Authentic Shopping in Asia
16/10/2019 · By Georgia Shipley
Don’t waste precious holiday time worrying what souvenirs to pick up from your travels, get stuck into this handy guide and make your shopping trips a cinch!
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2021 Tour code: CVS21
About the tour
Travel from bustling Beijing, with its Great Wall, to ancient Xi'an and its Terracotta Warriors, cruising the Yangtze River en-route, on this adventure through China's ancient and modern wonders.
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Your tour begins as you meet your Tour Manager at London Heathrow and fly to Beijing, arriving into this bustling city on Day 2. Spend the day exploring Beijing on a guided tour. Visit Tiananmen Square, the location of the now infamous 1989 uprising and, at over 4 million square feet, the largest city square in the world.
Continue to the Forbidden City - a palace and garden complex once inhabited by the Chinese royal family, and now preserved as a testament to China's long history. The incredible complex was built on a grand scale, with 980 buildings spread over 180 acres housing the family, their staff, and the royal guard from 1406 to the abdication of the last Chinese Emperor in 1912. Constructed to reflect the Purple Palace, where it was thought god resided in heaven, the Forbidden City's opulence is testament to the Emperor's vision as a divine ruler. The rest of the day is at leisure, ahead of a delicious dinner of authentic Peking duck tonight.
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4.2 / 5 · 15 reviews
Mr C Blunt
Submitted 19 Nov 2019
Well organised, hotels good & tours good.
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Graham Clarkson
Submitted 16 Nov 2019
Excellent tour, good local guides and a very helpful,patient and knowledgeable tout manager Jos Royle
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Mr P Benstead
Submitted 16 Nov 2019
A great experience and very well organised. Only let down by an awful restaurant (night 1 in Chengdu) - dreadful fare and food poisoning, the Art Hotel in Xian (very rude staff & and a breakfast box that went straight in the bin) and the Xian tour guide (Helen). On the 5 a.m. coach to the airport she talked continually in a load voice when everybody wanted to doze. She insisted on pressing us with the 'party line' on human rights in western China - not requested or welcome especially at 5 a.m.
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Ms C Heinzerling
Submitted 12 Oct 2019
Great experience for the price with so much included - use of local guides enhanced the experience - use of trains instead of planes for intercity travel made a big difference
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Mr R Pyner
Submitted 17 Nov 2018
Great organisation and very knowledgeable local guides and tour manager
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Mrs S Johnson
Submitted 11 Nov 2018
Great itinerary, really friendly group, excellent tour and local guides. Would happily recommend Rail Discoveries. Meals a bit of a let down, always the same evening meal and so much time wasted taking us to restaurants 40 mins from the hotel. Long days would have concluded better if we'd had a little time to relax and then dine in at the hotels. Also we'd have had more time to get to know one another.
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