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1. Itinerary
Day 01: Entry Beijing
Upon your arrival in Beijing---the capital of China,
our professional tour guide will pick you up at the
airport and transfer to your hotel with air-conditioned
private car. City tour if time permits.
Day 02: Beijing (B, L)
Visit 1. The
Great Wall, a man-made wonder which is said to
be visible from the moon, construction of the Great
Wall started in the 7th century B.C. The vassal states
under the Zhou Dynasty (C.11th Century-256 B.C.) in
the northern parts of the country each built their
own walls for defence purposes. After the state of
Qin unified China in 221 B.C., it joined the walls
to hold off the invaders from the Xiongnu tribes in
the north and extended them to more than 10,000 li
or 5,000 kilometers.
2. The
Sacred Way and Stone Statues, a 7-kilometer-long
sacred way flanked by 18 pairs of giant stone statues
of men and animals as important decorations of the
grounds, in which the ancients believed the spirits
of the royal dead to walk on.
3. The
Ming Tombs, where 13 emperors of the Ming dynasty
(1368-1644) were buried.
Day 03: Beijing (B, L,
D)
Visit 1. The
Forbidden City, the imperial palace during the
Ming and Qing dynasties, it is the world's largest
palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded
by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall
are 9,999 buildings.
2. The
Tian'anmen Square, where you can visit Tian'anmen
Tower, Monument to the People's Heroes, Great Hall
of the People, Mao Zedong Memorial Hall, it is the
must place to visit in Beijing City.
3. The
Temple of Heaven, it is a masterpiece of architecture
and landscape design which simply and graphically
illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the
evolution of one of the world's great civilizations,
and had a profound influence on architecture and planning
in the Far East over many centuries.
4. Beijing
Opera and Beijing
Duck are served in the evening.
Day 04: Beijing--Urumqi
(B, L)
Visit The
Summer Palace, the best preserved and the second
largest royal garden in China, with a history of over
800 years.
Take a flight to Urumqi. Upon arrival transfer to
hotel.
Day 05: Urumqi--Turpan
(B, L)
Morning drive to Turpan in the morning and transfer
to the hotel. Visit 1. The
Jiaohe Ruins, Jiaohe meaning the confluence of
two rivers once stood an ancient city since the Han
dynasty, nearly two thousand years ago. It ended during
Ming dynasty about 500 years ago. It started out as
a garrison, but was built up by during the Reign of
Gaochang into a major city in the Turfan region from
499-640 A.D.
2. the Karez Well, The Karez is an underground
irrigation system that was installed 2,000 years ago.
The karez is made up of three parts, ditch, underground
channel and dam.
3. The
Sugong Pagoda.
Day 06: Turpan--Dunhuang
(B, L)
Visit 1. The
Gaochang Ruins, the Uigur city-state that ruled
the area from around the 9th century to the 13th.
In its heyday, Gaochang was a great Uigur city built
on the business and trade that came through its gates.
The religious beliefs of many peoples entered China
through this area, first Buddhism and later Islam.
2. The
Bizaklik Thousand Buddha Caves, there are 77 numbered
grottoes, about 40 of which still have murals in them.
The group of grottoes in Bizaklik, with a total of
1,200 square meters of murals, has the most grottoes,
most diversified architectural styles and the richest
mural content in the Turpan area.
3. The
Flaming Hill.
Take an overnight train (soft berth) to Dunhuang.
Day 07: Dunhuang (D)
Arrive Dunhuang in the morning, transfer
to your hotel, Visit 1.
The
Echoing-sand Dune, it offers best picture-book
desert scenery. The dune, surrounded by rolling ridges
and precipitous cliffs, reaches a relative height
of 250 meters
2. The
Crescent Lake, is said to be where the oasis meets
the desert. Crescent lake was formed by spring water
trickling up into a depression between huge sand dunes,
forming a crescent-shaped pond.
3. the
Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Caves, also known as
the Mogao Grottoes or the Caves of A Thousand Buddhas,
are set into a cliff wall of Echoing Sand Mountain
about 25km southeast of Dunhuang, the oasis city in
the Gobi desert. This honeycomb of caves was constructed
over a millennium, from the 4th to the 14th centuries,
and represents the height of Buddhist art and the
world's richest treasure house of Buddhist sutras,
murals and sculptures.
Day 08: Dunhuang--Jiayuguan
(B, L)
Morning drive to Jiayuguan in
the morning and transfer to the hotel. Visit
1. the Jiayuguan
Pass, Jiayuguan is the western end of the Great
Wall of the Ming Dynasty as well as the most magnificent
and best-preserved pass among the over thousand passes
along the Ming Great Wall, known as "Impregnable
Pass Under Heaven". It took 168 years (1372 -
539) to build this strategic outpost.
2. the First Fire Tower of Great Wall.
Day 09: Jiayuguan--Zhangye
(B, L)
Morning drive to Zhangye,
transfer to your hotel.
Visit 1. the Giant
Buddha Temple, it was built in 1098 during the
Western Xia period and revamped many times during
the Ming and Qing dynasties. The main hall that house
the giant Buddha was restored during th, Qianlong
reign (1736-1795) of the Qing Dynasty The hall is
49 meters wide and 24 meters deep with a total floor
space of 1,370 square meters It is the largest structure
dating from the West ern Xia period in Gansu.
2. the Wooden
Tower of Sui Dynasty. Just a few hundred meters
north of the Zhangye Hotel looms the 31-metre-tall
Mu Ta(Wooden Tower). It is unknown in exactly which
year the pagoda was erected, but people generally
believe it was during the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581
AD).
3. the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower.
Day 10: Zhangye--Xining (B,
L)
Morning drive to Xining,
transfer to your hotel.
Visit the Dongguan
Mosque, Dongguan Mosque built round about 1830
is the biggest mosque in Qinghai.
Day 11: Xining (B,
L)
Visit the 1. Ta'er
Monastery, the Monastery covers an area of 144
thousand square meters. It's a group of buildings
constructed on the mountain slope with lofty temples
and halls rising one upon another.
2. Qinghai
Lake, Qinghai means green lake in Chinese and
this is the largest inland saltwater lake in China.
Day 12: Xining--Xi'an (B,
L, D)
Take a flight to Xi'an. Upon
arrival transfer to hotel. Visit 1. The
Ancient City Wall, it is the best preserved, oldest
and largest ancient city defence system in China,
also one of the most important landmarks of the Xi'an
city.
2. Forest
of Stone Steles Museum, it is an art treasure-house
with the oldest and richest collection of steles in
China. It is not only one of the centers of ancient
Chinese stone-engraving classics, but also the focus
of the works of art of celebrated calligraphers of
past dynasties. The numerous standing steles resemble
a forest, hence the name " Forest of Steles"'.
With a history of almost 900 years, it is an art gem
renowned at home and abroad.
3. The Dumpling
Dinner is served in the evening.
Day 13: Xi'an
(B, L, D)
Visit 1. The
Terracotta Warriors Museum, The
bronze chariots entombed in vast underground vaults
at emperor Qing's tomb, where you can see thousands
of life size soldiers, standing in military formation
with their vivid facial expressions frozen for eternity.
2. The
Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it is one of the most famous
Buddhist pagodas in China, first built in 652 in the
Tang Dynasty, the square, multistoreyed, brick structure
is sixty-four meters high. On a high mound, it seems
to rise into the sky.
3. The
Provincial History Museum, it has a collection
of 370,000 pieces of historical relics, among which
the most characteristic ones are the bronze wares
of the Shang (C. 17th-11th Century B.C) and Zhou Dynasties
(C.11th Century-256 B.C.), the pottery figures of
different dynasties, the tomb frescoes, gold and silver
utensils. There are over 2,000 pieces of bronze wares
in the museum. Quite a few of them are national-grade
rare relics, they have brought much influence to the
field of historical relics.
4. The Tang
Dynasty Show is served in the evening.
Day 14: Departure (B)
Be transferred to the airport and fly to your next
desitination, service ends.
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