Beijing: three days of greatest hits
The palace, the Wall and the blue roofs. Three full sightseeing days, with arrival and departure on either side.
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Beijing: three days for hutong people
Rickshaw lanes, courtyard life and a little live comedy. Three full sightseeing days, with arrival and departure on either side.
Read the itinerary →Beijing: three days of slow gardens
Big gardens, early mornings and room to sit. Three full sightseeing days for kids, grandparents or anyone who likes an easy pace, plus arrival and departure.
Read the itinerary →Beijing: the big sights, with room to breathe
Five days for the palace, the Wall and the neighbourhoods in between.
Read the itinerary →Beijing and Shanghai in a week
Imperial Beijing for three nights, a fast train south, then three nights of Shanghai’s old garden and skyline.
Read the itinerary →Beijing and Xi’an: emperors in six days
Beijing’s palace and the Great Wall, then the Terracotta Army and Xi’an’s walled old city, leaving from Xi’an.
Read the itinerary →Beijing, Xi’an and Chengdu in eight days
The palace and the Wall, the Terracotta Army, then pandas and tea in Chengdu, flying home from there.
Read the itinerary →Two weeks west: palaces, pandas and Chongqing nights
Beijing and Xi’an for the empire, Chengdu for pandas and tea, Chongqing for hotpot and river lights, then Shanghai.
Read the itinerary →The grand loop: palaces, pandas and the Li River
Sixteen days from Beijing’s palace and Wall through Xi’an and Chengdu to the Li River, ending in Shanghai.
Read the itinerary →Palaces, pandas and Shanghai in two weeks
The palace, Wall and warriors, then Chengdu’s tea tables and Shanghai’s river lights.
Read the itinerary →Palaces, warriors and river country in thirteen days
Palace roofs and clay warriors, then Li River peaks, a slow Yangshuo day and Shanghai’s skyline.
Read the itinerary →Palaces to Shanghai’s skyline in ten days
Beijing’s palace and Wall, Xi’an’s warriors and food lanes, then Shanghai with a day to slow down.
Read the itinerary →Chengdu: pandas, tea and unhurried evenings
Four days for the famous bears and the city’s better habit: sitting down.
Read the itinerary →Chengdu to Chongqing: tea tables and river lights
Panda mornings and tea in Chengdu, then Chongqing’s hillside hotpot and riverfront nights.
Read the itinerary →Sichuan’s lakes between two food cities
Pandas and tea in Chengdu, a full day among Jiuzhaigou’s coloured lakes, then Chongqing’s hotpot and river lights.
Read the itinerary →Chongqing in four days
River lights, trains through buildings, hotpot inside a hillside, and a day out among Wulong’s giant stone bridges.
Read the itinerary →Guilin to Yangshuo: let the river set the pace
A one-way river journey, then three nights among Yangshuo’s fields and peaks.
Read the itinerary →Shanghai: river lights and leafy afternoons
Four calendar days and three nights, with two full sightseeing days for the garden, skyline, museum and leafy streets. A Suzhou day replaces one Shanghai day.
Read the itinerary →River lights, tea hills and Suzhou canals
A week from Shanghai’s skyline to Hangzhou’s lake and tea hills, ending beside Suzhou’s canals.
Read the itinerary →Xi’an: walls, warriors and a proper food wander
Three days that let the Terracotta Army be the main event without losing the old city.
Read the itinerary →Dali to Shangri-La: lakes, lanes and mountain air
A week of Erhai shores, Lijiang lanes and Shangri-La’s monastery, with a slower six-day Dali–Lijiang option.
Read the itinerary →Yunnan in a week: Kunming, Dali and Lijiang
Stone Forest towers, Dali’s lake shore and old town, and a day beneath Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Read the itinerary →Yunnan: stone forests to highland roofs
Ten days from Kunming through Dali and Lijiang to Shangri-La, with lake shores and a slow Baisha day between the heights.
Read the itinerary →Yunnan with a night in Shaxi
Kunming, Dali’s lake villages, a quiet night in the Tea Horse Road town of Shaxi, then the snow mountain at Lijiang.
Read the itinerary →Zhangjiajie: above the pillars, beside the stream
Four days based in Wulingyuan, with one day above the stone pillars and another in the shaded valley.
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