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LAIDBACK DRAGON TOURS
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Beautiful Beijing to Gorgeous Guilin Tour
Laidback Dragon Tours are China and Thailand tour specialists for first time and experienced travellers wanting a safe well organized holiday providing a fantastic and authentic experience.
Unlike many packaged tours, Laidback Dragon Tours will take you on a cultural journey back to the old China that is fast disappearing on a journey of discovery that you will never forget.
Do you want to explore new places with
like-minded people?
Travelling with a small group led by experienced Aussie Tour Guides,
Kevin and Lee-Anne Leach.
Our 13 day tour begins in Beijing on the 11th May 2014 and ends in Guilin on 24th May, 2014.
For more information contact Kevin & Lee-Anne Leach and Laidback Dragon Tours
Email: [email protected] Mobile: 0409 473 868
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LAIDBACK DRAGON TOURS
Beijing
Day 1 - Sunday 11th May
- Arrive in Beijing and pick up & transfer from Airport to Days Inn Forbidden City Hotel. (Conditions apply).
Day 2 – Monday 12th May
- Breakfast.
- Free Day – Today we will walk to Tiananmen Square & Forbidden City and spend the day exploring the area. Wander in the house of the Last Emperor and the Forbidden City and try to find out: Are there really 9999 rooms? Tiananmen Square with its plenitude of monuments testifying to the Communist. Last Emperor, also home to Emperors over many Dynasties.
- Late lunch/Dinner at D**g Lai Shun Restaurant.
- Tour to Beijing’s Famous Acrobat Show.
Beijing Acrobatic Troupe is one of the best in China. An acrobatic show has become one of the most popular evening entertainments for tourists in Beijing. You can enjoy gravity-defying contortionism, juggling, unicycling, chair-stacking and plate-spinning acts and more.
- Enjoy a relaxed night walk after the show to Don Hua Men Night Market. (optional, depending on time) Here you can enjoy eating some very exotic food or just find some street food to try.
Day 3 – Tuesday 13th May
- Breakfast.
- Tour of The Great Wall of China and Ming Tomb.
Enjoy a full day excursion by walking on The Great Wall of China ---- Mutianyu. You can take the cable car up and toboggan down (Optional extra). This area is well-known for its beautiful surroundings, dense woods and rich pastures that change colour with the different seasons of a year. Mutianyu Great Wall is located in Huai Rou County on the north-east of Beijing. This section of the Great Wall is about 75 KM from the centre of Beijing. Lunch is at your own expense in a local restaurant at the base of The Great Wall.
- Dinner at Da Heng Restaurant.
Day 4 – Wednesday 14th May
- Breakfast.
- Tour of Cultural Hutongs and Tea House
See the Hutongs by rickshaw! You will visit the typical Chinese homes and many famous old buildings, where you will see the real life of ordinary Beijing people. Enjoy the history of the Tea House.
- Transfer to Beijing Train Station on the G87 Beijing West Xi’an North.
- Leave Beijing 14:00 arrive Xi’an 18:40.
- Lunch at own expense on train.
- Pick up & Transfer to Bell Tower Hotel.
- Dinner at a local restaurant.
Xian
Day 5 – Thursday 15th May
- Breakfast.
- Free day to explore the City highlights, Bell Tower and Drum Tower.
- Lunch - own expense.
- Dumpling dinner & Tang Dynasty Tour.
Day 6 - Friday 16th May
- Breakfast.
- Tour to one of the eight wonders of the world and the most typical historic spot in Xi’an by visiting the
Terra Cotta Warrior & Ancient City with lunch included.
- Free night to explore the city by night or relax back at the hotel.
- Dinner at own expense.
Day 7 – Saturday 17th May
- Breakfast.
- Free day – Enjoy a day to walk or cycle around the Ancient City Wall. This is a rectangular wall that was built, based on the Imperial City Wall of The Tang Dynasty more than 600years ago. It is the best preserved Ancient City Wall in existence in China. You can rent a bike to enjoy cycling on the wall (optional extra).
- Lunch at own expense.
- Transfer to Xi’an Airport to Leave for Guilin.
Leave Xi’an 18:25 arrive Guilin 20:05 PM.
Guilin
- Transfer from Guilin Airport to Universal Hotel Guilin. Guilin is famous for its breathtaking scenery with the amazing Karst Mountains scattered all around the city.
- Dinner at Frances Little Italy Café.
Day 8 – Sunday 18th May
- Breakfast at Frances Little Italy Café.
- Free Day to enjoy Guilin City or go on a double decker bus ride around Guilin, walk around Guilin Lake, visit the Twin Pagodas, (entry is optional extra), walk over the Crystal Bridge, where locals love to get married and visit the Underground shopping or just shop in mall.
- Lunch at own expense, can be some famous Guilin noodles or whatever you decide.
- Dinner at a restaurant in the city then walk to the famous Waterfall Hotel at 8:30PM.
Day 9 – Monday 19th May
- Breakfast at Frances Little Italy Café.
- Tour to Longsheng Rice Terrace including lunch & Mao People dance.
- On this tour you will enjoy the Ethnic Tribes Culture. Longsheng is located in the mountainous region on the north eastern part of Guilin. The natural beauty and the colourful ethnic Chinese cultures and customs attract people from all over the world. We will arrive by van at Heping Township of Longsheng County.
We will now visit the Zhuang and Yao Minority tribes’ villages and some families if you choose. See the ethnic girls dressed in their own colours, a demonstration on hair combing, singing and dancing. You will enjoy the beautiful terrace rice fields after getting to the summit of Longji (Dragon's backbone).
Lunch is at your own expense.
The terrace rice fields were first built in the Yuan Dynasty (about 800 years ago) and completed in the Qing Dynasty as the crystallization of the wisdom and labour of the Zhuang people. The terraced fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountaintop, with the highest place of an elevation of 885m and the lowest of 380m. The coiling line spirals up from the foot of the mountain to the top, making the mountain look like a huge snail.
- Dinner in a city restaurant
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Day 10 - Tuesday 20th May
- Early Breakfast at Frances
- Tour Boat to Yangzhou including lunch and an English guide.
The Li River Cruise down the Li River is 4.5 hours of one of China's most famous scenic areas also is the largest and most beautiful Karst landscape sightseeing area in the world.
Lunch included. Disembark at the one thousand year old town of Yangshuo. As China continues to open to the outside world, this little town attracts more and more foreigners with its unique mix of culture.
- Walk to Yangshuo River View Hotel.
- Free night to enjoy the atmosphere of West Street or just relax in your hotel room.
Day 11 – Wednesday 21st May 21st
- Breakfast
- Free Day – Optional extra - Cooking school, Thai Chi, enjoy a Raft ride, walk up Yangshuo Mountain, and walk down West Street to barter with the locals or make an appointment for acupuncture, Chinese massage or a foot massage with the famous Dr Lili (all optional extras).
Yangshuo West Street is also called Foreigner's Street. With a history of over 1,400 years and located in the centre of the town. Yangshuo West Street is the busiest as well as the oldest street in the town. West Street has become a centre for cultural exchange between the east and the west.
- Lunch at own expense.
Tour to Yangshuo Impression Liusanjie Light Show
Yangshuo Light Show is the largest live action performance of landscape in the world. Impression Liusanjie is directed by Mr Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games 2008. You will be mesmerised by the show and the 600 performers, all of whom are local fishermen and their families.
- Dinner at one of the local restaurants
Day 12 – Thursday 22nd May
- Breakfast
- Tour to Flute Reed Cave. Reed Flute Cave Scenic District is situated on the bank of Peach Blossom River.
It boasts Karst landscape donated to Guilin by Mother Nature.
- After our cave visit our driver will drive us around Yangshuo. Here we will see Moon Hill, Old Ancient Village, then to the Yulong River where we will enjoy simple lunch at your own expense.
- Dinner at Yangshuo Magnolia Hotel Pure Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant.
- Enjoy the rest of your night to do some last minute shopping or packing up all your goods.
Day 13 – Friday 23rd May
- Breakfast
- Transfer to Guiling Airport (Conditions apply)
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Cost - $2990 per person (no single supplement)
Costs Includes Costs Does Not Include
- Quality 3-4 star accommodation - Airfares
- Breakfast - Visas
- 1 other meal per day - Comprehensive Travel Insurance
- All Internal transport - Any optional tours
- Tours - Spending money
- Airport transfers (unless stated) - Alcoholic drinks and snacks
For more information contact Kevin & Lee-Anne Leach and Laidback Dragon Tours
- Email: [email protected] Mobile: 0409 473 868
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