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Overview

Tailored Trip to China

The Yellow Mountain: the name itself is surrounded by an aura of mystery, awakening images of Confucianist poems and ancient oriental paintings and drawings of mythical, magical, and mystifying scenery. Travelers on this unique tailored trip to China have the opportunity to discover this remarkable and unique natural treasure: nowhere else in the world has nature sculpted such dramatic and majestic mountainsides. Explore this unusual landscape via an ancient network of stunning – and, sometimes, perilous – trails. But don’t worry: on this ‘lite’ tour of Huangshan, you wont have to struggle in order to appreciate the awe-inspiring scenery, where thin filaments of clouds often slug their way below the famous granite peaks, immortalized by countless painters over the centuries. Plus: you get to spend the night on top of the mountain! This unique tailored trip to China will certainly bring travelers a refreshing change of scenery – in this case, scenery that also happens to be among the most beautiful in the world!

Huangshan is surrounded by charming villages with streets lined with ancient sanctuaries and traditional workshops, as you’ll see for yourself on your to visit Jingdezhen’s ceramic shops and Tunxi’s antique dealers. After all this excitement, enjoy a well-earned rest and spend some time exploring peaceful and prosperous tea plantations. Open your heart to the Yellow Mountain, and you’ll know the meaning of love at first sight.

Contact Uniktour’s China expert for more information on this beautiful tailored trip to the Yellow Mountain!

Itinerary

Day 1| Shanghai
Arrival in Shanghai, the largest, most prosperous, and liveliest city in the Middle Kingdom. No other Chinese city can compare to Shanghai. The towering silhouette of its skyscrapers would make almost any Western city blush, and this is one of the world’s best shopping destinations. Your guide will meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel. Get some rest and enjoy dinner in a local restaurant. Overnight in a hotel.

Day 2| Shanghai
Take a stroll on the “Bund”: once an administrative and commercial center, it now offers the best views of the port from its riverside promenade. Take the public ferry across the Huangpu River. Head to the Grand Hyatt for panoramic views of the city. Enjoy a traditional dinner in the old town at Lubolang, one of Shanghai’s most famous restaurants. Head to Old Shanghai and visit Yuyuan Gardens (16th century), in the heart of the Old Town, surrounded by a maze of pedestrian alleys lined with traditional shops. Then take a walk in the French Concession and Xintiandi, and visit Shikumen Open House Museum. Dinner in the city and overnight in the hotel.

Day 3| Shanghai
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and visit Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, where you’ll learn about the radical changes that took place in this city in recent years. Then you head to Shanghai Museum, next to People’s Square. Sample some typical Shanghai noodles at Wuyuerenjia, and enjoy an afternoon visit to Jade Buddha Temple, the oldest in the city. Enjoy some free time during which you can go shopping on Nanjing Street, the city’s liveliest commercial strip. Dinner in a local restaurant. Overnight at your hotel.

Day 4| Shanghai – Tongli - Suzhou
Yipu Garden - Garden of the Master of the Nets – Silk Workshop – Tongli Village
Breakfast at your hotel, then take the road to Tongli village, whose network of canals and stone bridges has managed to preserve the town’s traditional charm. Take a stroll in the old town and hop on a boat ride in Tongli. Enjoy lunch at NanyuanChashe restaurant before you set off for Suzhou, where you’ll visit two famous gardens: the Garden of the Master of the Nets, and Yipu Garden. Then visit a silk workshop where live silk worms are hard at work. Dinner in town and transfer to the train station for your night train to Tunxi.

Day 5| Tunxi - Xidi
Arrival in Tunxi in the morning. One of the Four Treasures of the Study, Tunxi was once an important ink producing area. Your local guide will meet you at the train station. After breakfast, a vehicle will take you to Shexian. Visit the villages of Hongcun and Nanping, surrounded by hills covered in green tea. These beautiful villages have managed to keep all their charm and character. Lunch on the road. Arrive in the village of Xidi late in the afternoon, check in at the Xidi Travel Lodge and enjoy its local style. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 6| Xidi – Huangshan
Breakfast at your hotel, then car transfer to Huangshan. Take the cable car up the world-famous Yellow Mountain, Huangshan, where archetypal granite peaks frequently rip their way through thin waves of mist. This site has been a source of inspiration for legions of painters and poets for centuries. Visit the Paiyun (Cloud Dispersing) Pavilion and the Western Valley. Lunch and dinner on your way. Overnight on Huangshan summit.

Day 7| Huangshan Mountain - Cruise –Tunxi Old Town - Lake Fengle
Breakfast at your hotel and then, if you want, you can enjoy sunrise at the Sunrise Pavilion. Follow narrow paths made of stone steps, surrounded by dramatic cliffs, overlooking a sea of clouds. Make your way down the mountain on foot, or by cable car. Vehicle transfer to Tunxi. Take a stroll around Tunxi’s Old Town, where you’ll find plenty of antique dealers, and then head to Lake FengLe, a true haven of peace and tranquility. Optional cruise on the lake. Overnight in Demaotang (privately-run hotel).

Day 8| Lake FengLe- Wuyuan
Breakfast at your hotel and then take the road to the village of Xiaoqi, which is split up in two distinct parts related by an old stone street, Shang Xiaoqi and Xia Xiaoqi. Take a look at the area’s typical houses and then head to the village of Wangkou, one of the region’s oldest hamlets. Lunch in a small restaurant before getting back on the road towards Likeng, the region’s smallest village, settled on the side of a river. Dinner and overnight in a hotel in Likeng.

Day 9| Wuyuan - Jingdezhen
After breakfast you take the road to Jingdezhen, world-renowned porcelain capital of China. After lunch, visit the Museum of Porcelain and the neighboring market. Late in the afternoon, transfer to the airport for your return flight.

Budget

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Other fees

List of Hotels:

Xidi: Xidi Travel Lodge (privately-run) or similar
Huangshan: Beihai Hotel (3-Star) or similar
Tunxi: Demao Hotel (privately-run) or similar
Likeng: Likeng Hotel (3-Star) or similar
Shanghai: River View Hotel (4-Star) or New Westlake Hotel (privately-run)

Overview

China is forever linked to its ancient civilization, friendly people, and many of the world's most revered treasures, such as The Great Wall, Terra-Cotta Warriors & Horses and the Yangtze River.
Today, one can also find spectacular architecture and towering skylines in Shanghai
and Beijing (site of the 2008 Summer Olympics), a wealth of luxury accommodations – and as always – exquisite cuisine.

Come and see why China is drawing millions of visitors from all over the world. And, why each and everyone of them returns home smiling :)

Source ; china tourism office (http://www.cnto.org )

Tourism

Visitors are often surprised to find out how modern China really is.
Since the early 90's China has been in the middle of a building boom and infrastructure upgrade that has brought its tourism industry up to Western standards almost overnight.

Tourist facilities and transportation in large cities are almost on the same level as of the United States. All major cities and tourism centers have undergone a total metamorphosis in visitor comfort and transportation facilities. Complaints of poor facilities, service or transportation have all become memories of the past.

Today you can tour China with ease and safety (the crime rate is very low there), stay in comfortable 4 & 5-star hotels, try new Chinese delicacies, enjoy familiar Western cuisine, shop in modern designer boutiques, or explore centuries-old markets and shopping arcades. You can tour the countryside in modern motor coaches, relax in first class train compartments, or speed to the next destination by jet while exploring one of the oldest cultures of the world, and seeing some of the most extraordinary sights any where and there is much to see in this vast country of 1.3 billion people.

Geography

China's land drops off in the escarpments eastward to the ocean, letting in humid air currents and leading many rivers eastward.
Among the rivers totalling 220,000 kilometres in length in China; the Yangtze and the Yellow are the two major ones.

China has a diversity of land formations including mountains, hills, highlands, plains and basins. The highlands and hill regions account for 65 percent of the country's land mass. The highest mountain peak is Qomolangma (Everest), 8,848 metres above sea level; the lowest point is the Turpan Basin, 154 metres below sea level.

Culture

China is the most populous country in the world, with 1.25909 billion people at the end of 1999, about 22 percent of the world's total.
This figure does not include many Chinese in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province and Macao Special Administrative Region. The population density in China is 130 people per sq km. This population, however, is unevenly distributed. Along the densely populated east coast there are more than 400 people per sq km; in the central areas, over 200; and in the sparsely populated plateaus in the west there are less than 10 people per sq km. The population in cities and towns makes up 30.4 percent; and that in rural areas, 69.6 percent. The male population is 50.8 percent; and the female population is 49.2 percent. People 14 years or younger make up 25.7 percent; those from 15 to 64, 67.6 percent; and those 65 or older, 6.7 percent.

Climate

China is characterized by a continental climate.
The latitudes span nearly 50 degrees, its southern part is in the tropical and subtropical zones, and its northern part near the frigid zones. The northern part of Heilongjiang province has long winters but no summers; while Hainan Island has long summers but no winters. The Huaihe River valley is marked by distinctive seasonal changes, but it is spring all year round in the south of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. China's high tundra zone is situated in Qinghai-Tibet, where the temperature is low in all four seasons.