 DAY
1 Canada - Beijing
Fly to Beijing on deluxe wide-bodied jet plane, cross the International Date Line.
DAY 2 Arrival in Beijing
Arrival in Beijing, Tour guide meet you at airport, then transfer to hotel.
King Wing Hotel - 5 star
DAY 3 Beijing - Urumqi (B/L/D)
Leave Beijing for Urumqi in the morning, sightseeing the City Museum to view the incredible mummies from over 2,000 years ago. Visit the Redhill Park and the Bazaar, which is believed to be the largest outdoor market. A roast lamb dinner banquet will be served in the evening.
Haide Hotel - 5 Star or Similar
DAY 4 Urumqi (B/L/D)
In the morning, take a cruise on Lake of Heaven, which is at an elevation of 6,435 feet above sea level. It is a beautiful highland lake, flanked by rugged pines and cypresses, and with clear waters that reflect the surrounding mountains. In winter, it provides an ideal alpine skating rink. Afterwards visit the Hill of Heaven Grassland and Nanshan Grassland.
Haide Hotel - 5 Star or Similar
DAY 5 Urumqi - Turpan (B/L/D)
After breakfast, take motor coach to Turpan, a Uighur town set in a large oasis surrounded by desert and dry mountains. Upon arrival visit the mysterious Gaochang Ruins, which reveals traces of a prosperous ancient trading center and military stronghold. You will have an opportunity to sightsee the Flaming Mountains and Karez Underground Irrigation Channels. Enjoy Minority Singing and Dancing Show.
Turpan Grand Hotel
DAY 6 Turpan - Liuyuan (Dunhuang) (B/L/D)
Turpan is famous throughout China for its big and sweet grapes. The visit to the Grape Valley and the homes of Uighur farmers is an extraordinary experience. Visit the Jiaohe Ruins, Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves. Travel to Dunhuang via Liuyuan by overnight soft-sleeper train.
Train - soft sleeper
DAY 7 Dunhuang (B/L/D)
During the Han and Tang dynasties, Dunhuang was a major point of interchange between China and the outside world – a stopping-off post for both incoming and outgoing trading caravans. Upon arrival sightseeing the Singing Sand Mountains, Crescent Moon Lake, visit the Yang Pass.
Dunhuang 4 Star or Similar
Day 8 Dunhuang (B/L/D)
Sightsee the White Horse Pagoda, and then visit the Mogao Caves – the World Art Treasure House. It is the world’s most important sites of ancient Buddhist culture. The grottoes, also known as Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, preserve nearly a thousand years of Buddhist cave-temple architecture, clay sculpture, mural paintings, and manuscripts, dating from the 5th to the 14th centuries. The Mogao Grottoes are carved into desert cliffs overlooking a river valley about 25 km southwest of Dunhuang. The caves vary enormously in size, from tiny single-room cells that served as living quarters for individual monks to huge, cavernous worship halls housing monumental sculptures and mural cycles. The caves honeycomb a 1,600-meter-long cliff face running north and south, and contain some 2,000 clay sculptures and more than 45,000 square meters (484,000 sq. ft) of mural paintings.
Dunhuang 4 Star or Similar
Day 9 Dunhuang - Jiayuguan - Lanzhou (B/L/D)
Take a coach to Jiayuguan in the morning, which was considered both the western tip of the Great Wall and the western boundary of the empire. Sightseeing the Jiayuguan Fort and the Overhanging Great Wall. Take soft-sleeper overnight train to Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province.
Train - soft sleeper
Day 10 Lanzhou (B/L/D)
Arrive Lanzhou in the morning, tour to the Baitashan (White Pagoda Mountain) and Zhongshan Iron Bridge – the first bridge on the Yellow River, and the Wuquan Shan Mountain. Enjoy the well-known local hand made beef noodle.
Feitian Grand Htl. 4 Star or Similar
Day 11 Lanzhou (B/L/D)
Visit the museum, tour to the Liujia Gorge, and then take boat to Yongjing County to visit the Bingling Grottoes. Bingling is a Tibetan term meaning “ten thousand Buddha”. Now about 183 caves with 694 stone sculptures, 82 clay figures and 900 square meters of murals have been preserved. The statues are all with different postures and facial expressions.
Feitian Grand Htl. 4 Star or Similar
Day 12 Lanzhou - Xi'an - Mt. Huashan (B/L/D)
Fly to Xi’an, the city where eleven dynasties in the history once took as the capital. Transfer to Mt. Huashan after arrival.
Jinrong Hotel - 3 Star or Similar
Day 13 Mt. Huashan - Xi'an (B/L/D)
Mt Hua is well known as high and precipitous amount all the mountains in China. It’s been famous for thousand of years for it’s unique trees, stones of strange shapes, the sea of clouds, springs and waterfalls. Enjoy the Dumpling Banquet and Tang Dynasty show after heading back to Xi’an.
Tangcheng Hotel - 4 star
Day 14 Xi'an - Beijing(B)
Sightseeing the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses, this is recognized by UNESCO as the eighth wonder of the world, then fly to Beijing in the evening.
King Wing Hotel - 5 star
Day 15 Beijing - Canada
Transfer to the airport, home your sweet home.
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