Private Guided China Delights

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Visit Badaling Great Wall, Sacred Way, Ming Tomb, Bird's Nest. Explore Summer Palace, Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City. Discover Terracotta Warriors Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Provincial History Museum. Day 11 Departure from Shanghai
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Overview

Trip type
Private Guided
Lodging level
Premium - 4 star
Physical level
Easy
Trip pace
Flexible schedule

Highlights

    • Must-see sights in China - Mutianyu Great Wall, Forbidden City, Terracotta Army
    • Walk into a local Chinese family, interact & dine with the hosts in their home
    • Try biking on the Ming Dynasty City Wall of Xi'an, or tour by electric car
    • Cruise on the Huangpu River to take in the impressive skylines of Shanghai

What's this trip about?

    Visit Badaling Great Wall, Sacred Way, Ming Tomb, Bird's Nest. Explore Summer Palace, Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City. Discover Terracotta Warriors Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Provincial History Museum. Day 11 Departure from Shanghai

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Details

Itinerary focusClassic Highlights
Group sizePrivate - your group only
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportAll internal ground transport included
Start CityBeijing
End CityShanghai

Travel Themes

  • Cultural
  • Family Friendly
  • Transformative

Destinations

  • Asia
  • China

Attractions

  • Beijing
  • Guilin
  • Shanghai
  • The Forbidden City
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Xian

Activities

  • Cooking
  • Culture
  • Historic sightseeing
  • History
  • Homestays & Cultural Immersion
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Short Cruise

Trip includes

    • Domestic airfares
    • Hotel accommodation with breakfasts
    • A la carte lunches as itinerary specifies
    • Private English-speaking guides
    • Private drivers & air-conditioned vehicles
    • Entrance fees to tourist sites

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Itinerary

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Day 1 Arrival in Beijing

Meals: No meals and advice freely available

Our guide will meet you outside the customs of the Capital Airport after you retrieve your luggage and clear the customs, and then transfer you to the hotel with a private van. The rest of the day is free for you to have a good rest and get prepared for your 11 days China tour package. 

Day 2 Beijing

Meals: American breakfast and A la carte lunch

In the morning, you will visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. As the largest city square in the world, Tiananmen Square has seen the country's development in the past 500 years and become an important ven...

Day 3 Beijing

Meals: American breakfast

Today your private visit will begin with the splendid Mutianyu Great Wall. As one of the most popular sections of the Great Wall, Mutianyu, likes a soaring dragon stretches along the mountain ranges. You will be deeply impressed by the...

Day 4 Beijing - Xi'an

Meals: American breakfast

This morning, you will firstly visit the existing largest imperial garden - the Summer Palace, which is an outstanding combination of Chinese classical landscape design and natural beauty. Then, you will have a Hutong tour to experienc...

Day 5 Xi'an

Meals: American breakfast

In the morning, visit the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Terracotta Army. You will not only be attracted by the life-sized warrior figures and horses, each of which has distinct facial expressions and positions, but also be astonished...

Day 6 Xi'an

Meals: American breakfast and Home-cooked a la carte lunch

A morning visit to City Wall, one of the best-preserved existing City Walls, to stroll around on the wall and you will have a bird's eye view of the city. You will then have a local family visit and a l...

Day 7 Xi'an - Guilin

Meals: American breakfast

In the morning, before heading to the airport, you will visit Xi'an Museum and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda. Xi'an Museum was opened to the public in 2007. It is well known for its cultural treasures displayed at the exhibition hall, th...

Day 8 Guilin - Yangshuo - Guilin

Meals: American breakfast, Lunch

Enduring memories are created today as you cruise down the Li River to Yangshuo. The length of Li River is about 50 miles, and you can see picturesque scenery all the way during your cruise. Upon arrival in Yangshuo, take you to...

Day 9 Guilin - Shanghai

Meals: American breakfast

Today's excursion starts with one of the most famous attractions in the city, Reed Flute Cave, which is renowned for the varieties of stalactites, stalagmites, columns and lime-flowers which came into being about 700,000 years ago. Wal...

Day 10 Shanghai

Meals: American breakfast and A la carte lunch

After breakfast, you will visit Shanghai Museum and the Yu Garden. As one of the four largest museums in China, Shanghai Museum is famous for its vast storage of 120,000 of art relics, especially for the exhibition...

Day 11 Departure from Shanghai

Meals: American breakfast

Your private guide will pick you up from the hotel and drive you to the airport so that you can board the flight back home loaded with pleasant memories of this 11 days guided tour of China.

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Dates & Availability

Price From $1,949
Price per day$177
Last Updated: 3/8/2019

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Logistics

What's excluded

    • International airfares
    • Entry Visa fees
    • Personal expenses
    • Tips or gratuities for guides and drivers

Accommodation

,Accommodation:   Grade Luxury Standard  Beijing  Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong  (5 stars)  Novotel Beijing Xin Qiao  (4   stars)  Xian  Wyndham Grand Xian South  (5 stars)  Wyndham Xian  (4 stars)  Guilin  Shangri-La Hotel  (5 stars)  Grand Link Hotel  (4 stars)  Shanghai  Renaissance Shanghai Yu Garden Hotel (5   stars)  Ocean Hotel Shanghai  (4 stars) Novotel Beijing Xin Qiao (4-star) Novotel Beijing Xin Qiao has long been popular among the 4-star hotels in Beijing. Its greatest strength is the wonderful location, which offers good access to everywhere most tourists want to visit. The subway (Line 2 and 5) is right in front of the hotel, allowing guests to reach the Forbidden city, Summer Palace, Hutong area, etc all within 10-30 minutes. Natural hot spring water is available in all guest rooms together with spa is really a plus. The Utopia Chinese restaurant is famous for its authentic Peking roast duck. In addition, guests are always delighted with the courteous service provided at all times by the friendly staff. Address: Beijing, China Wyndham Grand Xi'an South Hotel(5 Star) Wyndham Grand Xi'an South Hotel is a new hotel opened in 2014, which is also the first luxury hotel under direct management of Wyndham Group in China. With superb location near the famous Big Wild Goose Pagoda, this hotel is very convenient for sightseeing, shopping and dinning. There are 565 spacious and well-appointed rooms and suites with special designs offering clients comfortable and unforgettable experience. All the staffs are well trained and ready to greet you with big smiling faces. Address: Xi'an, Shaanxi, China Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin (5-Star) Shangri-La Guilin, managed by the largest luxury Hotel Management Group in the Asia-Pacific region - Shangri-La group, is a deluxe five star hotel that is blending and embodying the exquisite local natural landscape adequately. Staying in the well-equipped guest rooms, you will appreciate the unique, graceful design and enjoy the considerate room services. Overlooking the marvelous view of the beautiful Li River in the guest rooms is a highlight of the charming design of the hotel. Completed facilities such as business center, fitness center and luxury meeting rooms make it a perfect place for guests to take a business trip or a leisure tour. Address: Guangxi The Peninsula Hotel, Shanghai (5 Star) The Peninsula Shanghai Hotel locates at the historical famous Bund area; it is the only one new building in this area during the past 60 years. The hotel is well-furnished by recreating the heyday of Shanghai in 1920s and 1930s when Shanghai was hailed as the Oriental Paris. All kinds of guest rooms and suites are with the large areas by comparing with other 5 star hotels and each room is equipped with the separate spacious cloakroom. Standing in the hotel, clients can have perfect views of the Bund, Huangpu River and the magnificent scene of the former British Consulate garden. It will take 45 minutes to get to the hotel from Pudong international airport and 30 minutes from Hongqiao airport. Address: Shanghai, China Wyndham Xi'an (4 Star) Conveniently located in the business center of east Xi'an, this 26-storey building hotel consists of 319 rooms with various styles, elegant Chinese restaurant, fashionable decorated western restaurant, meeting halls, fitness center, beauty salon, etc. Its complete facilities and great service assure pleasant stay for guests. Address: Xi'an, China Guilin Bravo, Guilin (4-Star) Former Holiday Inn Hotel, Guilin Bravo is a new four star hotel, which enjoys excellent location just within the famous site of Two Rivers and Four Lakes, and it provides the services and standards that one would expect of an international one, it is surely an ideal choice for business or leisure holiday. The free internet access makes your communication without hindrance. Address: Guilin Ocean Hotel Shanghai (4 Star) The Ocean Hotel Shanghai is well-located in the downtown and shopping area with easy access to the reputable landmarks, the Bund area, Nanjing Road and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Taking the nearby metro Line 4 and Line 12, you can approach almost every corner of the city. The hotel possesses totally 357 exquisite decorated guest rooms and luxurious suites. Guests will enjoy the high-speed broadband Internet, standardized Fitness Center, Indoor Swimming Pool, exclusive benefits and extremely comfortable rooms as well as high-quality service during stay. Address: Shanghai, China
Cancellation policy

The cancellation fee will be a certain percentage of the tour total price.

  • 15 days or more before the arrival day: we will refund the full cost to you except for the actual air/ train cancellation fee and the bank transfer fee if there is.
  • 14 days to 3 days before: 20% of the total price.
  • Cancellation within 2 days before: 50% of the total price.
  • Cancellation on the arrival day: 100% of the total price.
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Meals Included

10 Breakfasts and 4 Lunches

Age Requirements
No age restrictions
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