The Mighty Yangtze River and The Best of China
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Available as a Self Drive or Escorted Tour holiday
16 nights from £3,130 per person.
ID: TCL-4-255
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.
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Package Summary
- 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
- 6 nights cruise on Victoria Sophia and 10 nights in hotel (accommodation as specified or similar)
- 39 Meals: 16 breakfast, 11 lunch and 12 dinner (breakfast on days 3-18, lunch on days 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 11-16 and dinner on days 2, 4, 5, 7, 9-15, 17)
- Captain’s Welcome Cocktail Party and Farewell dinner
- VIP Home Departure Service
- Check-in service bystaff with porterage
- Services of an experiencedtour manager, plus local guides
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 – Danning River)
- Day 12 Yangtze (Three Gorges Dam – Yichang)
- Day 13 Wuhan
- Day 14 Huangshan
- Day 15 Yangtze (Nanjing)
- Day 16 Nanjing – Shanghai
- Day 17 Shanghai
- Day 18 Shanghai – London
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