Cuisines Hunting Route

• Wave your body together with the local morning exercisers in the Temple of Heaven
• Have a private mask drawing lesson and try your hand at drawing the Beijing Opera Masks with an experienced master
• Make a private drive to the Great Wall at Mutianyu--the less-commercial section after an overlooking view of this winding man-made structure on the cable car (Round trip)
• Get lost in fast-disappearing Hutongs by rickshaw and have a close contact and a dumpling making with a courtyard family
• Peek into the past life style of the Beijingners at a private museum at Hutong
• Challenge your chockstick skill while savor the tempting but slippery dumplings of a Xi'an banquet
• View many pandas in large enclosures and leisurely life of those black-and-white plump fur balls
• Join in the local's relaxing way -- Sipping tea in the People's Park
• Wake up your taste buds in the spicy Sichuan Cuisines
• Savor a vegetarian meal in themind-soothing Longhua Temple
• Stop at Shanghainese home nestled at a alley, explore an ingredient bazaar and cook lunch with them to soak in the commoner's lifestyle

Day 1: Beijing
Airport to hotel transfer

Day 2: Beijing
Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Beijing Opera Masks, Beijing Opera

Day 3: Beijing
Mutianyu at Great Wall, Mutianyu Cable Car, a visit to Sancha village, Bird's Nest (National Stadium), Water Cube (National Aquatics Center), Peking Duck

Day 4: Beijing - Xi'an
Guanyuan Market (or Panjiayuan Market at weekend), Hutong tour by rickshaw, Private Museum of the Old Beijingner Stuffs, Fly to Xi'an

Day 5: Xi'an
Banpo Museum, Terracotta Warriors, Shaanxi History Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Dumpling Banquet

Day 6: Xi'an - Chengdu Fly to Chengdu. Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, People's Park, Sichuan Opera Face Changing

Day 7: Chengdu - Lijiang
Jinsha Ruins, Wuhou Temple, Sichuan cuisines, Qingyang Temple, Fly to Lijiang

Day 8: Lijiang
Visitor's Center for Nature and Culture of Northwest Yunnan, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Cable Car, Baisha Murals, a Family visit, Intangible cultural heritage- Naxi Ancient Music

Day 9: Lijing
First Bend of Yangtze River, Tiger Leaping Gorge

Day 10: Lijiang - Kunming - Shanghai
Temple and Market of the Town Gods, Yuyuan Garden

Day 11: Shanghai
A Shanghai family visit, Shanghai Museum, World Financial Center, Acrobatic show

Day 12: Farewell Shanghai
Half a day of freedom and depart