Author's tour "Beijing-Xi'an-Chongqing-Cruise-Yichang-Beijing"

Breakfast in the hotel. Excursion to Tiananmen Square (Square of Heavenly Peace) - the world's largest city square. The Forbidden City of Gugong is the Winter Imperial Palace, where 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived. Peking duck lunch. The Temple of Heaven is a cult ensemble of sacrifice to the God of Heaven. Tea ceremony. Return to the hotel.

Breakfast in the hotel. The great Wall of China. Lunch at a restaurant outside the city. Visit to a pearl factory. The Yiheyuan Summer Garden is the largest and oldest garden and park ensemble. External inspection of the 2008 Olympics venues: the Nest and Water Cube stadiums. Return to the hotel.

Breakfast in the hotel. Excursion to the Yonghegong Lamaist Temple - one of the famous Buddhist Lamaist monasteries in China. Lunch at a Chinese restaurant. Free time. Seeing off to the station. Transfer by train to the city of Xi'an (4-seater compartment), overnight by train.

Arrival in Xi'an. Meeting at the station, transfer to a 4* hotel, breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with the Terracotta Army from the tomb of Qin Shihuang - the first emperor of a united centralized China (in 221 BC). Dinner. Visit to the Art Ceramic Factory along the way. City Wall. Evening program for an additional fee: dinner “dumpling banquet” (traditional cuisine of Shaanxi province) with a show of songs and dances of the Tang dynasty. ($60 per person) Return to the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel Big Wild Goose Pagoda - a 7-tier structure (65m), built in the 7th century to store the first Buddhist shrines and manuscripts that were brought from India. The Small Wild Goose Pagoda (without lift) is the largest monument of Chinese architecture, built of brick in Chang'an at the time when it was the capital of the Tang Dynasty and the most populous city on the planet. Around the pagoda is the Xi'an Museum, which preserves numerous exhibits about the history of the city and the dynasties of Chinese history. Dinner. Walking tour along the Street of Culture. Airport transfer. Flight to Chongqing. Meeting in Chongqing, after dinner transfer to the pier. Accommodation on a cruise ship (optional category).

Breakfast. Departure. Dinner. Visit to the town of Fengdu on the mountain of the same name (the top of which is considered the “Gateway to the Underworld”) or Shibaozhai. Dinner.

Breakfast. The first gorge is Qutang. Second Gorge - Wuxia. Dinner. Minicruise along Shannonxi or "Little Three Gorges" - one of the tributaries of the Yangtze River (by boat). Dinner.

Breakfast. Xiling Gorge is the longest of the Three Gorges. Dinner. The New Sanxia Dam is the largest in Asia. Arriving in Ichan. Meeting, transfer to airport, flight to Beijing. Meeting in Beijing, accommodation in a 4* hotel.

Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the airport, departure from Beijing.