Tour Package No.22: 13-Day Silk Road Adventure(from US$3002 per person)
Beijing/Urimqi/Turpan/Kashiga/Dunhuang/Xian/Shanghai 13 days / 12 nights
Tour Code: SILK

All inclusive;
5-star hotel in Beijing and Urumqi and 4-star hotels in Turpan, Dunhuang, Xi’an and Shanghai and 3 star hotel (best available) in Kashigar;
Complimentary Accidenal Travel Insurance in China;

Heavenly Lake		the Ruins of Jiaohe		Kashigar Bazaar		Mogao Grottoes

Package Features:

This tour will take you to the imperial cities of Beijing and Xi’an where you will visit the world renowned Great Wall, Forbidden City and Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses Museum etc. and see how the emperors were living, working, worshiping and entertaining in the ancient time, important cities along the famous Silk Road where you will see the world renowned Heavenly Lake in Urumqi, the Ruins of Jiaohe in Turpan, Old Town of Kashigar and Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, the modern city of Shanghai where you will see the fast development of the city. Besides, you will have the chance to taste the famous Peking Roast Duck and Dumplings and watch the fantastic Acrobatic or Kungfu Show and Tang Dynasty Singing and Dancing Show.

Hotels:

Beijing (1 nights): 5-star hotel
Oriental Bay International Hotel or similar

Urumqi (2 nights): 5-star hotel
Hoi Tak Hotel or similar

Turpan (1 night): 4-star standard hotel
Oasis Hotel or similar

Kashigar (2 nights): 3-star hotel
Barony Hotel or similar

Dunhuang (2 nights): 4-star hotel
Dunhuang Hotel or similar

Xi’an (2 nights): 4-star hotel
King Dynasty Hotel or similar

Shanghai (2 nights): 4-star hotel
Galaxy Hotel or similar

Guaranteed Departures and Pricing (all inclusive):

Land service includes:

-- 12 nights of hotel accommodation with buffet breakfast in hotel;
-- all transfers and transportation within the tour by luxury A/C coach;
-- all meals as listed in the itinerary (11 lunches and 10 dinners in local restaurant or on board);
-- all entrance fee to the scenic spots indicated in the itinerary;
-- quality English speaking tour guide service
-- domestic airfare Beijing / Urumqi / Kashigar / Urumqi / Dunhuang / Xian / Shanghai with tax and the fuel surcharges

Land service does NOT include:

-- roundtrip International airfare with tax;
-- extra personal expenses;
-- tips to tour guide, driver & porters

Remarks:

--Date for F-1 Race in Shanghai is unknown yet, one or two departures would be cancelled when
the date for F-1 Race is confirmed. .
-- Please indicate Tour CODE “SILK” or “Tour No.22” at time of booking
--There is no FOC and further discount for children under 12.
-- Please provide passport names and passport numbers at time of booking.
-- The above prices are based on the exchange rate of 1:7 between Chinese Yuan and US Dollar. If any further devaluation of US Dollar at time of booking, we have to charge the balance.

Detailed Itinerary:

Day 1.Tue To Beijing (No meals)
Arrive in Beijing Capital International Airport. You will be met by the local tour guide and transferred to your excellent 5-star hotel.
Rest of the day at leisure.
Overnight in Beijing

Day 2 Wed Beijing / Urumqi (B,L,D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Morning airport transfer for your flight for Urumqi, about 4 hours’ flight..
It is a unique air route, geographically covers the 2 world biggest deserts, many high & dry red rock or snow capped mountains, valleys and canyons. You could even doubt that you are flying on Mars.
Lunch.
Afternoon we drive 70 km southwest to one of the eight major deep valleys and along the whole Tianshan (Heavenly) Mountain-called Nanshan Grassland, where we visit the minority families of Kazakstanian, Uzbekistanian, Kyrgyzatanian and chat with them in their yurts while drink strong Milk Tea & home-made snacks.
Overnight in Urumqi.

Day 3 Thu in Urumqi (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
We drive 120 km northeast to Heavenly Lake, which is at an elevation of 2600 meters on the top of mountain. The beautiful lake is flanked by rugged pines and cypresses, with melted clear waters reflecting the surrounding of snow capped highest peak-Boghanar, the main peak of Heavenly Mountain, at elevation of 5446 meters, the peak is always regarded as Holy Mountain by all Turks, the genesis place of the nations in the mid of Asia. We cruise on the lake and take a golf car around the lake. Then we return to the city and visit the Provincial Museum to view the incredible mummies from over 2,000 years ago, that real tells us many mystery history unwritten on the book. If time available we visit the Red Hill Park and take golf car around the park and then visit Bazaar, which is believed to be the largest outdoor market in province.
Lunch and dinner.
Overnight in Urumqi.

Day 4 Fri Urumqi / Turpan (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Morning transfer to Turpan by private coach, about 180km away.
Turpan is an Uighur town set in a large oasis surrounded by desert and dry mountains.
Upon arrival, we visit the mysterious death city - the ruins of Jiaohe, which reveals traces of a prosperous ancient trading center and military stronghold at 1600 years ago, used to be the most frontal barrier at the west for the dynasties. And then we visit Ancient Karez, the underground water supply & irrigation system and its Museum. Turpan is famous throughout China for its big and sweet grapes and gourds, and we will visit the grape valley and enjoy fruits there.
Lunch and dinner.
Overnight in Turpan.

Day 5 Sat Turpan / Urmqi / Kashigar (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Morning visit Sugong Pagoda, the largest extant old tower in Xinjiang and the only Islamic tower among the hundred famous towers in China, the Flaming Mountain, which is barren and extremely hot in summer, Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Grottoes for murals.
Lunch at local family’s house.
We drive back to Urumqi in the afternoon and take the flight CZ9901 (19:35-21:20) from Urumqi to Kashigar.
Dinner.
Arriver in Kashigar, met and transferred to your hotel.
Overnight in Kashigar.

Day 6 Sun Kashigar (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
We visit Sunday Morning Moslems Pray, It is incredible that thousands of all Moslem kneel down on the streets and the squares facing to the temple. Then we visit the Sunday Bazaar, which is the largest outdoor market in the Mid-Asia. We visit Temple & the tombs of Fragrant Concubine, the Old Town of Kashigar in the afternoon. The old town will bring you thousand years afar back to a paramilitary age.
Lunch and dinner.
Overnight in Kashigar.

Day 7 Mon Kashigar / Urumqi / Dunhuang (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Morning airport transfer for your flight for Dunhuang by connecting the flight at Urumqi.
In the afternoon visit the world wonder – Mogao Grottos. The grottoes honeycomb a 1600 meters long cliff overlooking a river valley, located 25 km southwest from Dunhuang. It is the world's most important sites of ancient Buddhist Culture. The grottoes, also known as Caves of the Thousands Buddha, preserve nearly a thousand years of Buddhist cave-temple architecture, clay sculpture, mural paintings, and manuscripts, dating from the 5th to 14th centuries. Over 426 caves are very enormously in size and contain numberless clay scultures and more than 45,000 square meters of mural paintings, all are national treasures
Lunch and dinner.
Overnight in Dunhuang.

Day 8 Tue Dunhuang (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Today we drive 2 hours west forward across the desert to Yumen Guan (Jade Gate Pass), which was the west terminal of Great Wall built in Han Dynasty in 2100 years ago. After we return to the city our sightseeing is tour to Crescent Lake & Echoing Sand Mountain by riding camels to see the sun set.
Lunch and dinner.
Overnight in Dunhuang.

Day 9 Wed Dunhuang / Xian (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Morning airport transfer for your flight for Xi’an, about 2.5 hours’ flight.
Lunch.
Arriver in Xi’an, met and transferred to your hotel.
Afternoon tour to Big Goose Pagoda, which was built to store sutras and statues brought from India by Xuan Zang in Tang Dynasty, Bell Tower.
Dinner.
Overnight in Xi’an.

Day 10 Thu Xian (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Morning tour to Terracotta Army Museum, a vast Terracotta Army - 7000 life sized figures individually crafted and complete with chariots and horses (around 38km away from the city)
Lunch in local restaurant.
Afternoon tour to Shaanxi Provincial History Museum which houses a large collection of 113,000 historic and cultural artifacts unearthed in Shaanxi.
Dumpling Dinner & Tang Dynasty Singing and Dancing Show.
Overnight in Xi’an.

Day 11 Fri Xian / Shanghai (B, L, D)
Breakfast in hotel.
Airport transfer for your flight for Shanghai. About 2 hours’ flight.
Arrive in Shanghai, met and transferred to your hotel.
Lunch.
Afternoon tour to the Bund, which is a famous waterfront and regarded as the symbol of Shanghai for hundreds of years and Yu Garden, a representative of the classical architectural style acknowledged as an architectural miracle in the region southeast of the Yangtze River, and Old Town of Shanghai.
Dinner.
Acrobatic Show in the evening.
Overnight in Shanghai.

Day 12 Sat Shanghai (B, L, )
Breakfast in hotel.
Morning tour to the Shanghai Museum, a large museum of ancient Chinese art, and People’s Square.
Lunch.
Afternoon tour to Nanjing Road and Xintiandi (a new romantic paradise)
Rest of the day at leisure.
Dinner on own.
Overnight in Shanghai.

Day 13 Sun Shanghai/departure (B)
Breakfast in hotel.
Airport transfer for your flight home or extending your stay.