China & the Yangtze River & Hong Kong - 20Days
Starts : Beijing City, ends : Hong Kong City
Highlights: China, Yangtze River Cruise, Hong Kong
Trip code: CTP-CTYRHK -20
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Day 1 Arrive in Beijing, China Arrive in Beijing this afternoon or evening. A Grand Circle representative will meet you at the airport and escort you to your centrally located hotel. You'll also meet your Program Director today.
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Day 2 Beijing/Tour Tiananmen Square & Forbidden City & Beijing's Hidden Lanes Join us after breakfast for an opportunity to get to know your Program Director and fellow travelers at an Orientation Briefing. Your Program Director will go over the details of your upcoming trip and answer any questions you may have. You'll also hear about and have the opportunity to purchase Optional Tours. |
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Day 3 Beijing/Temple of Heaven & Summer Palace Today enjoy a full-day Temple of Heaven & Summer Palace tour. You'll begin at the Temple of Heaven, which was built in 1420 during the Ming Dynasty to offer sacrifices to heaven and for a successful harvest.
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Day 4 Beijing/Visit Cloisonne Factory/Great Wall & Ming Tombs Begin today’s full-day tour with a visit to a cloisonne (enamelware) factory. Cloisonne is an ancient craft, and you will observe the skills involved in creating this decorative art form. Artisans create brilliantly colored pieces with often complex patterns, using strips of metal and traditional painting techniques.
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Day 5 Beijing/Visit Kung Fu School/Fly to Shanghai/Chinese Acrobatic Show This morning, we admire the grace and skill of the students at a local Kung Fu School and may get a bit of a lesson from its young pupils. Then we travel to a local jade workshop where we can peruse pieces made by local artisans before enjoying an included lunch at a local restaurant. |
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Day 6 Shanghai/City Tour/Mongolian Barbecue Lunch/Optional Shanghai By Night Tour |
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Day 7 Shanghai/ Suzhou Tour Join us on an optional full-day tour to 500-year-old Suzhou in China’s fabled Silk Region. This is the city of silk, gardens, and canals that inspired Marco Polo. Travel by train (just over 40 minutes), arriving in mid-morning. |
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Day 8 Shanghai/Visit Local Market & Senior Center/Home-Hosted Lunch After breakfast, begin your Discovery Series events by getting a feel for everyday life in Shanghai with a visit to a local market. Then, visit a local senior center. . |
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Day 9 Fly to Wuhan/Begin Yangtze River Cruise After breakfast, you'll fly from Shanghai to Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province. Wuhan is noted as the most important site of the revolution and as a gateway to the Yangtze Gorges. From here, you'll transfer by bus to Yichang—a journey of approximately five hours.
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Day 10 Yangtze Cruising/Tour Three Gorges Dam Project/Xiling Gorge Wake up early as you sail toward San Dou Ping Village to see the site of the controversial Three Gorges Dam project. Until huge new locks on the north bank are completed in a few years, ships will pass the dam site via a temporary channel, which has been dug out of the south bank. |
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Day 11 Yangtze Cruising/Wu Gorge/Daning River or Shennong Stream Excursion/Qutang Gorge Our river cruise takes you through Wu Gorge, known for its magnificent scenery of lush green mountains. For the next 150 miles, the Yangtze forces its way through a spectacular barrier of solid limestone ridges known as the Three Gorges.
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Day 12 Yangtze Cruising/Tour Wanxian/Visit a Local Family Today you disembark for a shore excursion to Wanxian, the largest city due to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam reservoir. When docking, you will see buildings sprawled along the steep riverbanks.
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Day 13 Disembark Ship/Tour Chongqing/Stillwell Museum & Panda Visit/Fly to Xian Continue cruising on the Yangtze this morning and arrive in Chongqing after breakfast. In April of 1997, Chongqing was separated from Sichuan Province, and became an independent municipality, encompassing the entire Yangtze Valley between Wushan (Lesser Three Gorges) and Chongqing proper. You'll disembark and tour this proud mountain city, which was the capital of China during World War II, and which today is the most important inland industrial city in China. After lunch at a local restaurant, we drive to the zoo to see the pandas. With their cuddly good looks, giant pandas seem to hold a universal appeal. However, they remain one of the world's most endangered species, with just an estimated 1,000 surviving in the wild. Native to China, these bamboo-chompers inhabit small, fragmented pockets in Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces. |
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Day 14 Xian/Visit Terra Cotta Army/Home-Hosted Lunch/School Visit Today, enjoy a full-day excursion to visit China’s greatest archaeological attraction, the Qin Mausoleum. More than 2,000 years ago, the Emperor Qin Shi Huang was buried in an earth mound, along with 6,400 life-sized terra cotta warriors, archers, and infantrymen, together with their horses and chariots—individually sculpted from live models. |
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Day 15 Xian/Visit City Wall & Small Wild Goose Pagoda/Fly to Guilin After breakfast, set off to see the Ming Dynasty 14th-century City Wall, and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda. One of the oldest pagodas in China, it is housed in the Jianfu Temple. Today's exploring also includes a stop at a lacquerware factory. |
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Day 16 Guilin/Yao Shan Tea Garden Tour with Lunch Join us this morning on an optional tour to the Yao Shan Tea Garden. At this Chinese tea farm, you will learn from a tea master how the delicate leaves are picked from the tea tree and then dried, and how much of the harvesting process is done by hand. You will also hear about the history and traditions that surround the growing and brewing of tea. |
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Day 17 Guilin/Li River Cruise/Fly To Hong Kong After breakfast, board a local river craft and cruise the Li River, passing humped limestone peaks, fishermen astride bamboo rafts, washerwomen squatting on the shore, and water buffalo ambling down to the banks for a dip. Here you can see the captive cormorants with their leashed necks, perched on rafts waiting for orders to go fishing. These are the celebrated scenes often seen in Chinese watercolors and scroll paintings. Lunch is served on board the boat during your river cruise. |
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Day 18 Hong Kong/City Tour You have breakfast at your hotel and then begin a morning tour that introduces you to the major sites of this vibrant city. First, make the journey between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island the way locals have for more than 100 years—aboard the Star Ferry. A motorcoach will then bring you to the Central District and the Western District, the older part of Hong Kong. You’ll drive up Victoria Peak, which offers a spectacular view of the harbor, islands, and imposing skyscrapers. This famous hill, more than 1,800 feet high, is called Tai Ping Shan in Chinese—”Mountain of Great Peace.” |
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Day 19 Hong Kong/Kowloon & The New Territories tour with Seafood Lunch/Farewell Dinner You have the full day at leisure to explore the city. Relax, see the sights on your own, or look for some of the bargains in this city famous worldwide for its duty-free shopping. |
Day 20 Return to your country Say goodbye to China and your Program Director today. After breakfast, you'll be assisted to the airport for your flight home. |
Extending Your Flight to the popular air hub : Bangkok, Singapore..for your return flights to your coutry
Guests often ask us about extending their flight at the end of their Asia vacation to the Bangkok, Singapore international air hub to catch their flight home. ... Please,Ask at time of booking for full details about this addtition sevice before your journey!

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TRIP INCLUDES:
•All accommodations (with Twin/Double rooms) while on tour
The tour price includes all hotel accommodations with private baths. Our standard is to provide the best available accommodations without sacrificing value. Although the quality may vary slightly from one hotel to another, our commitment to your comfort is unwavering. Two-bedded rooms and One-beded with Queen size rooms are reserved in most hotels. Triples are accommodated in two-bedded rooms plus a rollaway cot where available, and are not recommended for comfort.
All transfers and road transport in modern, air-conditioned vehicles
- For a private smaller groups (2pax -10pax), modern sedan cars and minibuses are used.
- For tour groups of 11pax or more travelers, air-conditioned Hyundai with 19- 25-35 seats are used on all road journeys. These vehicles are designed with excellent viewing windows and a high roof. All our vehicles are modern, spacious, comfortable, well-maintained, and safe
•Complimentary airport transfer on arrival and on departure days
All Breakfasts & Lunches on tour
• Breakfast – Is always included on all Vietnam Royal Tourism – European Continental breakfasts are supplied at the hotels where you stay. The Continental style usually consists of rolls, butter, jams, tea or coffee and juices.
• Lunch - Your Lunch meals are included and generally served at a local restaurant
• Dinner – is not included and is always up to you – allows you the freedom to eat what you want and enjoy the local flavors.
Please note: If you have special dietary requirements (eg Vegetarian), let us know so we can notify restaurants and prepare appropriate food for you.
Experienced, friendly and knowledgeable guides.
Your tour guide is a professional, fully trained employee of Vietnam Royal Tourism
Entrance fees
All sightseeing as specified including entrance fees
Airfare While on Tour
- All on-tour flights must be purchased through Vietnam Royal Tourism as part of your tour package . From the moment you land in the starting city to the moment you are transferred to the airport in the end city, all transport arrangements are taken care of by us.
- The cost of international flights from your country to Asia (starting city) is not included in our prices. We believe we are giving all our customers, wherever you live, the flexibility to travel from regional airports, in any class of travel and include a stopover en route if you so wish. It also allows you the opportunity to use your frequent flyer points if you so wish
Visa Approval Code or Visa on Arrival
- After approval, we will fax or email you a copy of the Approval letter as an attachment
- Our Service do not include the Stamping Fee of about US$25-65/ 1pax to be submitted directly to the Embassy or Consulate (the stamping fee vary from Embassy to Embassy) or pay at Airport for Visa on Arrival
TRIP EXCLUDES:
+ International airfare& airport taxes
+ Travel insurance
+ Surcharges for compulsory gala dinners during festive seasons and peak season surcharges (which will be advised at time of booking) ,
+ Personal expenses
+ Tips & gratuities
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