Tour Dates 2012:

- Spring Trip: 8th April - 29th April
- Summer Trip: 22nd July - 12th August
- Autumn Trip: 14th October - 4th November (Start in Beijing, ends in Shanghai)
- Conveniently starting in Shanghai and ending in Beijing
- Experienced English-speaking tour leader throughout the whole trip

Travel Destinations:

- Shanghai: Yuyuan Garden, French Concession, Huangpu Boat Ride, Bund, Pudong, Oriental Pearl Tower / Jinmao Tower
- Jiangsu: Nanjing, Museum of the Taiping Uprising, 1937 Massacre Memorial, Ming Tombs
- Guangxi: Rice Terraces at Longsheng, Boat Ride on Li River, Yangshuo
- Sichuan: Chengdu City, Dujiangyan Irrigation System, Sanxingdui Museum, Panda Base, Leshan Giant Buddha
- Chongqing: Yangtze River Cruise
- Shaanxi: Xian, Terracotta Warriors, Han Mausoleum
- Henan: Luoyang, Longmen Buddha Grottoes, Shaolin Temples
- Beijing: Tiananmen, Forbidden City, Hutong, Lama Temple, Great Wall Hike, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Olympic Venue including Bird's Nest and Water Cube

Tour Description

The tour is perfect for first time visitors to China who appreciate a mix of group travel and personalized service. You will not only enjoy a group tour to China’s must-sees, we also include all those hidden treasures normal tour operators do not include in their itineraries!

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This tour leads from Shanghai to Beijing and covers China’s most important sites. A tour leader supported by local tour guides will guide you throughout the whole trip. Hence this trip is perfect for first time visitors to China who want to see all the classic sites as wells as China's hidden treasures on this high quality group trip.

Hiddenchina.net not only shows you the classic sites such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing, the karst mountains and rice terraces near Guilin, Sichuan's capital city Chengdu and the panda base, the Yangtse cruise, Terracotta Warriors in Xian and the warrior monks at Shaolin. We also lead you to all those hidden treasures along the road which most tour organizers do not include in their travel itineraries.

Furthermore we will not bring you to the highly frequented tourist restaurants where you are just one tourist among many, we take you to small and cozy places with local specialties, where the local people go eat.

Instead of staying overnight at international hotel chains, we prefer to bring you to comfortable and clean 4 star hotels, which have much more local flair. In addition, the comfort of having a tour leader from beginning until the end of the tour will make you enjoy the tour much more, since he will take care of all your needs while the local guides can focus on showing you all the sites.