Silk Road 10D9N

Silk Road 10D9N

10D9NUrumqiTurpanDunhuangJiayuguanZhangyeLanzhouDesertCulturalHistory

Package Highlights

Duration

10D 9N

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin), English

Meeting Point

Penang International Airport

Highlights

Visit iconic old town and grottoes
Experience camel ride at Crescent Spring
Experience local cuisine
Absolutely no shopping stop

Full Itinerary

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What's Included

  • Return-trip international flight
  • Hand-picked 4/5 star hotel
  • Daily breakfast, meals as per itinerary
  • Tipping for both tour guide and coach driver

Not Included

  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses

Itinerary

1

Day 1: Departure > Transit > Urumqi

  • Assemble at airport for your departure flight to Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regions -- Urumqi.

Hotel: Jianguo Palace Hotel
2

Day 2: Urumqi

  • After breakfast, visit Tian Shan Tian Chi Scenic Area. Tianchi Lake - located in the northwest mountainside of Bergeda peak, a mountain lake, according to the legend-mu tianzi date in the heavenly queen in novel-journey to the west. It is now popular summer and winter resort.

  • Enjoy shopping at Grand Bazaar -- it is biggest bazaar in Central Asia and the construction funds beyond hundred.

BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: Jianguo Palace Hotel
3

Day 3: Urumqi > Turpan

  • After breakfast, transfer to Turpan via the first expressway in Xinjiang.

  • Visit to Jiao He Old Town -- it is located shaped platform which is apart 13km from the west old Turpan. Because of the river diversion, named Jia He city, which is the earliest one of the 36 western countries - Cheshi’s capital.

  • Proceed to Flaming Mountain which is mentioned in a classical Chinese novel “The Journey to the West”. It is the hottest place in China.

  • Karez -- is known and used by Turpan people. They walk along the basin terrain tilt direction, digging underground pipe have a certain slop in subsurface layer underground, so called Karez.

BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: Mercure Fuzhou Downtown
4

Day 4: Turpan > Liuyuan > Dunhuang

  • After breakfast, transfer to Dunhuang by high speed rail via Liuyuan.

  • Experience the camel ride at Crescent Spring and enjoy the Yueyaquan (Crescent Moon Spring) lies in a tiny oasis at the foot of Mingshashan.

  • Camel Ride
BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: Tianrun Yibo Hotel
5

Day 5: Dunhuang

  • Visit to Mogao Grottoes, situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogaoare famous for their status and wall paintings, spanning 1000 years of Buddhist art.

  • The Ancient City of Dunhuang -- also known as Dunhuang County. The silk road is divided into two routes, the south and north. Each route passes through Yangguang Road and Yumen pass and leads directly to the Western Regions.

  • Continue visit to Dunhuang Silk Road Heritage City.

BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: Tianrun Yibo Hotel
6

Day 6: Dunhuang > Jiayuguan

  • Proceed to Jiayuguan, the first pass at the west end of the Great Wall of China. Visit to Jiayuguan Tower -- Jiayuguan the most intact surviving ancient military building. The pass is also known by name "First and Greatest Pass under Heaven".

BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: Hatg·Jia Yu Pearl Hotel
7

Day 7: Jiayuguan > Zhangye

  • After breakfast proceed to Zhangye. Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park -- Located 30 kilometers south of Linze County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, it is one of the most developed and most landscaped areas in China. It is a typical representative Chinese color in November 2005, China Georgraphy Magazine and 34 national media jointly organized the "China's Most Beautiful Place" selection campaign and were elected as one of "China's Most Beautiful Seven Danxias". In 2015, it was selected as one of the world's 25 dream travel destinations by many well-known website across the country.

BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: Zhangye Puyue Hotel
8

Day 8: Zhangye > Wuwei

  • After breakfast, proceed to Wuwei.

  • Visit to Wuwei Temple Confusion, is the large Ming-era temple complex divides into two sections: the Confucian Temple and the Wenchang Hall, both fine examples of traditional architecture. Leitai Tomb -- is a national key cultural relics protection units, located in Leitai Park.

BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: Tianma Pearl Hotel
9

Day 9: Wuwei > Lanzhou

  • Visit Lanzhou Waterwheel, it also known as Lanzhou overturned cart, is a labor-saving, the labor saving and capital saving irrigation facility built by Jinshi Duan Xu during the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. Then, visit to Lanzhou Shuicheyuan and the Yellow River Mother Sculpture.

  • Yellow River Steel Bridge at Lanzhou, dubbed "the First Bridge across Yellow River" and it is one of the landmark buildings in Lanzhou City.

BreakfastLunchDinner
Hotel: HuangHe Greater China Hotel
10

Day 10: Lanzhou > Transit > Home

  • After breakfast, transfer to airport for departure flight back home.

  • Arrive home with sweet memories.

Breakfast
10 Days, 9 Nights
Urumqi, Turpan, Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, Zhangye, Lanzhou

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