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11 Days North China Ancient Town Tour
Tour Code:DCT-Culturales-1
Tour Type: Private Tour
Destinations: Beijing, Datong, Pingyao, Xian, Shanghai
Price From: on request
Tour Highlights
Fine designed 11 Days tour to explore the famous ancient towns in North China, Suitable for those tourists who are interested in China history and culture.
Tour Map
Summary
| Day | Destination | Highlights |
| 01 | Beijing | Transfer service to hotel |
| 02 | Beijing | Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park, Temple of Heaven |
| 03 | Beijing | Mutianyu Great Wall, Olympic Park, The exterior Bird Nest and Water Cube |
| 04 | Beijing | Beijing Hutong, Summer Palace |
| 05 | Beijing  Datong | Yungang Grottoes, Huayan Monastery, Nine Dragons Screen |
| 06 | Datong  Pingyao | Hanging Temple, Yingxian Wooden Pagoda |
| 07 | Pingyao  Xian | Qiao Courtyard, Rishengchang Exchange Shop, Ming Qing Street |
| 08 | Xian | Terracotta Warriors, Tang Bo Art Museum, Bell Tower, Muslim Quarter |
| 09 | Xian Shanghai | Ancient City Wall, Wild Goose Pagoda and north square, Hanyang Tomb |
| 10 | Shanghai | Jade Buddha Temple, the exterior of Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai Old Street, The Bund |
| 11 | Shanghai | Transfer service to airport |
Tour Itinerary - Day by Day
Meals: No Meals
Recommended Hotel: Sunworld Hotel Beijing ★★★★
Arrive in Beijing, the capital city of China. You will be greeted and met by our tour guide at the airport and transferred to your hotel, whenever your flight arrives in Beijing. After check-in, free at leisure for the rest of the day.
Beijing City View
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Sunworld Hotel Beijing ★★★★
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore the historical city of Beijing.
Morning visit Tiananmen Square, the largest public square in the world;today’s highlight: Forbidden City, the largest and most complete ancient imperial palace in the world. Hike to Jingshan Park for a nice panoramic view of the Forbidden City at the top of Coal Hill.
After Lunch time at Shi Yuan Restaurant, visit Temple of Heaven, which was used to pray for harvest by the emperors. Shopping time at Panjiayuan Antique Market and Pearl Market before back to hotel.
Forbidden City
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Sunworld Hotel Beijing ★★★★
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore the Great Wall.
Drive to Mutianyu Great Wall, which section is more popular among foreign visitors. Upon arrival, you can choose to hike on the Great Wall, or take cable car up and walk around.
After Lunch time at Xiaolongpu Restaurant, Drive back to Beijing city, while you can take a nap in the car. Visit the exterior Bird Nest and Water Cube, the amazing architectures that built for Beijing Olympic Games. Experience Chinese tea at tea house before back to hotel.
Mutianyu Great Wall
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Atour Hotel Xian Nanmen ★★★★
Morning pick up from your hotel lobby, Drive to Drum Tower area for taking a relaxing Hutong Tour by rickshaw, which is the way to know the Beijing local lifestyle. Continue visit to Summer Palace, which is the existing largest, best-preserved imperial garden in China.
Free at leisure in the afternoon. You could explore around Wangfujing Commercial Street or Dashilar near Qianmen, where you could find many old established shops.
Summer Palace
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel:Weidu Internation Hotel Datong Centre ★★★★
Check out from the hotel in the early morning and fly to Datong. Firstly drive you to the magnificent Yungang Grottoes, with 53 caves containing over 51,000 stone carvings of Buddha and Buddhist. Then take a visit to Huayan Monastery , the largest and best preserved monastery of the Liao Dynasty. Then a short stop in Nine Dragon Wall, the oldest and largest glazed screen in China.
Yungang Grottoes
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Hongshanyi Hotel ★★★★
Check out and transfer back to Pingyao for about 5-6 hours. On the way, take a visit to the Hanging Temple - the masterpiece of ancient wooden constructions. Keep drive for about 1 hour to Yingxian County, where we visit Yingxian Wooden Pagoda , regarded as one of the three pagodas in the World. Drive to Pingyao Ancient City. Upon arrival, drive you to the hotel and have a rest.
Hanging Temple
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel:Atour Hotel Xian Nanmen ★★★★
Enjoy your leisure time and have buffet breakfast in hotel. Then drive to the Qiao Courtyard to get touch with the ancient Jinshang (Jin area merchant) Qiao Zhiyong’s home - a powerful trading family with significant commercial influence. In the afternoon, have a visit in Pingyao Ancient Town, including ishengchang Exchange Shop, the first bank in China. You can have a leisure walk on Ming Qing Street.
Take night high speed train to Xian. The Xian guide will meet you at the exit and transfer you to hotel.
Qiao Courtyard
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Atour Hotel Xian Nanmen ★★★★
Hotel pick up in the morning, then drive to Terracotta Warriors and explore one of the world's most important archaeological finds, with troops, horses and carriages in battle formation.
After lunch time at Lanchi Restaurant, visit Tang Bo Art Museum, where gives you brief history and examples of Chinese art. Then visit the Bell tower, the largest bell tower in structure and shape and the best-preserved one in China. Continue to visit Muslim Quarter and enjoy your shopping time there.
Terracotta Warriors
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel:Sunrise On The Bund Hotel ★★★★
Pick up and check out from hotel and morning visit to the Ancient City Wall, which represents one of the oldest and best preserved Chinese city walls. Thenvisit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda at the North plaza.
After dumpling banquet lunch, drive to Xian airport. Visit the Hanyang Mausoleum on the way, the largest museum with largest floor space in China. Fly to Shanghai where the airport pick up service is arranged.
Xian City Wall
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel:Sunrise on the Bund Hotel ★★★★
The city tour starts from hotel pick-up in the morning. Drive to visit Jade Buddha Temple, which is famous for the seated Buddha, encrusted with jewels.Then visit the exterior of Oriental Pearl TV Tower, while walking on Riverside Promenade Bingjiang Da Dao.
After lunch at local restaurant, Visit Yuyuan Garden, a Chinese classic garden in city downtown. Shopping time at Shanghai Old Street and Nanjing Roa, the earliest commercial street in Shanghai. After that, enjoy a leisure walk along the Bund, famous for groups of buildings known as "a Gallery of world architecture".
The Bund
Meals: Breakfast
Free day at leisure and be transferred to the airport for return flight. We can arrange the Maglev train ride to Pudong airport if you are interested in, or we will drive you directly to the airport.
Service Ends
Price includes:
Domestic flight or high-speed train as specified Private transfer between the airport or railway station, attractions, and hotels Private licensed English-speaking guide and driver service Hotel accommodation with daily breakfast on sharing basis All attraction entrance fees as specified Meals mentioned in the itinerary, Chinese local food China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty Insurance
Price excludes:
International Air tickets or Train Tickets to enter or leave China Tips to your tour guide and driver on your own discretion China Entry Visa Fees Personal expenses Optional tours, meals, activities and servicesRemarks:
. Price is Invalid at Chinese public holidays, local fairs or events.
. We reserves the right to adjust the price caused by exchange rate
. No guide on the flight and Yangtze River cruise.
. Recommended hotels are subject to change in actual booking
. Special requirements should be advised to us in advance
. We reserves the right of final explanation for any change due to the reasons beyond our control
Due to the uncertainty of this trip, such as the particular local conditions, changes in accommodation rates, etc. The trip must be tailor-made and the price is available upon request. Please tell us in advance the information of your group, including the departure date, the number of people and other individual needs, which will be useful to develop an adequate program and exact price.
TRAVELER REVIEWS
We have contracted with the Travel Agency in China for 15 days in June on a private trip of a route through Xina. Contact the agency online, Flor contacted me on WhatsApp and clarified at all times my doubts and fears of hiring this type of trip. We have visited Beijing, Zhangjiajie, Guilin, Xi'an Pygnau, all the excellent professional guides, most of them speak Spanish, punctual, and solving any doubts that we may have, offering us options to be able to do on our own once the route is finished. Flor has been in contact with us throughout the trip. Hotels within its category very well as well as excellent cars.
We have traveled to China this past October with dreamchinatour. The experience has been very positive and satisfying. There have been no problems with hotel reservations or internal transportation, and punctuality and seriousness have been relevant. We have been to Beijing, Tibet, Xi´an, Chengdu, Guilin and Shanghai. An unforgettable trip, advised at all times by CARLOS, our agent in dreamchinatour. We want to point out that due to the celebration of the Communist Party Congress, in the absence of very few days for the start of the trip, it had to be restructured in order to visit Tibet before its closure to foreigners. CARLOS solved the unexpected problem efficiently and professionally, offering us alternative solutions. In summary, a pleasant stay in China whose visit we highly recommend to those who do not know it. Do not hesitate to contact CARLOS, especially if they are Spanish speaking.
a fantastic trip where we have been able to enjoy incredible places and cities as well as get to know more about its people, to a great extent it has been possible to the good work of the agency Travel in China (in our case travel in China) by the very good organization personalized at CARLOS that has been very proactive from the beginning, giving solutions to our questions and doubts, as well as a very close treatment.
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