Day 01

Auckland - Shanghai

Departure from Auckland (Meals on board).

Day 02

Shanghai - Suzhou

Lunch

Arrive in Shanghai, meet your guide, head to Suzhou, checking hotel, after refreshing. Visit Master of the Nets Garden, a famous classical Chinese private garden. After lunch, visit Panmen, the only remaining water-and-land double gate, then explore Shantang Street to experience Suzhou’s riverside life. Dinner is self-arranged with local snacks.

Hotel Accommodation: Rosedale Chunshenhu Resort Hotel 5-star standard hotel.

Day 03

Suzhou - Wuxi

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

After breakfast, visit silk factory then head to Wuxi .Arrive and have lunch, then visit Lingshan Grand Buddha scenic area, home to the world’s tallest standing bronze Buddha statue. The serene layout, grand architecture, and exquisite craftsmanship offer unparalleled visual and spiritual experiences. Visit Purple Sand Museum. After dinner, checkin hotel.

Hotel Accommodation: Kusatsu Hotel 5-star standard hotel

Day 04

Wuxi

Breakfast

Lunch

After breakfast, visit Three Kingdoms City by Taihu Lake, take an ancient warship tour, and enjoy a live horse battle show. Visit Wuxi Pearl Exhibition Center. Lunch features Wuxi specialty dumplings and soup dumplings. In the afternoon, take an Ancient Canal boat tour at Nanchang Street, followed by free time. Dinner is self-arranged with local snacks.

Hotel Accommodation: Kusatsu Hotel 5-star standard hotel

Day 05

Wuxi-Ancient Water Town

Breakfast

Dinner

After breakfast, head to Xinshi Town. A thousand-year-old southern Jiangsu picturesque town, the ancient town is connected by water as its main vein, with ancient bridges linking both banks. Here, you can experience wearing traditional Hanfu for photos in scenic areas, and enjoy afternoon tea (coffee, snacks, and ice cream). Tonight dinner will be special Hot Pot.

Hotel Accommodation: Holiday Inn 4-star standard hotel

Day 06

Xinshi - Hangzhou

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

After breakfast, free on your own to 10:00 , head to Hangzhou, After lunch, visit West Lake scenic area: Hua Gang Guan Yu, West Lake boat tour, Su Causeway, and Leifeng Pagoda. West Lake is renowned for its scenic beauty and lush vegetation, inspiring countless poets and stories, including the famous “Legend of the White Snake.”

Hotel Accommodation: New century hotel or similar 5-star standard hotel

Day 07

Hangzhou -Shanghai

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

After breakfast, visit Hangzhou International Expo Center, the main venue for the G20 Summit. After lunch, visit Six Harmonies Pagoda and Meijiawu Tea Plantation to taste Hangzhou’s famous Longjing tea. Head to Shanghai. After dinner check into the hotel.

Hotel Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express Hotel 4-star standard hotel

Day 08

Shanghai

Breakfast

Lunch

After breakfast, visit The Bund, located along the Huangpu River in central Shanghai, featuring 52 buildings of various architectural styles, known as the “Exhibition of World Architecture.” Visit Yu Garden, a classical Jiangnan garden from the Ming Dynasty, known for its lush greenery, ancient trees, and intricate layout. After lunch, World Cultural Heritage Art Exhibition Center. Then take you to Nanjing road, dinner will be on your own for snacks there. In the evening we will arrange an optional night show–Acrobats show.

Hotel Accommodation: Shanghai Acrobatics Show (NZD 80/person)

Day 09

Shanghai/Beijing

Breakfast

After breakfast, transfer to railway station, fast train to Beijing. Upon arrival, meet you tour guide and be transferred Hotel. Free time for rest of the day.

Hotel Accommodation: Beijing Wanda Moments or similar 4-star hotel

Day 10

Beijing

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Tour the Tian’anmen Square, the biggest public square in the world. You will also be able to have a photo stop at The National Centre for the Performing Arts, formerly known as the National Grand Theatre, and colloquially described as The Egg. Afterwards, visit Forbidden City, the vast complex of palaces, which was home to successive Emperors for more than 500 years. Continue to visit the Beihai Park which is an imperial garden to the northwest of the Forbidden City. Stop at a silk factory before dinner. Tonight the optional tour will be an acrobatic show.

Optional Acrobatic Show – NZD 95 pp

Hotel Accommodation: Beijing Wanda Moments or similar 4-star hotel

Day 11

Beijing

Breakfast

Lunch

Morning tour to the Great Wall at Juyongguan section, stretching almost 4,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the sands of Central Asia and befittingly crowned one of the ten wonders of the world. Along the way, you will stopover at a jade carving factory where you can watch artisans at work. Return to the city, Visit Peking view the Olympic Park’s Bird’s Nest and Water Cube from the outside.

Hotel Accommodation: Beijing Wanda Moments or similar 4-star hotel

Day 12

Beijing

Breakfast

Lunch

In the morning, we enjoy a pedi-cab tour of Hutong – the ‘old city’ neighbourhoods of narrow alleyways and courtyard gardens, and experience local life on a family visit. After lunch, tour to the Summer Palace, the largest and the best preserved of all imperial palace gardens, which boasts such delights as the famous Marble Boat and the ornately painted ’Long Corridor’.

Hotel Accommodation: Beijing Wanda Moments or similar 4-star hotel

Day 13

Beijing - Xi'an

Breakfast

Morning free of you own, then train G89 15:00-19:12 to Xi’an. Upon arrival, local guide will meet you and then take you to hotel have a rest.

Hotel Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express or similar 4-star hotel

Day 14

Xi'an

Breakfast

Lunch

Morning tour to the greatest archaeological discovery of the century, more than 2,000 year-old Terracotta Warriors interred with the Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Included are the Circle Vision Movie and Bronze Chariot. Then you will sample the Xi’an dumpling dinner.

Hotel Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express or similar 4-star hotel

Day 15

Xi'an

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

In the morning we will visit Old City Wall and Big Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest existing square pavilion-style brick pagoda of the Tang Dynasty, is a typical evidence of the integration of the ancient Indian Buddhist temple architectural form of the stupa into Chinese culture following the introduction of Buddhism into the Central Plains.

Hotel Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express or similar 4-star hotel

Day 16

Xian-Beijing/Shanghai

Breakfast

Lunch

In the morning you visit the Small Wild Goose Pagoda Museum and Huimin Street. Then flight to Beijing and take a connecting flight to Auckland.

Day 17

Auckland

Arrive in Auckland.