6 Days Jinbei (North Shanxi) and Jinzhong (The middle of Shanxi) Tour

Arrive Datong, our guide would meet you at the airport or railway station and transfer you to 4* Datong Hotel. Our guide would help you check in and you would enjoy the leisure time in the rest of day on your own arrangement.

Our guide would meet you at the lobby of hotel at around 09:00am, then drive you to visit Yungang Grottoes which is one of four large grottoes in China. Then drive you to visit Huayan Temple with murals and many statues inside and lots of them have over 900 years history. The most famous statue is a female sculpture which casted in Liao Dynasty (907-1125) and people normally evaluated her as the Orient Venus.

Remark: We only include two attractions in one day trip as we would like to give you more flexibility to choose where you like to go in the rest of the time or just take a rest inside the hotel. There is no much more to see inside Datong city, if you'd like to explore more, we recommend Shanhua Temple for you to consider as option. As Shanhua Temple kept relative complete Tang Dynasty Style Architecture inside. If you have leisure time in the evening, you can consider going out and take a look of the Datong City Wall although it is newly built. But the night view is amazing and photogenic.

Our guide would meet you at the lobby of hotel at 08:30am and drive around 2 hours (75km) to visit Hanging Temple firstly, it called as the world's forgotten wonders as it built on the cliff with 1,400 years history. When you stand on the temple and see the Aeolian bells swing in the wind, you would appreciate the passage of years. A simple lunch would be served at the restaurant near the scenic spot, then we drive you 1 hour to visit Yingxian Wooden Pagoda which is the oldest and the highest surviving wooden pagoda in China but without using even one spike to build it. That's why we called it's architecture wonder in the world. Then we would drive you 1 hour to Yinshan Village to have a walk on Guangwu Great Wall. The Guangwu section of the Great Wall stretches more than 6 km. Great Wall fans love the section because it has retained the original look of the wall without renovation since it built in 1374. We don't spend much time on it, just walk on the main towers on it, take a picture and then we go down and continue our 2.5 hours driving to Taiyuan City. If you like, we would drop you off at Liuxiang Snack Street. Our guide would give you some suggestions about where you can find the nice cuisine. You can try the food there and go back to your hotel by taxi. We also can drive you directly back to the 4* Shanxi Grand Hotel in Taiyuan City – The Capital City of Shanxi Province without stop in Liuxiang Snack Street if you are too tired after great wall climbing. 

Our guide would meet you at the lobby of hotel at around 10:00am, then drive you to visit Jinci Temple which is the earliest royal garden in China which is still well-preserved. The history is much longer than the royal gardens in Beijing. And there are several old trees with over 1000 years history, and the whole environment is quite tranquil and peaceful which is not easy to find in China. After having lunch at Taiyuan city. We would drive you 50 mins to Chang Family Compound which has the largest scale among all Shanxi Merchants, and it is also the largest architectural complex in manor style. After that, we drive you to stay at Pingyao Ancient Town. Enjoy leisure time inside Pingyao Town on your own arrangement.

If you like, our guide would meet you at the lobby of hotel at around 06:15am, getting up early it would give you a chance to see a quiet and peaceful Pingyao Ancient Town as most of the Chinese tourists group would start trip at around 0700am gradually. Except the noisy and commercialize atmosphere in the daytime, Pingyao Ancient Town show her serenity in the early morning. Before all the shops opened, before the loudspeaker start to work for the hordes, you would see a lovely Pingyao Ancient Town, you would have chance to hear the peddler's yo-heave-ho (they might probably sell local breakfasts), old people talking with their neighbor, or just the blooming of the jujube tree, would bring you a quite different feeling in this thousands of years history town. As today's trip is not so packed, so we can back to hotel to take a rest for around 2 hours including breakfast’s time. Then we depart from hotel at around 10am, drive to visit Zhenguo Temple firstly, you would find that's an undiscovered gem which forgotten by local people and tourists, here you can appreciate the old Chinese architecture and amazing painted sculptures & frescos with above 1,000 years history! Then we drive you to visit Shuanglin Temple. When Pingyao Ancient Town applied to be UNESCO in 1997, the government used one town  -- Pingyao Ancient Town and Two Temples – Zhenguo Temple and Shuanglin Temple to pass the application, so these 2 temples are both you should not miss. And Shuanglin Temple with 1,400 years history which a bit longer than Zhenguo Temple and famous for it's painted sculptures, the more stunning feature of Zhenguo Temple is it's architecture. After lunch, we would drive you to visit Liangcun Village, a sinking village which has many famous merchants hundred years ago, their houses is still inside the village but the host has changed into poor people. Now Liangcun Village is one of the poor villages near Pingyao Ancient Town. By visiting this village, you can see the rise and decline of the life. Then we would drive you back to hotel for take a rest, re-start to go out and visit Rishengchang Former Bank inside Pingyao Ancient Town. Our guide would give you introduction about the former bank so that you would have idea that how Pingyao became so influential and wealthy from the trade and banking. Then we would drive you back to hotel, enjoy the dinner and leisure time on your own.

Transfer to the railway station and depart from Pingyao Ancient Town to your next stop in China. (Pingyao has the direct bullet train to Xian, Beijing and Taiyuan City)

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