15 Days/14 Nights-Beijing to Shanghai
World Heritage Trip

All-Inclusive Trip with Intra-China Flights & Transfers, 14 Nights in 4-star & up Hotels, English-speaking escorts from $2849 per person* Add Roundtrip Air from SF to Beijing from just $800 per person

Other Features

• Sightseeing 11 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
• Cultural entertainment at Beijing Lao Shi Tea House, Xian Tang Dynasty Dancing Show, and Suzhou Puppet Shadow Show.
• Cruise on Shanghai Huangpu River.
• Gourmet Chinese Cuisine daily including famous Peking Duck Dinner, West Lake Vinegar Fish, Pork in Hangzhou, Hangzhou Beggar Chicken, Wuxi Spare Ribs, Shanghai Steamed Buns, Traditional Xian Dumplings, and ChengDu Variety Cuisine.
• Travel Insurance is provided.
  

【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.........(more detail)


【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?........(more detail)

【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
.........(more detail)

【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)



【City Wall】

Xi'an City Wall has a history of over 600 years since it was built in
the early Ming Dynasty. It is the best preserved, oldest and largest ancient city defense system in China. It is also one of the most important landmarks of Xi'an city. The original foundation of the
Xi'an City Wall was based on the ruins of the Imperial City Wall
of Chang'an City - the capital of the Tang Dynasty. When Zhu
Yuanzhang, the first Emperor.........(more detail)



【Shanxi Province History Museum】

Located inside the Confucian Temple of Taiyuan City, is a local comprehensive museum of China. It covers an area of 70,000
square metres, construction area being over 50,000 square metres. The architecture of the museum is simple, unsophisticated, elegant and unique in style. It was prepared in 1918 and opened to the
public in 1919. Its initial name was the Educational Book
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【Jiuzhaigou Valley 】

Jiuzhaigou Valley is best know for its many multi-level waterfalls
and colorful lakes. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
in 1992. This remote region lies at the end of the Minshan
mountain range, 330 km north of the provincial capital of Chengdu.
It was inhabited by Tibetan and Qiang people for centuries, but
was not "officially discovered" by Han Chinese.........(more detail)

【Huanglong valley 】

Huanglong valley is known as a "mountain paradise", and is
situated in the north-west part of Sichaun province. Huanglong, (which means yellow dragon in Chinese), valley is made up of
snow-capped peaks and is the easternmost of all the Chinese
glaciers. In addition to its mountain landscape, diverse forest ecosystems can be found.........(more detail)


【West Lakes 】

China has thirty-six West Lakes - in Beijing, Fuzhou, Guilin, etc
- but none are as picturesque and as magnificent as the one in Hangzhou. Originally no more than a shallow inlet, this section
of the Qiantong river was dredged and damned off in the eighth century to form the lake that exists today.........(more detail)

【Gardens of Suzhou 】

The gardens of Suzhou are characterized by narrow dark
columns supporting a dark tiled roof, and by equally dark woodwork which contrasts the white painted walls. In Beijing, the capital in northern China, the imperial style of architecture uses much thicker square or round columns
often painted red or green, the walls may be red, and the multi-colored roof tiles are often glazed.........(more detail)

【Zhou Zhang 】

Who said that Venice can be the only town on water?
The historic water town of Zhou Zhang is located 37 miles west of Shanghai close to the Dingshan Lake in Jiangsu Province. This town is more than 700 years old. A "must
do" activity for Zhou Zhang is a boat tour along the 10 kilometers of canal. During the tour you can enjoy the
many stone bridges, of which there are forty, and watch
art students painting.........(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.........(more detail)


【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.........(more detail)


【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)