Schedule: On the first and third Sunday of the month

Code: ST-CH- 02

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

Day 2: Guilin – Yangshou (B-L-D)
Morning flight to Guilin, then transfer to Yangshou
Free time in town
Evening Musical show on the Lijiang river

Day 3: Yangshou (B-L-D)
Cycling around Yangshou in the morning
Afternoon boat trip in the Lijiang River (in Xing Ping)

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 (B-L-D)
Visit the interesting Ganden Sumtseling Gompa, a 300-year-old Tibetan Monastery complex with around 600 monks,
beautiful Napa lake with a short horse ride, and
pleasant walks around the tranquil Tiansheng park.
Afternoon: leisure walks in the old town of Sangrila
Dinner: Tibetan hotpot

Day 7: Sangrila – Guangzhou (B-L-D)
Morning flight to Guangzhou via Kunming.
Afternoon free time for shopping

Day 8: Guangzhou – HCMC (B)

Departure Home sweet Home

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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