Tour Overview
This premium 7-day twin-city journey features China’s two most iconic and influential destinations: Beijing, the timeless imperial capital representing China’s millennia-old royal heritage and northern traditional culture, and Shanghai, the world-class international metropolis symbolizing China’s modern prosperity and southern fashion vitality. Perfectly showcasing the ultimate contrast between ancient history and contemporary glamour, northern classical solemnity and southern modern openness, this tour delivers the most authentic and comprehensive panorama of Chinese culture, history and urban development in one exclusive travel experience.
Tour Highlights
Detailed Daily Itinerary
Arrive at Beijing airport, private transfer to 4/5 star downtown hotel, check-in and free rest. Optional welcome dinner of authentic Beijing cuisine.
Explore the symbolic heart of China, the world’s largest imperial palace complex and the best overlook of the Forbidden City.
Attraction Highlights
Tiananmen Square: The world’s largest urban public square and national symbolic landmark.
Forbidden City: UNESCO World Heritage Site, the world’s largest wooden imperial palace, home to 24 Ming and Qing emperors with iconic red walls and golden glazed roofs.
Jingshan Park: The premier viewpoint offering full panoramic views over the entire Forbidden City compound.
Hike the famous preserved section of the Great Wall and visit China’s most elegant royal classical garden.
Attraction Highlights
Badaling Great Wall: UNESCO World Heritage Site, the most well-known segment winding across mountain ridges, one of mankind’s greatest engineering feats.
Summer Palace: China’s largest royal garden, masterfully blending lakes, hills, corridors, pavilions and bridges as a masterpiece of Chinese landscape design.
Visit the ancient imperial sacrificial complex and wander genuine traditional hutong alleyways.
Attraction Highlights
Temple of Heaven: Grand ancient imperial worship compound with unique circular architecture and profound ritual culture. - Old Beijing Hutongs: Narrow historic lanes with courtyard residences, preserving slow local lifestyle and authentic northern folk traditions.
Morning leisure time, airport transfer and flight to Shanghai. Private transfer to downtown 4/5 star hotel upon arrival.
Discover Shanghai’s iconic waterfront, classical Jiangnan garden, old town and futuristic financial district.
Attraction Highlights
The Bund: Famous Huangpu River waterfront lined with historic European architecture, known as the World Architecture Exhibition Corridor.
Yu Garden & Old Town: 400-year-old Jiangnan classical garden featuring delicate pavilions, rockeries and ponds within the lively old town quarter.
Lujiazui: Shanghai’s modern financial hub with towering skyscrapers representing the city’s global urban prosperity.
Morning stroll through the tree-lined literary neighbourhood of Former French Concession, then transfer to Shanghai airport for departure.