Our guide will pick you up at Beijing airport and transfer to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the city.

Visit the Tian'anmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. The Beijing Duck Dinner is served at a famous restaurant followed by a lively Peking Opera performance at the Liyuan Theatre.

Visit the Badaling Great Wall. To avoid having lunch at shopping site restaurants, you will be driven to have Sichuan food at a local popular restaurant. Visit the Sacred Way and the Ming Tomb in the afternoon. The a la carte dinner is served at a famous Cantonese cuisine restaurant in the Wangfujing area.

Visit the Summer Palace and the Lama Temple. Take a flight to Xian and transfer to the hotel. A sumptuous buffet dinner will be served for you at the hotel this evening.

Visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. To avoid having the poor food at the site, you will take highway back to downtown to have lunch at a well-known Cantonese cuisine restaurant. In the afternoon, visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the City Wall. This evening you will be entertained with the marvelous Tang Dynasty Dinner Show in Tang Dynasty Palace.

Visit the Provincial History Museum. The a la carte lunch is served at a local famous restaurant. Visit the Great Mosque and a local family.

Visit the Hanyangling Museum, the Mausoleum of Western Han Emperor Liu Qi on the way to the airport. Take a flight to Lhasa and transfer to the hotel in Tsetang. Dinner is served at your hotel.

Ferry the Yarlong Tsangpo River and visit the Samye Monastery. Transfer to Lhasa and check in at the hotel. The a la carte dinner will be arranged for you at a local best Sichuan cuisine restaurant.

Visit the magnificent Potala Palace. After a western-style lunch, visit the Sera Monastery and the Norbulingka Park. Dinner is served at your hotel.

Visit the Jokhang Temple and the thriving bazaar of the Barkhor Street.
After having a western-style lunch, go ahead to visit the Tibetan Traditional Medicine Hospital, the Tibet Museum and the Carpet Factory. Dinner is served at your hotel.

Visit a Tibetan family on the way to the airport. Take a flight to Shangri-La and transfer to the hotel.

Visit the Bita Lake and the Shudu Lake. On the way back, visit the Songzanlin Monastery.

On the way to Lijiang, visit the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the First Bend of the Yangtze River and the Stone Drum Town. Transfer to the hotel.

Visit the Baisha Village and a local Naxi family, the Baisha Murals, the Rock Joseph's Former Residence in Yuhu Village. You will have some free time to explore the old Town by yourselves in the afternoon. Enjoy the Naxi Ancient Music and Dance Performance at Dongba Palace in the evening after dinner.

The day is free for you to explore the city.

Take a flight to Kunming and transfer to the hotel. Visit the Stone Forest and the Flowers and Birds Market.

Take a flight to Chongqing. Visit the Panda House in Chongqing Zoo, time permitting. After having a rich buffet dinner at 4-star hotel, Holiday Inn Yangtze, you will board the deluxe German-made cruise ship to stay overnight.

At 08:00 as the cruise leaves Chongqing, your memorable Yangtze river tour is beginning. In the afternoon, visit the Ghost City of Fengdu.

Visit Badong and take a small junk to enjoy the marvelous spectacles of the nature in the Shennong Stream. Continue sailing into the western section of Xiling Gorge. Pass the five-step ship lock.

Visit the site of Three Gorges Dam Project.

At 12:00 arrive in Wuhan. Visit Hubei Provincial Museum. After having lunch at a local famous restaurant, take a flight to Shanghai and transfer to the hotel.

Visit the Shanghai Museum and the Yuyuan Garden. After lunch, take a cruise tour on the Huangpu River. The Farewell Dinner is served at Central Hotel, whose restaurant Wang Bao He has a history of around 260 years and is the best place to serve Shanghai Cuisine. The memorable dinner will be followed by the Portman Acrobatic Show at the Shanghai Centre Theatre.

See off.