The Mighty Yangtze River and The Best of China

Visit
Available as a Self Drive or Escorted Tour holiday
17 nights from £3,245 per person.
ID: TCL-4-246
Description
The world’s longest river within a single country, the Yangtze has played an essential and inspirational role in Chinese life since the dawn of that glorious civilisation. It unites regions diverse in landscape, language and culture, links cities ancient and modern - thus presenting an engaging timeline of Chinese history - and offers the most scenic means of traversing this vast country. This superlative tour of China’s myriad highlights reveals the imperial treasures of Beijing and Xi’an along with the vibrancy of Shanghai, and includes a 6-night Yangtze river cruise aboard the state-of-the-art Victoria Sophia, taking in the awe-inspiring Three Gorges en route.


Package Summary
- 6 nights cruise on Victoria Sophia, 10 nights in hotel and 1 in flight (accommodation as specified or similar)
- 40 meals: 16 breakfasts, 12 lunches, 12 dinners
- Captain’s welcome cocktail party and farewell dinner
Included excursions and visits:
- Beijing’s Summer Palace visit
- Tour of Tian’anmen Square and Forbidden City
- Chinese Martial Art show
- Visit to Great Wall of China and Ming Tombs
- Terracotta Warriors Museum
- Tang Dynasty Show
- Yangling Han Tomb Museum
- Li River cruise
- Chongqing Zoo visit
- Fengdu excursion
- Goddess Stream excursion
- Three Gorges Dam Project excursion
- Wuhan excursion
- Jiuhuashan excursion
- Nanjing excursion
- Shanghai city tour
- Travel on Shanghai Maglev train
Plus all these benefits:
- Titan’s VIP Home Departure Service®
- Check-in service by Titan staff with porterage
- Services of an experienced Titan tour manager
- Scheduled British Airways direct flights. Internal flights as detailed in the itinerary
- Best available coaches with experienced drivers
Summary Itinerary
- Day 1 – London – In Flight
- Day 2 – Beijing
- Day 3 – Beijing – Forbidden City
- Day 4 – Beijing – Great Wall
- Day 5 – Beijing – Xi’an
- Day 6 – Xi’an
- Day 7 – Xi’an – Guilin
- Day 8 – Guilin – Li River Cruise
- Day 9 – Guilin – Chongqing
- Day 10 – Chongqing – Yangtze (Fengdu)
- Day 11 – Yangtze (Three Gorges – Goddess Stream)
- Day 12 – Yangtze (Three Gorges Dam – Yichang)
- Day 13 – Yangtze (Wuhan)
- Day 14 – Yangtze (Jiuhaushan)
- Day 16 – Shanghai
- Day 17 – Shanghai
- Day 18 – Shanghai – London