Day 01: TBA - Beijing
Upon arrival in Beijing, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. As the capital of China, Beijing has a long history with an abundance of historical and cultural heritage-you cannot tear yourself away!
The rest of the day is free at your own leisure.

Day 02: Beijing (B+L+D)
Start your Beijing exploration with first visit to the largest public square in the world: Tiananmen Square. Next, stroll through the largest and the best preserved Imperial Palace in the world: the Forbidden City. In the afternoon, you will take a short drive to the Temple of Heaven, which was built specifically for worship of heaven and prayers for good harvests during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Enjoy a Beijing Duck Dinner tonight.

Day 03: Beijing (B+L)
After breakfast, drive about one hour to Badaling Great Wall, China's most spectacular sight extending more than 3,700 miles across China and most often visited for China tour. It is one of the best preserved sections and the highest point of the Great Wall.
After lunch you also visit one of the Mind Tombs. Ming Tombs are the general names for the mausoleums of 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), located 50 kilometers north from Beijing City. They were fully recognized by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in 2000.

Day 04: Beijing - Urumqi - Kashgar (B+L+D)
Fly to Urumqi in the morning. Local guide will meet you at Diwopu Airport, and transfer to the city. For lunch we will take you to the restaurant with a Guinness record winning dish - Big Plate Chicken. And then visit Regional History Museum. Let the guide and the display give you the knowledge of history of the most ancient states along the Silk Road which were left just ruins, with their 3000-year-old mummies on display Later we will visit the city square and the famous international bazaar where is an ideal place for shopping and bargaining. In the evening you will fly to Kashgar by HU7749 (21:05-22:45).

Day 05:Kashgar (B+L+D)
The historic spots in Kashgar are well within 5 km from the city centre, so we will take a bike tour to discover the historic sites(optional, can take car if don' t like to bike).We will also visit renowned Sunday Bazaar and the less known but more amazing animal Bazaar.
Here you can see sheep section, cow section, horse cart section, ect. Dealers negotiate silently with hand gestures... Dinner will be arranged in an orchard under the grape trellis. You will see how ease the local life style is. You feel like being back to the ancient time.
The first place you will visit is the 0Id Kah Mosque, Chinas largest mosque. It is the key worship place for Chinas Muslims. Each year, tens of thousands of worshippers enter its gates on Friday to pray alone. As an architectural masterpiece, the Abakh Khoja Tomb is the family tomb of a powerful 17th century Kashgar ruler. You will be able to visit the huge tomb hall built with glazed bricks decorated with beautiful flower patterns.

Day 06: Kashgar - Karakul Lake (B+L+D)
Drive to Karakul Lake (4-5 hours). Explore a rural Uygur village on the way by donkey cart. And check out a small musical instrument workshop.
The country dirt road, you will come across the green fields under bright blue sky, Uygur men and women working under the sun in the fields, other donkey carts driven by all kinds of Uygurs, if lucky can come across very pretty Uygur lady donkey cart drivers... In this way you will catch more folk face pictures which make you a good show off among your friends.
We will also check out a musical instrument workshop on the way. We arrive at the world' s highest alpine lake-Karakul Lake around lunch time. This is a pure world: calm lake reflecting the surrounding snow peaks above 6,000m, among them is MusztaghAta (7546m). Free time and enjoy the sunset.... Stay overnight in Tajik yurt or camp.

Day 07: Karakul Lake - Kashga (B+L)
If you like, get up early to picture the sunrise. Enjoy some peaceful time and a free morning walking around the lake. You can also ride a horse to walk around the lake (optional extra). After lunch, we will hit our way back. Since you' ve now known a bit about the city, we leave the night for your own freedom, but will help with useful information. Enjoy your last night in this fable city of in the A Thousand and One Night Tales.

Day 08: Kashgar - Urumqi - Turpan(B+L+D)
Fly to Urumqi in the morning by HU7748 (11:10-12:55) and drive 3hours to China' s hottest and world' s second lowest city, Turpan( 2.5 h). Get the view of the largest 'wind farm', Great Salt Lake, Tianshan Mountain range and snow peaks, Daban Town in the poem... on the way and could stop for pictures.
Visit Jiaohe Ruin, a 2,500 year ruins of an influential kingdom. They built their city on a plateau of a 30meter cliff surrounded by deep, fertile valleys to protect themselves from animals and enemies. It used to be flourishing state capital with advanced planning of laid-outs of Buddhism temples, living couters, government section, etc. But they could not survive the religious battle which destroyed the entire city and its people abruptly; the Keraz Well, a fascinating ancient Han irrigation project; and the Sugong Tower, the largest ancient Islamic tower in Xinjiang.

Day 09:Turpan - Dunhuang(B+L+D)
Visit the Aztana Tombs. Astana is the Tomb area for Gaochang kindom hundreds of years ago. Many naturally dried mummies were found in these tomb areas, including what we have seen in the Urumqi history museum. Visit to the mid-evil time Uygur village that buried 7 sages, a town for pilgrims.
At night catch up the overnight train T218/215 at 22:43 to Dunhuang.

Day 10:Dunhuang(B+L+D)
Arrive at Dunhuang at 10:48 in the morning.
We will drive to Mogao Cave first (2 hr). Being built over 10 dynasties, the glamour of its fine artifacts and scale remind us of the splendor of Dunhuang when serving as the most westernly military garrison in China and a hub between China and the western nationalities. Thus the statues carry more Indian flavor with them. The largest statue is 34.5 meters (113 feet) high and the smallest a mere 2 centimeters (0.79 inches) high. Also known as 'Caves of Thousand Buddhas' , people believe it possible to fill 25 km(15.5 miles) of gallery space with the works of art from Mogao, not mention the 50,000 manuscripts written in many languages apart from artifacts.
After a local lunch, you can finally through yourselves into the luxury hotel rooms. Our hotel is just by the desert-Mingshag Mountain and Yueya Spring. Have a rest till after 4 pm in the afternoon when the desert cools down a bit. You can go into the world of sand. Camel riding is available (optional extra)while you appreciate the dramatic view back across the rolling desert sands towards the oasis and have a first hand feeling how the silks and cultures were delivered along the ancient road. Coming downhill is more fun-get yourself a board and slide!

Day 11: Dunhuang - Xian (B+L+D)
Take a morning flight to Xian. Upon arrival, our local guide will meet you and escort you to begin your journey to Shanxi Provincial Museum showing you more than 370,000 relics including Bronze wares, terra cotta figures, gold and silver wares and murals with three thousand years. And next is the Great Mosque. One of five Muslim sanctuaries in China, the Great Mosque in Xian is the only one open to visitors.

Day 12:  Xian (B+L+D)
Enjoy a magnificent day of sightseeing what has been called the 8th Wonder of the World --the Terra Cotta Soldiers Museum, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Altogether over 7,000 pottery soldiers, horses, chariots, and even weapons have been unearthed there. After lunch, visit the Bell Tower, which is the most well-preserved and best-known one in China and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, which is one of the most famous Buddhist pagodas in China and initially built in 589.

Day 13: Xian - Shanghai (B+L+D )
Take the morning flight to Shanghai, the largest and most prosperous metropolis in China and known as the "Paris of the East". Having arrived at noon, after a little freshen up, you will taking some tours includes the Bund, where the great foreign commercial houses and banks built their imposing office buildings before 1930s. Then stroll along the Nanjing Road, which is considered as one of the World's Seven Great Roads in the 1930s and always mentioned in travel guides as a must see of China tour.

Day 14: Shanghai (B+L+D)
After breakfast, you will tour the elegant classic Chinese garden: the Yu Yuan Garden. Yu Yuan Garden has quite a few scenic courtyards dotted with baroque rockery, pools and flora, all connected by corridors and passageways and cultural relics. Then proceed to Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Finally take a walking tour of the Old French Concession, the area of Shanghai once occupied by French in the mid-19th century.

Day 15: Shanghai - TBA (B)
The tour guide will transfer you to the airport and help you board the plane to your sweet home with unforgettable memories.