Terra-cotta Warriors & Ancient capitals Suzhou/Shanghai-Xian-Luoyang-Dengfeng-Kaifeng-Zhengzhou-Suzhou/Shanghai |
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| Day 1 Suzhou/Shanghai-Xian (1509km, 20 hours) / ( 1425km, 21hours ) | ||||||||
Take over night train K360 (Suzhou-Xian 13:15 09:18+1) or K360 ( Shanghai-Xian 12:15 09:18+1) . Accommodate on train. |
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| Day 2 Xian | ||||||||
Xian railway station pick up, and transfer to hotel, check in. Short rest, afternoon guided tour to Big Wild Goose Pagoda, The Great Mosque and Xian Ancient City Wall. |
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| Bell Tower Hotel 4* 西安钟楼饭店 Address: No.110 Nan Da Jie, Xian, Shaanxi, China 地址: 陕西省西安市南大街110号 |
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Big Wild Goose Pagoda 大雁塔, Another Xian landmark stands at the south edge of the city. The seven-story Big Wild Goose Pagoda dates from 652 A.D. when a monk returning from an 18-year sojourn in India proposed building a repository for his manuscripts and named it after the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in India. The breath-defying climb to the top affords a grand city view. |
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The Great Mosque 清真寺, Xian's grandest mosque has served the city's large Islamic population since the 8th century. The Grand Mosque resembles a Chinese temple as much as a mosque - testimony to the intermingling of cultures and faiths brought together on the ancient Silk Road. Visitors may tour the courtyards, but only Moslems may attend the prayer services held five times each day. Buildings around the Mosque are now being replaced with shops done in the old imperial style. |
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Xian is one of the few walled cities of China where visitors still can see the old city wall 古城墙. Local officials have gone to no small expense to undertake the restoration. Some 39 feet high (12 m) and surrounded by a moat, the Ming wall follows the original boundaries of the Tang capital for nearly 8 1/2 miles (14 km). The wall, gates, towers, and moat have been incorporated into the city park, where concerts and various performances take place regularly. |
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| Day 3 Xian-Luoyang ( 387km, 5hours ) | ||||||||
Hotel pick up, guided tour to Terra-cotta Warriors, Chinese lunch near the site. Transfer to railway station, take train to Luoyang K618 15:33 20:33. Luoyang railway station pick up, and transfer to hotel, check in. |
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Terra-cotta Museum 兵马俑, The high point of a trip to Xian comes when you stand at the edge of Emperor Qin Shihuang's vast funeral vault and gaze at the lifelike faces of his terra-cotta army. The tomb was discovered in 1974 beneath a grassy mound about 20 miles (32 km) outside Xian. This tomb, remarkably, is not the emperor's actual resting place but a satellite tomb.The expense of excavating Qin′s vault-said to be part of a vast under ground city crisscrossed by canals of mercury-has delayed the project indefinitely. |
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Peony hotel 4* 洛阳牡丹大酒店 Address: No.15 Zhongzhou Xi Road, Luoyang 地址: 洛阳市中州西路15号 |
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| Day 4 Luoyang ( 70km, 1.5 hours ) Mt. Songshan/Dengfeng | ||||||||
Hotel pick up, drive 12km to Dragon Gate Grottoes. After lunch, drive from Luoyang to Dengfeng, visit Shaolin Temple, which created Chinese Kungfu. |
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Dragon Gate Grottoes 龙门石窟 were started around the year 493 when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) moved the capital to Luoyang and were continuously built during the 400 years until the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). The scenery measures 1,000 metres (about 1,094 yards) from north to south where there are over 2,300 holes and niches, 2,800 steles, 40 dagobas, 1,300 caves and 100,000 statues. Most of them are the works of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the flourishing age of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Lots of historical materials concerning art, music, religion, calligraphy, medicine, costume and architecture are kept in Longmen Grottoes. |
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The Shaolin Temple Tallin 塔林 is all previous dynasties Shaolin Temple eminent monk's tomb, the total area 14,000 square meters, in 1996 the State Council announced for the national level key cultural relic preservation organ. Tallin extant Tang, Song, the gold, Yuan, are bright, clear each generation of bricks and stones grave tower 240, Tang tower 2, the Song tower 2, the Chinta 10, the Yuan tower 46, bright tower 148, other the tower which are unclear for the clear tower and Song Dynasty. |
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| Shaolin International Hotel 少林国际大酒店 Address: No 20 Shaolin Avenue (Shaolin Dadao) Dengfeng China 地址: 登封少林大道20号 |
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The Shaolin International Hotel located in downtown Dengfeng. Guests may choose from a selection of single rooms, standard rooms and deluxe suites. In addition, there are sauna rooms, a fitness room, a bar and karaoke rooms in this Dengfeng hotel.The Chinese and Western restaurant serve a variety of cuisines such as Cantonese, Sichuan and Henan cuisines. |
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| Day 5 Dengfeng ( 155km, 2hours ) - Kaifeng- ( 80km, 50minutes) -Zhengzhou | ||||||||
Kaifeng, which is one of China's most famous ancient capitals, with around 3000 years of history, and still today retains much of the charm that such a city should contain. Visit Xiangguo Temple, Yellow River, Iron Pagoda and Baogong Ci. Return to hotel in Zhengzhou in the late afternoon. |
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The time-honored Xiangguo Temple 相国寺 lies in the downtown area of Kaifeng, the Capital of Seven Dynasties, which was once the most prosperous city in the world and is a historical and cultural ancient city now. The temple was rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and was bestowed the name Xiangguo Temple by Emperor Ruizong. The temple reached its heyday in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). It became an international Buddhism center, attracting many foreign envoys and great monks. It contributed a lot to the cultural exchanges between China and other countries. |
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The Yellow River 黄河 Scenic Area is situated northwest of Zhengzhou City, in Henan Province. The scenic area is surprisingly beautiful. As seen from a high point in this scenic area, the mighty Yellow River rushes by and demonstrates tremendous force with rolling and falling of the river's torrents. Sometimes in its thousands of miles, the river reaches wide endless plains where currents flow smoothly, and sometimes it meets precipitous mountains where it has to zigzag its way. |
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The Iron Pagoda 铁塔 of Youguo Temple , Kaifeng City, Henan province, is a Buddhist Chinese pagoda built in 1049 AD during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) of China. The pagoda is so-named not because it is made of iron, but because the colour of the building resembles that of iron. It is a brick pagoda tower built on the location of a previous wooden pagoda that had been burnt down by lightning fire in 1044 AD. Along with the Liuhe, Lingxiao, Liaodi, Pizhi, and Beisi pagodas, it is seen as a masterpiece of Song Dynasty architecture. |
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| Red Coral Hotel 4* 红珊瑚酒店 Address: No 20 Erma Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 地址: 郑州二七区二马路20号 |
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Red Coral Hotel is a four-star hotel set up by the Jianghai Group, who invested 150 million RMB in building the hotel. It is a modern hotel, integrating lodging, catering, entertainment and business. It is equipped with a central air-conditioning system. |
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| Day 6 Zhengzhou-Suzhou/Shanghai ( 914km, 6.5hours ) / ( 988km, 7hours ) | ||||||||
After breakfast, visit the Henan province museum. Then transfer to the railway station and prepare to take train back home. D181 ( Zhengzhou-Suzhou 14:41/ 21:04+1 ) or D181 (Zhengzhou-Shanghai 14:41/ 21:48+1). |
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The Henan Province Museum 河南省博物馆 is one of China's oldest museums. It is a 'key' museum, with modern displays and exhibitions, modernized equipment, and a unique architecture. In 1961, along with the move of the provincial capital to Zhengzhou, it moved to its current location. In 1991 that museum was remodeled and in 1999 the official reopening was held, when the name was officially declared the Henan Museum.. |
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