9 Days Xining, Tongren, Xiahe, Zhongwei and Yinchuan Tour
Tour Summary
Day by Day Itinerary
Reviews
B=Breakfast,L=Lunch,D=Dinner
Tour Dates | Destinations | Services Provided | Meals Included | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Day 1 |
Xining
|
Arrival in Xining, be met and then be transferred to hotel. Free at leisure the rest of the day.
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 2 |
Xining
|
Today visit Qinghai Lake and Ta'er Monastery .
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 3 |
Xining/Ledu/Tongren
|
Drive to Ledu County. Visit the Qutan Monastery. Head for the Liuwan Tombs.
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 4 |
Tongren
|
Visit the Rebkong Art Museum, the famous Wutun and Longwu Temples.
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 5 |
Tongren/Xiahe
|
Morning drive to Xiahe. Visit the Labrang Monastery.
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 6 |
Xiahe/Zhongwei
|
Drive to Zhongwei. Visit Gaomiao temple.
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 7 |
Zhongwei/Yinchuan
|
Visit Shapotou Scenic Spots, the 108 Pagodas. Drive to Yinchuan.
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 8 |
Yinchuan
|
Full day visit the Western Xia Mausoleum. Cliff Carvings in Helan Mountain.
|
|
||||||||||||||
Day 9 |
Yinchuan
|
Visit Ningxia Museum and Chengtiansi Tower. Then be transferred to airport for your flight departure. |
|
-NOTE:
1. Normally hotels allow a maximum of 3 adults per room with an extra bed, at extra charge. Some hotels will allow three adults and a small child.
2. Tour price is indicative only, please enquire for a detailed quotation.
3. More people more discounts. Please enquire for more details.
Price Includes
A. Entrance fees:To scenic spots as listed above in the itinerary.B. Meals: All meals as specified in the itinerary.
C. Private Transfers: Among airports, hotels and scenic spots while sightseeing in the above cities by the private air conditioned vehicle.
D. Guide and Driver: As outlined in the itinerary, a well selected English-speaking guide and driver will accompany you throughout the entire tour in that city. They do not fly with you from one city to another.
E. Hotels: Hotel Based on two persons sharing one room with twin beds. All hotels as listed in the above itinerary serve daily western or Chinese breakfast. All rooms are air-conditioned with private facilities unless specified.
F. Luggage Transfers: Between airports and hotels.
G. Service Charge & Government Taxes.
H. Travel insurance in mainland China during the above travel period.
I. Arrangements: The tour cost includes planning, handling, operational and communication charges.
B=Breakfast,L=Lunch,D=Dinner
Day 1
Xining Arrival
Transfer via: Flight on your own arrangement
Arrival in Xining, you will be met by our local tour guide and then be transferred to hotel. Free at leisure the rest of the day.
Day 2
Xining (B, L)
Sightseeing: Qinghai Lake, Ta'er Lamasery
Today you will visit to the Qinghai Lake and have a cruise on the lake. It is a saline lake situated in the province of Qinghai, and is the largest lake in China. It is located about 100 km west of the provincial capital of Xining at 3,205 meters (10,515 feet) above sea level in a depression of the Tibetan Plateau in the traditional Tibetan county of Amdo. Twenty-three rivers and streams empty into Qinghai Lake. Scenery in Qinghai Lake varies according to seasons. Summer and autumn are the most comfortable weather conditions and the lake's scenery is most beautiful during these seasons.
Then Visit the Ta'er Lamasery, It is one of the six great monasteries of the Yellow Hat Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, built in 1557 on sacred land. Still quite active with 600 monks. It is the birthplace of Tsong Khapa, founder of the Yellow Hat (Gelupa Sect), and is known for its sculptures of human figures, animals and landscapes carved out of Yak Butter.
Day 3
Xining / Ledu / Tongren (B, L)
Transfer via: Private vehicle on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Qutan Monastery, Liuwan Tombs
This mornig, we will dirve to Ledu County and visit the Qutan Monastery. 80 kilometers from Xining, Qutan Monastery was built during the reign of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty. The monastery is a unit understate protection, and it is famous for the Ming-style buldings, precious relics, and valuable murals of the Ming and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Also known as the Lesser Forbidden City, the pattern of the building complex resembles that of the Forbidden City in Beijing, with chapels, halls, pavilions, gallery of murals, Buddhist pagodas, and drum towers scattered symmetrically on both sides of the axis. The mural gallery with an area of 360 square meters has a collection of huge painted murals, vividly depicting the life of Sakyamuni. The colors of the murals are still bright after experiencing 600 years of wind and rain.
Then head for the Liuwan Tombs. The Liuwan Tombs are the largest tombs of primitive China, which are well preserved. The tombs cover an area of 110,000 square meters. The re are more than 1,500 tombs with 30, 000 relics unearthed belonging to thecultures of Majiayao, Machang, Jijia, and Xindian. The buried articles are mainly production tools. Such as axe, chisel, and knife as well as pottery articles for daily use. Among the relics unearthed, the painted pottery statue is the most valuable, and has been listed as one of the state-level relics.
Continue drive to Tongren. Check in your hotel in Tongren.
Day 4
Tongren (B, L)
Sightseeing: Rebkong Art Museum, Wutun and Longwu Temples
Visit the Rebkong Art Museum and learn how the Art was being fully used in beautifying daily life. Rebkong Art refers to the art and culture along the Rongwo River in Tongren County, Huangnan Prefecture of Qinghai. Rebkong was the name of the relevant area in the history, covering today’s Xunhua County, Tongren County and Zekok County. The paintings, sculptures and clay sculptures, barbola embroideries, casting skills, God worshipping dance and other folk dances are very unique and distinctive, winning a great reputation home and abroad. Re-gong art is a pearl of art in the treasury of Tibetan culture.
Visit the famous Wutun and Longwu Temples. Longwu Temple also known as Lower Wutun Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Tongren, Huangnan Prefecture, and is 186 km from Xining.The large monastery is situated at the southwestern end of Longwu town and has several dozen halls and thousands of monk cells. The grand hall has a number of spectacular statues of Shakyamuni and others including a 11 metre gilded statue of the founder, Tsongkapa (Zongkaba) on a stand 26 metres in circumference. It is the birthplace of Anduo Tibetan plays with performances being held at various times in each season.Longwu Temple is of the Gelukpa (Yellow Hat) sect and is known as a center of Tibetan thangka painting.
Day 5
Tongren / Xiahe (B, L)
Transfer via: Private vehicle on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Labrang Monastery
Drive to Xiahe. Visit the Labrang Monastery. Labrang Monastery (or Labuleng Monastery) of Xiahe is in the county town, built in 1710. It's one of the six most important leading lamaseries of the Yellow Hat Buddhist Sect in China, largest around Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan. It is the greatest Lamasery institute with the richest collection of Buddhism scriptures.
Day 6
Xiahe / Zhongwei (B, L)
Transfer via: Private vehicle on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Gaomiao Temple
After breakfast, we will drive to Zhongwei. Visit Gaomiao Temple. Gaomiao, located in Zhongwei County and built in the Ming Dynasty, is a building complex with 260 to wers and pavilions on a 4,000-meter-tall terrace. Bridges link most of the towers and pavilions. It is a sacred place for Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, and is one of the large ancient building complexes in Ningxia.
Day 7
Zhongwei / Yinchuan (B, L)
Transfer via: Private vehicle on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Shapotou Scenic Spots, 108 Pagodas.
Today we will first enjoy the Shapotou Scenic Spots. Located in Zhongwei County, this area is famous for the Yellow River running through the desert, the desert control project, and the singing sand, one of the four singing sands in China. Sung down, one can hear the magic sound of the sand. One can also draft along the Yellow River by sheepskin rafts, and adventure on the desert on camelback.
Then, we will go to see 108 Pagodas in Qingtongxia. The main attractions of the Scenic Qingtongxia Reservoir on the western shore of the YellowRiver are 108 Buddhist pagodas. They range in height from 3.5 to 2.5 metres, fashioned in three shapes (pyramid, gourd, and vase), and arranged on a rising mountain slope in rows of increasing odd numbers to form a colossal triangle. A major scenery by the Yellow River
In the afternoon drive to Yinchuan.
Day 8
Yinchuan (B, L)
Sightseeing: Western Xia Mausoleums, Cliff Carvings in Helan Mountain
After breakfast, we will go to the Western Xia Mausoleums. The Western Xia Mausoleums are a well-known travel site. It is located at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, close to Yinchuan City in Ningxia Autonomous Region, measuring 10 kilometers north to south, 4 kilometers east to west; the Mausoleum contains the tombs of emperors of the Western Xia. There are eight tumuli and over 70 annex tombs in this area.
Then visit Cliff Carvings in Helan Mountain. Hailed as a major wonder of ancient Chinese civilization, these cliff carvings were done by Chinese nomads some 10,000 years ago and were discovered at the entrance to the Helan Mountain 46 km from Yinchuan. They run the gamut from portraits, totems and heliolatry signs to scenes of hunting, grazing, war and dance. There is something genuinely uninhibited and unaffected about them.
Day 9
Yinchuan / Departure (B)
Transfer via: Flight on your own arrangement
Sightseeing: Ningxia Museum, Chengtian Si Tower
Today we will first visit Ningxia Museum. Housed in Chengtian Temple in the old part of Yinchuan, Ningxia Museum has a collection of nearly 10,000 cultural artifacts. The 1,000 objects on display are of high historical and cultural value.
Then we will see the Chengtian Monastery Pagoda, also known as "Western Pagoda", was built around A.D. 1050 when the Western Xia was at the height of its power and splendor.
After the tours, your guide will transfer to airport for your flight departure.

I hope this letter finds you well. We finally arrived home from our trip last Thursday the 17th. As promised I am writing to you about our experience in China and we thank you very much for your organizing. On the whole we had a wonderful time and were very well looked after by both guides and drivers we would especially like to thank Linda and Cynthia which we would highly recommend. They both gave really excellent service in every way including punctuality, information and restaurants that were chosen for lunches, the food was delicious. The cruise on the Huangpu River was cancelled because of bad weather which couldn't be helped so the guide offered us an Acrobatic Show which we enjoyed very much. We had a lovely time on day 3 to Tongli water town. Our stay in China was wonderful. Best regards, Kathleen Pam
- Booking Code:VOC-20190905-S
- Tour Starting Date:Thursday, 5 September 2019
- Client's information:Kathleen & Pam, Australia
Dear Molly, Hope you have been well. We will be returning to Singapore in a couple of hours. Would like to commend on the tour guides, drivers and accommodation that VOC has arranged for us. The guides and drivers are very professional,very helpful, thoughtful, caring and experienced. They practised good ethics as well. We definitely have a wonderful touring experience and I will definitely recommend your company to my friends. Regards, Mrs Wee
- Booking Code:VOC-20190605-M
- Tour Starting Date:Wednesday, 5 June 2019
- Client's information:Chew Huay Huay, Singapore

Hi Sandy, Thank you for a great first tour together. I appreciate that it was a big commitment for you to be away from your office family for such a long time. I know you would have missed your young son a lot. I am also very grateful for your huge personal effort that you put into the detailed planning. The local guides were all great - Sally, Amanda Benny. Regarding the itinerary, I think we have an excellent itinerary for the beginning and the end, but the middle of the tour needs to be changed. Thank you again for all your excellent work. I look forward to visiting you in your home town for our first Tibet tour in August 2020. Jo I might travel up one day ahead of the group to meet you and have dinner with you. Best regards, Brod
- Booking Code:VOC-20190528-S
- Tour Starting Date:Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Client's information:Brod, Australia
Van and I thought you put together a wonderful itinerary for our two-week vacation in China. Even though we missed a day in Beijing due to bad weather, our guide was very accommodating and helped us see as much as possible in the two remaining days. We enjoyed our guides, the food, and the hotels. Thank you for all of your help in putting together this trip. Best, Jayne
- Booking Code:VOC-20190517-S
- Tour Starting Date:Friday, 17 May 2019
- Client's information:Jayne Ellen Wilgus, USA
Dear friends of visitourchina, We went to visit Nanning between April 28th and May 3rd 2019 with my wife and my daughter. For us, it would be the first visit to China and we needed some support to organise this as I wanted to organise it all by myself (hotel, plane, visa, …). But as I was organising everything I felt the need of some extra support and help from people of China (for instance English talking guide, English talking organiser in China to take us around in a personal tour). “By accident” we get contact with visitourchina. And they “give” us Molly Mo as contact person. It was a winning number from the lottery ! Molly took care of us like “a real mother” ! No question I’ve asked her, she answered them immediately with her advice and experience. Always in a very friendly and positive way, adding a human sense so we were even more longing to visit Nanning and it’s people. Molly organised our guide in Nanning, Wendy, who was TOP for us. Wendy took care of us, from early morning till evening with a very professional view on guiding adding a good human sense to her work. We were so good prepared we had one day on our own and we could fill in without problems. It has been one of the best trips we ever had, we’ve learned very much of this part of China, enjoying the people we’ve met and with who we’ve got contact. It give us a real view of Chinese people and community and for us, a new world opened. A very good society, well organised, Nanning very good organised concerning environment and climate. So, we came back from Nanning after a too short stay with very positive feelings, hoping once more to visit China again. We’re very grateful to Molly in the first place. She is the ideal person to represent Visitourchina. She take care of my many, many questions with a great heart, she had many patience with us and she never disappointed us, her answers give us the extra love for China and it’s people. Visitourchina m...
- Booking Code:VOC-20190428-M
- Tour Starting Date:Sunday, 28 April 2019
- Client's information:Arnold Demeyere, Belgium
Hi Molly, The tour was great. Both guide and driver are very friendly and helpful. For the meals on the trip, so much food and delicious dishes. We loved the trip. Thanks for all your help. Best wishes, Brandon
- Booking Code:VOC-20190426-M(A)
- Tour Starting Date:Friday, 26 April 2019
- Client's information:Brandon Michael Driggs,USA
Quick Questions
Our team is waiting for your questions. Please feel free to ask us any questions you might have about our China package tours, Chinese culture, or the sites available. We will gladly help you with any special needs you might have and all questions, like our trip designing is completely free of charge.