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Dianchi Hotspring Garden Hotel

  This is a very beautiful hotel, with beautiful gardens, water pond, and villa-like rooms, and swimming pool with hot spring. The hotel is a bit old, built up around 10 years ago, but it was designed for the rich retired people to have a plseasant retreat, in the beautiful spring city of Ku...

  This is a very beautiful hotel, with beautiful gardens, water pond, and villa-like rooms, and swimming pool with hot spring. The hotel is a bit old, built up around 10 years ago, but it was designed for the rich retired people to have a plseasant retreat, in the beautiful spring city of Kunming. Now it's also opened to people from different countries to have a beautiful stay here. Every room is very large and cozy, with comfortable sofas. Each room enjoys a private balcony, overlooking the green grassland and the peaceful lake, and excited customers around.

    It locates next to Yunnan Ethnique Village, by the Dianchi Lake, bear Western Hill, which makes it very easy to go around and enjoy a relaxing and pleasant time in Kunming. The hotel has different restaurants to satisfy your desire for local Yunnan cuisine, at very reasonable price. Each restaurant has beautiful view.

  The hotel is in the wide open area near Dianchi Lake, where gathers beautiful hotels, gardens, galleries, and Yunnan Govermental Meeting Hall. Lots of high-classed villas are around, so it grows beautiful trees and gardens. The whole area is very fresh, clean, wide and open space, with builidings no more than 3 stories high.

  It is very fresh and pleasant to run or bike around in the morning along the clean and quiet street.

  Another lovely thing is there is a local daily market going on not far away, where you can get fresh fruite, veges and all types of smnceks from local Kunming. Really amazing area.

Take bus No. A1, A4, A9.

Jianmen Pass

Jianmen Pass is located at an opening in the middle section of Mt.Dajian which contines for hundreds of miles . The sword-like peaks form a natural barrier and give i many strategic and geographic advantages. In the history the pass has witnessed more than 100 battles, and welcomed over ten...

Jianmen Pass is located at an opening in the middle section of Mt.Dajian which contines for hundreds of miles . The sword-like peaks form a natural barrier and give i many strategic and geographic advantages. In the history the pass has witnessed more than 100 battles, and welcomed over ten emperors as well as countless men of letters, who left behind 4000 artworks prasing if after their visit . Relying on the natural barrier, Jiang Wei, a general of the Shu Kingdom successfully defended a hundred thousand soldiers of the Wei Kingdom from entering the pass. Existing sites include the memorial site where Zhugeliang set the pass , sncient temples, precious inscribed tablets, as the well-known "Four sceneries of Jianmen '( drizzle of Jianmen 松涛, whistling sounds of wind bloing through pines (at Liangshan Temple) . afterglow of cliffs and snow covering Cuiyun Corridor) and 'Four spectacles of Jianmen " ( Stone Statue of Jiangwei, thousand-year -old Chinese redbud, evergreen pine and firtree and stalagmite in Mt.Jianshan )

 

Jianmen Pass is a major part of the National 5A tourist attraction Jianmen Shu Road. it is also it was 2300 years ago when five strong men called Five Ding cleared the way for offense in the Pre-Qin days. The well-known sentences " if one man guards the pass, then thousand are unable to get through" and "  it is easy to climb to heaven than to take the Shu Road "( which is from Libai's poet , were made to describe this steep and  rough pass. Jianmen Pass is regarded as one of the " Four Spectacles of Sichuan" , the other three being the Elegant Mt.Emei, secluded Mt.Qingcheng and the magnificent Jiuzhaigou .  

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$238 Per Day

Private Hangzhou Day Trip from Shanghai by Bullet Train

Take in the highlights of beautiful Hangzhou on a private full-day tour from Shanghai. After hotel pickup and transfer by high-speed train to Hangzhou, your private guide takes you to see some city attractions, such as Faxi temple. Moreover, enjoy a tasty lunch at a local restaurant before heading to Longjing village. There, learn about the process of farming and producing dragonwell tea, the region’s most famous product. Finally, enjoy a scenic boat cruise on UNESCO World Heritage-listed West Lake before returning to Shanghai.

This is a private, full-day trip from Shanghai to Hangzhou. After you are picked up in your hotel lobby in the early morning, you will take a bullet train to Hangzhou. This is the fastest way to Hangzhou and you can experience train speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour. Your tour begins at one of Hangzhou's signature sites, the West Lake. Enjoy a lake cruise to see the top ten West Lake scenic views. You will then be taken to experience the wonderful cuisine of Hangzhou at a local restaurant. After lunch, you will visit Faxi temple, a well-known Temple dating back to the Jin Dynasty. See its famous wooden Buddha. Here, you will see fewer tourists and more locals. Finally, enjoy a cup of green tea when you visit the famous Longjing village to see wild fields of Longjing tea bushes where the locals produce the world famous green tea- Longjing Tea. In the village, all locals are tea farmers and you will see the entire procedure of making the famous tea and will get the chance to taste the best quality emperor tea. Afterwards, you will take the bullet train back to Shanghai and you will be returned to your hotel.


$150 Per Day

Guangzhou

Day 1 Arrive in Guangzhou

Arrive in Guangzhou in the morning, you will be met and transferred to hotel, then visit Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. The Memorial Hall is a very famous historical scenic spot. It is in memory of Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner. After that proceed to visit the Ancestral Temple of the Chen Family. It is a unique site for offering up sacrifices to worship ancestors of 72 Chen families in Guangdong. This ancestral temple is also the largest, best preserved and best decorated ancient architecture existing in Guangdong province.

Day 2 Guanzhou Tour 

After breakfast, you will go to Yuexiu Park first, the largest and the most famous park in downtown Guangzhou. There are three artificial lakes and seven hills of Yuexiu Mountain. Then you will visit Temple of Six Banyan Trees, which is one of the four best Buddhist temples in Guangzhou and located on the Liurong Road (meaning the Six Banyan Trees Road). The Nanyue King Tomb Museum is a must-see Guangzhou attraction, which dates back to 2,000 years ago, is the earliest large scale painted stone chamber tomb ever found south of the Five Ridges. Buried with the tomb owner in a jade shroud are a gold seal and a lot of exquisite jade adornments. It has become a world famous museum. After the day tour you will be transferred to airport for your next destination.

$53 Per Day

Pingyao Highlights Walking Tour

Pingyao Highlights Walking Day Tour

With our guide to know the Ancient Pingyao better!

Our guide will meet you at your hotel lobby at 08:00 or 08:30, then show you the ticket office to get the ticket for the museums we will visit later.

First we will visit the 700 years old City wall, We will climb up from south gate and have a walk on the wall. We are not sure how many km we can walk, because of the renovating of the wall. Normally we will walk from south gate to the Yunlu Exit.

Then visit the Confucius temple, there is a old building named Dacheng Hall which is over 840 years old. From outside, we can see the big wood joints to lift the big roof around the building which is named Dougong. Due to this design, there are less columns inside the hall for giving the big space for the statues and the prayer. We have chance to see the Confucius statue and learn the philosophy of Confucius. If you like, you can pray for you and your children to get better study.

There is the Paper Cutting master named Wentao nearby the exit of Confucius temple. She is very smart and create the new style paper cutting with much more details and good wishes on it. Her products are made by hanks. It is worth to visit and buy as a souvenir from Pingyao. From the table standing and wall hangings. Please remember, take the red one because of red is the traditional and happy color. But the white one is the best. It is really difficult to choose, because of all of them are really nice.

Then you can have coffee break or tea break if you need at Chummy coffee, after this, visit the City god temple (ChenghuangMiao) which is most beautiful temple inside the wall. Because of the roof is covered by the colorful glazed tiles. There is not only city god and also the three money gods, Now you know why pingyao was the financial center.

Next we will visit the Ancient government building, to see the pingyao politics center in the ancient time. It is the complete building with officials bed room, kitchen and private garden. Follow the guide to look the official’s life from the 250km far away from the hometown.

Have a stroll in the alley to the Rishengchang exchange bank, which is the first bank all of china.You can not miss it.

After lunch, walk to the Ming and Qing street, this is the shopping street full of the stores on the both side of street. You can find alot things here , from post card to lacquered boxes, and wall panels. One more place to see, it is the Armed escort agency also named security and transport service for the business man before the bank founded.

Inlcusions

1.private english speaking tour guide servcie

2.bottle water for the tour