10 Days Tour of Impression Downstream Yangtze River Cruise

Day 01  Beijing

Activities: Upon arrival in Beijing a world-class capital with incredible mixture of historic and modern landmarks meet and transfer to hotel. City tour if time available.

Accommodation:Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing

Meals: No Meals

Day 02  Beijing

Activities: Full day visit to the astonishing Badaling Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. Roasted Peking Duck is recommended for your dinner, which is exclusive in our quotation. Feel free to contact our travel advisor about the details and cost.

Accommodation:Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing

Meals: B/L

Day 03  Beijing

Activities: Spend an exciting day touring the majestic Forbidden City, luxurious Summer Palace and Tiananmen Square.

Accommodation:Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing

Meals: B/L

Day 04  Beijing - - Chongqing

Activities: Take a Hutong Tour in the morning. Then take a flight to Chongqing, where you will begin your amazing Yangtze Cruise in next few days.

Accommodation:Yangtze Cruise

Meals: No Meals

Day 05  Yangtze River Cruise

Activities: Embark the cruiser in the morning. Lunch & dinner will be served on board. Start your cruising on the Yangtze River this day. You'll enjoy a wide range of upscale activities comforts and entertainment on ship as well as the carefully-planned excursions designed to maximize your experience of the Yangtze's dramatic scenery. Go ashore in Fengdu the folkloric "ghost city".

Accommodation:Yangtze Cruise

Meals: B/L/D

Day 06  Yangtze River Cruise

Activities: Visit the great Three Gorges Qutang, the Three Small Gorges a swift and Wu Gorge.

Accommodation:Yangtze Cruise

Meals: B/L/D

Day 07  Yangtze River Cruise -  - Shanghai

Activities: In the final day of sailing we'll sail through the Xiling Gorge a rushing passage of rapids embraced by emerald terraced hills. Today's shore excursion including the new Three Gorges Dam site, the world's largest construction project.

Accommodation:Yangtze Cruise

Meals: B/L/D

Day 08  Shanghai

Activities: Full day city tour including Yuyuan Garden, Jade Buddha Temple,the Children's Palace, famous commercial street of Nanjing Road and the Bund, from where you could see the Oriental Pearl TV Tower beyond Huangpu River.

Accommodation:The Bund Hotel Shanghai

Meals: B/L

Day 09 Depart from Shanghai

Activities: In the last day, after you enjoy the breakfast in Shanghai, you will be transferred to the airport. Your amazing 10 Days Tour of Beijing, Chongqing, Yangtze River Cruise and Shanghai is finished.

Accommodation:The Bund Hotel Shanghai

Meals: B

Day 01  Beijing

Just relax and take a leisured stroll around the city. You can excurse and reveal this charming city by person.

Day 02  Beijing

The Great Wall: The Great Wall at Badaling is the best representative section of the Great Wall. It is more than 7 meters high and 5 meters wide. It was the strategic point of Juyongguan Pass in ancient times. Many other fortresses and beacon towers were constructed at the strategic points. This section of the Great Wall has drawn great attention from the Chinese government since the foundation of P.R. China. It was designated a major historical site under state protection in 1961. The Great Wall was listed "a World Cultural Heritage" by the UNESCO in 1987. The Great Wall at Badaling is preserved as a historical monument and has become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world.
Ming Tombs: Located at the foot of the Tianshou Mountain in Changping District, Beijing, the Ming Mausoleums, occupying an area of 120 square kilometers, is well preserved and have the biggest number of emperors buried in the world.

Day 03  Beijing

Forbidden City: The Forbidden City also named the Palace Museum, shares the honor of being one of five world-famous palaces with the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in England, and the White House in the U.S. and the Kremlin in Russia. The palace, the most magnificent and splendid palace complex in China, was listed as a World Cultural Heritage Building in 1987. It was built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the construction of this group of buildings took fourteen years from 1406 to 1420. In the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), it was the imperial palace where twenty-four emperors ascended the throne and exercised their strong power to the nation.
The Summer Palace: The Summer Palace landscape, dominated by Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, covers an area of 2.9 square kilometers, three quarters of which is water surface. Its 70,000 square meters of building space features a variety of palaces, garden and other ancient-style architectural structures. Well known for its large and priceless collection of cultural artifacts, it was among the first group of historical and cultural heritage sites in China to be placed under special state protection.
Tiananmen Square: Tiananmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) was the main entrance to the Forbidden City during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Built in 1417, it was first named the Cheng Tian men, meaning that emperors obeyed the order of Heaven in ruling the country. Destroyed by fire twice, it was rebuilt in 1651 during the Qing Dynasty and renamed Tiananmen. It is also honored as the "Gate of the Nation." As one of the largest city squares in the world, Tiananmen Square occupies an area of 440, 000 square meters--spacious enough to accommodate half a million people. Many annual and special celebrations and assemblies are held here. On October 1st, 1949, Chairman Mao Ze Dong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China on the Tiananmen Rostrum, thus opening a new chapter in the history of China. In the new period of reforms and opening, Tiananmen, with its long history and rich culture, attracts people from all over the world.
Beijing Roast duck: Beijing Roast duck is thought to be one of the most delicious dishes all over the world; most visitors coming to Beijing will never forget to have a try. Eating Peking duck is seen to be one of the two things you are absolutely supposed to do while in Beijing.

Day 04  Beijing - - Chongqing

Chongqing, a famous historical and cultural city in China, has a history of more than 3,000 years and a glorious revolutionary tradition. The local culture was originated in the area centered at Chongqing, the place of the ancient Ba.

Day 05  Yangtze River Cruise

The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang, Tibetan: 'Bri-chu, is the longest river in China and Asia, and the third-longest in the world, after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America. The river is about 6,385 km long (3915 mi) and flows from its source in Qinghai Province, eastwards into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It acts as a dividing line between North and South China, although geographers generally consider the Qinling-Huai River line to be the official line of geographical division. As the largest river in the region, the Yangtze is historically, culturally, and economically important to China. One of the dams on the river, the Three Gorges Dam, is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world. The section of the river flowing through deep gorges in Yunnan province is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas: a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Day 06  Yangtze River Cruise

Continue sailing on the River and you'll see the first of the great Three Gorges Qutang considered the most beautiful one. Sail on to the Daning River a lush Yangtze tributary. Here you transfer to small boats for a journey into the Three Small Gorges a swift - flowing passage through the Dragon Gate Misty and Emerald Gorges flanked by tangled vegetation rocky and peaks towering to the sky. Return to ship and continue downstream to the head of Wu Gorge.

Day 07  Yangtze River Cruise -  - Shanghai

Starting from Xiangxi (Fragrant Stream) Kou of Zigui County in the west and ending at Nanjin Pass in the east, Xiling Gorge, zigzagging about 49 miles, is the longest gorge among the three gorges of the Yangtze River. Because of numerous reefs and odd-shaped stones existing in rapid shoals, the gorge is also well known for its danger.

The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River in Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei, China. It is the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind. The dam body was finished in 2006. When the whole project is completed, it will contain 32 main generators, each with a capacity of 700 MW. Except for a planned ship lift, all of the originally planned components of the project were completed on October 30, 2008, when the 26th generator was brought into commercial operation. Six additional generators in the underground power plant are being installed, not expected to become fully operational until around 2011. The total electric generating capacity of the dam will then reach 22,500 MW.

Day 08  Shanghai

Yuyuan Garden: It is a renowned traditional landscape garden in Jiangnan. It is also a historical site and tourist attraction famous at home and abroad. It was built by a man named Pan during the Ming Dynasty. It was changed and rebuilt for hundreds of years by different descendents of the original builder. The garden is a virtual maze of caves, gardens, rockeries, paths, bridges, and buildings. Even though many people have had a hand in rebuilding the garden over the centuries, it is seamlessly blended. Every corner you turn has a new surprise, and a total different view.
Jade Buddha Temple: The two precious jade Buddhist statues are not only rare cultural relics but also porcelain artworks. Both the Sitting Buddha and the Recumbent Buddha are carved with whole white jade. The sparkling and crystal-clear white jade gives the Buddhas the beauty of sanctity and make them more vivid. The Sitting Buddha is 190 centimeters high and encrusted by the agate and the emerald, portraying the Buddha at the moment of his meditation and enlightenment. The Recumbent Buddha is 96 centimeters long, lying on the right side with the right hand supporting the head and the left hand placing on the left leg, this shape is called the "lucky repose". In the temple there is also another Recumbent Buddha which is four meters long and was brought from Singapore by the tenth abbot of the temple in 1989.
The Bund: The Bund is the long corridor of Shanghai. For more than 100 years, it has been the symbol of Shanghai. Shanghai people are proud of the Bund. It shows the culture of Shanghai and the creation of modern civilization to people. The architecture along the Bund is unanimously honored as a "World Architectural Fair", including all kinds of tall buildings like the Gothic style, the Baroque style, the Roman style, the classical style, the Renaissance style and the combination of Chinese and Western style. Generally speaking, the beauty of a city should contain three elements architectures, sculptures, and evanescence. Of the three elements, sculptures are also called the eyes of a city. It is an important part for a city's beauty.
Nanjing Road: It is one of the landmarks of Shanghai. Most people say that if you have never been to the Nanjing Street, it is equal that you have never been to Shanghai. If you can get up early in the morning, you must be attracted by the Nanjing Street. At that time, the shops and restaurants are closed, but the street is quite busy. People are doing all kinds of things. Some are dancing, some are doing shadowboxing, some are playing sliding board, etc. It is just like a park, which has an outstanding compare with the street on flourishing day.
TV Tower of Oriental Pearl: The Oriental Pearl TV Tower has become one of the modern symbols of Shanghai. The 468 meter tall tower is the tallest in Asia and the third tallest TV tower in the world. The bird's eye view from its observation platform is breathtaking, especially at night, when the nearby Bund is lit up. With a unique design composed of balls and columns, the tower has become Shanghai's newest landmark and a big magnet for tourists. The designers magically set the eleven beautiful spheres of various sizes up from the green grassland to the blue sky with two giant spheres shining like two rubies. The whole design is rich in poetic and pictorial splendor, which gives the tourist the impression that pearls of various sizes are dropping onto the emerald plate.
Acrobatics: Acrobatics is an interactive art form. Whether you are old or young, educated or illiterate, you can appreciate it as long as you can see. There is no language barrier and cultural border. When you watch a Chinese acrobatics, you are strongly impacted both mentally and physically. It is truly and unforgettable experience. It is no doubt that Shanghai is the best place to enjoy a perfect Chinese acrobatic show. The Acrobatics at Shanghai are not to be missed. They are held each night and last for about 2 hours. An acrobatic show has become one of the most popular evening entertainments for tourists in Shanghai. You can enjoy gravity-defying contortionism, juggling, unicycling, chair-stacking, and plate-spinning acts at the following stages.

Day 09  Depart from Shanghai

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