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3 Days Pingyao Relaxing Tour

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Duration: 3 days

Destinations:
Pingyao

Departure date: As you prefer

Availability: Whole year

Tour Code: HRC-SX02

Exquisite featured hotel in Pingyao
Ancient Government Office of Pingyao
Rishengchang Exchange Shop
Vintage Mingqing Street
Escort trolley in Ancient Security Guard Company
Gatetower of Ancient City Wall
Thousand-hand Guanyin sculpture in Shuanglin Temple
Wang Family Compound

Tour Description

Stay away from on-the-go metropolis life and enjoy 3 days of thorough relaxing life in Pingyao Ancient City. Let the adorable Pingyao small town convince you that things good can stay gold.

Spend an idyllic vintage night in Pingyao Ancient City
Tour landmarks of Pingyao like Ancient City Wall and Ancient Security Guard Company
Explore full-of-painted-sculpture Shuanglin Temple and elaborate Wang Family Compound

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Day 1 Arrive in Pingyao - Free time

Today's Activities

Feel free to choose either railway or airline to reach Pingyao. We'll meet you at Pingyao Railway Station or Taiyuan Airport. Afterwards, we'll move on to Pingyao Ancient City by private car and check in at a lovely local featured hotel. Spend the rest of the day in the most relaxed way around Pingyao Ancient City. You will surely have full of fun. Look, almost all the shops are decorated in old fashion and everything that bumps into your eyes is vintage. Red lanterns, red paper cuts, opera facial makeups are so Chinese accented; sidewalk restaurants sell traditional Pingyao diet and bars playing poetic Chinese ancient music.

Highlights


featured hotel in Pingyao	featured hotel in Pingyao	Pingyao Ancient City

Day 2 Mingqing Street- Rishengchang Shop- Ancient Government Office- Biaoju- Ancient City Wall(Breakfast, Lunch)

Today's Activities

Pingyao Ancient City is an unbelievable melting pot. Buildings inside the Ancient City Wall, though taking on the same traditional looks, stand for sharply different contents. Exchange shops at Mingqing Street are to give you an active and ambitious Shanxi Commercial Group, which once dominated economy of modern China (1840-1949). Among them is the famous Rishengchang Exchange Shop that you must visit. Astonishingly, These capitalistic banking companies lives in peace with feudal Government Office of Pingyao. Moreover, these companies have the Ancient Security Guard Company (Biaoju in Chinese) as their property supercargo. You'll find yourself amazed by such a relation and way of living together with varied minds in Pingyao!

Later you're spending a traditional China's night you can't experience elsewhere in many bustling metropolises of China. Pingyao people cherish every old handicraft and present them to attract visitors. If you're lucky, you would watch a night watch stroll past you sounding night watches!

Highlights


Mingqing Street	Treasury Stock in Biaoju	Ancient City Wall

Day 3 Shuanglin Temple - Wang Family Compound - Departure (Breakfast, Lunch)

Today's Activities

Today let's stretch the exploration of Pingyao to the outskirt. Drive about 15 minutes and you have Shuanglin Temple, the treasure house of Oriental Painted Sculptures. More than 2,000 exquisite Buddha sculptures will glue your eyes. After touring the temple for 30 minutes (maxinum 1 h), you would head for Wang Family Compound. The residential complex, five times as large as the more famous Qiao Family Compound, is a sea of Qing Dynasty architectural art. It's surely worthwhile your 2-hour visit. After that, your tour of Pingyao can draw a perfect period. We'll see you off at Taiyuan Airport or Pingyao Railway Station in the afternoon. Wish you a good journey back!

Highlights


Shuanglin Temple	Wang Family Compound	Wang Family Compound

Package Details

Tour Package Includes:
Dining: 2 breakfasts and 2 lunches	Admissions: Entrance fees to all scenic spots listed in itinerary
Tour Guide: Local experienced English-speaking guides	Car Driver: Experienced licensed drivers
Vehicle: Private air-conditioned car, offering Round-trip transfers	Luggage Transfers: A hand for your heavy luggage;
Insurance: Travel Agencies Liability Insurance;	Government taxes & Service charges
Tour Package Excludes:
- Other optional tours / meals / flights not mentioned in itinerary;	- Tips for tour guides and drivers.

Hotels in Pingyao

Yunjincheng Folk Hotel: Yunjincheng Folk Hotel adorns itself up with all the featured ingredients of traditional Pingyao dwellings like red lanterns, folding screens with Chinese ink painting, rosewood furniture and sophisticated courtyard layout. Moreover, even the beddings in each room are of traditional tone. Hot water and tasty local dishes are all available to serve you too.

Pingyao Hongshanyi Hotel: If you spend a Chinese Spring Festival in Hongshanyi Hotel, you will have a lot of fun, taking part in the celebrating activities the hotel holds for you. You can either DIY some handicrafts like paper cut, writing spring festival couplets or watch outdoors the dazzling lantern show, firework.

Dejuyuan Guesthouse: Dejuyuan Guesthouse is situated at Mingqing Street. The tastefully decorated guest rooms and a wide range of facilities and services provide guests with a comfortable and joyful stay.

Meals in the Package

-- Breakfasts are offered by the hotels
-- Lunches are arranged according to different classes of tour
-- Dinners are for your own arrangement

We promise worry-free dining quality, plus flexible choices regarding your preference. Any special requestment please tell our trip advisors directly. Other recommendations are as follow:

Pingyao

Pingyao offers traditional northern China cuisine and specializes in various noodle dishes and pastries. Try Wantuo, that's a famous noodle dish. Also sink your teeth into Pingyao's beefy dishes. Pingyao doesn't have ritzy high-end restaurants; the food here is rustic and homey.


Pingyao Wantuo	Pingyao Beef

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Hi Sara,

We enjoyed our trip to China very much and would have difficulty finding fault with that part of our trip you organised. We had spent two enjoyable weeks Volunteering at the Bifengxia Panda Base prior to commencing your itinerary. We will make comments about the different components of that part of our trip your company organised for us, which you may find useful.

All were well chosen at the level of accommodation we were expecting. All were well located. The hotel food was good. The restaurants & food chosen by our guides was very good and gave us a good appreciation of Chinese cuisine.

Your company is always very professional and helpful with sound suggestions regarding our itinerary. Of particular help was the prompt reply, within 24 hours, to e-mails. This was much appreciated.

Generally we has a great China experience meeting the polite helpful local people and learning a little of your culture & cuisine. We would certainly use your company for our next China trip which we hope will not be too far away.

A special thanks to you Sara.

Customer: Dennis & Elaine BentleyUpdate Date: Nov 20, 2011

Destinations: Chongqing - Xi'an - Pingyao - Datong - Beijing

Dear Sara, I would like to thank you on behalf of our small group for a wonderful trip in China. Everything was well planned, we had no problems, everywhere we were met with great care, everything was done in time. Everything(guides, drivers, hotels, food) were of good quality.

We have especially enjoyed our stay in Datong, Pingyao and Xian. All three guides in these cities were wonderful.

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Customer: Audrius SekliuckisUpdate Date: Apr. 3, 2011

Destinations: Beijing-Datong-Pingyao-Xi'an-Shanghai-Guilin

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