Day 1
Arrive Beijing ()
Our professional English speaking guide will meet you at the airport and escort you to the hotel upon your arrival. The guide is always willing to give you considerate suggestions for the restaurants and your other needs. Take a good break to recover from the long flight and jet lag

Day 2
Beijing (B/L)
After nice buffet breakfast at hotel, we’ll drive you to visit the largest public square in the world ---- Tiananmen Square. In a short stroll to the Meridian Gate, you’ll see the Forbidden City (namely Palace Museum). Surely you will have a better understanding to the fascinating architectures with the explanation of our guide. After lunch at local Peking Roasted Duck restaurant, visit the Summer Palace. You can choose the Peking Opera Show (or Chinese Kungfu show) as optional in the evening.

The Tian'anmen Square: The largest city square in the world.
The Forbidden City: the imperial palace for the Ming and Qing with a history of around 600 years
The Summer Palace: the best-preserved imperial garden in China.

Day 3
Beijing (B/L)
After breakfast at hotel, drive to the the Great Wall at Badaling and spend your time here for the classic views of the bastion snaking over undulating hills. After lunch at local restaurant, drive to your next destination. Stroll on the Sacred Way where stone statues guarding on both sides. The road leads to the Ming Tombs which are the final resting place of Ming emperors.

The Great Wall: the symbol of China and Climbing the Great Wall you can pass visitors from all over the world, and hear conversations in almost every language
The Ming Tombs: Consisting of mausoleums of 13 Ming emperors, is one of the largest imperial necropolises in China.
The Sacred Way: The way stood on both sides with marvelous stone sculptures by which means the road leading to heaven.

Day 4
Beijing/Hohhot/Xilamuren Grassland (B/L)
Buffet breakfast at hotel, then transfer to the airport for flight to Hohhot. Upon arrival meet and transfer the the Xilamuren Grassland. Visit the herdsman, tastes the milk food, experience the nomadic life, enjoy the winter grassland scenery. Overnight at local herdsman’s home.

Xilamuren Grassland: means "Yellow River" in Mongolian, 100 km to the north of Hohhot, is a tourist resort renowned at home and abroad".

Note: Xilamuren Grassland/ Herdsman’s home (local only accommodation)

(You will experience the local people’s real life by staying overnight in the Herdsman’s home-Mongolian yurts. But please note that there is no private toilet in the room due to the yurt’s unique structure and facilities. The toiler is public outside the Mongolian Yurts. )

Day 5
Xilamuren Grassland/Erdos (B/L)
Simple breakfast at hotel followed by driving to Erdos Dalate County-Erdos's North gate, located in the southwest of the Inner Mongolia and south of the Yellow River. Visit the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan- located in the Yijinhuo Town of Erdos city. Overnight at a hotel in Erdos Dalate.

Mausoleum of Genghis Khan: It is the great holy place sacrificing the spirit of party and the prairie history cultural mecca, becoming a national key cultural relics protection units and the national AAAAA level scenic spots.Genghis Khan was an outstanding statesman, thinker, strategist, a symbol of the national hero.

Day 6
Erdos/Hohhot (B/L)
After breakfast drive to Singing Sand Ravine (Resonant Sand Gorge), the national AAAAA level scenic spots located in central of Dalate. After sight-seeing return to Hohhot and overnight in Hohhot City.

Singing Sand Ravine: It lies at the east section of Kubuqi Desert, China's seventh largest desert, and assumes a crescent shape with 100 meters in height and 400 meters in width, forming a 45-degree slope. Have you heard of a desert that sings as you slide on it? Well, here at Resonant Sand Bay, you can experience this unique natural phenomenon.

Day 7
Hohhot (B/L)
Buffet breakfast at hotel. Visit to Inner Mongolia Museum, Five Pagoda Temple and Dazhao Temple, strolling through the Ming Street in old town of Hohhot.

Inner Mongolia Museum: is located in the city center of Hohhot City. Built in May 1, 1957, it is the only provincial comprehensive museum in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Administrative Region.
Five Pagoda Temple: It shows a dense religious atmosphere and will bring visitors the real experience in a Chinese religious temple. Construction of the temple began in 1727 and was completed in 1732. The distinctive five pagodas surmount contains a temple with 1563 images of Buddha carved into its walls each differing slightly to the other. Inside is a rare Mongolian cosmological map carved into a large stone which illustrates the zodiac and positions of numerous stars.
Dazhao Temple: is in the old city of Hohhot. This is the earliest temple in Hohhot with a history of over 400 years. The temple is entirely patterned after Chinese temples except for the main hall, which is patterned after a Tibetan Lama temple.

Day 8
Hohhot/Xian (B/L/D)
Buffet breakfast at hotel, free until transfer to the airport for flight to Xi’an – the ancient capital of China. Upon your arrival, met and escorted to the hotel with good lunch at local restaurants. You’ll have a half-day city tour to Shaanxi Historical Museum which is one of the best museums in China and Ancient City Wall who witness the history of this city. Dumpling Dinner at an excellent dumpling restaurant is supplied.

The Provincial Museum: Which is one of the best Museum in China and where you can learn a lot about the 5,000 year brilliant history of China.
The Ancient City Wall: Xian City Wall was constructed in the early Ming Dynasty on the basis of the Imperial City of Chang An (Everlasting Peace) of the Tang Dynasty.

Day 10
Xian/Shanghai (B/L)
Buffet breakfast at hotel. Then transfer to the airport for flight to Shanghai. The guide will meet you at the airport and escort you visit the Wall St of Shanghai – the Bund, viewing the architecture of early 20th century and strolling along the Huangpu River, then you’ll come to one of the most famous street in China – the Nanjing Road to experience the modern Shanghai.

The Bund: known as a miniature museum of international architecture with dozens of high buildings standing along the shore.
Nanjing Road: the longest commercial street in China, lined with big department and specialty stores, upscale boutiques, and a variety of fine restaurants, enjoying the reputation of "China's No.1 Street".

Day 11
Shanghai (B/L)
Buffet breakfast at hotel. You will enjoy the historical view of Yu Garden, Jade Buddha Temple and Shanghai Museum with lunch at good local restaurants. You can choose Acrobatic Show as optional in the evening.

Yu Garden: a place of peace and comfort in the heart of bustling Shanghai, dates back to the fabled Ming Dynasty.
The Jade Buddha Temple: The most famous Buddhist temple in Shanghai.
Shanghai Museum: As one of the largest Museums in China, Shanghai Museum possesses a collection of 120,000 precious works of art.

Day 12
Shanghai Departure (B)
Buffet breakfast at hotel. Free until transfer to the airport for flight to the next destination.
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