7-Day Guilin Highlights Tour from Beijing

Arrive in Beijing, meet your guide in the airport outside the customs after reclaim your luggage and transfer to your Beijing hotel.

• Meals: No Meals
• Hotels: New World Beijing Hotel   |  Beijing New World Centre Tongpai Hotel   |  Dongfang Hotel Beijing 

Forbidden City

After Breakfast, you will visit Tiananmen Square, the largest central square in Beijing, where many state ceremony and big events are held here. Walking northward from the square, you will come into the great world wonders of The Forbidden City, well-known for the hundreds year's imperial emperor palace complex. We will serve you an a la carte Chinese lunch at a approval local restaurant. Then make the short trip back to the Hutong area where a rickshaw awaits to ride through the narrow alleys and passages.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants
• Hotels: New World Beijing Hotel   |  Beijing New World Centre Tongpai Hotel   |  Dongfang Hotel Beijing 

The Mutianyu Great Wall

First visit Temple of Heaven. It is the place where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties would offer sacrifice to heaven and pray for good harvests. Then drive all the way to the Mutianyu Great Wall. Lunch is at a local Restaurant near Mutianyu Great Wall. This garden style restaurant serves farmhouse dishes. After that we will visit the Great Wall - Mutianyu Section which is less crowed than other sections. Take a cable car to an opening section and walk up wide range of the wall as far as you can, and back down by cable car.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants
• Hotels: New World Beijing Hotel   |  Beijing New World Centre Tongpai Hotel   |  Dongfang Hotel Beijing 

Elephant Trunk Hill

Catch the early flight to Guilin, meet your local guide upon your arrival. Your guide will take you to the Elephant Trunk Hill, a "must-see" site representative of Guilin landscape, lunch will arrange in a voted local restaurant. Then we head to Reed Flute Cave, The 500 meter long cave has thousands of stalagmites and stalactites and is the largest Karsts cave in this province.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
• Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin   |  Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel   |  Guilin Park Hotel 

Longsheng Terraced Field

Today you will visit Longsheng Terraced Field and minority village which is a 2 hour drive from Guilin. The scenery along the way with its rice paddies, local villages and winding roads will provide an interesting drive. Longsheng Terraced Fields look like ribbons and stretch layer upon layer from the foot of the mountain to the top. Zhuang and Yao minority people have cultivated the fields using irrigation systems tracing back to the Yuan dynasty. Lunch is provided in a local restaurant which features local dishes. Visit the Zhuang and Yao minority villages to experience the unique ethnic cultures.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Popular local restaurants with authentic Guilin food
• Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin   |  Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel   |  Guilin Park Hotel 

Li River Cruise

Start your Guilin tour by taking a Li River Cruise downstream to Yangshuo. The stunning river scenery last for the 3 hour cruise: shaped limestone peaks, verdant bamboo forests, crystal waters, narrow bamboo rafts and peaceful local villages pass silently by. A simple lunch is provided on board by the cruise company. The cruise arrives at Yangshuo and you have the chance to explore Yangshuo by yourself. Then return to Guilin by our private car.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Hotels: Shangri La Hotel Guilin   |  Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel   |  Guilin Park Hotel 

Transfer to Guilin Airport; catch your onward flight to Beijing. Your Beijing guide will pick you up in the airport.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Hotels: No