This tour offers a thorough exploration of the most popular tourist attractions in China.

Schedule: on First Sunday of the month

Code: ST-CH 01

Day 1: Guangzhou (L-D)
Arrival in Guangzhou, airport pick-up, hotel check-in.
Afternoon: City tour visit Shang Xia Jiu Lu, Wu Yang Hill.

Day 2: Guang zhou – Yan g shou (B-L-D)
Transfer by bus from Guangzhou to Yangshou, a small lovely town enclosed by amazing limestone peaks.

Day 3: Yangshou (B-L-D)
Morning enjoy a wonderful cycling trip through rice paddies, limestone peaks, rivers and villages. Evening enjoy the fantastic musical show directed by Zhang Yi Mou

Day 4: Yangshou - Lijiang (B-L-D)
Bus drive to Guilin, then take a flight to Lijiang, a delightful old town of Yunnan, a World Cultural Heritage site, hotel check-in, lunch.
Afternoon nice walk around the old town of cobbled streets, criss-crossed canals, and from A to Z souvenir shops, enjoy lively dancing performance by Naxi ladies at the market square

Day 5: Lijiang – Tiger Leaping Gorge
– Sangrila (B-L-D)
Bus ride to the gorgeous Tiger Leaping Gorge (16km long and 3,900m deep), one of the deepest gorges in the world, enjoy a rather tough but very impressive 3 - hour- hike
Afternoon bus transfer to Sangrila,
an interesting town with some Tibetan
features

Day 6: Sangrila – Chengdu (B-L-D)
Morning flight to Chengdu, excursion to the Giant Panda breeding research center, hotel check-in, lunch
Afternoon city tour: nice walks at the People Park and walking street area

Day 7: Chengdu – Jiuzhaigou by plane (B-L-D)
Explore Jiuzhaigou Park, a uniquely beautiful world natural and biological park, offering lot of time for walking, admiring the gorgeous sceneries and relaxing in the park. O/N in the park

Day 8: Jiuzhaigou (B-L-D)
Explore Jiuzhaigou Park, a uniquely beautiful world natural and biological park, offering lot of time for walking, admiring the gorgeous sceneries and relaxing in the park. O/N in the park

Day 9: Jiuzhaigou - Chengdu – Xian (B-L-D)
Morning flight to Chengdu, then take evening train to Xian

Day 10: Xian
Arrival in Xian, a significant historic city of China, then excursion to the Army of terracotta warriors after arrival
Back to Xian in the afternoon, hotel check-in, at leisure to relax or explore the old city center on your own.

Day 11: Xian – Beijing (B-L-D)
Morning city walk along the wall, Drum
and Bell towers, Muslim square Visit the splendid Taoist temple of Eight
Immortals. After lunch, take afternoon train to Beijing.

Day 12: Beijing (B-L-D)
After early arrival, hotel check-in.
City walk starts at the huge Tiananmen Square, well-preserved Forbidden City, walk to lunch place, then enjoy Hutong tour on pedicabs through centuries-old streets and communities, passing by the bell and drum towers, end at the colourful Lama temple. Visit the Lama temple and the Confucian temple nearby. Back to hotel

Day 13: Great Wall – Temple of Heaven (B-L-D)
Morning excursion to Juyonguan Great Wall, conquer the truly great wall, admiring the great work and views, have picnic lunch on the wall.
Afternoon drive back to Beijing, visit the temple of Heaven, the symbol of Beijing

Day 14: Summer palace (B-L-D)
Spend more than half day for this pleasant and beautiful place and some free time for shopping in Beijing city center.
Dinner: Enjoy Special Beijing duck

Day 15: Departure (B)

Transfer to the airport for departure flight

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Price: VND/pax (valid till May 2006)

Inclusions:

• Hotel accommodation with breakfast (based on twin sharing, superior rooms)
• All meals indicated in the program
• All ground transport on tour with A/C vehicles , train, boats, motorbike, bicycle, rickshaw, tuk tuk, etc., all the domestic flights in Viet Nam and China
• All entrance fees
• Local English, French, German speaking guides
• Gifts and maps

Exclusions:

• International flight tickets to Hanoi and from Beijing
• All domestic and international flights tax : In China: 90yuan /pax (international flights)
• Visa upon arrival for VN (840,000 VND/pax), China (1,365,000 VND/ pax for American and 840,000 VND/pax for other nationalities)
• Domestic and International Insurance surcharge
• Personal Insurance
• Personal expenses such as drinks, camera fees
• All other accounts not mentioned in the above inclusions.
Exchange Rate: 21,000 VND/USD