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THE GREAT EXPEDITION – 20 DAYS

THE GREAT EXPEDITION – 20 DAYS

Beijing – Xian – Guilin – Yangshuo – Kunming – Xishuangbanna – Dali – Lijiang – Kunming – Shanghai

Day 1. Arrive in Beijing
After welcoming the Beijing Guests will be transported to the hotel Prime, where they will spend four nights.

Day 2. Beijing
The whole day is devoted to exploring the capital of the Middle Kingdom. After breakfast, you will see the world’s largest square – Tiananmen or Tian’anmen Square, then cross the walls of the Forbidden City, once the heart of the inaccessible empire. They will also have the opportunity to also visit the Summer Palace, wrapped in a huge, beautiful park. The palace complex of buildings located on Longevity Hill overlooks Kunming lake surrounded by greenery, which creates a landscape fully justifying the Chinese name of the place – Hall of Preserving Harmony. During the tour guests will be served lunch.

Day 3. Beijing
Continue exploring the Chinese capital. After breakfast, guests will visit the Hutong – quarter with traditional Chinese buildings, where a local family will host them and serve them lunch. After the meal, guests will visit two important religious buildings – a great center of Tibetan Buddhism in the Lama Temple and the holiest place of imperial China – Temple of Heaven. In the evening, watch a performance in the Beijing Opera.

After the tour dinner will be announced.

Day 4. Beijing
After breakfast, guests will venture out on another day trip, the purpose of which will be to observe the largest structure built by man – the Great Wall of China, and the mighty tombs of the Ming Dynasty, in which lie 13 emperors. During the break visiting guests will be served lunch.

Day 5. Beijing – Xian
Today, after breakfast, tour participants will travel to the airport, from where they will fly to Xian. They will be staying at the Hyatt Regency, where they will spend two nights. After arriving in the city, which began with the Silk Road, they watch the ancient walls, as well as the twin towers rising in the city center. From the Drum Tower and Bell Tower at fixed times you hear the sound of the instruments, from which they are named. Guests will be served lunch.

Day 6. Xian
After breakfast, guests will venture out to meet 8,000 terracotta warriors, known as the Terracotta Army, who are gearing ranks around the tomb of the first emperor of China. The next points of the expedition will be the Shaanxi Museum and the Great Goose Pagoda. During the tour guests will be served lunch, and after the tour dinner composed of traditional noodles. In the evening, guests will see a show dedicated to the Tang Dynasty.

Day 7. Xian – Guilin
On the seventh day, after breakfast, guests will visit the Grand Mosque in the Muslim Quarter, where you will go to the airport and will fly to Guilin. They will be accommodated at the Sheraton Hotel, where they will spend the next two nights. Guests will be served lunch.

Day 8. Guilin – Yangshuo
After breakfast, guests will venture into one of the most beautiful places in China, whose landscape can be found on the reverse of the 20 yuan banknote. Among the fantastic limestone hills with poetic names the Li river meanders. Sailing it, tour participants will have the opportunity to admire the majestic landscape of Guilin, and along the way visit the picturesque villages. Another highlight of your trip will be the village of Yangshuo along with its markets. During the tour guests will be provided lunch.

Day 9. Guilin – Kunming
In the morning, after breakfast, guests will go to the airport and will fly to Kunming. Upon arrival at the capital of Yunnan province guests are transported to the hotel Harbor Plaza, where they will spend one night. The day will elapse exploring the rich collection of statues in the temple Bamboo and Yunnan Provincial Museum. During the tour guests will be served lunch.

Day 10. Kunming – Xishuangbanna
After breakfast, guests will venture out on a full day tour that will start in the thousand years of Yuantong Temple. Then they see the Golden Temple, Daguan tower, called Tower of stunning views, and will visit the Institute of Ethnic Minorities. After lunch they will be taken to the airport and will fly to Xishuangbanna. Guests will spend the next two nights at The hotel Tai Garden.

Day 11. Xishuangbanna
After breakfast, guests will spend the whole day exploring this region of China. They will observe striking contrasts of the countries of Southeast Asia through the tropical jungle and the culture of ethnic minorities. Guests will visit Manjinglan, village of the Dai people, with the thriving culture of its ethnic minority, as well as the Buddhist watchtower Manfeilong.

During the tour guests will be provided with lunch.

Day 12. Xishuangbanna – Dali
After breakfast, guests will venture to the Tropical Botanical Garden Menglun. In the afternoon we arrive at the airport and will fly to Dali, where we will stay for three nights at the Hotel Asia Star. Guests will be served lunch.

Day 13. Dali
Guests will spend the whole day exploring the city. After breakfast, observe a dedication to the deity of mercy Hall Guyanying and a Christian church, and then come to the Hill Changshan. End the day with a walk through the neighborhood with traditional buildings. During the break visiting guests will be served lunch.

Day 14. Dali
The attraction of this day will be a cruise on Lake Erhai resembling the shape of the ear. Later, after breakfast, guests will visit the Salvador Dali Museum. Lunch will be provided.

Day 15. Dali – Lijiang
After breakfast, you will go to the Grand Hotel Lijiang in Lijiang, where you will spend the next two nights. This day will begin with a visit to the temple of Lama Yufeng, where tour participants will venture to the town of Baisha, to admire the rustic frescoes remembering the Ming dynasty. Another point of the expedition will be a beautiful park at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the charming, opaque Black Dragon pond. The visit will end in Dongba Museum, documenting the history and culture of the people Dongba. During the tour guests will be served lunch.

Day 16. Lijiang
Today, after breakfast, you set off on an expedition to one of the largest and most beautiful gorges in the world – Tiger Leaping Gorge, where winds blow through the hills of the Yangtze river. Along the way, they will witness the spectacle of the Jade Dragon and visit monastery of Baisha. Lunch will be prepared by a local family belonging to the people of old Naxi kingdom. In the evening, guests will go to a concert of traditional music of the Naxi. That day dinner is also served.

Day 17. Lijiang – Kunming – Shanghai
After breakfast, tour participants will be transported to the airport and will fly to Kunming, where they will change planes for the flight to Shanghai. Upon arrival in the largest city of China, guests will go to the Peace Hotel, where they will spend three nights. During the trip lunch will be served.

Day 18. Shanghai
The whole day is devoted to visiting Shanghai. After breakfast, you go for a walk to Yuyuan Garden and later to Jade Buddha Temple, where there is a famous lookout over the Huangpu River, called the Bund. On this day, guests are given lunch and dinner. In the evening, they will have the opportunity to admire the show of the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe.

Day 19. Shanghai
After breakfast, you will go to the Shanghai Museum and the Grand Theater. Meeting with Shanghai you will end up walking down the street Nanjing. On the last day of sightseeing guests will be served lunch.

Day 20 return to your country
On this day you say goodbye to The Middle Kingdom. After breakfast you will go to airport to fly back to Poland.

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