*ALL-INCLUSIVE 5-star luxury cruise with private balconies in all cabins
*Complimentary embarkation night dinner and midnight snack are included
*House wine,local beer,variety of soft drinks are included while lunch & dinner
*Complimentary luggage handling service is included at both Chongqing & Yichang ports
*Children's care service with designed onboard activities
*Professional service with English-speaking staff, professional cruise and local guides
*Exquisite meals with various choices of Chinese and Western buffets
*The largest sightseeing sundeck with panoramic views
*Well-chosen scenic spots, make you travel easily and have free breathing
*Shore excursions guiding audio devices are available in each room
Fly to Shanghai. On arrival of day two you will be met at the airport by our guide or National Escort from Grand Century Cruises. Together with all other travel members who may be arriving at a similar time, you will transfer approximately 1 hour to your hotel to check in. The rest of the day is at your own leisure.
Shanghai – Once known as the “Paris of the East”, Shanghai is now one of Asia’s most influential cities. Prior to communist arrival in 1949, Shanghai was a city with European-style mansions and was the most important trading port in Asia. Today it presents a blend of cultures; the modern and the traditional, along with the occidental and oriental.
Hotel: Shanghai Sheraton Hotel or similar(5-Star)
After buffet breakfast, visit downtown Shanghai, The Bund, Nanjing Road, and the Silk Workshop. Then visit Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone. After lunch. Welcome dinner at night.
Hotel: Shanghai Sheraton Hotel or similar(5-Star)
After buffet breakfast, visit the Shanghai Museum, and then embark your cruise at Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal, Welcome Briefing, and Captain’s Welcome Party.
Cruise: 5-Star Luxury Cruise - Century Legend
Visit the famous slender West Lake, which formed a group of lakeside gardens in the Kangqian period of the Qing Dynasty, integrating the beauty of the South and the grandeur of the North. The lake twists and turns, the water is clear, with Xuyuan, Xiaojinshan, Wuting Bridge, White Pagoda, 24 Bridges, Wan Yuan, Shuangfeng Yundui and other famous gardens and scenic spots, unique charm, renowned at home and abroad.
Crew Gala Event on board to end the beautiful night.
Take a tour to the famous Niushou Mountain Cultural Park. Niushou Cultural Park. A cow head mountain, half the history of Nanjing. Here is the Buddha Shakyamuni parietal bone worship site, different from other natural scene-based Buddhist mountains, into the Niushu Mountain, highly skilled craftsmen to create Buddhist relics, sacred scenery and scenery, you will be amazed.
Participate the onboard activities after lunch.
Live Music Masquerade will amuse you at night.
Option-A: Join in a full day shore excursion to the famous Jiuhua Mountain, the nine main peaks like nine lotus flowers, a variety of shapes, each with charm. The natural sleeping Buddha formed by continuous mountain peaks has become a model of organic integration of natural landscape and Buddhist culture.
Option-B: Shore excursion to Jindizang Temple. The whole courtyard layout is like a concentrated imperial palace momentum, a total of seven halls, the most spectacular is that each hall has a three-dimensional giant Buddha statue.
Enjoy your movie time in the cinema or join in the Happy Hour in the bar.
Option-A: Having the in-depth tour to Jingdezhen Porcelain Town. Enjoy the "ancient Kiln Porcelain factory" and "Ceramic Exhibition Area", witness the whole process of handmade porcelain, and understand the history of ceramics in the porcelain capital of the world.
Option-B: Join in a full day shore excursion to the famous Lushan Mountain. Take the ropeway, and survey the "magnificent, strange, dangerous and beautiful" scenery of Lushan Mountain.
Take a tour to the Yellow Crane Tower. Unique national style, and the foot of the snake Mountain Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge complement each other. Overlooking the tower, you can have a panoramic view of the three towns in Wuhan.
Indulge into the national treasures and precious cultural relics at Hubei Provincial Museum.
Line Dance Party with classic music in the bar to amuse your night.
Join in a tour to Yueyang Tower & Ancient Bianhe Street, A leisure afternoon on board at your ease. Yueyang Tower, one of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, is an original ancient building, overlooking Dongting and Junshan. Then walk to Bianhe Street in front of Yueyang Tower.
Enjoy your movie time in the cinema.
Option-A: Shore excursion to Xiongjia National Archaeological Site Park.
Option-B: Shore excursion to Jingzhou Museum & Jingzhou Ancient City Wall.
Onboard Activity: Demonstration of Hospitality & Service Skills by the Crew.
Jingzhou, once the capital of the state of Chu in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period, is also the battle of The Three Kingdoms period, listen to the professional guide here, those wonderful stories of thousands of years ago will become more vivid.
Shore Excursion to the River Closure Memorial Park & the Three Gorges Dam Project
Museum. Sail through the 5-step Ship Locks of the Dam. Learn the story behind the great Three Gorges Project and witness the power of the intercepting spirit of "man triumphs over heaven and heaven and man integrates" in Chinese water conservancy projects.
Immerse into the gorgeous views of the Xiling Gorge.
Themed Party Activities.
Immerse into the magnificent Qutang & Wu Gorges.
Lecture about the Three Gorges.
Option-A: Visit the historic & cultural site of the White Emperor City. Surrounded by water on all sides and facing mountains alone, it looks particularly beautiful in the green mountains and rivers. Numerous cultural histories show the thick scenery here. At the same time, this is also a great place to enjoy Kui Gate of Qutang Gorge.
Option-B: Visit the magnificent "Peak of the Three Gorges" Immerse into the magnificent Qutang & Wu Gorges. Sail through the 5-step ship locks of the Dam and experience the feat of climbing the stairs of a 10,000-ton cruise ship. Enjoy the Return to the Three Gorges Show (Direct by Zhang Yimou) at night.
Touring Around at Fengdu Ghost City, which is not only a place of worship for the gods, demons and serpents in folklore, but also a treasure house of folk culture and art integrating Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Onboard Activity: Photography Sharing Salon about the Yangtze & Cruise.
After an early breakfast onboard Century Cruises. Check-out & disembark in Chongqing.
Take a bus to have city tour to Chongqing Liberation Square and Hongya Cave.
In the evening, go to enjoy the splendid Chongqing night view and farewell dinner.
Hotel: Marriott Hotel or similar 5-star.
Arrive in Chongqing.
Disembark from the cruise after breakfast onboard.
(*Century Cruises: Shuttle bus to Chongqing Airport / Train Station)
* The cruising itinerary onboard Century Cruises is subject to change due to weather conditions, water level, navigation and seasonal conditions.
Please follow the guide when visiting.It’s good to wear comfortable walking shoes .
Vegetarian, halal, kosher, Indian, or gluten-free — all your dietary requirements can be taken care of by our experienced team if noticed to us in advance.