Upon arrival at the Beijing International Airport, please retrieve your luggage and clear Customs. Our tour guide will greet you outside the Customs area and escort you to our selected downtown hotel in a private drive.

Rest for a while, then the guide will accompany with you to have a Hutong rickshaw tour to see the traditional alleyways and courtyard houses. Additionally, you will visit a Hutong family home to get to know the local people's life.

Your private China vacation today begins with a visit to the Tiananmen Square, the world's largest central city square. We then walk for about 10 minutes to reach the Forbidden City, the one-time imperial palace of the Ming and the Qing dynasties (1368~1912). We leave lunch to your own choice; however, our tour guide will be glad to offer you some advice on the restaurants nearby. In the afternoon, we visit the Temple of Heaven.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast

In the morning, we will drive out of the city to visit a popular and magnificent section of the Great Wall - Mutianyu. To save your energy and leave you plenty of time to hike on the wall, a round-trip cable car has been included, or you can take a chairlift up and a toboggan down. You will be deeply impressed by the majestic views of the Great Wall, as well as the abundant vegetation in its surroundings. You are advised to make your own lunch arrangements today.

Following the morning activity, we will drive you back to the downtown area, where you will explore a featured local market. On the way, we will stop over at the Bird's Nest (Olympic National Stadium), so you can see it close by.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast

After breakfast, our guide will pick you up from the hotel and assist you with the check-out procedure. We then go to visit the Summer Palace, the largest and best-preserved royal garden in China.

After that, our guide will see you off at the railway station for a high-speed train to Shanghai. Lunch is on your own arrangement. You are advised to bring some snacks or fruits. After an approximately four-and-a-half-hour train journey, you will arrive in the metropolitan Shanghai. Our Shanghai guide and driver will meet you at the exit of the railway station and transfer you to the hotel.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast

The morning excursion begins from the Shanghai Museum. A visit to the classical Yu Garden follows. In the afternoon, we will transfer you to the Bund area where you will take a one-hour cruise on the Huangpu River. We will leave you some free time to explore the Bund. Then we visit an ancient cultural street, Tianzifang, which has been developed from a residential area to a new art zone combining artistic centers, exotic restaurants and bars. Finally, we transfer you back to the hotel.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast

After breakfast, please check out of the hotel. Our guide and driver will drive you out of the city to visit Zhujiajiao, an ancient well-preserved water town. The whole morning will be spent there for sightseeing. Afterwards, we will transfer you to the airport for your departure flight. We wish you a pleasant onward journey.

Meals: Western buffet breakfast