Golden Triangle & Yangtze
Guide & Driver: English-speaking guide & experienced driver for specified guided tours
Accommodation: 3-star decent hotels, also be open to your own choice
Tour Features:
- With essential parts to be guided tours, like the Great Wall, Forbidden City, and Terracotta Army Museum, plus some open free days for easy sightseeing in downtown, our itinerary is particularly designed for clients who are on a limited budget and enjoy a measure of independent travel with our professional suggestions.
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If you plan to explore the city immediately from today, now is the time for you to ask questions and suggestions from your guide during the transfer. The rest of the day is free for your individual activities.
Accommodation: Days Inn Forbidden City Hotel
In the afternoon, you will first visit the Yonghe Temple, once the palace of the Emperor Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, and now an important Tibetan Buddhist temple in China beyond Tibet. Then visit the Summer Palace, which was a water and mountain garden used as a summer resort by the imperial family in the late Qing Dynasty. With delicate buildings, stone bridge, shy willows and elegant hills reflected in the water, the garden has become a picturesque wonderland.
Meals: Western buffet breakfast
Afterwards, you will be driven back to downtown Beijing and your visit continues to the Temple of Heaven, a place where ancient Chinese emperors held ceremonies to worship Heaven. Besides the main buildings of the Circular Mound Altar, the Imperial Vault of Heaven and the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the Three Echo Stones and Echo Wall are also very interesting.
Meals: Western buffet breakfast
If you take public transfer from your hotel to the train station, you may proceed as follows: From the entrance of the hotel, please turn left to reach the Nanheyan Street. Then walk north down the street about 50 meters and there is a bus station. Take bus No. 2 for 2 stops, get off at Qianmen Station, and you will find bus No. 9 or 67 which are just a few steps away. After 4 stops, either of these buses will take you to the Beijing West Railway Station which is just across the street. The whole journey may take about an hour if the traffic is good.
Before getting on the train, we suggest you have dinner elsewhere or inside the railway station. The train tickets will be given to you by your local guide the day before. If you have any concerns, please ask your guide in advance.
Meals: Western buffet breakfast
Accommodation: Overnight soft sleeper train
The afternoon sightseeing will be extended to the Shaanxi History Museum. This museum collects various exhibitions concerning almost every stage of human living from primitive times to 1840. The last stop today is the exquisite and graceful Small Wild Goose Pagoda which is located in Jianfu Temple. It was listed as a national major cultural relic preservation site by State Council in 1961.
Accommodation: Days Inn City Centre Xi'an
Bus No. 608/616 will take you directly from your hotel to Xi'an Railway Station in about 30 minutes. The bus station is near your hotel, or you can take a taxi to the station in about 10 minutes if no traffic. The train tickets will be given to you by your local guide in advance.
Meals: Western buffet breakfast
Accommodation: Overnight soft sleeper train
Cruises: President No.7/No.8 with balcony
Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Meals: Western buffet breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
The train ride takes about 7.5 hours. Upon arrival in Shanghai, please go to the hotel we have booked for you by yourself. If you arrive at the Hongqiao Railway Station, you can take subway line 10 (Xin Jiang Wan Cheng Direction) to South Shaanxi Road Station and then change to subway line 12(Jinhai Rd. Direction). The second stop on the subway is the Hanzhong Road, from where your hotel is about 500 meters away on the west side of the Hengfeng Road. Alternatively, you may take a taxi (about CNY70) to the hotel directly. If you arrive at Shanghai Railway Station, we suggest you take subway line 1 (Xinzhuang Direction) and get off at Hanzhong Road Station, exit from Exit No. 4 and walk to the hotel. Or you may hail a taxi to the hotel directly with a cost of about CNY20.
Meals: Western buffet breakfast
Accommodation: Golden River-view Hotel
In the afternoon, take a taxi to the Bund area along the Huangpu River. Having the reputation as the mother river of the city, Huangpu River is famous for sightseeing, shipping, irrigation, fishery and climatic regulation. The Bund is located on its west bank where a cluster of western-style buildings form the 'Museum of International Architecture'. Looking across the river to its east bank, you will see modern skyscrapers one by one.
Meals: Western buffet breakfast
If you go to the Hongqiao Airport, both taxi and subway are very convenient. Please take subway Line 1 and get off at the People's Square and find Line 2 to the Hongqiao Airport. Hope you have a smooth trip back home.
Meals: Western buffet breakfast
2-3 travelers | 4-5 travelers | 6-9 travelers |
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$1419 | $1319 | $1179 |
- Prices are per person in US Dollars based on double occupancy.
- Any part of the itinerary e.g. tour length, activities & hotels can be tailored to your individual interests.
- Train fares
- Hotel accommodation with breakfasts
- Private guides and drivers on guided tours
- Entrance fees to tourist sites on guided tours
- Yangtze River cruise with full board
- International airfares
- Transfers and entrance fees for free days
- Entry Visa fees
- Personal expenses
- Tips or gratuities for guides and drivers
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