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Code: VTE - SD03

Short Silk Road

Beijing - Urumqi - Turfan - Dunhuang - Xi'an - Shanghai. 12 Days

 

 

This travel will leads you to learn the best-kept history along the Silk Road. We introduce you to enjoy the experience and you will feel yourself as the people lived centuries ago.  From this travel you will see another side of China. On one side you will learn the culture concentrated in Beijing and Xi'an. On the other side you will enjoy the differences between the different ethics in different regions

 

 

 
Our Highlights:
Full Pension   The Temple of Heaven
The Great Wall   The Forbidden City
The Summer Palace   The Ruin City -Jiaohe and Gaochang
The Mogao Grotto (UNESCO)   The Terracotta Army

The Metropolis City –Shanghai

   

 

Itinerary

01. Day Beijing. (D)
 

In the morning arrive in Beijing. Greeted by the local guide and transferred to hotel. You will have a rest and then visit the Temple of Heaven.
3 Nights in Beijing. ****Hotel

   
02. Day Beijing. (B.L.D)
 

In the morning you will go to the Great Wall. After lunch you will visit the Summer Palace.

   
03. Day Beijing. (B.L.D)
 

In the morning you will go to the Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. In the afternoon you will take a walk through the Wangfujing Street.

   
04. Day Beijing - Urumqi. (B.L.D)
 

In the morning fly to Urumqi. After arrival, transferred to the hotel. Then have a city tour.
1 Night in Urumqi. ****Hotel

   
05. Day Urumqi - Turfan. (B.L.D)
 

Take bus to Turpan. After arrival visit the 44 m high Emin Minaret.
1 Night in Turfan. **** Hotel

   
06. Day Turfan - Dunhuang. (B.L.D)
 

You will visit the ruin city-Jiaohe (UNESCO) and then the underground water system Karez, the Astana Tomb. On the way back, take a photo in Uyghur Family and Flaming Hill. After dinner, transferred to the railway station and take train to Dunhuang.
1 Night in the train.

   
07. Day

Dunhuang. (B.L.D)

 

In the morning arrive in Liuyuan (railway station of Dunhuang). Transferred to the hotel. Visit the Crescent Moon Lake, the White Pagoda and the Singing Sand Dune, where the oasis with the desert meets together. The 200 m long Crescent Moon Lake's name is coming from its shape.
1 Night in Dunhuang. **** Hotel

     
08. Day Dunhuang - Xi'an. (B.L.D)
 

Visit the Mogao Grotto (UNESCO) and other sightseeing point. 25 km southeast from Dunhuang is the Mogao Grotto, which is the best-kept Buddhist art construction in Dunhuang. The caves are the concentration of the Buddhist art and reflect the political and economic life at that time. Then fly to xi'an.
2 Nights in xi'an. **** Hotel

   
09. Day Xi'an. (B.L.D)
 

Today you will visit the Terracotta Army (UNESCO) of the first Chinese Emperor which was over 2000 years old. In the afternoon you will visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda - the symbol of xi'an, is a famous construction of the Tang Dynasty, considered as the most famous Buddhist Pagoda of China with a height 64m.

     
10. Day Xi'an - Shanghai. (B.L.D)
 

Fly to Shanghai. Greeted by the local guide and transferred to hotel. Walking at Bund, the famous bund at Huangpu River with its buildings in colony. Then walk through Nanjing Road, a famous shopping street of China.
2 Nights in Shanghai. ****Hotel

   
11. Day Shanghai. (B.L.D)
 

Visiting the Yu Garden, the Old City and the Longhua Temple. Watch Acrobatic Show at night.

   
12. Day Shanghai – Back home. (B)
 

After breakfast transferred to the airport and take your select airline back home.

     

Meals Symbol: B=Breakfast L=Lunch D=Dinner