour is tailored for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other participants will be in your group. In other words, others will not join in your tour and you will not take part into any tours of others on our land services.

Hotan is a remote and small town with a bustling old Uyghur quarter; less touristy, more friendly and open than Kashgar. You can make a stopover here if you want to travel the Cross Desert Highway traversing the Taklamakan desert or have brave plans to travel the Southern Silk Road towards Golmud. We arrived in Hotan at 5AM, after 11 hours on the nightbus from Kashgar. We were able to find a bed (at $0,60), but were kicked out by 8AM because apparently they were not licensed to take foreigners!! It was my intention to travel to Golmud and onwards to Lhasa (Tibet), but at the bus station I luckily met 2 travellers who just returned from that direction. It took them 3 days to find out the road was impossable for ordinary transport!! So I changed my plans once again and decided to cross the desert to reach the oasis town of Turpan. The sleeper bus would leave in the afternoon. I spent the time that was left in the old town. Strolling around the busy market and watching the crafts people at work; ended up at an open air teahouse, sitting there a long while and met a lot of friendly people. Couldn’t speak with them, but we used paper, drawing like children to figure out what we meant. Quite funny! When I left, the owner even refused any payment!

Client's information:: Mr.Bonobo 2008-1-22 17:45

Generally, if the goods in the hotel room need extra expense, they are priced with a sticked label to tell from the included ones. So, check it before you use. If they require you to pay for the goods without a price label in the hotel room, you can complain it the local government to protect your right. Sometimes, they maybe just want to rob you foreigners who are not familiar with the local conditions. Don't be cheated by them.

Client's information:: Mr.David Lee , China , 2008-1-7 16:24

It is a new way to make money for many hotels in China: in many bathrooms in your hotelroom you'll find some things, which look as if they are free of charge like the soap or shampoo. When you check out you'll discover, that you have to pay for those things. Those things are mainly razors and/or condoms. They look different as the goods you to pay for are very colorful. The hotel soap and shampoo look white and boring.

So avoid using colorful things in your bathroom! Or pay for them! Some hotels now have a pricelist in the box of the goods.

Client's information:: Mr.Ulrike , Germany , 2007-12-28 17:11