11-day Impression China Guilin Tour

Day 1Arrival in Beijing

On day 1, upon your arrival at Beijing airport, your private local guide will greet you and escort you to the hotel. After a rest, you can take a leisurely walk around the neighborhood.

Day 2Beijing

On day 2, your tour starts with a morning stroll across the world's grandest city central square, Tiananmen Square, which has witnessed many historical events and significant celebrations over the past 500 years. Then you will enter it from its south gate to visit the Forbidden City, the world's largest palace complex where the emperors and their families once worked and lived.

After lunch, you will go on a visit to Beijing Hutongs - the old lanes and courtyard houses. Take a rickshaw or bike to explore Beijing's charming lanes to visit a local family, who have lived in the Hutongs for generations, offers a local perspective on history and is a highlight of the Hutongs for most tourists.

Tips: Traditional night show and Beijing Roast Duck for dinner are available in Peking Opera.

Day 3Beijing

On day 3, after breakfast, you will pay a morning visit to the world's greatest man-made projects, the Great Wall at Mutianyu section,which has set up as a military fortification for more than 2,000 years ago. Then visit the Sacred Road of Ming Tombs and Dingling, an ancient emperor's mausoleum group of the Ming Dynasty with underground palace.

After lunch, on the way back to Beijing downtown, you will have a stop for an outside look of two famous Olimpic site: Bird Nest (National Stadium) and Water Cube (National Aquatics Center).

Day 4Beijing-Xi’an

On day 4, after breakfast you will pay a morning visit to the Temple of Heaven, once a site where the emperors offered sacrifices to the heaven. It is even larger than the Forbidden City. Its main buildings progressing from south to north, are the Circular Mound Altar, the Imperial Vault of Heaven and the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest.

After lunch you will be driven to the train station for a bullet train to Xi’an (5 hours), another of China's ancient capitals. Upon arrival in Xi’an, your local guide will meet you and escort you to the hotel for rest.

Day 5Xian

On day 5, after breakfast, your guide will meet you and you will be driven to visit the incredible Terracotta Warriors. After lunch you will be driven to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, where housed in a huge temple complex, the ancient pagoda was built to house Buddhist Sutras brought to China from India. After dinner, you can take a browse to the mall in Tang Dynasty, the Never Nights City.

Day 6Xi’an-Guilin

After breakfast, your guide will meet you and you will be driven for a morning visit to the Shaanxi History Museum to discover Xi’an's amazing history. After that, you will either go for a walk or a bike on top of Ancient City Wall to get a bird’s-eye view of this ancient capital. Then, you will visit Xi'an Muslim Street to relax.

In the late afternoon, you will be driven to the airport for your flight to Guilin. Upon your arrival in Guilin, your guide will meet you and escort you to check in at the hotel for a rest.

Day 7Guilin-Yangshuo

After breakfast at the hotel, our guide and driver will transfer you to the Zhujiang pier to board the ship for the Li River cruise (4 hours) from Guilin to Yangshuo. It is one of the greatest waterways to admire the picturesque scenery along the riverbanks. Upon arrival in Yangshuo, you will have a stroll along the famous West Street. This is a vibrant place alive with cafes, pubs, restaurants and where many westerners gather.

Tips: Today we kindly suggest you have a larger breakfast at the hotel this morning as the lunch provided on the cruise is less than adequate. The cruise arrives at terminal Yangshuo at around 13:30 to 14:30 according to the different water flows. There are many cafes available in Yangshuo.

Optional activites for late afternoon:

1. Attend a Chinese cooking course in a cooking school

2. Learn Tai chi for 1-2 hours.

3. Li River Beer Fish is recommended for dinner.

4. Night show options: Commorants Fishing or Impression Liu Sanjie

A cruise along the Li River from Guilin to Yangshuo is an unforgettable experience due to stunning scenery. In Yangshuao, there are interesting such as lumbering water buffaloes pulling carts or cooling off in the river, fishermen gliding along on their narrow bamboo rafts, and if you're very lucky you might see one of the famous fishing cormorants.

Impressions of Liusanjie performance. The Performance, directed by Zhang Yimou, China's premiere movie director and director of the Beijing Olympics' Opening Ceremony, is made up of hundreds of people and is performed on the Li River with the mountains as the backdrop. It is an unforgettable experience.

Day 8Yangshuo-Longsheng Longji Terraces

There are three options for morning enjoyment: Enjoy a countryside biking, a bamboo rafting on the Yulong River and a helicopter tour over Yangshuo.

An afternoon drive (about 2.5 hours) from Yanghuo to Longji Rice Terraces. And then you will enjoy the dusk/sunset view of rice terraces around Zhuang and Yao minority villages. The terraces look like ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of some hills. The villages feature traditional wooden architecture where no nails are used in construction. The different ethnic minority customs and dress are especially interesting. Stayovernight at Ping'an Zhuang Village.

Day 9Guilin-Longsheng

Get up early to take a morning walk around Ping'an Zhuang Village for a sunrise view of Longji Terraced Rice Fields. After breakfast, you will visit to Huangluo Yao Village to meet long-hair wowen and watch the ethnic performance.

Then you will be transfered back to Guilin for the afternoon flight to Shanghai.

Day 10Shanghai

After breakfast, you will start a full day tour in Shanghai to visit the Shanghai Museum, Town God's Temple, Shikumen, Old Concession Area. Then you will have a bird view of Shanghai city on the top of Jinmao Tower and enjoy coastal sight at the Bund of Shanghai.

Acrobatic performance for night show option.

Day 11Shanghai Departure

Afer breakfast, you will take a morning relax until a transfer to at the Shanghai Pudong Airport for the flight to next destination.