Beijing
Visit the Forbidden City, the Tian'anmen Square and the Temple of Heaven. Beijing Duck dinner is served in the evening. (BLD)

Forbidden City: Built between 1406 and 1420, the Forbidden City was the palace of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a period extending over 500 years. The atmosphere created by the many temples, halls and courtyards - not to mention the colors of the tiles, roofs and painted wood - is unique, leaving you with a lasting impression of imperial China. The palace has over 9000 rooms.
Tian'anmen Square: The heart of urban Beijing and large enough to accommodate an assembly of one million people. It stands in front of the Forbidden City, at its north the Tiananmen Rostrum, from which imperial decrees were promulgated.
Temple of Heaven: 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.

Summer Palace: The best preserved and the second largest royal garden in China, with a history of over 800 years.
Ancient City Wall of Xi'an: One of the most important landmarks of the Xi'an city, the best preserved, oldest and largest ancient city defence system in China.

Terra-cotta Warriors: The greatest archaeological findings of the 20th century, the army of terra-cotta warriors and the bronze chariots entombed in vast underground vaults at emperor Qin's tomb.
Banpo Ruins: This excavated site of a village dates back to 4500 BC and was discovered in 1953. The village during this period was called Yangshao and 45 houses, 6 pottery kilns, 200 storage pits, 250 adult's tombs and children's burial jars, 10,000 tools and utensils were unearthed. The distinct culture of these villagers was known as Yangshao culture.
Wild Goose Pagoda: 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.

Lhasa
Visit Potala Palace, the Sera Monastery, the Norbulingka Park and a Tibetan family. (BL)

Potala Palace: Lhasa's cardinal landmark, the palace rises a further 170 meters and is the greatest monumental structure in all of Tibet, it's a structure of massive portions. Its towering image already appearing on various occasions, but your first sight of the Potala will still be an awe-inspiring moment.
Sera Monastery: Known as the 3 great monasteries of Tibet. All belonging to the lineage of Gelugpa started by Je Tsong Khapa in early 15th century and all are within Lhasa.
Norbulingka Park: It was built in the 1740s during the reign of the seventh Dalai Lama. Later it was renovated and enlarged and became the Dalai Lama's Summer Palace.

Lhasa
Visit the Jokhang Temple, the Drepung Monastery, and the Lhasa Carpet Factory. (BL)

Jokhang Temple: The spiritual center of Tibet. Everyday pilgrims from every corner of Tibet trek a long distance to the temple. Some of them even progress prostrate by body length to the threshold of the temple. Pilgrims fuel myriad of flickering butter lamps with yak butter, or honor their deities with white scarves (Kha-btags or Hada) while murmuring sacred mantras to show their pieties to the Buddha.
Drepung Monastery: Once world's largest monastery with about 10,000 monks. This day's sightseeing begins with these white monastic buildings piled up on the hillside. Walking up to the hill is a pleasant thing, an easy break from the solemn ambience inside the halls and chapels. At the plat roof of hillside, you can have very good views of the whole Lhasa city and the distant mountains.

The Bund: Which is regarded as a landmark as well as the birthplace of Shanghai. With a length of 1 km, the bund is dotted with various grandiose, solid buildings of western style dating back to the early 20th century.

Shanghai Museum: A museum of ancient Chinese art museum, was founded in 1952. With a collection of over 120,000 pieces of cultural relics in twelve categories, namely bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, paintings, jades, numismatics, furniture, seals, coins, sculptures, minority art and foreign art, Shanghai Museum is especially famous for its treasures of bronzes, ceramics and paintings and calligraphy.
Yuyuan Garden: Yuyuan Garden is characteristic of the architectural style of the Ming dynasty. It is a private garden in the southeast of Shanghai, with a history of more than 400 years.
Oriental Pearl TV Tower: Like the Statue of Liberty in New York, Sydney Opera House and Eiffel Tower in Paris, Oriental Pearl TV Tower is Shanghai's symbolic architecture with a height of 468 meters.