13-Day Beijing-Urumqi -Turpan-Dunhuang-Xining student group tour
13-Day Beijing-Urumqi -Turpan-Dunhuang-Xining student group tour
13-Day Beijing-Urumqi -Turpan-Dunhuang-Xining student group tour
Overview

Daily Schedule
Daily Itinerary Day1 Hometown to China (In-flight Meals)
Take overnight flight to China. Enjoy delicious meals, drinks, and in-flight entertainment during to journey.
Daily Itinerary Day 2 Arrive Beijing, China(AB )
Upon arrival at Beijing, the capital of China and one of the most well known tourist destinations in the world, where you are met and transferred to your hotel.
Daily Itinerary Day 3 Explore Beijing (AB, L, SD)
This Morning, see vast Tiananmen Square, the largest city square in the world. Then, visit the imperial Forbidden City, the largest and best preserved imperial palace constructed in 1420. Today, you will be visiting a local school in Beijing. In the school, student have a chance to interact with the local Chinese students and teachers. A tour of school will be guided by the students and teachers and we will also arrange Chinese traditional lessons. In the evening , you will enjoy an authentic Peking Duck Banquet.
Daily Itinerary Day 4 Beijing /Urumqi (Hotel Breakfast, Dinner)
This morning, you will visit the Great Wall of China, one of the country's most famous tourist attractions and one of the greatest man-made wonders of the world. It runs about 5,500 miles through 150 different counties.
you will take flight to Urumqi. Upon arrival you will be greeted by our tour guide and transferred to check in at your luxurious hotel where you are at your leisure to relax and enjoy the evening.
Daily Itinerary Day 5 Urumqi-Tianshan-Urumqi (Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Special Dinner)
Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In the morning, you will go to visit the Lake of Heaven, it is a beautiful highland lake, very spectacular scenery in the eastern Tianshan Mountains northwest slope Boge Da peak, elevation 1980 meters, the lake seemed to hoist. Late afternoon, you are going to biggest local market- BAZA. A roast lamb dinner banquet will be served in the evening.
Daily Itinerary Day 6 Urumqi- Turpan (Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Special Dinner)
After breakfast, visit the grand opening Xinjiang Regional Museum. Then you will go to Turpan, along the way to visit China's largest wind farm and visit the mysterious Gaochang Ruins, which reveals traces of a prosperous ancient trading center and military stronghold. Upon arrive Turpan, you are go to visit Karez, there are thousands Karez Underground Irrigation Channels all around Turpan, the total distance is about 5000 km. Karez back in "Historical Records" have recorded, said 'Well drainage'. Turpan Karez existing mostly built in succession since the Qing Dynasty. visit Uighur family. Enjoy roast whole lamb banquet.
Daily Itinerary Day 7 Turpan (Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Today, after visit the Flaming mountain, we will Visit the desert oasis of fruit fragrance - Grape Valley, where the specialty world's most sweet seedless grapes, enjoy the sweet taste of what's seasonal fruit. After then, We will visit the Cross River ancient city ruins.
Daily Itinerary Day 8 Turpan-Liuyuan-Dunhuang (Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Special Dinner)
In the morning, take high speed train to Dunhuang, Arrived in Dunhuang, pick up to the hotel and take a break. You are going to visit the Singing Sand Mountains, Crescent Moon Lake. Singing Sand Mountains will be issued due to the music its name, resembles a crescent Crescent Moon Spring, despite thousands of years of wind and rain, spring water is still clear and bright and clean, Cheng yellow sand and crystal clear mountain spring water are interdependent, and continued the millennium change, exotic scenery charming. Please enjoy snow pack palm for dinner.
Daily Itinerary Day 9 Dunhuang
Visit the Mogao Caves- the World Art Treasure House. It is the world's most important sites of ancient Buddhist culture. The grottoes, also known as Caves of the Thousand Buddha, preserve nearly a thousand years of Buddhist cave-temple architecture, clay sculpture, mural paintings, and manuscripts, dating from the 5th to the 14th centuries. The Mogao Grottoes are carved into desert cliffs overlooking a river valley about 25 km southwest of Dunhuang. The caves vary enormously in size, from tiny single-room cells that served as living quarters for individual monks to huge, cavernous worship halls housing monumental sculptures and mural cycles. Later afternoon, visit Dunhuang Museum.
Daily Itinerary Day 10 Dunhuang-Jiayuguang (Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Special Dinner)
Take about 4 hours driving to Jiayuguan. Jiayuguan Fort is the first pass at the west end of the Great Wall of China. The pass is also known by the name the "First and Greatest Pass under Heaven". Afterwards you will visit Overhanging Great Wall, the Overhanging Great Wallis an important part of the defensive work of Jiayuguan Pass. It was built in the year 1539 during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 - 1644) in order to strengthen the defensive capability ofthe Jiayuguan area. Enjoy Qiguo chicken for Dinner.
Daily Itinerary Day 11 Jiayuguang -Jiuquan-Zhangye (Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
After breakfast, you will visit Jiuquan park. Famous historical site known as the Western Han Dynasty Jiuquan Spring Lake Park and Jiuquan Park, located two kilometers east of Jiuquan City, because the garden has named Jiuquan, more than two thousand years of history, is now a collection of classical gardens, natural lakes, cultural recreation , fun and entertainment in one comprehensive park. Jiuquan, because legends Stephen gold, also known as "Golden Spring." Shi Chuanhan Emperoryuan hunting two years (121 BC), hussars Huo expedition Hun , this victory, Emperor Dici Yujiu to reward, Huo to work in the army, many people less wine, then pour wine in spring, and the soldiers drink, it is "Jiuquan" name. Imaizumi still in landscape architecture, archway after repairs, well preserved. The park has "Qing Dynasty Western Han Dynasty Jiuquan Trips "and" Han Jiuquan Gogun "stone, After then, you are going to Zhangye.
Daily Itinerary Day 12 Zhangye-Xining((Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Zhangye Danxia landform located in Gansu Province in Hexi Corridor in the middle of Zhangye City , the ancient Hexi four counties of Zhangye county , take "off the Huns of the arm, tuck Zhang of China (axillary)," meaning. Zhangye Danxia landform in a radius of 100 square mountain foothills , there are strange shapes, colorful, magnificent Danxia. Danxia means red conglomerate through long-term weathering stripping and water erosion, the formation of isolated peaks and steep rock formations. Danxia landform here dating back about 200 million years ago Jurassic to Tertiary.
Zhangye Danxia landform vast, spectacular, strange shapes, colorful, arid regions of China is the largest and most typical Danxia landscape, with high scientific value and tourism value. Zhangye Danxia concentrated in Linze, Sunan County territory, an area of over 300 square kilometers or more, and is one of the biggest and best, landform modeling richest regions of China Danxia landforms. Level scattered alternately, steep cliffs, magnificent rich, shape, color and amazing class leadership of the party, there are colorful gorge, colorful towers, seven color, colorful practice, Qicai Hu , colorful large scallops, flames, and other wonderful landscape is ordered We have to praise Mother Nature.
After then, you will take hith-speed train to Xining.
Daily Itinerary Day 13 Xining-Hometown
Transfer to the airport for your flight home, or begin your optional Post-Trip Extension.
