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)
Continue to explore the ancient city including the Hutong Trishaw tour in the morning, and then to the exquisite Summer Palace, which was listed as UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage in 1998. With its elegant overall arrangement, magnificent buildings and attractive scenery, the Summer Palace is the most splendid imperial garden in China built in 1750.

Day 04: Beijing - Jinshanling Great Wall (B+L+D)
Start in the early morning and spend half pass three hours on private van driving into Jinshanling Great Wall, which has a total length of 10.5 kilometers. We will arrive at the foot of the Jinshanling Great Wall at noon. After having lunch in a local restaurant, our hiking tour will start from here.
Our home stay tonight is in the hostel.

Day 05: Simatai Great Wall - Beijing - Xian (B+L)
After breakfast, continue hiking to Simatai Great Wall, the most beautiful section of the Great Wall. It is 5.4 km in length with 35 watchtowers in all. Simatai Great Wall has been acknowledged by the UNESCO as one of the World Cultural Heritages. During the hiking tour to the Simatai Great Wall, you will have chance to enjoy the breathtaking sightseeing along the Great Wall. Today's hiking tour takes 3 to 4 hours, 12km. In the afternoon, make a beeline for the airport to Xian. Upon arrival, be met and transferred to the hotel.

Day 06: Xian (B+L)
Get up early in the morning and take half a day hiking along the Old City Wall from the West City Gate through South City Gate to East City Gate, which has a length of 13.7 km. After lunch, we will visit 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.

Day 07: Xian - Guilin (B+L)
Today the first stop in this pleasant city is 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. Take the afternoon flight to Guilin, which is famous for its breathtaking scenery, rivers and karst peaks covered in lush greenery. Upon arrival, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel.

Day 08: Guilin - Yangshuo (B+L)
Enjoy a relaxing day of cruising on the scenic Li River. In the morning you will drive about 40 minutes to Zhujiang pier to start the Li River cruise. Along the river, you will be inspired by the picturesque mountains, peaceful green fields, crystal-clear water, lush bamboos and villages with water buffalos. The boat arrives at Yangshuo-a beautiful and quaint ancient town with one thousand years' old in the afternoon.Take a short walk along the famous foreinger street- Western Street after checking in at the hotel.

Day 09: Yangshuo - Guilin (B+L)
Starts in the town, you will have a biking tour around Yangshuo to visit the Old Banyan Tree which covers an area of 1000 square meters with a long history of 1,000 years around and the Moon Hill with a hole in its peak in the shape of a half moon where you can look through the sky as well as the old villages. Strolling around rice fields, you will have a chance to visit local farmer's house. In the mid-afternoon, we will drive back to Guilin.

Day 10: Guilin - Longsheng - Guilin (B+L)
Depart hotel in the morning for the scenic 2.5 hour drive to the magnificent Longji Rice Terraces. Longji means "Dragon's Backbone". When climbing to the top of it and looking down at the nearby terraced rice fields, you will have the feeling that you are standing on the dragon's back as the terraced rice paddies look like the shining scales of the dragon.. This awesome construction dates from the Yuan Dynasty. Then visit Ping An village with its long-haired women from the Yao Ehnic minority. Afterwards, you will take another 2.5 hour journey back to Guilin

Day 11: Guilin - Kunming (B+L)
Continue to explore some of Guilin's natural wonders: first to the Reed Flute Cave, called as "Art Palace of the Nature". This splendid karst cave is full with a myriad of stalactites and stalagmites formulates various bizarre scenes. And then go the Wave-subduing Hill (Fubo Hill), where you can have a bird??-eye view of the whole city on the very top. Take the afternoon flight to Kunming. Upon arrival, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel.

Day 12: Kunming - Lijiang (B+L)
After breakfast you will drive about 120 kilometers to the Stone Forest showing you a natural wonder of limestone karst formation formed 270 million years ago. The Stone Forest occupies an area of 400 square kilometers and consists of a whole range of karst formations. Then you make a beeline for the airport to Lijiang. Upon arrival in Lijiang, be met and transferred to the hotel.

Day 13: Lijiang - Middle Tiger Leaping Gorge (B+L+D)
Get up early in the morning and drive about 2 hours to Qiaotou Town, where is the upper region of Tiger Leaping Gorge. Tiger Leaping Gorge is regarded as one of the deepest gorges in the world with a depth of 3,000 meters. Here, the river twists and turns and vigorously swash against the rocks, the breakers sent up a fountain of spray.
Our hiking trip begins from here. The total trekking route is 28 km, and it takes approximately 6 hours.

Day 14: Tiger Leaping Gorge (B+L+D)
Continue trekking to the Tiger Leaping Gorge in the early morning. After a short break, we walk down the steep cliff to the bank of Jinsha River. With a length of 2290 km, Jinsha River is the most precipitous section of Yangtze River, which makes a sudden turn of 135 degrees to flow northeastward. Then we go on climbing up the Tiger Leaping Gorge for approximately one hour.

Day 15: Tiger Leaping Gorge - Lijiang (B+L)
Today we continue trekking for 2 km and cross the Jinshajiang River by boat to get to Daju Town. For lunch we'll sample simple countryside fare in a local restaurant. Then we head to Lijiang. On the way, we pay a visit to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which is situated 15 km north of Lijiang city, on the south bank of the Yangtze River with an altitude of 5600 meters above sea level.

Day 16: Lijiang - Kunming (B+L)
Visit Baisha Frescos. These frescoes are both essential to the research of Chinese painting and important cultural heritage relics too. In the afternoon drive back to the city to stroll along the Ancient Town of Lijiang. Then the tour guide will transfer you to the airport and help you board the plane back to Kunming.

Day 17: Kunming - TBA (B)
The tour guide will transfer you to the airport and help you board the plane to our next destination.