12 Days China Nature Wonders Tour with Jiuzhaigou and Zhangjiajie
China is a coutry with long history and abundant nature resource. You can see the various landscapes from north to south, west to east. This tour will start at north of China, Beijing, then head to south-west, Jiuzhaigou and Chengdu, and you will arrive at Shanghai crossing Zhangjiajie. In this tour, you will not only see the China nature wonders, but also the harmony between human and nature.
Highlights:
- Visit China nature wonders in Beijing, Jiuzhaigou, Chengdu, Zhangjiajie, Shanghai.
- Feel the breath between mountain and sky.
- Explore the lifestyle of human in the nature.
- Learn the harmonious spirit of Chinese.
Brief Itinerary
- Day 1: Beijing Arrival
- Day 2: Beijing
- Day 3: Beijing
- Day 4: Beijing – Jiuzhaigou
- Day 5: Jiuzhaigou
- Day 6: Jiuzhaigou – Chengdu
- Day 7: Chengdu
- Day 8: Chengdu – Zhangjiajie
- Day 9: Zhangjiajie
- Day 10: Zhangjiajie – Shanghai
- Day 11: Shanghai
- Day 12: Shanghai Departure
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1 Beijing Arrival
Sightseeing and Activities:
Accommodation: Beijing
Meals:
Arrive in Beijing, the capital city of China. You will be greeted and met by the tour guide at the airport and transferred to your hotel, whenever your flight arrives in Beijing. After check-in, free at leisure for the rest of the day.
Day 2 Beijing
Sightseeing and Activities: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park, Temple of Heaven, Panjiayuan Antique Market
Accommodation: Beijing
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore the historical city of Beijing. Then you will reach the Tian’anmen Square, the largest public square in the world. Walk through the square and visit today’s highlight: Forbidden City , the largest and most complete ancient imperial palace in the world. Hike to Jingshan Park, where gives a nice panoramic view of the Forbidden City at the top of Coal Hill.
In the afternoon, visit Temple of Heaven, which was used to pray for harvest by the emperors. It is China’s existing largest structure for sacrifice to heaven. Shopping time at Panjiayuan Antique Market and Pearl Market.
Back to the hotel, you can plan for the night show or the Peking duck dinner with your guide and ask for suggestions.
Day 3 Beijing
Sightseeing and Activities: Mutianyu Great Wall, Olympic Park, The exterior Bird Nest and Water Cube
Accommodation: Beijing
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore the Great Wall. Then drive to Mutianyu Great Wall, which section is more popular among foreign visitors. Upon arrival, you can choose to hike on the Great Wall, or take cable car up and walk around.
After lunch, drive back to Beijing city, while you can take a nap in the car. Visit the exterior Bird Nest and Water Cube, the amazing architectures that built for Beijing Olympic Games. After that you will experience Chinese tea at tea house.
Back to the hotel, you can plan for the night activities, such as foot massage, houhai night bars and Sanlitun bar street.
Day 4 Beijing – Jiuzhaigou
Sightseeing and Activities: Beijing Hutong, Summer Palace
Accommodation: Jiuzhaigou
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
You will have enough time to pack up and check out. Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and have half day leisure tour in Beijing. Then drive to Drum Tower area for taking a relaxing Hutong Tour by rickshaw , which is the way to know the Beijing local lifestyle.
Drive to Summer Palace, which is the existing largest, best-preserved imperial garden in China. Boat ride on Kunming Lake is included. Lunch will be arranged at nearby restaurant, named Xiangyangtun, with opera stage inside.
After lunch, be transferred to the airport for afternoon flight to Jiuzhaigou. Your tour guide will wait for you at the airport and help you to transfer to the hotel.
Day 5 Jiuzhaigou
Sightseeing and Activities: Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve
Accommodation: Jiuzhaigou
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve. Take full day excursion into Jiuzhaigou valley with your guide accompanying. Take a shuttle bus from Lantian Station to the Long Lake, then walk around and enjoy the Long lake & the Five-colour Pool. After that, take a shuttle bus from Five-colour Pool to Nuorilang Waterfall.
Continue your hiking tour in the afternoon and feel relaxed without pushing at all. Walk to the Nuorilang Waterfall for a visit before taking a shuttle bus from Nuorilang to Shuzheng Lake, visit the Rhino Lake, Tiger Lake, Shuzheng Fall and Princess Lake along the way in the bus . Then walk around and enjoy the Shuzheng Lake, the Shuzheng Valley, Take a shuttle bus From Shuzheng Lake to Shuanglong Lake for a visit to the Shuanglong Waterfall.
Finally take a shuttle bus back to the Lantian Station, and visit the Reed Lake, Bonsai Shoal and Mirror Cliff along the way in the bus. Relax in the hotel. The Tibetan dancing show will be an optional activity for you in the evening.
Day 6 Jiuzhaigou – Chengdu
Sightseeing and Activities: Huanglong National Park
Accommodation: Chengdu
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
After breakfast, our guide will meet you up at the hotel and transfer you to the airport for flight to Chengdu.
On the way to the airport, visit Huanglong National Park, which is a World Natural Heritage site, and famous for its colorful ponds, snowy mountains, deep valleys, and dense forest. All the colors of the rainbow are here. The landscape studded with waterfalls and terraced, colored limestone ponds of blue, yellow, white and green. We suggest you hike on the mountain to explore the real beauty of Huanglong National Park. There is also cable car service available, and you can take it to the top at your expense for relaxing trip. Lunch will be served at local restaurant nearby Chuanzhusi Temple.
Fly to Chengdu. Your Chengdu tour guide will wait for you at the airport and help you to transfer to the hotel.
Day 7 Chengdu
Sightseeing and Activities: Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Renmin Park, Jinli Old Street
Accommodation: Chengdu
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore the Panda hometown. Enjoy your interesting tour to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding which is a huge institution replicates the natural habitat of the giant panda. Sightseeing shuttle bus is included. You will learn the habits and characteristics of Giant and baby pandas, observe them eating bamboos and playing around. Lunch will be arranged as local food at restaurant nearby.
In the afternoon, visit Renmin Park and it is the paradise for local people who addict to dancing, playing mahjong, drinking teas. We will arrange tea break in the park and mahjong lesson if you are interested in. After that enjoy shopping time at Jinli Old Street which is the elegant style of the architectures tells you what Sichuan looks like during the Qing Dynasty.
Back to the hotel and the Face Changing show will be a good option or you can just stroll around Kuanzhai Alley which is the famous snack street in the evening.
Day 8 Chengdu – Zhangjiajie
Sightseeing and Activities: Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, Glass Bridge
Accommodation: Zhangjiajie
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
After breakfast, be transferred to the airport for morning flight to Zhangjiajie. Your tour guide will wait for you at the airport and enjoy day leisure tour to visit Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon where you can watch the entire landscape of the North Temperate Zone karst topography, Canyon lush vegetation and fresh air. The weather in the canyon is cool and comfortable and you will enjoy 3 hours hiking there as warm-up to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. You will also have chance to visit the newest Glass Bridge which is the longest and highest glass-bottom bridge in the world. It has a beautiful name of Yuntiandu meaning Cross the Sky. Standing on the bridge, travelers can get a panoramic view of the majestic Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon under your feet. In the middle of the bridge, there is a bungee jump platform, where you can try the highest bungee jumping in the world. What an exciting experience.
Be transferred to your hotel after the tour and prepared for tomorrow’s breath-taking excursion to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.
Day 9 Zhangjiajie
Sightseeing and Activities: Wulingyuan Scenic Area, Tianzi Mountain Area, Yuanjiajie Scenic Area
Accommodation: Zhangjiajie
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore Wulingyuan Scenic Area.
Get your Wulingyuan Scenic Area pass at the ticketing center with our guide help and aboard the shuttle bus directly to Bailong Elevator, the highest and heaviest outdoor elevator in the world. Take Bailong Elevator up to Yuanjiajie Scenic Area. The view from Yuanjiajie is exactly the same as what we see from the movie of Avatar. Standing on the observation platform in Yuanjiajie, thousands of peaks can be caught at the same time. Peaks in various postures just look like countless brave men. Rock pillars with green trees just look like handsome generals. They describe a scene of army. Although these peaks are solid, they let people enter into an imaginary world and present a lively picture in the front of our eyes. You will enjoy your two hours exploration on foot.
Get on shuttle bus from Yuanjiajie to Tianzi Mountain Area and spend the whole afternoon in the scenic area. There is a famous saying that you have no wish to visit any other mountains after viewing the Tianzi Mountain. The landscape here varies in different seasons and also in one day, which makes Tianzi Mountain a very interesting destination. There are four highlights for the breathtaking sceneries: peak forest, cloud sea, sunrise and winter snow. Cloud and mist in Tianzi Mountain enjoys high reputation nationwide, especially just after the rain, which adds much charm to Tianzi Mountain.
Take cable car down the Tianzi Mountain and get back to your hotel. A folk show named Amazing Xiangxi is available for your evening activities
Day 10 Zhangjiajie – Shanghai
Sightseeing and Activities:Tianmenshan Mountain, Tianmen Cave
Accommodation: Shanghai
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore Tianmenshan Mountain which is the highest mountain in Zhangjiajie.
Take cable car up to Tianmenshan Mountain. The cable car lasts for 40 minutes and it is the longest line in Asia. You will see the gorgeous view while seating in the cable car and the mountain seems just in front of you. Hike on the mountain and you will walk on the floating glass plank. The experience is unique and gives you the feeling like just wandering in the clouds.
Change to shuttle bus and get to Tianmen Cave site through the Tongtian Avenue which has 99 turns symbolizing that the Heaven has nine palaces. It is worth the title – wonder of highway in the world. Upon arrival, visit the Tianmen Cave. Tianmen cave the natural mountain-penetrating karst cave with the highest elevation in the world. It is actually a big hole in the mountain but people call it a cave and it has become a major attraction. The cave become the unique sight under heaven and breeds the profound and grand heaven culture of Fairy Mountain in the local area. Before getting to the cave, you have to conquer the 999 steps which is exactly a challenge to reach the cave.
After the tour, be transferred directly to Zhangjiajie airport for flight to Shanghai. Upon arrival, your Shanghai tour guide will wait for you at the airport and help you to transfer to the hotel
Day 11 Shanghai
Sightseeing and Activities: Jade Buddha Temple, Oriental Pearl TV Tower; Yuyuan Garden; Shanghai Old Street; The Bund
Accommodation: Shanghai
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Our guide will meet you up at the hotel lobby and start to explore the Modern city of China.
Visit Jade Buddha Temple, which is famous for the seated Buddha, encrusted with jewels, which is said to weigh 1,000 kg.Then visit the exterior of Oriental Pearl TV Tower, while walking on Riverside Promenade Bingjiang Da Dao.
Visit Yuyuan Garden, which is a Chinese classic garden in city downtown, shopping time at Shanghai Old Street and Nanjing Road which is the earliest commercial street in Shanghai, you could look for some special souvenirs there. After that, enjoy a leisure walk along the Bund, famous for groups of buildings known as “a Gallery of world architecture”.
Back to the hotel, you can plan for the night Acrobatic Show, especially the ERA show as option, which is one of the most popular evening entertainments in Shanghai
Day 12 Shanghai Departure
Sightseeing and Activities:
Accommodation:
Meals: Breakfast
Free day at leisure and be transferred to the airport for departure flight. Our guide will meet you at the hotel lobby at appointed time. We can arrange the Maglev train ride to Pudong airport if you are interested in, or we will drive you directly to the airport.
Service Ends
Service Included:
- Admission fees for all of the sightseeing spots listed in the itinerary;
- Meals as listed in the itinerary;
- Hotels as listed in the itinerary;
- Private English-speaking tour guide;
- Private vehicle for transfers & sightseeing with skilled driver;
- Service charge & government taxes;
- Luggage transfers between airports and hotels;
Service Excluded:
- Any arrival and departure international airfares or train tickets;
- Chinese visa fees;
- Excess baggage charged by Airlines;
- Single room supplement;
- Tips to guides and drivers;
- Personal expenses and gratuities to service staff;
- Personal travel accident insurance;
- All optional programs.
