Day 1 Arrival / Beijing 
Arrival in Beijing, be met and transfer for hotel check in.

Day 2 Beijing (B, L)
After breakfast, enjoy full-day tour of the Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Treasure Gallery of the Forbidden City.

-Temple of Heaven:  A masterpiece of architecture and landscape design where the ancient emperors used to pray for the God's bless of the whole nation.

-Tiananmen Square: The largest city square in the world.

-Forbidden City: The largest imperial palace in China for 24 emperors' reign during the Ming and Qing dynasties with a history of around 600 years.

Day 3 Beijing (B, L)
Visit Badaling Great Wall, Sacred Way, Ming Tomb (Changling).

-Badaling Great Wall: One of the great wonders in the world and the symbol of China. It is the important pass for protecting Beijing City with the name of "the Key to the North Gate of Beijing."

-Sacred Way: The holy lane of animals and guardians leading and protecting the Ming Tombs; always acts as a stop-over along the way to Great Wall.

-Ming Tomb (Changling): Changling is the tomb for Emperor Yongle, the third Ming emperor, and his wife Empress Xu. He ruled for 22 years and made some achievements in political, military, economic, cultural and diplomatic fields.

Day 4 Beijing / Xi'an (B, L)
Enjoy Hutong Tour by rickshaw before you're escorted to the airport. Upon arrival in Xi'an, be picked up to visit the Grand Mosque. 

-Hutong Tour: The unique street design in Beijing - some crisscrossing old narrow paths with courtyard houses built on each side. It can be regarded as a window into Beijing folk life.

-Grand Mosque: The Great Mosque is built in a Chinese architectural style and most of the grounds are taken up with gardens, except for some Arabic lettering and decorations, the mosque has neither domes nor traditional-style minarets. It's still an active place of worship and several prayer services are held each day.

Day 5 Xi'an (B, L, D)
Visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Ancient City Wall.

-Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum: One of the most important archaeological finds in the 20 th century; an army of terra-cotta warriors and the bronze chariots entombed in vast underground vaults at emperor Qin's tomb since 2200 year ago.

-Big Wild Goose Pagoda: the city emblem, which was first built in Tang Dynasty for the storage of Buddhist scriptures taken from India by Monk Xuanzang.

-Ancient City Wall: The best-kept and biggest city walls in China.

Day 6 Xi'an / Lhasa (B, L)
Transfer to take an early morning flight to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Be met and transfer to the hotel for acclimatization.

Day 7 Lhasa (B, L, D)
Visit Norbulingka, Tibet Museum, and Sera Monastery.

-Norbulingka: it used to be the Summer Palace of the Dalai Lama. Among artificial gardens, Norbulingka is the biggest, the best scenic and the most historic one in Tibet. Nowadays, it is the public park for local people.

Day 8 Lhasa (B, L, D)
Explore the Potala Palace, Barkhor Street, and Jokhang Temple.

-The Potala Palace: a monumental building of Lhasa served as administrative center, seat of government, monastery, fortress and the home of all the Dalai Lamas from the Fifth to the Fourteenth in the past, a UNESCO world cultural heritage site of 1994.

-Barkhor Street: an area of narrow streets located around Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, it is the most popular devotional circumabulation for pilgrims and locals.

-The Jokhang Temple: 1300+ years old with a golden roof and the most sacred and important temple for most Tibetans..

Day 9 Lhasa / Chongqing (B, L,D)
Transfer to the airport and fly to Chongqing. Be picked up at the airport and transfer to visit Ciqikou Ancient Town and The Three Gorges Museum. After dinner, board the Yangtze Cruise at night.

Day 10 Yangtze Cruise (B, L, D)
Shore excursion to Fengdu, the ghost city of China.

Day 11 Yangtze Cruise
Shore excursion to Shennong Stream or Lesser Three Gorges.

Day 12 (B, L) Yichang / Shanghai
Arrive in Yichang at noon time. After lunch, transfer to the airport and fly to Shanghai. Be met and transfer to take an express train to Hangzhou.

Day 13 Hangzhou (B, L)
Enjoy boating at West Lake, then visit Chinese Traditional Medicine Museum, Dragon Well Tea Plantation and Six Harmony Pogada.

Day 14 Hangzhou/Suzhou(B, L)
Transfer to take an express train to Suzhou. Be picked up at the railway station, then transfer to visit Garden of Net Master, Pan Gate, No.1 Silk Factory. Then a private transfer to Shanghai. Check in the hotel.

-Pan Gate (Panmen): Pan Gate is a fortress suitable for ancient water-towns like Suzhou in the southern part of China. The two water gates adjoining the land gates are the only water pass linking the inside and outside of the southwestern corner of the city. Built with granite, each of them has enough room for two boats passing side by side. For each gate there is a huge sluice gate to control the water flow. It is easy to imagine the prosperous sights then that the double water and land gates of Pan Gate shined on the Grand Canal, when horses and carriages went through the pass with flags fluttering, and boats paddling through the water gates.

-Garden of Net Master: It is the smallest of the Suzhou residential gardens, yet it is the most impressive because of its use of space which creates the illusion of an area that is much greater than its actual size. Even more than the architectural achievement is the mood of tranquility and harmony that this humble garden embodies.

Day 15 Shanghai (B, L, D)
Jade Buddha Temple, Tianzifang old city quarters, The Bund and Shanghai Huangpu River Cruise.

-Nanjing Road: The busiest shopping street in Shanghai.

-The Bund: Shanghai's famous waterfront to see new-erect modern skyscrapers and aged buildings of the colonial period.

-Shanghai Huangpu River Cruise: Standing on a boat on the Huangpu River, one can have a panoramic view of the river and the scenery along it. The river is sparkling with giant ships sailing busily by; the bands are filled with sky scrapers of different styles.

Day 16 Shanghai exit (B)
Transfer to the airport for your homebound flight.

Trip ends.