8 Days/7 Nights-Beijing to Shanghai Emperor Trip
 | All-Inclusive Trip with Intra-China Flights & Transfers, |
Other Features
- Sightseeing 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Cultural entertainment at Beijing Lao Shi Tea House and Xian Tang Dynasty Dancing Show.
- Cruise on Shanghai Huangpu River.
- Gourmet Chinese Cuisine daily including famous Peking Duck Dinner, Traditional Xian Dumplings, ChengDu Variety Cuisine, and Shanghai Steamed Buns.
- Travel Insurance is provided.
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| Day | DESTINATION | ITINERARY | 4 & 5 STAR HOTEL |
| 1 | Beijing | You will be welcomed at Beijing Capital International Airport by our representatives and escorted to your hotel. Dine and Rest. | New Era Hotel |
| 2 | Beijing | Badaling Great Wall - Ming Tomb. Lao She Tea House Magic Show | New Era Hotel |
| 3 | Beijing | Forbidden City - Tian'anmen Square - Temple of Heaven - Hutong. | New Era Hotel |
| 4 | Beijing Xian | Summer Palace | Sheraton Xian Hotel |
| 5 | Xian | Terracotta Warriors - Great Wild Goose - Huaqing Hot Spring. Tang Dynasty Dancing Dinner Show. | Sheraton Xian Hotel |
| 6 | Shanghai | Fly to Shanghai - Yu Yuan Garden - Cheng Huang Temple - Pudong and Bund -Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Cruise on Huangpu River New Heaven Dinner | Huating Hotel |
| 7 | Beijing | Fly to Beijing - Peking Man Site at ZhouKouDian - Wanfujing Street | New Era Hotel |
| 8 | Beijing | Fly Home |
【Badaling Great Wall 】
Situated in Yanqing County, the Badaling section is the closest to Beijing city proper, and as such receives the most tourists amongst
all different sections of The Great Wall. Snaking along the
mountainous terrains in the northwest of Beijing, it was built during
the Ming dynasty.........(more detail)
【Ming Tomb】
The main highlight of the visit is probably the seven-kilometer
Spirit Road. In Mandarin, Shisan ling literally means "thirteen tombs".
It is the number of emperors which was buried there, although there were altogether sixteen emperors in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
The Ming Tombs were the final resting place for them
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【Forbidden City 】
It was home for 24 emperors since 1420 and has more than nine thousand rooms. In 1997, the UNESCO listed the Forbidden City or Palace Museum as World Cultural Heritage site. The Forbidden City
in China is a majestic and most intricately designed imperial palace.
The largest palace in the world, its red-walled buildings
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【Tian'anmen Square 】
Built in 1417, Tian’anmen or Gate of Heavenly Peace used to be the main entrance to the Imperial Palace. It is one of China's most modern buildings sitting at the very centre of Beijing. Since the latest reconstruction in the 1960's, the measurement from north-south is 880 metres and east-west 500 metres. The massive quadrangle is able to hold up to one million people.........(more detail)
【Temple of Heaven 】
Situated about 6 kilometers away from Beijing's city centre, the
Temple of Heaven was built in 1406 during the reign of Emperor
Yongle and completion took fourteen years. Measuring 273 hectares,
it is almost three times the size of The Forbidden City. It was entered into World's Cultural Heritage List in 1998. Known as the largest
ancient sacrificial temple, it was the place for emperors to worship heaven. The main buildings are, Altar of Prayer for a Good Harvest, Imperial Vault of Heaven.........(more detail)
【Hutong 】
Both hutong and siheyuan are Beijing's very own unique intricate passageways and traditional dwellings, respectively. There's
nothing like witnessing with one's own eyes to see and feel for
oneself to experience contemporary Chinese lifestyle in the hutong.
The hutongs are fast disappearing in the advent of modernization
and the emerging of middle-income families.?hen Olympics 2008 beckons, it is believed that only few hutongs earmarked by the
central government would survive the onslaught of development.
Take the opportunity now to immerse.........(more detail)
【Summer Palace】
Summer Palace or Yiheyuan, is the largest imperial garden in
the world and it covers approximately 290 hectares. Kun Ming Lake
at the southern part takes up four-fifths of the total vast area. It was
a man-made lake constructed during the era of Kublai Khan to
improve water supply. As the name implies, the Summer Palace was used as the imperial's family summer.........(more detail)
【Terracotta Warriors】
Arguably one of China's most famous and popular tourist sites, the Terracotta warriors (bingmayong) are among the most significant archaeological excavations of the 20th Century. The warriors have
made Xian the tourist destination that it is today and the wealth
in this city owes much to their discovery. This incredible collection
of 6,000 men and their horses was actually discovered completely
by accident by a group of peasants in 1974 who were digging a
well! In a bizarre twist, the man who supposedly discovered them
now sits in a hall at the site signing postcards of the stone army
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【Great Wild Goose】
The Buddhist monk Xuan Zang brought back 600 Buddhist texts
from his trip to India 1300 years ago. The 7 story Great Wild
Goose Pagoda was built in AD 652. It is a striking elegant
building and is the symbol of Xian. The famous Buddhist monk
Xuan Zang returned from a 17 year pilgrimage and the square
pagodGreat Wild Goose Pagodaa was built to house the 600 or so
Buddhist texts that he had collected in India. The pagoda - built
within the compound of the Benevolence Temple - has high
architectural value considering it is already 1,300 years old. Above
the stone doors at .........(more detail)
【Yu Yuan Garden 】
The 400-year-old Yu Gardens were built in the Ming Dynasty
during the reign of Emperor Jia Jin and recognized as a significant national heritage site. They are situated in the north part of town adjacent to an impressive teahouse and close to a tourist bazaar,
shops and local markets. It was built by a private individual and
shows a classical landscape in the Southern Chinese style
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【Pudong and Bund 】
As a general rule, Puxi is the embodiment of 'Old Shanghai' and 
Pudong is the embodiment of a 'New Shanghai'. Perhaps because
of the stark contrast of the modern and historic architecture that
lies on either side of the river; namely the early 20th century architecture of the Bund on the Puxi side, and the most
conspicuous modern architecture of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower
and the Grand Hyatt Hotel on the Pudong side. Puxi is where the majority of the city center lies. With a grid-like city plan, it's not
difficult to find your way around Shanghai. The city is broken up
into areas that range from the traditionally Chinese Yu Yuan
Gardens to the modern urban bustle of Huai Hai Road
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【PuPeking Man Site at ZhouKouDian 】
The rodent fossil was taken as chicken bones by local people
and the Chicken-bone Hill was so named. The latter is nominated
later as Locality 6 of the Peking Man Site. Two lower jaws of
Peking Man were unearthed in this year. Like other erect man who
appeared in Middle Pleistocene, the skeletal morphology of Peking
Man, excluding the skull, is rather similar to .........(more detail)
