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The highlights of China - the fascinating, unique, must-see attractions - all are featured within this 2009, 13-night, escorted, ALL-INCLUSIVE China tour. Traveling by air, motorcoach, and river cruise, even a ride aboard the Shanghai Maglev - the world's fastest train - you'll venture almost 2,000 miles throughout China. Tour Beijing, walk the Great Wall, view the Terracotta Warriors, maybe even pet a Panda, float down the Yangtze River on a luxury cruise, explore the silk museums of Suzhou and the shops of Shanghai - it's all here on our "Essential China + Yangtze River Cruise" journey!
Virtually everything's included in your tour price - ALL gratuities, ALL airport transfers, ALL taxes and fees...and more!
This tour provides the essential highlights of China but also pauses its pace to give you time to mix and mingle with Chinese merchants, chefs, and fellow tourists. Ride a bike atop Xian's ancient city wall; taste a Sichuan Hot Pot dinner, relax on your private balcony and watch the Yangtze drift by, marvel as a craftsman carefully creates a unique, silk masterpiece; and bargain shop at local markets!
All this - so much of China - in less than two weeks! "Essential China + Yangtze River Cruise" - our most popular tour.
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Trip Length:
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13 Nights/14 Days |
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Beijing |
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2010
Sep 12,19,26
Oct 03,10,17,24,31
Nov 07,14 |
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Beijing, Shanghai, Great Wall,
Chengdu, Suzhou, Tongli,
Xian
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From $3310 per person |
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| Beijing | 3 Nights | Orientation, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Great Wall of China, Temple of Heaven, Peking Duck Dinner, Hutong neighborhood, Peking Opera | Xian | 2 Nights | Terracotta Warriors, Xian City Wall, Lacquer Furniture Factory, Dumpling Dinner, Rural Primary School & Cave Farmhouse | Chengdu & Pandas | 1 Night | Giant Panda Breeding Research Center, Chengdu Teahouse | Chongqing | Day Tour | City tour, Sichuan-style Hot-Pot Dinner | Yangtze River Cruise | 3 Nights Yangtze River Cruise | Fengdu, Lesser Three Gorges, Danning River, Three Gorges Dam | Suzhou | 2 Nights | Humble Administrator's Garden, New Suzhou Museum, Suzhou Silk Museum | Tongli | Day Tour | Tongli shops & markets | Shanghai | 2 Nights | Bund & Pudong districts, Farewell Dinner, Acrobatic Show, Shanghai Maglev airport transfer (flight schedule permitting) |
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We
wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
~Hilaire Belloc
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Arrive Beijing
Motorcoach transfer to hotel |
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Beijing |
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Arrival in Beijing
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Beijing Marriott City Wall |
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- Welcome to China! Following your flight arrival in Beijing you'll transfer to your hotel.
- The remainder of the day is at your leisure. You may choose to relax at the hotel but if your arrival schedule permits you may also opt for some local sightseeing or shopping.
- Due to the variable flight arrival times of tour guests, dinner is not included tonight. Your hotel, the 5-star Beijing Marriott City Wall (the largest Marriott Hotel outside of the United States) offers several excellent restaurants. Other restaurants are located within an easy walk of your hotel. We suggest you check with your Tour Manager or the hotel staff for their suggestions. If you have the time and inclination, the Beijing Ancient Observatory & Astronomical Museum is within an easy walk of the hotel.
- Your Tour Manager will contact you this first day to provide an overview of Day 2's planned activities.
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Beijing |
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Forbidden City
Tiananmen Square
Hutong neighborhood
Beijing Duck Dinner |
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Beijing Marriott City Wall |
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Breakfast, Lunch and Beijing Duck Dinner |
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- Tiananmen Square is your first main attraction on this, your first full day in Beijing. The square is the prime
venue for both state-sponsored and unstaged events. It is vast – the largest such square in the world. From here
you'll proceed to the Forbidden City.
- You'll have ample time to tour the 170-acre Forbidden City complex but still, you'll only be able to see a
fraction of the site's nearly 9,000 rooms. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site - one of the many featured on
Our China tours.
- Your day includes a close-up view of Beijing's new National Opera House (the "Egg," as locals call it, due to its
distinctive, ellipsoid shape). The interior of the massive titanium and glass structure is sub-divided into three sections:
Opera Hall, Music Hall & Theater Hall, seating a total of 6,500 people. No less impressive are the venues that hosted the
2008 Beijing Olympics!
- No visit in Beijing is complete without a pedicab tour through one of Beijing's quaint Hutong neighborhoods. Here,
canals, alleyways and narrow streets provide a rare glimpse of a Beijing scene missed by most tourists. Your tour may include
a visit with a family at a traditional, "courtyard-style" quadrangle home or perhaps you'll drop in for a visit at nursery or
pre-school.
- A special evening is planned: a delicious Peking Duck Dinner! This meal will also afford you more time to get to know your fellow travelers as well as provide a brief Orientation of your tour.
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Chinese
Firsts:
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Wheelbarrow,
papermaking, “India” ink, moveable-type printing, compass,
ship rudder, gunpowder, cannon & fireworks, gun, decimal system,
crossbow, cast iron, iron plow, porcelain, silk, umbrellas, kites,
stirrup, harness, spaghetti, hand-held fan, seismometer, abacus,
cargo ship, high-fired stoneware, brandy, whiskey, chess, and fish-farming!
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Beijing |
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Jade Factory
Great Wall of China
"Your Choice" afternoon
Beijing Opera |
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Beijing Marriott City Wall |
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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner |
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- Jade has been crafted by Chinese artisans for over 6,000 years. This morning, following breakfast at the hotel, you'll
travel to a Jade Factory where this beautiful stone is carved, polished - and available for purchase.
- Your tour continues on to what many travelers to China view as their most memorable sight: the Great Wall of
China! Your memories of the wall will be even more special because we bypass the attraction's
more heavily congested tourist access. Instead, we favor the less-crowded, less-commercialized town of Mutianyu where
the Great Wall locale is most dramatic. For your convenience, a scenic gondola ride (included in your tour price) provides
easy access to the wall.
- Following lunch near the Great Wall, you'll return to Beijing.
- What to do this afternoon? It's "Your Choice" - our exclusive! Your Tour Manager will provide
details of the various restaurant, shopping, and sight-seeing options. You're welcomed to venture out on your own or relax at
your hotel - it's "Your Choice."
- Shopping & Restaurants: Head for the popular Wangfujing district - an easy 20-minute subway ride from your
hotel.
- Attractions: Maybe you'd like to visit the Yonghe Gong (Lama Temple) erected in 1694. Or perhaps you'd
prefer a stroll through the popular Shi Sha Hai neighborhood? Again, it's Your Choice!
- The Arts: Beijing is a city of culture and the arts. For starters, try Beijing 798 Space - a trendy, "Soho
-esque" neighborhood of contemporary art and culture.
- Following dinner you'll be treated to an evening at the opera - the Peking Opera!
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Essential China:
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"We had a wonderful time in China! It was everything we hoped for and more than we expected! Dino was such a wonderful guide...the buses, the bus drivers, the sites, the hotels, the tours, everything was excellent and well carried out...such a wonderful experience! We enjoyed being pampered!"
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-J. Bryson. Our China Tour Participant
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Fly to Xian |
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Beijing
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Free morning
Pearl Factory
Temple of Heaven |
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Howard Johnson Ginwa Plaza |
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- Got in a bit late last night? Not to worry. This morning you can sleep in! Your tour group won't be leaving the hotel until mid-morning. But maybe you'd prefer to use your free time to sightsee. There's time to take in a visit to the Summer Palace, built by the mid-18th-century Emperor Qianlong. Or perhaps a stroll through the city's impressive Beijing Capital City Museum is more to your liking?
- After lunch you'll travel to Bai Gong Fang - an excellent cultured pearl production and retail center.
- Your day's next attraction is the Temple of Heaven - one of the most magnificant temples in all of China. Interestingly, not a single nail was used in the construction of this 125-foot-tall structure. Here, emperors came to pray to their ancestors for guidance and to the heavens for favorable weather and bountiful harvests. The temple park is busy with local retirees playing board games and playing traditional musical instruments; kids flying kites, adult exercisers performing Tai Chi and twirling flags. Join in if you'd like!
- From the temple you'll travel directly to the airport for your late-afternoon flight to Xian, capital of the Shaanxi Province. Upon arrival you'll transfer to your downtown hotel.
- After dinner there's time to see the sights of the neighborhood. At night, the city wall is brilliantly lit, providing a colorful backdrop to the shops and street scene just steps from your hotel.
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The
Great Wall Myth:
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Is the Great Wall of China the only manmade object viewable from space?
No. Although the wall is sometimes barely visible at very low Earth
orbit, highways, bridges, airports and dams are far easier to spot.
In fact, even China’s first astronaut, Yang Liwei, circling
the Earth in 2004, confirmed he couldn’t see the Great Wall.
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Xian |
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Terracotta Warriors
Rural Primary School
"Cave Farmhouse"
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Howard Johnson Ginwa Plaza |
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- One of the most magical memories of China may well occur this morning with your tour of the Terracotta Warriors
excavation site. Here, an entire subterranean Army stands ready to defend the tomb of China's first emperor – Qin Shi
Huangdi. Discovered in 1974, the site ranks with King Tut's tomb as one of the 20th century's greatest archeological finds.
- Along the road you will vist a rural primary school. Our China Tour guests are afforded this rare
opportunity to visit the classrooms and mingle with the students and faculty. This visit promises to be a special highlight of your tour!
- Your day in the countryside also includes a stop at farmhouse cave dwellings - rural homes built deep into the sides of earthen caves.
- Many historians maintain that the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 – 907) represented a "Golden Age" of Chinese civilization. It was - and remains - one of the tastiest, too. This evening's Dumpling Dinner is testament to that fact!
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Terracotta
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Known
for their creative reproductions (everything from "antique"
Ming Dynasty vases to Madonna CDs, enterprising Chinese have even
arranged illegal "knock-off" exhibitions of their own
Terracotta Warriors. Unauthorized reproductions - sometimes excellent,
sometimes shoddy - have cropped up at "exhibitions" in
China, without any reference to the word "replica." Local
authorities are doing their best to crack down on these fraudulent
exhibitions.
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Fly to Chengdu |
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Xian
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Xian City Wall
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Tibet Hotel |
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After breakfast you'll visit Xian's City Wall, still intact along its entire 9-mile rectangle around its former
imperial palace. Over a span of some 4,000 years Xian has been the capital to 11 dynasties. Should you choose, bicycles are
available for rent allowing you to travel along the top of the wall's perimeter for the finest views of this historic city.
Time permitting, a stop a lacquer furniture factory is included in the day's activities.
Later, after lunch, you'll transfer to the airport for your flight to Chengdu, the capital city of the Sichuan Province.
Dinner is "on your own" tonight. Your options are plentiful in this city but you may want to include a Teahouse in your plans. Chengdu is recogized by the Chinese for its excellent tea and teahouses - and in a country of 1.3 billion tea-drinkers, this is saying something!
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Athens. Rome. Xian.
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Most historians are in agreement that by 500 B.C., Athens had achieved the distinction as the world's most prosperous city. Five hundred years later, Rome had eclipsed Athens for the title. Yet, by 500 A.D., while Rome was being sacked by Vandals, Xian stood at its peak of power and influence - the wealthiest city in all the world.
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Giant Panda Breeding Research Ctr.
Train to Chongqing
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Yangtze River Cruise |
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Yangtze River Cruise Ship |
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- It was in Chengdu where the world's first paper currency was printed, but today the city is most famous for its Giant Panda Breeding Research Center, located just a few miles from town. There's no doubt that this will be yet another highlight of your tour because you'll not only see Pandas, you may even see Baby Pandas! This is not just a zoo, as offered on some tours, but an actual habitat and breeding center for this endangered species (and the just-as-cute Red Pandas live here, too). Your morning visit coincides with feeding time - the best time to see the Pandas as it's when they're most active.
- Following your "Panda encounter" you'll stop for lunch in town before boarding your train for a scenic, 4-hour trainride south to Chongqing where your Yangtze River cruise boat awaits.
- Chongqing is one of China's few cities where bicycles are a rarity due to its hilly terrain. Time permitting, you'll enjoy a brief city tour and take in views of Chongqing's two rivers: the Jialing and the Yangtze.
- Your Chongqing arrival is timed for a delicious "Hot-Pot" dinner - a savory balance of sweet, sour and spicy - and a distinctive numbing sensation!
- Welcome Aboard! Tonight you'll board your Yangtze River Cruise
ship in Chongqing, your cruise ship eases from its dock and departs on its downstream journey. During your cruise, English-speaking guides provide a running commentary on the sights along the way.
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"The unexpected highlight was seeing the Red Panda, which is much smaller. It is more the size of a racoon, with a similar face, but without the ridge-back, and with a much nicer disposition. They were out having a good time, playing and eating and were quite entertaining and photogenic."
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-R. Shea. Our China Tour Participant
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Yangtze River Cruise |
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Yangtze River Cruise
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- From Chongqing to Yichang, the Yangtze River penetrates some 400 miles of rugged terrain providing a vital link between the inland provinces and those along the coast.
- The original Fengdu is slowly vanishing as waters from the downriver Three Gorges Dam continue to rise. But a new Fengdu continues to rise across the river as over 750,000 residents are relocated to higher ground.
- Centuries ago a nearby mountain, Ming Shan, was dedicated to the "God of the Underworld." Following death, souls would arrive here to face their final judgement. Rich or poor, ruler or ruled, their lives would be judged and their final destination ("heaven or hell") determined.
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- The Yangtze River and its tributaries carve through one of China's most mountainous regions. Included on your ride are the famous Three Gorges (Qutang, Wu and Xiling) with their spectacular scenery – long favored by Chinese landscape artists.
- Today you will visit the Danning River. The banks of the river are lined with steep cliffs – and wild monkeys! It's here where the "Lesser Three Gorges" are located. Though the scale is "lesser," many visitors find these smaller gorges prettier, due in part to the clearer water. In the cliffs along portions of the river, holes mark where posts were driven into the stone to support wooden planks. These planks formed “roads" enabling small boats to be guided through the sometimes-treacherous gorges.
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Yangtze
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Let
a drop of water fall upon any farm in China and chances are one
in four the drop will drain to the Yangtze River. Some 350 million
people live along the Yangtze River, by far the most “populated”
river of them all. When the Three Gorges Dam is complete, its hydroelectric
generators will supply one-ninth of China’s power.
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Yangtze River Cruise
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Three Gorges Dam
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- Before docking in Yichang, you'll debark your river cruise for a tour of the Three Gorges Dam. As the largest water project ever undertaken by man, the dam is certainly not without its controversies. When completed in 2009, fully 10% of China's current electricity needs will be provided by the dam, yet its construction will have displaced an estimated 1.5 million people.
- In the early afternoon, you'll conclude your Yangtze River Cruise in Yichang, just downstream from the mighty Three Gorges Dam. From here you'll transfer to the airport for your short flight eastward to Shanghai. After arrival you'll enjoy a delicious dinner before continuing on to Suzhou.
- Your hotel in Suzhou is a serene, garden hotel located just steps away from scenic canals, and bustling shops and restaurants.
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"When
finished, the Three Gorges Dam will produce the energy of 15 nuclear
power plants and tame some of the river's deadliest floods. To China's
leaders, the dam is the greatest engineering feat since the construction
of the Great Wall…"
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-PBS "Great Wall Across
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Humble Administrator's Grdn.
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Tongli
Suzhou Silk Museum
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- Now a city of almost 6 million inhabitants, Suzhou, the "Venice of the East," is known for its canals and classical Chinese gardens. The completion of the Grand Canal sped trade throughout the region and enriched local silk merchants. The merchants built magnificent private gardens such as the Humble Administrator's Garden (included in your tour), now open to the public.
- Your tour includes admission to the New Suzhou Museum, designed by the world-famous architect, Ieaoh Ming Pei (I.M. Pei). The three-level structure houses Suzhou art treasures dating back over the centuries yet the building's design blends ancient Suzhou design elements with 21st century engineering and themes.
- Next, you'll travel to nearby Tongli, the "town that Suzhou used to look like." Far smaller and more quaint than Suzhou, Tongli's homes and gardens open onto meandering canals lined with shops and restaurants. Weather permitting, your afternoon includes lunch at a canal-side restaurant.
- On your return to Suzhou you'll stop in at the Suzhou Silk Museum which chronicles 6,000 years of silk manufacture and includes actual mulberry-munching silkworms spinning cocoons - as well as an array of silk products for purchase.
- The evening is yours! Our "Your Choice" option allows you to explore Suzhou on your own - an easy adventure given your hotel's perfect location next to restaurants, shops and picturesque canals. If you're looking for a Western-style "fast food fix," this is the place! TexMex, hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza – as well as Chinese, Thai, Japanese and other cuisine options are within steps of your hotel's front door.
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Chinese
silk hand-embroidered “paintings” can rival photography
in detail and realism – yet also convey impressionist moods
running from delicate to dramatic. Shoppers can choose from pre-finished
works or leave the artisan a photograph or painting for reproduction.
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- This morning, after breakfast, you'll travel to a bustling, authentic local Market where fresh produce, noodles, fish, poultry and meat are sold, as well as curios and souvenirs.
- In the late morning you'll travel eastward by motorcoach to Shanghai, mainland China's most vibrant, cosmopolitan city. Shanghai was a minor county seat until the British arrived in the mid-19th century, lured by the potential wealth of untapped trade markets. Your brief tour includes a drive through the Bund, a gem of Art Deco buildings dating from this colonial period. You'll have more time here tomorrow. Across the river soars Pudong, Shanghai's skyscraper skyline of postcard fame.
- Following hotel check-in, you've got a "Your Choice" afternoon and evening coming your way! Dinner is on your own tonight. Sightseeing options include:
- Shopping: It's Shanghai, after all, and this being your last full day in China, why not head for the shops? Nanjing Road is famous for its chic boutiques but Xintiandi, in the old French Concession, is a strong competitor.
- Museums: The Shanghai Museum ranks among China's finest. The galleries of Chinese ancient bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, coins and furniture are exquisite.
- Tall Buildings!: Take in the night-time skyline views from atop the soaring, 100-story Shanghai World Financial Center.
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"By
the 14th century Suzhou had established itself as China's leading silk
producer, and aristocrats, pleasure-seekers, famous scholars, actors and
painters were attracted to the city, constructing villas and gardens for
themselves."
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-Lonely Planet. 2005
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Cheng Huang Temple & Market
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- Your morning is free for independent sightseeing - or just relaxing at your hotel.
- Following lunch, you'll travel to the always-fun Bund and then on the to picturesque Cheng Huang Temple - actually a busy shopping area known for its bargains. "Silk" (or rayon)? "Jade" (or plastic)? You be the judge!
- A special evening is planned for tonight: a delicious Farewell Dinner and a performance of the famous Shanghai Acrobats!
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- Depending on your flight plans, you may have time for some last-minute shopping in nearby shops and markets. Your Tour Manager can offer money-saving suggestions.
- "Fly" to the airport! Subject to your return flight schedule, today you'll travel to the airport aboard the world's fastest commercial train: the Shanghai Maglev! Speeding at up to 430 kph (almost 270 mph) it'll make easy work of your airport transfer!
Shanghai is hosting the World Expo 2010 from May thorugh October (May 1 - Oct. 31, 2010). It is a scheduled World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition will be "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as a major economic and cultural center. We will offer packages that include extended stays in Shanghai as well as admission tickets to the Expo. |
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"The doors shut, and the train accelerates like a skyscraper elevator, silently, smoothly, and rapidly, and by the time the last car leaves the station you already seem to be going 50 miles per hour. Four minutes of gravity-simulator-style acceleration later...you reach the peak speed of 270 miles per hour for the tiny 20-mile run."
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- Henry Blodget - Slate.
March 21, 2005
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Upgrade your Yangtze River cruise!
Deluxe Stateroom accommodation upgrades are just $340 per person for the 3-night cruise.
Space is limited and subject to availability. Click here for more information.
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3rd Guest (age 9 to 12) Land + Air:
70% of Land Only price, plus applicable Air cost
3rd Guest (age 9 to 12) Land Only: 70% of Land Only price
3rd Guest (age 12+) Land + Air:
85% of Land Only price, plus applicable Air cost
3rd Guest (age 12+) Land Only: 85% of Land Only price
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*Land + Air: Land + Air prices include all tour features as noted below in “All-Inclusive Pricing” as well as Roundtrip International Air Travel from Los Angeles (or selected departure city, where applicable and available) to/from China. In all cases prices are subject to change without notice due to airline seat availability.
*Land Only: Land Only prices include all tour features as noted below in “All-Inclusive Pricing.” Please note that Land Only prices include all travel within China as noted in the tour’s Trip Itinerary.
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All prices listed above are quoted in
USD, per person, and based on double occupancy. Single Supplement prices are shown above.
Prices are subject to change without notice and are capacity controlled.
"ALL-INCLUSIVE Pricing" includes: Tour Gratuities for guide services (Tour Manager, City Guides, Drivers, and Baggage Handling); Accommodations; Meals as noted in Trip Details; Admission fees to attractions as noted in Trip Details; Air, Train, River Cruise & Motorcoach travel within China as noted in Trip Details; Airport Transfers in Beijing on arrival and Shanghai on departure (provided transfers dates coincide with tour “Departs On” or “Returns On” dates or if transfer dates coincide with pre-tour or post-tour hotel extension purchased through Let’s Travel China); Tour Guide services; Air Taxes and Fees.
Not Included: Above prices do not include Excess Baggage Fees; Travel Passports or Visas; Expenses of a personal nature; Airport Transfers in Beijing and Shanghai which do not coincide with tour “Departs On” or “Returns On” dates or pre-tour or post-tour hotel extensions purchased through Let’s Travel China. Airport Transfers not otherwise included are available for purchase at $40.00 per person per transfer.
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standard Terms & Conditions.
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