This itinerary
gives you China’s key highlights in
just 9 or 10 nights. You’ll have time to explore cosmopolitan
Shanghai, China’s most cutting-edge, modern city. Next,
you’ll cruise the legendary Yangtze from Maoping, starting
with a visit to the engineering marvel of the Three Gorges
Dam and then sailing through the wildly beautiful Three Gorges
and Lesser Gorges before you reach Chongqing. You’ll
visit Xian, home of the Terra Cotta Warriors. Finally in
Beijing, you’ll explore historic imperial treasures
like The Forbidden City, Great Wall and famed Summer Palace.
ALL THIS INCLUDED
3 or 4 night Yangtza River Cruise with balcony cabin
onboard deluxe Viking Century Sky
5 Star hotel accommodations: 2 nights Shanghai, 1 night
Xian, 3 nights Beijing
12 tours with private English-speaking guides: Shanghai/Bund/Silk
Carpet Workshop/Shanghai Museum, Three Gorges Dam; Lesser
Three Gorges; Fengdu/Snow Jade Cave; Xian/Terra Cotta Army;
Beijing/Great Wall/Sacred Way of the Ming Tombs/Tiananmen
Square/Forbidden City/Summer Palace
28 meals:*
10 breakfasts, 9 lunches & 9 dinners with
select meals at local Chinese restaurants
Welcome Cocktail & Farewell
Dinner
Cultural Highlights: Chinese acrobatic performance; Tang
Dynasty dinner show; Peking Opera; Peking Duck Dinner
Fully escorted from airport arrival to departure
All intra-China
flights & appropriate hotel/airport/ship
transfers
All port charges included
* On 9 night program, 9 breakfasts, 8 lunches and 8 dinners
are included
SHANGAHI TO BEIJING ITINERARY
Day
1. Shanghai Hotel check-in & free time
Day
2 Shanghai Old Shanghai/Bund tour; Silk Carpet Workshop
tour; Shanghai Museum; Chinese acrobatic performance
Day
3 Shanghai Free time; Fly to Yichang / Yichang: Board
your
ship
Day 4 Three Gorges Three Gorges Dam
Day 5 Three Gorges Wu & Qutang Gorges /
Three Gorges Lesser: Three Gorges excursion
Day 6 Fengdu Snow Jade Cave
Day 7 Chongqing Disembark; Fly to Xian / Xian Hotel
check-in & free time; Tang Dynasty dinner show
Day 8 Xian Terra Cotta Army; Fly to Beijing \ Beijing
Hotel check-in
Day 9 Beijing Great Wall & Sacred Way of the Ming Tombs
Day 10 Beijing Tiananmen Square & Forbidden City; Summer
Palace; Peking Duck Dinner & Peking Opera
Day
11 Beijing Hotel check-out
BEIJING TO SHANGHAI ITINERARY
Day
1 Beijing Hotel check-in & free time
Day
2 Beijing Tiananmen Square & Forbidden
City; Summer Palace; Peking Duck Dinner & Peking
Opera
Day
3 Beijing Great Wall & Sacred Way of the
Ming Tombs;
Day
4 Beijing Hutongs & Silk Carpet Workshop
tour; Fly to Xian / Xian Hotel check-in; Tang Dynasty
dinner show
Day
5 Xian Terra Cotta Army; Fly to Chongqing
/ Chongqing Board your ship
Day
6 Fengdu
Snow Jade Cave
Day
7 Three Gorges Qutang & Wu Gorges / Three
Gorges Lesser Three Gorges excursion
Day
8 Three Gorges Disembark; Three Gorges Dam;
Fly to Shanghai / Shanghai Hotel check-in & free
time
Day
9 Shanghai Old Shanghai/Bund tour; Shanghai
Museum Chinese acrobatic performance
Day
10 Shanghai Hotel check-out
Note: Airport
escorts included with transfer when trans-Pacific air
is purchased. Schedules and activities subject to change
dependent upon water levels, port accessibility and weather.
Passengers must be able to climb ramps for ship embarkation/disembarkation;
these have a number of steep steps. Tours include up to
1-2
mile walks over steps and uneven ground. For passenger
safety and enjoyment, you should be in good physical condition
to
participate in all tours. Ships and destinations in China
do not have facilities to accommodate wheelchairs or physically
challenged passengers. This itinerary is also available
in the reverse direction which includes a 3-night cruise.
Port
sequence and times may vary, and there may be some variations
in the included tours in Beijing & Shanghai.
