Journey Architectures

Day1: Arrive in Shanghai

Staff will meet you at the airport and transfer you to your hotel. Check-in time is after 14:00. If you arrive earlier, you can leave your luggage at the hotel and feel free to explore on your own.

Day2: Shanghai - Suzhou - Wuzhen

After breakfast, we will arrange a car to pick you up and take you to Suzhou, where you will meet your guide and start the first leg of your journey through Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.

【Suzhou Liuyuan Scenic Area】

Together with the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, the Summer Palace in Beijing and Chengde Mountain Resort, the Lingering Garden, which is known as one of the four famous gardens in China, is an exquisite classical private garden;

【Wuzhen Xizha Scenic Area】

Wuzhen is one of the six ancient towns in Jiangnan, formerly known as Wudun and Qingdun, with a long history of over six thousand years.
Xizha is composed of 12 small islands, connected by over 70 small bridges, with a high density of rivers and numerous stone bridges.

Day3: Wuzhen -Hangzhou West Lake - Songcheng

【West Lake Scenic Area】

In spring, peach and plum blossoms are fragrant, in summer, lotus flowers with blue sky, in autumn nights, three pools soaked in moonlight, and in winter snow, red plum blossoms with scattered shadows and slanting sides. No matter when you come, you will appreciate her different charm.

【Romance of the song dynasty scenic spot】

China's largest theme park, Song Wenhua, takes "crossing the Millennium" as the core of its experience, and restores the street style and royal charm of Lin 'an (now Hangzhou), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

【Romance of the song dynasty performance】

A 60-minute five-act drama, with stories such as lake legend, Liang Zhu and become a butterfly, showing the thousand-year history of Hangzhou.

Day4: Hangzhou - Shanghai

【Shanghai Yu Garden Scenic Area】

Built in the 38th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1559), it covers an area of approximately 20000 square meters and is known for its "seeing the big from the small" style, blending the essence of Jiangnan gardens from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

【Chenghuang Temple Pedestrian Street】

A landmark of Jiangnan folk culture that integrates temples and markets! Close to Yu Garden (the main part of Yu Garden Mall), it forms a cultural triangle with Chenxiang Pavilion and Shanghai Old Street.

【Jinmao Tower】

The 88th floor observation hall of Jinmao Tower is one of the famous high-altitude observation decks in Shanghai, located in the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone. Taking the elevator that runs 9 meters per second from the ground floor lobby of Jinmao Tower, it only takes 45 seconds to reach the 340 meter high 88th floor observation hall. The fully transparent glass curtain wall allows you to overlook the city scenery from 360 degrees.

【Shanghai Bund】

For more than a hundred years, it has appeared in front of the world as a symbol of Shanghai. It is located on the west bank of the Huangpu River from Garden Bridge of Shanghai to Nanpu Bridge, with a total length of 4 kilometers. It is one of the top ten new landscapes and tourist attractions in Shanghai in the 1990s.

Day5: Take the high-speed train from Shanghai to Beijing

The total length of the main line of the Shanghai to Beijing high-speed railway is 1318 kilometers, and the entire journey takes 4 hours and 24 minutes. The average speed of the high-speed railway is about 300 kilometers per hour, and the highest speed can reach 350 kilometers per hour!

After arriving in Beijing, you will be sent to the hotel for rest and then you can freely move around!

Day6: Beijing Tiananmen Square - Mao Zedong Memorial Hall - Forbidden City - Temple of Heaven

【Tiananmen Square】

Tiananmen Square records the indomitable revolutionary history of the Chinese people and the great achievements of groundbreaking. It is the venue of major national events in China, an important place for major festivals and commemorations in China, and a place that the people of the whole country aspire to.

【Mao Zedong Memorial Hall】

Located south of the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square. The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall was built to commemorate the founding leaders of the country. The core part of the memorial hall is the viewing hall, and the white marble wall on the front of the hall is embedded with 17 gilded characters that read "The great leader and mentor Chairman will be immortalized.

【The Forbidden City】

The Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, is a royal palace from the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese architecture and one of the largest and most well preserved wooden structures in the world. The Forbidden City is a classic work of ancient Chinese architecture. It is also one of the important carriers of ancient Chinese court culture, which has significant implications for ancient Chinese history, culture, and art.

【Temple of Heaven】

The Temple of Heaven was a special altar used by emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties to worship the heavens, pray for rain, and pray for a bountiful harvest. It is a famous ancient building in China. Reflecting the profound heritage of ancient Chinese astronomy, architecture, culture, and other fields, the altar area is circular in the north and square in the south, symbolizing "heaven is round and earth is square". The entire altar is divided into two parts: the inner altar and the outer altar, with well-known buildings such as the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and the Echo Wall located within the inner altar.

Day7: Badaling Great Wall - Olympic Park - Shichahai

【Badaling Great Wall】

Badaling Great Wall is a very essence section of the Great Wall, which is a combination of lofty, precipitous, beautiful and green, and ranks first among the top ten scenic spots in China. In 1972, US President Nixon said on the Great Wall, 'Only a great nation can build such a great wall.

【Olympic Park】

The National Stadium (Bird's Nest) was the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, shaped like a "nest" and cradle that nurtures life, carrying hope for the future.

The National Aquatics Center (Water Cube) is one of the iconic venues of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was also built with donations from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese.

The National Speed Skating Oval (Ice Ribbon) is an iconic venue for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and a newly built ice competition venue.

【Shichahai】

Shichahai is located in the central area of Beijing and is a tourist destination with a long history and cultural landscape. It consists of three water bodies: Qianhai, Houhai, and Xihai (also known as Jishuitan), which together with the surrounding hutongs, courtyards, ancient buildings, etc., form a region full of historical charm.

Day8: Summer Palace - Yuanmingyuan

【Summer Palace】

Appreciating the rippling waters of Kunming Lake, admiring the verdant Wanshou Mountain, and visiting well-known representative attractions such as the Buddha Fragrance Pavilion, the Long Corridor, the Stone Boat, Suzhou Street, the Seventeen Arch Bridge, the Harmony Garden, and the Grand Theater.

【Yuanmingyuan】

The Yuanmingyuan Park and its ruins are a collection of essence of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign garden art, and have collected countless rare treasures.

Day9: Prince Gong's Mansion - Qianmen Street

【Prince Gong Mansion】

The renowned 5A level scenic spot of the Gong Wang Mansion, a national first-class museum, "A Gong Wang Mansion, Half of Qing Dynasty History", a large-scale royal mansion complex in the Qing Dynasty, formerly known as the Heshen Mansion.

【Qianmen Street】

Located on the south side of the center of Beijing, it is a famous commercial street in Beijing. There are multiple time-honored restaurants and shops here, as well as a collection of local snacks, suitable for shopping and enjoying delicious food. In addition, the buildings on the street are very old, with memorial archway, old signboards, red lanterns, etc., which has the flavor of old Beijing. There are also various types of tea houses, often featuring traditional art performances such as cross-talk and storytelling, all worth a visit.

Day10: Return Transfer

Today you can freely move around in the urban area of Beijing, and then take the return trip according to the transportation time.