D1 Beijing
Arrive at Beijing International Airport. Meet your guide and driver and check in your hotel. The rest of today is free for you.
Meals: Not included
Accommodation:4-star hotel
D2 Beijing
Morning visit Tian’anmen Square, which is the capital city centre. Many key events affecting the whole country even the world happened here.
Then you will make your way to Forbidden City, where the Emperors used to live and use your imagination when considering the life of one man and his many wives enclosed in the largest quadrangle in the world!Then, we offer you with the Tricycle Hutong tour to experience the daily life of Beijing residents, seeing the children in a kindergarten and climbing on the Bell Tower。
You will have Chinese dumpling lunch with other local dishes cooked by the housewife at a quadrangle. As for dinner, you will have a welcome dinner, the most famous meal in Beijing—Beijing Duck Dinne. At night, you will enjoy the exciting Chinese Acrobatic Show.
Meals: lunch & special dinner
Accommodation: 4-star hotel
D3 Beijing
In the morning, your local guide and private driver will meet you in the hotel lobby, and take you to the Great Wall at Mu-tian-yu. 2 hours’ driving will take you to this comparatively quiet section. At this location the Great Wall was built on steep mountains, yet don’t worry, there is a cable car running up the wall directly. If you walk more than half hour on the Wall, you will arrive at the part named “Wild Wall” that haven’t been restored for more than 500 years.
On the way back to the city, you will have a chance to take a short visit of the Olympic Stadium, nicknamed "Bird’s Nest" and the National Aquatic Centre, also known as the "Water Cube."
Meals: lunch
Accommodation:4-star hotel
D4 Beijing/Kunming
Fly to Kunming. Your guide and driver will pick you up at the airport and drive you to hotel. You will have the most famous local snack---Rice Noodle for lunch. The rest time of today will be up to you. You can go to the local flower market, where all kinds of dry and fresh flowers are on sale. As for the dinner, you can explore the special local food with the help of your tour guide. That will be one part of your food experience in China.
Meals: lunch
Accommodation:4-star hotel
D5 Kunming
Today is a full day exploration of the Stone Forest, a natural wonder. This place is breathtaking—a lake caves, gorgeous vistas of the surrounding countryside and stone formations projecting from the ground give you the feeling of being in a primeval forest. Use your imagination to name those nature’s masterpieces. You will find yourself enter a mysterious stone kingdom.
On the way back to downtown city, you will visit a Sani Ethnic Village. With plenty of fresh vegetables through out a year, the local people developed a variety choice of food. You will taste the Bai ethnic style food for lunch.
Meals: lunch
Accommodation:4-star hotel
D6 Kunming/Dali
Fly to Dali Bai Ethnic Autonomous County in the morning. Bai means “white”. The Bai people regard white as a lucky color, and they wear white dresses, live in white houses and worship the white snow mountain. They have their own language and distinctive culture. You will be driven to hotel directly.
After a simple washing up, the first place for you to explore is Xizhou Bai Ethnic Village. It is an old village with 88 sets of well-preserved traditional Bai style houses. Then you will be driven to Erhai Lake Dock, from where you can enjoy a cruise tour including the visit of Nanzhao Island, Golden Spindle Island. The ferry finally stops on the west bank of Erhai Lake.
Then you will take car to tour the Old City of Dali, where you can visit the elaborate Batik Crafts—the traditional handcraft passed generation by generation, decorating their pretty clothes. The rest of the day you can roam in Foreigner Street where is dotted with souvenir shops. Bai ethnic style lunch is arranged for you.
Meals: lunch
Accommodation:4-star hotel
D7 Dali/Lijiang
4
hours’ driving will take you to Lijiang, the Jade Dragon’s Abode. Lijiang is the hometown of Naxi Tribe. The Naxi have a rich and diverse culture with their own music, art and most unique of all, their thousand-year-old pictographic writing system which is similar to hieroglyphics. The Naxi language is also the only remaining pictographic written language in use.
Lijiang Old Town is one of the world cultural heritages listed by UNESCO. You will have one-day time to explore the town, which is full of cobbled streets, crisscrossing canals flowing with water, swaying willow trees and gaily-hued blossoms.
Lunch and dinner are not arranged. They are up to your own favor. Your guide will give you some suggestion for meals. It will be full of fun watching the Naxi Ancient Music and Dance Performance at Dongba Palace after dinner.
Meals:Not included
Accommodation:4-star hotel
D8 Lijiang
Today you will visit the Dongba Culture Musium to get a better understanding of this distinctive culture. Try to understand the meaning by reading the pictographic writing of the local people. Then you will be driven to Baisha Village to enjoy the Baisha Murals painted on the walls of the temples in 15th century. They are so distinctive that you can not see in any other temples because Naxi kept their own culture separate from majority Han’s for long time.
After admiring those paintings, you will visit a local Naxi family to get a better understanding of their special life style kept for 1000 years in this remote site.
Meals:lunch
Accommodation:4-star hotel
D9 Departure
Meals: Not included
Accommodation: Not included
Remark: As you possibly enjoy traveling with your family or friends, China Travel Solution likes to reward you being the book maker with the above discount. Keep this discount to yourself, or share it with your travel group members.
The above prices including:
1) Accommodation fee (based on the share of twin room) with breakfast
2) Entrance admission for the scenic spots as listed in the itinerary
3) All meals as specified in the itinerary
4) Traffic expenses between domestic cities(Beijing to Kunming, Kunming to Dali, Dali to Lijiang), between airports, hotels and scenic spots
5) Airport tax and fuel fee
6) Service charge & government taxes
Excluding:
1) International air tickets or train tickets to enter or leave China
2) China entry visa fees
3) Excess baggage charges
4) Personal expenses
5) Commission charge from the bank or credit card company
6) Tips to the guides or drivers