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CHINA TIBET
14 nights from £2549
Flight - 1 night Beijing - 3 nights Xian - 2 nights Train - 1 night Lhasa - 3 nights Tsedang - 1 night Chengdu - 1 night Shanghai - 2 nights
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An incredible journey by rail to tibet, the `roof of the world'
he opening of a rail link itinerArY VJV Special Event into Tibet from China is an Day 1 Fly overnight from London CHINESE ENTERTAINMENT incredible feat of engineering Heathrow to Beijing. traversing at high altitudes the Day 2 Transfer to the 3-star Dong most inhospitable terrain, where some Fang Hotel for three nights. areas remain permanently frozen. Day 3 Visit the Forbidden City and With a length of 2,000 kilometres Tian An Men Square, then the Summer and over 5,000 metres at its highest Palace. Peking Opera performance. point, it is the world's longest and Day 4 Visit the Temple of Heaven and highest plateau railway comprising the Great Wall at Mutianyu. Peking 681 bridges, 1,966 culverts and 11 Duck dinner. tunnels. The rail journey starts from Day 5 Fly to Xian for two nights at the Xian, running parallel to the south trail 4-star Jian Guo Hotel. Visit the Wild of the ancient Silk Road to Xining. Pass Goose Pagoda and City Wall. Special salt lakes and the legendary Kunlun city wall ceremony. This includes a Peking Opera performance, Mountains and Jade Peak, reaching Day 6 Visit the Terracotta Warriors Peking Duck dinner, City Wall ceremony in the areas of the source of China's and Great Mosque. Tang Dynasty Xian, rickshaw ride to view the illuminated great rivers. The train crosses over Potala Palace and Sichuan Opera. dinner and show. Mount Wudaoliang to a green land Day 7 An early transfer to board the train of enormous lakes that is Kekexili, a to Lhasa. Lunch and dinner on board. protected region with many wild animals including the Tibetan Day 8 After breakfast and lunch on board reach Lhasa antelope. At 5,072 metres view Mount Tanggula, then cross in the late afternoon. Transfer to the central 3-star Hotel into Tibet. Tibet has always exerted a fascination on visitors Tangka for three nights. from the West partly by its isolation and partly by there being Day 9 Visit the temple of Jokhang and Barkour Market. no divide between the religious and secular in its unique past. Rickshaw ride to view the illuminated Potala Palace. In Lhasa, the 1,000-room 7th-century Potala Palace is one Day 10 Visit the great Potala Palace, Sera Monastery and of the architectural wonders of the world, with 13 levels of the Summer Palace of the Dalai Lama at Norbulingka. red, white and gold while the Jokhang temple is Tibet's most Day 11 Travel to Tsedang, visiting en route the Mindroling holy place and the spiritual centre with golden canopies, Monastery or Gongkar Chode Monastery and a Tibetan gilded Banners of Victory and the large gold Wheel of Law. family house. In the afternoon, walk up to Yongbulakang Palace and visit Tradruk Monastery. Overnight at the 3-star t H e tr A i n Hotel Zedang. Specially constructed for this extreme route and suitable thus Day 12 Fly to Chengdu and overnight at the 4-star Hotel for the more adventurous traveller, this is not a luxury train. Tianfu Sunshine. Enjoy a leisurely walk along Jinli Street, Meeting the requirements of safety, reliance, comfort and in ancient times one of the busiest of the commercial environmental protection; the normal running in a severely boulevards in the kingdom of Shu. Dinner and Sichuan cold and oxygen deficient environment is ensured, with each Opera. of the airproof carriages having a generator for the supply of Day 13 Morning tour of the Giant Panda Breeding Research oxygen. As accommodation is limited and in high demand, the Centre. Afternoon flight to Shanghai. Transfer to the 4-star overnight journey to Lhasa will be in 4-berth compartments*, Bund Riverside Hotel for two nights. sharing with other VJV Day 14 A full-day tour in Shanghai travellers, with a toilet BeiJing · includes the Jade Buddha Temple, and washroom at the Xining Old Town, Yu Garden, Bund and golmud · · end of each carriage. Nanjing Road. Evening acrobatic Simple Chinese food · Xian show. CHINA is served on board. Day 15 Transfer to the airport · Shanghai Private journey · Chengdu for the return flight, via Lhasa · arrangements will be · Beijing. Tsedang in a private 4-berth compartment.
· VJV Special Event · VJV Sightseeing Programme · Most Meals Included · Upgraded Flight Option · Walking Content: 3 (see page 145) · Group Size: 6 25
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2012 Thursdays
Apr 12 .........£2599 Jun 7 ........... £2549 May 10 ........£2649 Sep 6, 13..... £2699 May 24 ........£2649 Oct 11 ......... £2749
Supplements per person
Single supplement* ...................£295 Air China Business Class .........£2145 Private Journey this tour may be taken as a Private Journey (see page 144) based on 2 persons on the above dates. add £995 per person
Price includes
Air travel, UK departure taxes, overseas airport taxes, transfers, 13 nights' accommodation, itinerary as described, all meals (except lunch on Day 12), services of guides and local representatives.
Not included
Travel insurance, visa procurement fee, tipping (see page 145), any government taxes or compulsory charges introduced after publication.
Independent Arrival (see page 144) Notes
Price reduction ..............deduct £300 Sections of this itinerary reach an elevation over 5,070 metres (17,000 feet) and travellers should be in good health and ensure that they are not predisposed to conditions which may be aggravated by high altitude. Accommodation, Meals, Transportation and Guides see page 119.
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