Day 1 Arrival Hong Kong
Arrival Hong Kong Airport. Met and transferred to your hotel. Free for rest of the day.
Day 2 Hong Kong (B)
Whole day free on your own.
Day 3 Hong Kong - Guilin (B)
After breakfast, take flight from Hong Kong to Guilin.
Day 4 Guilin (B,L)
One day City tour of Reed Flute Cave. The Reed Flute Cave is a brilliant cave marked on almost all travel itineraries, located 5 kilometers northwest of the downtown Guilin. Next visit Elephant Trunk Hill. Elephant Trunk Hill is located on the western bank of Li River Scenery, the shape of the hill is just like a huge elephant drinking water from the river with its trunk.
Day 5 Guilin (B, L)
Pick up from your hotel early the morning around 7:30am. Then drive about one hour to get to the Zhujiang Pier. Then start to take cruising on Li River. The cruising on the Li River is the highlight of the tours in Guilin. You will have lunch on board. You will enjoy the pretty mountains, green fields, farms and villages with water buffalos, cows wondering around on both sides of the river bank.
Day 6 Guilin - Chengdu (B,L)
Take flight from Guilin to Chengdu. Today’s highlight is Wu Hou Temple, Jinli Street.
Wu Hou Temple: Enjoying a history of over 1500 years, Wuhou Temple Museum is a 4-A level Scenic Area and also the country’s most influential ancient ruins in the Three Kindoms Period with the longest history.Jinli Street: Jinli Street was in ancient times one of the busiest of commercial boulevards of the Kingdom of Shu, thus known as the First Street of the Shu Kingdom.
Day 7 Chengdu (B,L)
Visit Panda Breeding and Research Centre. It is home to giant pandas, the endearing red, or less panda, and other endangered species. Visit the nursery to see the successful breeding programmer and view the pandas at rest and play.
Day 8 Chengdu - Lhasa (B)
Take flight from Chengdu to Lhasa.
Day 9 Lhasa (B,L)
Visit Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Street.Potala Palace: Potala Palace is the architectural and religious wonders, former winter home of the Dalai Lama.Jokhang Monastery: A 1,300 years old golden-roofted shrine, smaller and more manageable than the Potala.
Barkhor area: An outdoor market, lined with the stalls, selling all kinds of goods
Day 10 Lhasa (B,L)
Today’s highlight is a visit to the Sera Monastery, located a few miles to the north of Lhasa. Enjoy a Tibetan Song & Dance Performance after dinner. Then we will pay a visit to the Nobulingka, means “Jeweled Garden”, was constructed as a summer palace for the Dalai Lama. In the afternoon, come to the western suburb of Lhasa to visit the extraordinary Drepung Monastery founded in 1416.
Day 11 Lhasa - Gyantze (B,L)
Drive to Shigatse. Get off at the Yamdrok Yumtso Lake and transfer to your loacal hotel. First visit the Gyangtse Old Street. Then move on to Palkhor Monastery. Built as a Tibetan monastery, it is very different from other monasteries, reputed as the lord of Tibetan monastery.
Day 12 Gyantze -Shigatse (B,L)
Visit Tashilunpo Monastery, represents the Tibetan super architecture art in the last Tibetan spirit, attracts thousands of tourists and Buddhists to worship and travel every year.
Day 13 Shigatse - Lhasa (B,L)
After having a breakfast, we will drive back to Lhasa. Enjoy the grassland views on the way.
Day 14: Lhasa Exit (B)
Transfer to airport for departure
