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Beijing and Shanghai offer students the chance to compare two very different cities and experience the Old and New China.
Start your tour in Beijing home of three major Chinese dynasties for the past 1000 years. Rich in culture and history Beijing offers a wonderful insight into the Chinese history and tradition. See how human civilisation has influenced the development of the country and how natural features have been adapted for human use. Following on from Beijing head to the modern hustle and bustle of Shanghai, the new business centre for China. Shanghai has taken on major cultural changes and has evolved into a fast moving cosmopolitan city. The location of the city and its strategic importance to trade are an important feature of Shanghai.
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Includes:
- Return flights inclusive of tax
- Destination airport transfer
- Breakfast and lunch daily
- Visits and entrances as shown in the sample itinerary
- English speaking guide
- Overnight train between Beijing and Shanghai
- Comprehensive medical and travel insurance
- FREE staff place ration 1:10
- Itinerary planning service
- Detailed info pack
Suggested Activities
Sample Itinerary
Example AccommodationTiananmen Square
The Tiananmen Square is in the centre of Beijing, is said to be the biggest square in the world. It is 880 metres from north to south, and 500 metres from east to west, with total area of 440,000 square metres and can hold one million people. The Tiananmen Gate Tower sites at the north, the Monument to the People's Heroes dominates the centre, the Great Hall of the People and the Museum of the Chi...
Forbidden City
Lying at the centre of Beijing is the Forbidden City - the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties it is now known as the Palace Museum. Rectangular in shape, it is the world's largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a six metre deep moat and a ten metre high wall are 9,999 buildings. The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The southern section or the Outer Co...
Summer Palace
Situated in the western outskirts of Haidian District. Having the largest royal park and being well preserved. Containing examples of the ancient arts, it also has graceful landscapes and magnificent constructions. The Summer Palace is the archetypal Chinese garden, and is ranked amongst the most noted and classical gardens of the world.
Jade Buddha Temple
In 1882, an old temple was built to keep two jade Buddha statues. The temple was destroyed during the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Fortunately, the jade Buddha statues were saved and a new temple was built on the present site in 1928. Both the Sitting Buddha and the Recumbent Buddha are carved with whole white jade. The sparkling and crystal-clear white jade gives the Buddha’s the b...
The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was enlisted in the World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 4,163 miles from the east to the west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, some of the sections of the great wall are now in ru...
Yuyuan Garden
Yuyuan Garden, a place of peace and comfort in the heart of bustling Shanghai, dates back to the fabled Ming Dynasty. Yuyuan began as a private garden created by Pan Yunduan, who spent almost 20 years - and all of his savings - to build a garden in order to please his parents in their old age. The present-day Yuyuan occupies an area of two hectares and is built in a style associated with the renow...
Temple of Heaven
The Temple was built in 1420 A.D. during the Ming Dynasty to offer sacrifice to Heaven. It is enclosed with a long wall. The northern part within the wall is semicircular symbolising the heavens and the southern part is square symbolising the earth. The northern part is higher than the southern part. This shows that heaven is high and the earth is low and the design reflected an ancient Chinese th...
Shanghai Museum
Located in the center of Shanghai in People's Square, Shanghai Museum is a large museum of ancient Chinese art. The museum style and presentation surround visitors with artifacts demonstrating ancient wisdom and philosophy. The exterior design of the round dome and the square base symbolizes the ancient idea of a round heaven and a square land.The museum is divided into eleven galleries and three ...
The Bund
The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from Britain, France, the U.S., Russia, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old, walled city of Shanghai. This was initially a Brit...
Oriental Pearl TV Tower
Towering high up in the Pudong New Area, the Oriental Pearl T V Tower has been the landmark of Shanghai. The tower is 468 m high, the highest in Asia and the third highest in the world, next to the 553,33 –meter-high Toronto Tower Canada and the 533 meters high TV Tower in Moscow, Russia. The tower consists of 15 spheres of different sizes at different levels creating an artistic conception of "la...
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Depart UK and fly to Beijing | ||
| Day 2 | Arrive Beijing. Met on arrival and transfer to accommodation | Rest of the day at leisure | |
| Day 3 | Breakfast. Visit to the Temple of Heaven. Continue on to Tiananmen Square an the Forbidden City | Visit the Summer Palace | Evening at leisure |
| Day 4 | Breakfast. Start today with a stop at the Beijing Olympic Stadium before continuing on to the Great Wall of China and the Ming Tombs | Evening at leisure | |
| Day 5 | Breakfast. This morning visit the Lama Temple and continue to the Beijing Hutongs (Old Streets) and the Prince Gong's Mansion | Visit Beijing Zoo | Overnight train to Shanghai |
| Day 6 | Arrive Shanghai. Visit the Yuyan Garden and the Jade Buddha Temple | Visit the Bund | Evening at leisure |
| Day 7 | Breakfast. visit the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and onto the Shanghai Museum and People Square | Visit the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall | Evening at leisure |
| Day 8 | Breakfast. Transfer to the airport. Fly back to the UK | ||
Dongfang Hotel
The hotel offers 288 rooms in a refurbished 1918 historic building of four connected wings. There is an indoor swimming pool and tennis court, fitness room and sauna. The restaurants offer a range of International and Asian cuisine.
Guestrooms at the Beijing Dongfang Hotel are clean and spacious, with plenty of natural light. Amenities include private balconies, cable/satellite TVs, minibars with refrigerators, air conditioning, desks with direct-dial phones, and complimentary high-speed Internet. All rooms have coffee/tea makers, bottled water, and in-room safes. Bathrooms provide slippers, hair dryers, and shower/tub combinations.
Guestrooms at the Beijing Dongfang Hotel are clean and spacious, with plenty of natural light. Amenities include private balconies, cable/satellite TVs, minibars with refrigerators, air conditioning, desks with direct-dial phones, and complimentary high-speed Internet. All rooms have coffee/tea makers, bottled water, and in-room safes. Bathrooms provide slippers, hair dryers, and shower/tub combinations.
Starway Starmoon Hotel
The hotel has 190 spacious, comfortable guest rooms, each with a king size bed, an LCD TV, a mini fridge, a safe, a security lock, 24/7 hot water, a tidy bathroom, ADSL internet, international direct dial phone and central air-conditioning.
This Beijing hotel offers many considerate services, including 24-hour reception, an information desk, morning call service, currency exchange, a business center, ticket booking and tour services, temporary storage, internet, airport pick-up and taxi call services, laundry, 24-hour room service, non-smoking rooms, nutritious breakfast buffets and others for guests' comfort and convenience.
This Beijing hotel offers many considerate services, including 24-hour reception, an information desk, morning call service, currency exchange, a business center, ticket booking and tour services, temporary storage, internet, airport pick-up and taxi call services, laundry, 24-hour room service, non-smoking rooms, nutritious breakfast buffets and others for guests' comfort and convenience.
Holiday Inn Putuo Shanghai
The Holiday Inn Putuo offers comfortable guestrooms and suites. The rooms are reasonably spacious and guests can find they have a wonderful view of the city skyline from this hotel. The various room facilities available include colour television with cable connection, International Direct Dialing telephone, work desk with lamp, mini bars and coffee making facilities amongst others.
Xin Mei East China Hotel
The hotel has 327 guestrooms and suites all well-equipped with a selection of facilities.
The hotel has been modernized with improved facilities. Each of the 327 tastefully decorated guestrooms and suites are equipped with central air-conditioning, colour TV, IDD telephone, stereo system and a high quality bathroom.
The hotel has been modernized with improved facilities. Each of the 327 tastefully decorated guestrooms and suites are equipped with central air-conditioning, colour TV, IDD telephone, stereo system and a high quality bathroom.
