Best of China & Yangtze River Cruise

Itinerary

Day 1 Arrive Beijing
• Arrive in Beijing and check-in to your 5-star hotel.
• Tour Beijing at leisure.

Day 2 Beijing (B/L/D)
• Visit Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City.
• Visit a historic Hutong by pedicab.
• Watch the “Legend of Kung Fu Show”.

Day 3 Beijing - Great Wall (B/L/SD)
• Visit the 2,000-year-old Great Wall.
• Drive by the Olympic Site.
• Visit the Ming Dynasty burial tombs.
• Enjoy a Peking Duck dinner.

Day 4 Beijing - Yichang - Cruise Ship (B/L/D)
• Visit the Temple of Heaven and Hall of Prayer.
• Fly to Yichang.
• Board MS Victoria Katarina cruise ship.

Day 5 Cruise (B/L/D)
• Awake to the wonders of the Yangtze River.
• Visit the Three Gorges Dam project.
• Sail through the Three Gorges shiplocks
and exciting Xiling Gorge.

Day 6 Cruise - Three Gorges (B/L/D)
• Pass through the Wu Gorge.
• See Daning River’s Three Small Gorges or
disembark for the Shennon Stream sampan
and ferry tour.
• Pass through the 8 km-long Qutang Gorge.

Day 7 Cruise - Shibaozhai (B/L/D)
• Float past ancient historic sites.
• Disembark at Shibaozhai or Wanzhou.

Day 8 Cruise - Chongqing - Xian (B/L/D)
• Disembark in Chongqing.
• Board flight to Xian

Day 9 Xian (B/SL/SD)
• Tour site of 2,000-year-old Terra Cotta
Warriors.
• Enjoy a dumpling banquet lunch.
• Visit the Great Mosque and walk through the
Muslim Quarter.
• Dinner and Tang Dynasty show.
• See the sparkling City Wall that’s lit
up a night.
DAY-BY-DAY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Day 10 Xian - Hangzhou (B/L/D)
• Visit the underground Yangling
Museum.
• Fly to Hangzhou.

Day 11 Hangzhou - Suzhou (B/L/D)
• Enjoy a boat ride on West Lake.
• Visit Lin Yin Temple.
• See the Museum of Chinese Herbal
Medicine and Temple of Yue Fei.
• Travel to Suzhou.

Day 12 Suzhou - Shanghai (B/L/D)
• Visit Lion Forest Garden and a
silk factory.
• Tour the Suzhou Museum.
• Boat ride on the Grand Canal.
• Travel to Shanghai.

Day 13 Shanghai (B/L/D)
• Visit the Bund, the “Wall Street of China”.
• See Garden of Mandarin Yu Yuan and
the Shanghai Museum.
• Enjoy a Chinese acrobatic show.

Day 14 Depart Shanghai (B)
• Head to airport for your flight home.