6 Days Mt. Jinggangshan, Mt. Lushan, Nanchang Tour

Day 1

Shanghai / Ji'an

Transfer via: Overnight train on our arrangement

On your own arrangement to get to railway station to take overnight train. Depart from Shanghai to Ji'an City in Jiangxi Province by train. Overnight on the train.

Day 2

Ji'an / Mt. Jinggangshan (L)

Transfer via: Private Vehicle on our arrangement.
Sightseeing: Mt. Jinggangshan, Revolutionary Museum, Former Revolutionary Headquarter.

Arrive at Ji'an in the morning, you will be met and transferred to Mt. Jinggangshan (2 hours). Mt. Jinggangshan is not only a natural beauty spot, but also the cradle of the Chinese Revolution. The lofty and majestic Jinggang Mountains, covering 670 square km, tower in the central part of Mount Luoxiao and stretch over the border of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. It is ranged among "China Forty Best Tourist Attractions" and the cradle of the Chinese revolution. Guo Moruo marveled in his lines when touring the mountains, "After visiting Jinggangshan, no mountain will be an attraction”. Then we will visit the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Museum and the Former Revolutionary Headquarters.

Day 3

Mt. Jinggangshan / Nanchang (B, L)

Transfer via: Private Vehicle on our arrangement
Sightseeing: the Mausoleum of Martyrs, memorial square for the Nanchang Uprising

After breakfast, you will have a visit to the Mausoleum of Martyrs. Then we drive to Nanchang ( about 3.5 hours), the capital city of Jiangxi Province, after arrive in there, we will visit the memorial square for the Nanchang Uprising. it was built on the site of the Nanchang Uprising Headquarters, a gray five-story building blending both Western and Chinese architectural styles. The headquarters of the New Fourth Army and the residences of Zhou Enlai and Zhu De during the Nanchang Uprising are also in Nanchang. This building used to be a local hotel, but as they used it as the headquarters of the revolutionary army at the time of uprising in arms in 1927, it has been kept as a memorial hall to the revolution with a lot of objects of historical and cultural importance on display.

Day 4

Nanchang / Mt. Lushan (B, L)

Transfer via: Private Vehicle on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Tengwangge Tower, Song Meiling Villa

First we will visit to Tengwang Pavilion, rising high above the bank of the Ganjiang River, the Tengwang Tower was first built in 659AD by the then prefectural governor of Hongzhou (present day Nanchang) Li Yuanming, or Tengwang. Poems written by Tang dynasty (618-907AD) poet Wang Bo have made the tower famous. The tower was rebuilt and repaired 28 times and in 1989 it was renovated in the Song style. This granite structure is 9 stories high and houses numerous gift shops, a tea house, exhibition halls and a natural history museum.

Then we continue drive to the famous Mt. Lushan, which has been designated a natural and cultural heritage site by UNESCO.

After lunch, visit the Song Meiling Villa. The villa was built in 1931 as a weekend retreat for Chiang Kai-shekand his wife Song Meiling. It features mixed Chinese and Western architecture. The area is designed in the shape of a necklace, with the house sitting as the central pendant.

Day 5

Mt. Lushan / Shanghai (B, L)

Transfer via: Overnight train on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Mt. Lushan

Visit Mt. Lushan in the morning. This Mountain is located in the northern part of Jiangxi Province, to the south of the Yangtze River and northwest of Poyang Lake. The picturesque Mountain is well known in China. The scenic area, covering 302 square km, houses 16 natural wonders, 474 scenic spots and 171 peaks.

The scenery in the Lushan scenic area is breathtaking. It is full of sheer peaks and precipices, changeable clouds and fogs, silver springs and flying waterfalls. The flora is diverse and comprises about 3,000 species. Features of glaciation during the Quaternary Period make Mt. Lushan even more mysterious. There are millions of migratory birds in the Poyang Lake area. The dancing of the largest number of cranes over the water makes it a world wonder.

Lushan abounds in historic and cultural relics. The great historian of the Han Dynasty, Sima Guang, climbed Mt. Lushan, and wrote about it in his classic The Historical Records. Bailudongshuyuan (White Deer Cave Academy) was the most famous of the four biggest academies in ancient China, and enjoys high prestige in the Chinese history of education.

Donglin Temple (East Grove Temple), built by eminent monks in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was the birthplace of the Jintu (Pure Earth) sect of Buddhism. More than 1,500 noted figures in history visited this Mountain, leaving behind some 4,000 pieces of verse and over 900 inscriptions on the cliffs, as well as other writings, prints and calligraphic works. There are about 600 villas here, with the styles of 18 nations and cultures.

After lunch you are free to spend the day at your leisure. Later afternoon, you will be met and transferred to railway station to take overnight train to Shanghai.

Day 6

Shanghai / Departure

Transfer via: Flight on your own arrangement

Arrive in Shanghai, be met by your tour guide at the railway station and transferred to airport for your next destination.