Great Wall, Warriors and Giant Pandas

Day01 Arrival in Beijing

Airport pick-up & airport-hotel transfer.

Day02 Beijing

Tiananmen Square：”Gate of Heavenly Peace” , a gate in the wall of the Imperial City, was built in 1415 during the Ming dynasty.
Forbidden City：The former seat of Imperial Chinese Dragon Throne from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty.
A la carte lunch
Temple of Heaven: The Temple of Heaven was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest.
Kung Fu Show.

Day03 Beijing

Badaling Great Wall：the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China, approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of urban Beijing city in Yanqing District.
Sacred Way：A collection of mausoleums built by the emperors of the Ming dynasty of China.
Bird’s Nest (drive by)：officially the National Stadium, was jointly designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, project architect Stefan Marbach, artist Ai Weiwei, and CADG which was led by chief architect Li Xinggang.

Day04 Beijing – Xian

Summer Palace： a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing.
A la carte lunch.
Hutong visit:  a type of narrow streets or alleys, commonly associated with northern Chinese cities.
Fly to Xian. Airport-hotel transfer.

Day05 Xian

Terracotta Warriors:  Funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.A local family visit, Home-cooked lunch.
Xian Museum and Small Wild Goose Pagoda: During the Tang Dynasty, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda stood across a street from its mother temple, the Dajianfu Temple. Pilgrims brought sacred Buddhist writings to the temple and pagoda from India, as the temple was one of the main centers in Chang’an for translating Buddhist texts.
Tang Dynasty Show with dumpling dinner: performing ancient life in Tang dynasty by singing and dancing.

Day06 Xian

City Wall: The Xi’an City Wall is on the tentative list of UNESCO’s World Heritage Site under the title “City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties”. Since 2008, it is also on the list of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People’s Republic of China.
Provincial History Museum: one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest. The museum houses over 370,000 items,[1]including murals, paintings, pottery, coins, as well as bronze, gold, and silver objects.
A la carte lunch.
Great Mosque：The largest mosque in China. An active place of worship within Xi’an Muslim Quarter, this courtyard complex is also a popular tourist site.

Free time at the Muslim Bazzar.

Day07 Xian – Chengdu

A high-speed train to Chengdu. Train station to hotel transfer. Free time in the afternoon.

Day08 Chengdu

Giant Panda Breeding Base: A non-profit research and breeding facility for giant pandas and other rare animals.
Jinsha Site Museum:  Jinsha culture (1200–650 BC) was a final phase of Sanxingdui culture and represents a relocation of the political center in the ancient Shu Kingdom.
Broad and Narrow Alleys: historical and cultural section, alley width from wide alley, and alleys of the three-shaft parallel with the old-fashioned street and the courtyard between the group charged component.

Day09 Chengdu – Shanghai

Fly to Shanghai. Airport-hotel transfer. Free time for the rest of the day.

Day10 Shanghai

Shanghai Museum: . The Shanghai Museum houses several items of national importance, including one of three extant specimens of a “transparent” bronze mirror from the Han Dynasty.
Yuyuan Garden: Garden of Happiness is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple.
A la carte lunch.
the Bund, Huangpu River cruise:  A waterfront area in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement.

Day11 Departure from Shanghai

Hotel-airport transfer is on your own arrangement. A pleasant trip home!