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China
Travel Service offers China tours, China tour
packages, Yangtze cruises, tours to Beijing, Shanghai,
Xi'an, Guilin, Tibet and Hongkong
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9 Days China Highlight
Tours
Destinations: Beijing,
Hohhot,
Datong
Tour Code: GA_06
Departure: Daily
Tour Itinerary
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Entry
Beijing
Upon your arrival in Beijing,
you will be met by our guide and escorted
to your hotel. |
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02 |
Beijing
(BL)
Take an excursion to the Badaling Great
Wall and the Ming Tombs.
Badaling
Great Wall: The
best preserved part of the Ming dynasty
(1368 - 1644) Great Wall.
Ming
Tombs: The mausoleums
of 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
The mausoleums have been perfectly preserved.
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Beijing
- Hohhot (BL)
Visit the Summer
Palace this morning. After lunch, transfer
to the airport for flight to Hohhot.
Summer
Palace: A magnificent
imperial garden, the largest ancient
preserved garden in China and a former
summer resort for emperors.
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| Day
04 |
Hohhot
- Gegentala Grassland (BL)
Drive to the
Gegentala Grassland.
Gegentala means "a place for spending
summer" in Mongolian, enjoy the
beautiful scenery of the grassland.
Visit the herdsmen's tent and enjoy
the Singing and Dances of Mongolian
people.
Stay tonight in the tent of Mongolian
people. |
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05 |
Gegentala
Grassland - Hohhot
(BL)
Drive back to Hohhot in the morning.
Visit the Tomb of Wang Zhaojun, the
Five Pagoda Temple and the Dazhao Temple.
Tomb
of Wang Zhaojun:
Wang Zhaojun was a maid of honor in
an imperial palace of the Han Dynasty.
In 33 B.C. Huhanxie Chanyu, chief of
the Xiongnus, proposed ties of amity
with the Han court through marriage.
When Zhaojun married Huhanxie, she brought
with her the rich culture of the Central
China Plain to the Xiongnu people in
the north.
Five
Pagoda Temple:
The Pagoda is 16.5 meters high and looks
like a Buddha's Warrior Attendant's
seat, with a base under it and five
exquisite pagodas on the base. As more
than 1560 relief sculptures of Buddhas
are engraved on the five pagodas, the
temple enjoys the reputation of being
"a 10000-Buddha Tower".
Dazhao
Temple: Built in
1580 and expanded in the early years
of the Qing Dynasty, the temple consists
of a number of halls and a nine-room
building; it contains many precious
relics, including silver Buddhist statues
and lions cast in iron. |
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06 |
Hohhot
- Datong (BL)
Take soft seat train to Datong.
Visit the Huayan Monasteryand the Nine
Dragon Screen.
Huayan Monastery:
The Monastery is located in the southwestern
part of Datong. These splendid ancient
buildings were constructed of wood during
the Liao Dynast more than nine hundred
years ago.
Nine Dragon Screen:
This glazed-brick structure has nine
dragons sculptured in relief in five
colors, the screen is 45.5 meters long,
8 meters high, and 2 meters thick. It
was built more than six hundred years
ago. |
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Datong
- Beijing (BL)
Visit the Yungang Grottoes and Shanhua
Monastery. Take the overnight soft berth
train to Beijing.
Yungang Grottoes:
China's largest grottoes and world-famous
treasure-house of arts and culture with
53 caves, with 51,000 carved statues
and bas-reliefs.
Shanhua Monastery:
First built in A.D. 713-741 during the
Tang Dynasty. The entire monastery is
a well-proportioned, well-preserved
complex. It contains more than thirty
Buddhist statues sculptured during the
Liao and Kin dynasties, the most noteworthy
being covered in gold leaf.
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Beijing
(BLD)
Visit the Forbidden City, the Tiananmen
Square and the Temple of Heaven. Enjoy
the Beijing Duck Dinner and the Peking
Opera in the evening.
Forbidden
City: Used to
be the imperial palace of the Ming
(1368 - 1644) and Qing (1616-1911)
dynasties.
Tiananmen
Square: Tian'anmen
was the front gate of the Imperial
Palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In front of the gate is the world's
largest open ground in the city -
the Tian'anmen Square.
Temple
of Heaven: An
outstanding representative of Chinese
traditional architecture for its clever
design and harmoneous colors. During
the Ming and Qing dynasties, the emperor
came to pray and thank gods for the
harvests every year.
Beijing
Duck Dinner: The most delicious
food Beijing has to offer.
Peking
Opera: The most influential and
representaive of all operas in China
and has a history of about 200 years.
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Exit
(B)
After breakfast, transfer to the airport
for your departure, end of service.
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Quotation and Hotel
Accommodation
Tour quotations are only applied for 2-5
peaple as a group, further discount
availible for group number more than 5 people.
The private guided tour is tailored for
you exclusively. No other participants will
be in your group and you will not take part
into any tours of others on land services.
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High Seasons:
April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November
Low Seasons:
December, January,
Febuary, March
Note:
The above price is
not valid during the public holidays:
1-7th May, 1-7th October and during
the first week of Chinese Lunar New
Year which takes place in late January
or early February. |
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 Quotation Inclusions:
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1. Hotel accommodation
The hotel is based
on two persons sharing one twin or double
standard room with private facilities.
2. Meals
Daily American or Chinese
breakfast at the hotel, Chinese lunch
and dinner in local Chinese restaurant
as specified in the itinerary. B - Breakfast,
L - Lunch, D - Dinner.
3. Private Transport
Private transport between
airport or railway station and hotel
and all the sights by air-conditioned
vehicle.
4. Transportation
between Cities
The economic class
air tickets of the domestic flight or
soft berth/seat train tickets between
cities as specified in the itinerary.
5. Entrance tickets
The main entrance tickets
for the sights mentioned.
6. Guiding service
Excellent tour Guiding.
All normal sightseeing tours in each
city with English-speaking guide and
admission fees where applicable. Our
guide will not fly with you from one
city to another. Upon your arrival at
each city, a new local guide and driver
will pick you up, be with you for local
tour and see you off after you finish
the itinerary of each city. The cruise
shore excursion is in-group assigned
by the cruise company.
7. Insurance
China Life Tourist
Accident/Casualty Insurance. We highly
recommend that you purchase full coverage
travel insurance from you country of
origin.
8. Tibet Travel Permit
application fee
The Tibet Travel Permit
application fee if your tour covers
Tibet. |
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Quotation Exclusions:
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1. Visa Fees
Charge of obtaining
your visa to enter China.
2. Charge of arrival
and departure
The international or
domestic air / train charge of arrival
and departure.
3. Single Room Supplement
Should a twin room
is needed by a single guest, supplement
of the twin room will be charged.
What
is single supplement? -
The hotel is based on double occupancy.
If the visitor travels alone or the
number of the travelers is odd (such
as 3, 5, 7...), who stays in one single
room has to pay the single room supplement.
As the hotel is on double occupancy.
4. Personal Expenses
Expenses of a personal
nature such as laundry, drinks, fax,
telephone call, optional activities
or sightseeing, overweight baggage charges
or meals not indicated, ect.
5. Optional Programs
Optional programs which
are not specified in the above itinerary.
6. Tips to guides
and drivers
Suggested tips: USD12-14
to tour guide per day, USD 8-12 to driver
per day, but depending on their service,
it's up to you. |
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