Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou Art Tour (10 days / 9 nights)
- Tour overview:
- Focusing on China’s traditional and modern arts, this group tour visits China’s leading art centers. You will begin in Beijing, China’s capital for more than 500 years. You will see the ancient arts of China in many of the sites and museums you will visit in Beijing, including; the China National Fine Art Museum, and The Forbidden City. In Shanghai, you will visit the Shanghai Fine Art Museum, the Yuyuan Garden, and discovery the modern art scene and old traditional arts of Shanghai. Guangzhou, your final city, you will visit the Chen Ancestral Hall, which is now a museum dedicated to Guangzhou’s traditional arts.
Day by Day Itinerary
B=Breakfast,L=Lunch,D=Dinner
Day 1 Beijing
On arrival you will be met by our guide and transferred to your hotel. You will be free for the rest of the day.
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Day 2 Beijing (B, L)
A morning seat-in coach tour of Tian'anmen Square, the largest public square in the world, and the Palace Museum, known as the Forbidden City; the complex of imperial palaces are home to the emperors for over 500 years in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Some of the grand halls have been used as museums for fine collections of Chinese treasures. In the afternoon you visit Rosewood Museum, a museum known as a treasure and showroom of Chinese traditional furniture and architecture made of rosewood.
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Day 3 Beijing (B, L, D)
This morning you will visit China National Fine Art Museum. After lunch you will be driven to visit the Summer Palace, a former summer resort for the royal family, and take a boat ride on its Lake Kunming. This evening you will be treated to a delicious Beijing roasted duck dinner. This evening you will enjoy the show of Beijing Opera.
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Day 4 Beijing (B, L)
Your sightseeing this morning is Temple of Heaven, where the Ming and Qing emperors prayed for good harvest. It is the largest temple complex remaining in China today. Afternoon you visit China National Art Treasure Gallery. On the way back to your hotel, you will have a stroll of Liulichang (Glass Street) where you can find lots of Ancient book, painting, jade carving, porcelain, bronze sculpture as well as articles related to China culture.
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Day 5 Beijing - Shanghai (B, L)
After breakfast, you are picked up and are transferred to railway station. You take a five-hour high speed train to Shanghai, a cosmopolitan, bustling and heavily populated city in China. On your arrival, you will have lunch on the way to hotel. This afternoon, your tour guide will show you and have a stroll along the lively waterfront, known as the "Bund", the highlight of Shanghai.
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Day 6 Shanghai (B, L, D)
Your sightseeing this morning features a tour of the Yuyuan Garden, the old area of the city. After lunch, you will have a visit to Shanghai Fine Art Museum and followed a visit to Tianzifang - a place in shanghai you must not miss. Comparing with the brand new modern buildings, you can find the special architecture of old shanghai city. Peoples, who lived in shanghai in their life, still live here. It’s such a peaceful and quiet place to live. On the other hand, it’s also a good shopping area. There are a lot of beautiful, special and unique goods. The stores are little, but very characteristic with full of art beauty. The whole shopping area is not so large, but you will enjoy walking here and find out a lot of fun. When you’re tired, you can go to one of the little cafe or bar to have a drink or cake. An acrobatic show is ready for your evening entertainment after dinner.
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Day 7 Shanghai (B, L)
This morning, a tour to Fengjing, where is known as a water/canal town south of Yangtze, where you will visit and appreciate many kinds of local peasant and farmer paintings and you will enjoy yourself in picturesque south China nature and countryside.
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Day 8 Shanghai - Guangzhou (B D)
You are picked up from hotel after breakfast this morning and you will take a two and an half hours flight to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province and the southern China's most dynamic and developed commercial center. You have lunch in the plane. On your arrival, you are transferred to hotel to have refreshment. Followed you will visit Chen's Lineage Hall. Your guide will lead you to local restaurant. After dinner you are to take night cruise to enjoy city sightseeing feature, the landscapes along Pearl River.
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Day 9 Guangzhou (B, L)
Today we are going to Foshan, a town connected with Guangzhou. First of all, we are coming to Shiwan, a famous pottery made place with 5,000 year history. The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln production continued for 500 years and it is hence recorded in Jinisi Record Worldwide. Hereafter stroll on Shiwan Pottery Street and do shopping and have local lunch there. On the way back to Guangzhou you will visit Guangzhou Sculpture Park.
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Day 10 Guangzhou Departure (B, L)
This morning, you have city tour. First you visit Shamian Island where you will have a look British and French concession building before 1949 and local people doing exercise there nowadays. Next you will go to an interesting place Lizhiwan Museum, there are some exhibition halls about local conditions, the special things of Guangzhou, some especial houses, such as Xiguan Residence, some courtyards with ponds under stone, business streets and so on. You will have lunch with some local flavor there. In the afternoon you will visit so called Flower Square, where you will have outlook of TV Tower, Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou Opera Hall, Haixinsha Asia Games Park before you are transferred to the wharf for your onward journey to Hong Kong by ferry (18:00-20:00)
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Tour Cost (Unit: CNY):
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12,600 |
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Note:
Guaranteed Departures
Operates: Every Sat
Minimum 2 persons
Tour price does not include International air tickets, extra air fuel fare, excess baggage and any personal expense.
All tours are conducted in English.
Canton Trade Fair accommodation extra charge CNY 600 per person.
Above rate include:
1) 4* Hotel Accommodation and breakfast;
2) English speaking tour guide and tour coach;
3) Admission tickets to interesting places as indicated in above itinerary;
4) Lunch & dinner indicated in the above itinerary.
5) Train Ticket & Domestic air fare.
6) Ferry to Hong Kong.
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