Beijing
Visit the Forbidden City, the Tian'anmen Square and the Temple of Heaven. Beijing Duck dinner is served in the evening. (BLD)

Forbidden City: Built between 1406 and 1420, the Forbidden City was the palace of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a period extending over 500 years. The atmosphere created by the many temples, halls and courtyards - not to mention the colors of the tiles, roofs and painted wood - is unique, leaving you with a lasting impression of imperial China. The palace has over 9000 rooms.
Tian'anmen Square: The heart of urban Beijing and large enough to accommodate an assembly of one million people. It stands in front of the Forbidden City, at its north the Tiananmen Rostrum, from which imperial decrees were promulgated.
Temple of Heaven: A masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world's great civilizations, and had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries.

Summer Palace: The best preserved and the second largest royal garden in China, with a history of over 800 years.
Ancient City Wall of Xi'an: One of the most important landmarks of the Xi'an city, the best preserved, oldest and largest ancient city defence system in China.

Terra-cotta Warriors: The greatest archaeological findings of the 20th century, the army of terra-cotta warriors and the bronze chariots entombed in vast underground vaults at emperor Qin's tomb.
Banpo Ruins: This excavated site of a village dates back to 4500 BC and was discovered in 1953. The village during this period was called Yangshao and 45 houses, 6 pottery kilns, 200 storage pits, 250 adult's tombs and children's burial jars, 10,000 tools and utensils were unearthed. The distinct culture of these villagers was known as Yangshao culture.
Wild Goose Pagoda: One of the most famous Buddhist pagodas in China, first built in 652 in the Tang Dynasty, the square, multistoreyed, brick structure is sixty-four meters high. On a high mound, it seems to rise into the sky.

Shaanxi Historical Museum: The large-scale modern State-class museum, it has a collection of 370,000 pieces of historical relics, among which the most characteristic ones are the bronze wares of the Shang (C. 17th-11th Century B.C) and Zhou Dynasties (C.11th Century-256 B.C.), the pottery figures of different dynasties, the tomb frescoes, gold and silver utensils.
Great Mosque: Covering an area of 12,000 square meters, it is the best-known Islamic Mosque in Xi'an City. It was built in 742 A.D. The distribution of pavilions, halls, towers and platforms in the mosque is compact and exquisite, blending the traditional architectural styles of Islam and Han.
The Bund: Which is regarded as a landmark as well as the birthplace of Shanghai. With a length of 1 km, the bund is dotted with various grandiose, solid buildings of western style dating back to the early 20th century.

White Horse Temple: The temple was built in AD 68 in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was the cradle of Chinese Buddhism.
Shaolin Temple: In 495, when Bodhid 'harrna, a Mahayana Buddhist, left Sri Lanka for China in the 6th century and developed the Chun (Zen) Sect (a Chinese Buddhist school). Shaolin boxing is characterized by "lifting up leg as light as feather, kicking as heavy as Mount Taishan; appearing as delicate as cat and as fierce as tiger; proceeding like dragon, moving like lightning and roaring like thunder;" and the difficulty of distinguished attack from defense and constant change.

Longmen Caves: Craftsmen began work on Buddhist grottoes in 494 when an emperor of the Northern Wei moved the capital from what is now known as Datong (Shanxi Province) to Luoyang. The artistry is therefore an extension from Datong. The work at Longmen proceeded through seven dynasties, and in more than 1,300 caves, there are 40 small pagodas, and almost 100,000 Buddha statues ranging in size from one inch to 57 feet.

Shanghai Museum: A museum of ancient Chinese art museum, was founded in 1952. With a collection of over 120,000 pieces of cultural relics in twelve categories, namely bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, paintings, jades, numismatics, furniture, seals, coins, sculptures, minority art and foreign art, Shanghai Museum is especially famous for its treasures of bronzes, ceramics and paintings and calligraphy.
Yuyuan Garden: Yuyuan Garden is characteristic of the architectural style of the Ming dynasty. It is a private garden in the southeast of Shanghai, with a history of more than 400 years.
Oriental Pearl TV Tower: Like the Statue of Liberty in New York, Sydney Opera House and Eiffel Tower in Paris, Oriental Pearl TV Tower is Shanghai's symbolic architecture with a height of 468 meters.