This tour is incredible value as the price covers all of the following:

• Return air fares from Sydney and Melbourne into Shanghai and out of Beijing with China Eastern Airlines, plus 2 flights within China.    

• A wonderful 12-day air, boat & coach tour of China, including Shanghai, Xian and Beijing. 

• Most meals. 

• Entrance fees to many attractions, including Xian's famous Terra-Cotta warriors. 

• All transport and transfers.  

• Services of Chinese tour guides and if there are 14 or more passengers there will be an Australian tour leader.   

If you don't have a travel partner, but wish to travel at twin share rates, we will do our best to match you up with another person, but this is not guaranteed. For a single room there is an an additional cost of $460.

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	Itinerary for China Holiday Special Tour -  March 2009
Note:	Meals are included in the itinerary as B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner
22.03.09	Depart Melbourne at 8.00am on MU 566, arriving in Sydney at 9.30am. Both Sydney and Melbourne passengers depart Sydney at 11.20am on MU 566, arriving in Shanghai at 7.40pm. You will be met by our Chinese tour guide and transferred to your 4 star hotel by Maglev train (the fastest train in the world) and coach.
2303.09 (B/L/D)	Shanghai After breakfast, there is the chance to stroll on the Bund overlooking the Huangpu River with its backdrop of early 20th century buildings, to visit the former concession areas and narrow streets of the Old Town - Shikumen. Also visit Zhou Enlai Residence. After climbing the Oriental Peral Tower, you will attend a fabulous Acrobatic Show in the evening.
24.03.09 (B/D)	Shanghai After breakfast you are free to explore this fast moving and ever evolving city. You will have your buffet dinner in your hotel.
25.03.09 (B/L/D)	Shanghai - Wuzhen - Hangzhou You will board the bus to Hangzhou in the morning, on the way, stop over at Wuzhen Watertown, which located in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, has a history of more than 1,000 years. Of the ancient residential houses, workshops, and stores still standing on the banks of the rivers, 169,600 square metres, accounting for 81.54 percent of the town's total floor area, have remained unchanged, lending an atmosphere of antiquity. Upon arrival in Hangzhou, you will have a city tour and also visit Dragon Well Green Tea Village, where you will be able to purchase some of the best green tea in China. Then transfer to your hotel. In the evening, shop at Wushan Road where you will find many fantastic souvenirs and silk products at a good price.
26.03.09 (B/L/D)	Hangzhou Relax on a powerful cruise of China's most famous lake, West Lake. See the famous Three Pools Reflecting the Moon and Huagang Park. Admire ancient Liu Ho Pagoda. Enjoy Hangzhou cuisine in the evening.
27.03.09 (B/L/D)	Hangzhou - Xian After breakfast, you are transferred to the airport for your flight to Xian. Upon arrival at Xian, your guide will help you check into your four star hotel. Having your lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, your guide will take you to the Shanxi Provincial Museum, one of the best history museums in the nation and majestic Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
28.03.09 (B/L/D)	Xian In the morning, you will enjoy a full day excursion to the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang guarded by the famous Terracotta Army, 7000 life size clay statues each individually crafted, complete with chariots and horses. You also visit the Banpo Neolithic Villages. In the evening, you attend a dinner performance of Tang era music and dance at the grand Tang Theatre.
29.03.09 (B/L/D)	Xian - Beijing After breakfast you will visit the well-preserved City Walls, Grand Mosque and Muslim Street. Afternoon transfer to airport for flight to Beijing. Upon arrival you will be met and transferred to your 4 star hotel.
30.03.09 (B/L/D)	Beijing Full-day tour will begin at the magnificent Forbidden City, home to emperors for over 500 years. Stroll through Tiananmen Square. After lunch on to admire the beauty of the Temple of Heaven. Enjoy a spectacular Kungfu (Martial Art) performance in the evening.
31.03.09 (B/L/D)	Beijing In the morning you will leave for your Beijing Alleys Tour. Ride in three wheel rickshaws through Beijing's quaint alleys experiencing life as a Beijing local. Enjoy lunch with a Beijing family in a traditional four walled home. Witness the splendour of the Summer Palace and the Holy Lama Temple once a mansion home for a prince and according to tradition converted to a temple after he left. This evening you are invited to a Peking Duck banquet.
01.04.09 (B/L/D)	Beijing A  full-day tour will take in the grandeur of the Eighth Wonder of the World, The Great Wall and also the Ming Tombs. On the way back to the capital, stop to visit the Olympics Stadium (if it is open to the public by then). Enjoy a farewell buffet banquet in the evening.
02.04.09 (B)	Beijing - Sydney After breakfast, you are transferred to the airport for your flight to Shanghai. Upon arrival, you are met and if time permits, do some last minute shopping in Shanghai. In the afternoon, you are transferred to Shanghai international airport for your flight to Australia. Melbourne and Sydney passengers are leaving Shanghai at 6.20pm on MU 565. Melbourne passengers are arriving in Melbourne at 7.00am the next morning (03.04.09). Sydney passengers are arriving in Sydney at 9.30am the next morning (03.04.09).
Note:	Airport taxes and levies at present total an additional amount of approximately $475. We have no control over this price and it is subject to change.

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Deposits and Payments - A non-refundable deposit of $200.00 per person is payable within 7 days of booking. This deposit is not refundable should you later cancel. The balance is payable 8 weeks prior to departure. 

Refunds and Cancellations - Cancellations after final payment will result in a refund limited to whatever we can recoup from the airline.

Insurance - Adequate travel insurance is essential. We can arrange this for you if desired.

Passports - All travellers require a current passport with at least 6 months left on it at the end of the tour. Non-Australian passport holders require a re-entry visa for Australia.
Visas are required for Australian passport holders to China. Visa fee for China is $30.00 and we charge $20.00 for processing.

Not  Included in the Cost - All items of a personal nature such as telephone calls, drinks, excess baggage, tips, meals, (except those specified in the itinerary), etc.
Also travel insurance and departure taxes. Australian airport tax must now be paid with your ticket, and comes to $475 at present.
****Please note that these taxes are subject to change.****

Health and Fitness - Macleay Valley Travel recommends that the passenger is reasonably healthy and/or fit to participate in this tour. Persons with a disability requiring special assistance must be accompanied by a companion. Macleay Valley Travel and their representatives cannot provide this service. Macleay Valley Travel reserves the right to accept/decline or terminate a passenger's participation in the tour under certain circumstances.

Booking through other Agents - As we keep the cost of out tours as low as possible, there is insufficient margin for us to be able to pay commission to other travel agents, so some bookings can only be accepted if the client pays the other agent's commission. 
Macleay Valley Travel is a fully licensed travel agent and as such any monies paid to us are fully insured by the Travel Compensation Fund. We are happy for any prospective traveller with us to check us out with your local Consumer Affairs (fair trading) department.
Similarly, credit card payments can only be accepted if 2% is added to the price to help defray the heavy merchant fees charged to us by the credit card companies.

Limitation of Liability - As Macleay Valley Travel acts only as agent for the Airlines, Hotels, Coach Companies etc., providing accommodation, transportation and other services, Macleay Valley Travel shall not be liable or responsible for death or injury to any person or loss or damage to any property including baggage arising out of or connection with any transportation, accommodation or other services, or resulting directly or indirectly from acts of God, fire, breakdown in machinery or equipment, acts of Government or other authorities, de jure or defacto wars, whether declared or not, hostilities, civil disturbances, strikes, riots, thefts, epidemics, quarantines, medical or customs regulations, delays or cancellations caused by changes in schedules or itinerary, or over bookings or defaults or for any causes beyond Macleay Valley Travel's control or any loss or damage resulting from improper or insufficient passports, visas or other documents and neither Macleay Valley Travel, and its servants or employees shall be or become liable or responsible for any additional expenses or liability sustained or incurred by the tour member as a result of the foregoing causes.
Macleay Valley Travel reserves the right to modify the itinerary or the accommodation if circumstances make this necessary, provided that the amended itinerary is of equal value or greater value than that of the original program.
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