You begin your adventure. Depart from your hometown on carrier of your choice to Shanghai. En-route you will cross the International Dateline.

Day 2   (Wed)  Shanghai

Arrive Shanghai, China’s largest city, major seaport and important commercial centre.  Check-in to hotel.  The rest of the day is at your leisure.

Hotel: Galaxy or similar

Day 3   (Thur)  Shanghai

During your stay in Shanghai, see the riverfront promenade, "The Bund" – a splendid vantage point to view the colourful traffic on the Huangpu River & Pudong Development Zone.  Visit the Yu Garden and Shanghai Museum.  After dinner, enjoy an Acrobatic Show.  (B/L/D)

Day 4   (Fri)     Shanghai – Zhujiajiao – Shanghai

This morning, take an excursion to Zhujiajiao, a river-town near Shanghai.  After lunch, we will visit the Oriental Pearl  TV Tower and Jade Buddha Temple.  (B/L/D)

Day 5   (Sat)    Shanghai-Beijing

Fly to Beijing. Upon arrival, meet your local guide and transfer to the hotel for check-in.  Free at leisure. (B)

Hotel: Chang An Hotel or similar

Day 6   (Sun)    Beijing

Your tours start in the morning to Tian’anmen Square, the largest urban square in the world with the capacity of 1 million people. Next, Forbidden City located in the centre of Beijing, it’s the largest existing, best preserved imperial palace in the world today covering a total area of 720,000 square meters. Then, the Summer Palace presents a breathtaking arrangement of lake, landscape, pagodas and pavilions, a fine example of Chinese gardening art. Then, you will enjoy Chinese traditional Peking Opera. (B/L/D)

Day 7   (Mon)  Beijing

Following breakfast, drive to the Great Wall, the world’s greatest man-made structure winding dragon-like across Northern China and praised as a "Wonder of the World".  This is the only earthly evidence of man visible from the moon.  Next, visit one of the Ming Dynasty Tombs with Sacred Way, a boulevard lined with sculpted stone animals. (B/L/D)

Day 8   (Tue)    Beijing

This morning, visit the Temple of Heaven, a masterpiece of 15^th Century architecture inscribed on the UNESCO’s World Heritages List.  After lunch, you will take a Hutong tour.  Hutongs are age-old urban lanes unique to Beijing.  At present, there are some 4,550 hutongs around Beijing, and the structures that compose the hutongs are mostly residential compounds.  This evening, enjoy Peking Duck Dinner, the no. 1 typical food of Beijing.  (B/L/SD)

Day 9   (Wed)  Beijing – Canada

Bid farewell to China and depart for Vancouver.  It is the same day when you arrive home as you will re-cross the International Dateline. (B)