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Flight - 1 night Shanghai - 3 nights Cruise - 8 nights Chengdu - 1 night Xian - 2 nights Beijing - 3 nights
key vJv features · VJV Special Event · VJV Sightseeing Programme · Most Meals Included · Upgraded Flight Options · Walking Content: 2 (see page 145) · Group Size: 6 25
per person in a twin room/cabin British airways from Heathrow
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18 nights from £2365
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Mar 14 .......£2365 Mar 28 .......£2495 Apr 11 ........£2599 Apr 25 ........£2599 May 9 .........£2599 May 23 .......£2499 Jun 6, 20 ....£2399 Jul 4 ...........£2499
2012 Wednesdays
Jul 18 ..........£2549 Aug 1 ...........£2649 Aug 29.........£2699 Sep 12 .........£2749 Sep 26 .........£2799 Oct 10 .........£2799 Oct 24 .........£2699 Nov 7 ...........£2449
IMaGES of ChIna
the original Yangtse cruise from Shanghai, the imperial capitals and pandas
ost journeys through China Day 4 Free day. Optional day VJV Special Event involve many internal flights excursion by rail to Suzhou including CHINESE ENTERTAINMENT and changes of hotel but the Garden of the Master of the Fishing a British Airways service direct to Nets, the Lingering Garden, a short Shanghai and the full Yangtse cruise canal cruise, a silk factory, ancient to the Three Gorges allow a journey Pingjiang Street and lunch - £49. through China with minimum flying Day 5 Visit the Shanghai Museum. and hotel changes, revealing the Embark on the MS Sophia. stately halls of the Imperial and Day 6 Arrive in Nanjing for an Summer Palaces of Beijing, the Great excursion to the Ming Dynasty Wall, Terracotta Warriors in Xian City Wall Museum and a Qing and the Buddhist caves of Dazu. The Dynasty style bazaar surrounding a Yangtse is the world's third longest Confucian Temple. river, some 4,000 miles east to west Day 7 Sail to Wuhan arriving in the and known in China as Changjiang evening. This includes a Peking Opera or `Long River'. Traditionally, river Day 8 Visit Guqin Terrace, performance, Peking Duck dinner, City navigation was by small sampans, surrounded by water on three sides Wall ceremony in Xian, Tang Dynasty wupans and sailing junks which can and offering fine scenery. dinner show and Acrobatic show. still be seen today. Hankow, now part Day 9 A day of sailing on the Yangtse. of Wuhan, inspired the famous Tea Day 10 Reach Yichang and sail Races when clippers and steamships sailed to the South through the Gezhouba Dam. Visit the Three Gorges Dam China Sea, Singapore and London. The British connection site project and traverse the new dam. began when Lord Elgin sailed along the Yangtse to Wuhan. Day 11 Sail through Wu Gorge with an excursion to Archibald Little established the first regular steamer the Daning River and Lesser Gorges and later enter the service to Chongqing. Qutang Gorge. Day 12 Visit Fengdu and sail upstream. mS SopHiA Day 13 Disembark in Chongqing and travel by road to This first class vessel, formerly known as the MS Prince, Dazu to visit the Buddhist Caves. Continue to Chengdu for operated by the US Victoria Cruises Company, is amongst overnight at the 4-star Minshan Hotel. the most modern that cruises on the Yangtse. There is a Day 14 Visit the Panda Breeding Research Centre, then one-sitting restaurant providing breakfast and luncheon fly to Xian. Two nights at the 4-star Grand Mecure Hotel. buffets, Chinese dinner banquets and afternoon tea. The Day 15 Visit the Terracotta Army and Great Wild Goose crew provide evening entertainment on most nights. Fully Pagoda. Special City Wall ceremony and later, evening air-conditioned its facilities include a reading room, bar, Tang Dynasty dinner and show. fitness centre, beauty salon, gift shop, observation Day 16 Fly to Beijing and visit the Summer deck and 104 outside cabins with private facilities, Palace with a short lake cruise. Three picture windows and balcony. nights at the 4-star Radisson Blu and BeiJing · Peking Opera performance. itinerArY Day 17 A full-day excursion to the Day 1 Fly overnight from London Great Wall and Sacred Way. Heathrow to Shanghai. Day 18 Visit the Day 2 On arrival, visit the Bund Forbidden City and yellow Sea CHINA and Nanjing Road, then transfer Tian An Men Square, to the 4-star Sunrise on the then the Temple of · Xian Bund Hotel for three nights. Heaven. Peking nanjing · Day 3 A city tour including Duck dinner. Shanghai ·Mt. Three gorges yichang · Yu Garden, Jade Buddha · Huangshan ·Suzhou Day 19 Return ·Wuhan Chengdu · ·Fengdu Temple and Huangpu flight, reaching Dazu ·· Chongqing River cruise. Evening Heathrow the acrobatic show. same day.
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Single supplement .....................£695 (Apr/May, Aug 29-Oct £795) London/Beijing & Shanghai/London British Airways World Traveller Plus ..................£765 Club World ...............................£2995
Price includes
Air travel, UK departure taxes, overseas airport taxes, transfers, 17 nights' accommodation, breakfast daily, 16 lunches and 14 dinners, itinerary as described, 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 £600 Accommodation, Meals, Transportation and Guides see page 117.
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