Day 1 · Beijing
Arrive in Beijing
A private transfer takes you from the airport to your hotel, where you meet your local guide. The rest of the day is free to rest or take a first walk in the city.
9 days · 8 nights
Imperial Beijing, the terracotta army and modern Shanghai, linked by high-speed and sleeper trains.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesThree cities across nine days. You begin with three nights in Beijing for the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall, take the fast train to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors, then ride the overnight sleeper to Shanghai for its old town, the Bund and the canal town of Zhujiajiao.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
+1 day beforeA night in Beijing first
Beijing
Day 1 · Beijing
A private transfer takes you from the airport to your hotel, where you meet your local guide. The rest of the day is free to rest or take a first walk in the city.
Day 2 · Beijing
Begin on Tiananmen Square, then walk through the halls and gardens of the Forbidden City. In the afternoon visit the Temple of Heaven, and finish with a tea ceremony or a visit to a pearl market.
Mutianyu and Beijing
Day 3 · Mutianyu and Beijing
Walk a stretch of the Great Wall at Mutianyu, with a stop at a tea house afterwards. Return by way of the Summer Palace, the gardens and lakeside halls where the imperial family once escaped the city.
Xi'an
Day 4 · Xi'an
Explore the narrow hutong lanes of old Beijing in the morning. In the afternoon take the high-speed train to Xi'an, where a guide meets you and sees you to your hotel.
Day 5 · Xi'an
Visit the pits of the Terracotta Warriors, the clay army made for the first Qin emperor and found in 1974. On the way back, see the Tang dynasty Big Wild Goose Pagoda and a jade workshop, then have the rest of the day free.
Day 6 · Xi'an
Walk the old city walls and the lanes of the Muslim Quarter, with its mosques and food stalls. Late in the afternoon board the overnight train to Shanghai.
Shanghai
Day 7 · Shanghai
Arrive early and have breakfast at your hotel before a city tour. See Yu Garden and the Jade Buddha Temple, walk along the Bund for the skyline, and finish on Nanjing Road.
Zhujiajiao and Shanghai
Day 8 · Zhujiajiao and Shanghai
Spend half a day in Zhujiajiao, a water town of canals and old bridges. Back in Shanghai, wander the leafy streets of the former French Concession and visit a silk workshop.
Shanghai
Day 9 · Shanghai
Breakfast at the hotel before your private transfer to the airport.
+1 day afterA last night in Shanghai
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Beijing · 3 nights
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Xi'an · 2 nights
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Xi'an to Shanghai · 1 night
A soft sleeper berth in a four-berth cabin
Shanghai · 2 nights
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Add a few days before or after. Your advisor quotes them with the journey.
Before the journey · +1 day
Arrive a day early and rest before the touring starts, at the same Beijing hotel.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on in Shanghai for one more night at the same hotel.
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
China
4 days · 3 nights
Beijing
A short private stay in Beijing built around one full guided day: the halls and gardens of the Forbidden City in the morning and a long walk on the Mutianyu Great Wall in the afternoon. Around it you have an arrival afternoon and a whole free day to explore, or to add a guided tour.
China
13 days · 12 nights
Beijing → Xi'an → Chengdu → Chongqing → Yangtze River → Yichang → Shanghai
You start in Beijing with the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, then fly to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors. A bullet train takes you to Chengdu and its pandas, and from Chongqing you cruise three nights through the Three Gorges before finishing in Shanghai.
China
13 days · 12 nights
Beijing → Datong → Pingyao → Xi'an → Nanjing → Shanghai
A private journey across six cities linked by high-speed train. After three nights in Beijing you head west to the Buddhist grottoes of Datong and the walled town of Pingyao, then south to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors, before Nanjing and two final nights in Shanghai.
Three cities across nine days. You begin with three nights in Beijing for the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall, take the fast train to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors, then ride the overnight sleeper to Shanghai for its old town, the Bund and the canal town of Zhujiajiao.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
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