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9 Days Classical China Muslim Tour

Beijing, Xian, Shanghai

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9 Days Classical China Muslim Tour tour map
Forbidden City in Beijing travel experience
Great Wall of China travel experience
Beijing travel experience
Beijing travel experience
Summer Palace in Beijing travel experience
Xian travel experience
Terracotta Army in Xian travel experience
Terracotta Army in Xian travel experience
Xian travel experience
Shanghai travel experience
Shanghai travel experience
Shanghai travel experience

Tour Type: Independent Private

Tour Code: SKY-Muslim-01

Tour Highlights:

Decorative tour information icon The most classic China tour going the traditiong triangle route Beijing – Xian – Shanghai.

Decorative tour information icon Be highly impressed by the great wonders in China, like Forbidden City, Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors, etc.

Decorative tour information icon Also inclusive of the modern style skyscrapers in Shanghai.

Decorative tour information icon Not miss the iconic mosques in the 3 cities, like Niujie Mosquare, Great Mosque and Tiaotaoyuan Mosque.

Decorative tour information icon Well designed tour program for Muslims as we pay much attention in their religious and food taboos.

Best Travel Time:
Suitable for the whole year, best from April to November.

From $ 1226

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Day 1Arrival Beijing
Transfer service to hotel

Meals: No meal
Accommodation: In Beijing

Arrive in Beijing, the capital city of China, you will be met at the airport by tour guide and transferred to your comfortable hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day.

Beijing travel experience
Beijing City View

Day 2Beijing
Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City, Niujie Mosque, Temple of Heaven

Meals: Hotel breakfast, Lunch at local Halal restaurant
Accommodation: In Beijing

Depart from your hotel in the morning to start an exciting trip in the city of Beijing. At first, we will have a stop for a visit at the north part of Tian'anmen Square , which is the World's largest urban square. After a visit to Tian'anmen Rostrum, we will move northward to the Forbidden City , the largest and most complete ancient imperial palace in the world. After lunch at local Halal restaurant, go to have a salat at Niujie Mosque with 900 years history. Then transfer to visit the Temple of Heaven , another famous scenic spot in Beijing, which was used to hold a memorial ceremony for the God in Winter Solstice Festival and to pray for harvest in the first month of the lunar year by the emperors in Ming and Qing dynasties.

Forbidden City in Beijing travel experience
Forbidden City

Day 3Beijing
Mutianyu Great Wall, Bird Nest, Water Cube

Meals: Hotel breakfast, Lunch at local Chinese restaurant
Accommodation: In Beijing

You will be picked up from your hotel lobby in the morning and then we drive for 75km to the Mutianyu Great Wall . It takes about 2 hours for driving. An early lunch is arranged at local Chinese restaurant before our great wall adventure. Take cable car up to the top of Mutianyu Great Wall for a visit. You will have 1.5-2 hours to trek on the wall by yourself. After great wall trip, we will drive back to downtown of Beijing, and have a photo stop outside the Bird Nest and Water Cube. Peking Roasted Duck k is recommended as your optional dinner if you are interested in it.

Great Wall of China travel experience
Mutianyu Great Wall

Day 4Beijing – Xian
Summer Palace, Take high speed train to Xian

Meals: Hotel breakfast, Lunch at local Halal restaurant
Accommodation: In Xian

Check out from hotel after breakfast, then transfer to visit Summer Palace, which is the existing largest and best preserved imperial garden in China, also is one of the four famous gardens in China. Walk to enjoy good view of the garden and take a boating trip on Kunming Lake. After a lunch at local Halal restaurant, you will have a salat at Madian Mosque before transfer to Beijing West Train Station to catch the high speed train for Xian.

Summer Palace in Beijing travel experience
Summer Palace

Day 5Xian
Terracotta Warriors, Grand Mosque, Muslim Quarter

Meals: Hotel breakfast, Lunch at local Halal restaurant
Accommodation: In Xian

Pick up from your hotel lobby a bit early, then drive for about 1.5 hours to visit the Terracotta Warriors , one of the world's most important archaeological finds, with troops, horses and carriages in battle formation. After that, drive back to downtown, en route, you could visit a pottery figurine workshop, where you have chance to learn and practice how to make pottery figurine. Have a lunch at local Halal restaurant in the downtown of Xian. Then visit to Xian Grand Mosuqe and have a salat at Grand Mosque. Free at leisure for you to stroll around Muslim Quarter before transfer back to hotel.  Tonight you can choose to enjoy Tang Dynasty Show with Dinner as your option entertainment tonight.

Terracotta Army in Xian travel experience
Qin Terracotta Warriors

Day 6Xian – Shanghai
Xian City Wall, Small Wild Goose pagoda, Fly to Shanghai

Meals: Hotel breakfast, Lunch at local Halal restaurant
Accommodation: In Shanghai

After breakfast, our local guide will help you to check out from hotel. Then transfer to visit Xian City Wall, which is another famous landmark of Xian. You could choose to ride a bicycle along the wall for a visit (bicycle rent fee is on your own expenses). Then visit Small Wild Goose Pagoda before transfer to have a lunch at local Halal restaurant. Then take a salat at Daxuexixiang Mosque. Then drive to airport to catch the late afternoon flight for Shanghai.

Xian travel experience
Xian City Wa;;

Day 7Shanghai
Shikumen, the Bund, Xiaotaoyuan Mosque, Yuyuan Garden, Chenghuangmiao Market

Meals: Hotel breakfast, Lunch at local Halal restaurant
Accommodation: In Shanghai

Have a leisure breakfast in the hotel before our guide's hotel pick-up. The 1st stop in Shanghai is Shikumen to enjoy the Linong Culture, Old houses and try the local snacks. You will trek for about 1.5 hours. The have a leisure stroll along the Bund , which is one of the most famous landmarks in Shanghai, where you will find the high buildings such as Oriental Pearl TV Tower are just on the opposite of Huangpu River.

A Halal lunch is arranged at local Muslim restaurant. Then you will have a salat at Xiaotaoyuan Mosque, which is the headquarter of Shanghai Muslim Association.

In the afternoon, visit Yuyuan Garden , a traditional Chinese garden in the downtown of Shanghai, then walk around Chenghuangmiao Market which is just nearby Yuyuan Garden. Then move to Lujiazui, where you will find many high-rise buildings. Take elevator up the observation floor of Shanghai tower, the tallest building in Shanghai.

Tour will finish by a transfer back to your hotel. The Acrobatic show in Shanghai is recommended as your optional night activity, which you could discuss with your local guide directly.

Shanghai travel experience
the Bund

Day 8Shanghai
Zhujiajiao Water Town

Meals: Hotel breakfast, Lunch at local Halal restaurant
Accommodation: In Shanghai

In the morning, transfer to visit Zhujiajiao Water Town, which is the nearest water town to Shanghai, where you will view the unique old bridges across bubbling streams, small rivers shaded by willow trees, and houses with courtyards attached. You can also choose to take the boating trip along the waterway. Drive back to downtown of Shanghai to have a lunch at local Halal restaurant.

Have a free time in the afternoon. You could explore Shanghai or go shopping around by yourself.

Shanghai travel experience
Zhujiajiao Water Town

Day 9Departure Shanghai
Transfer service to airport

Meals: Hotel breakfast

Free at leisure until be transferred to the airport for the return flight.

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Tour Price (US$ per person)

Hotel Class Group Size Dec. ~ Feb. Mar. ~ Nov.
Economy Hotel
★★★
2 ~ 5 pax

$ 1611

$ 1691

6 ~ 9 pax

$ 1226

$ 1306

Comfortable Hotel
★★★★
2 ~ 5 pax

$ 1679

$ 1820

6 ~ 9 pax

$ 1295

$ 1435

Deluxe Hotel
★★★★★
2 ~ 5 pax

$ 1985

$ 2342

6 ~ 9 pax

$ 1600

$ 1958

Price includes:

♦ Domestic flight or high-speed train as specified
♦ Private transfer between the airport or railway station, attractions, and hotels
♦ Private licensed English-speaking guide and driver service
♦ Hotel accommodation with daily breakfast on sharing basis
♦ All attraction entrance fees as specified
♦ Meals mentioned in the itinerary, Chinese local food

Price excludes:

* International Air tickets or Train Tickets to enter or leave China
* Tips to your tour guide and driver on your own discretion
* China Entry Visa Fees
* Personal expenses
* Optional tours, meals, activities and services
* China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty Insurance

Remarks:

※ Prices are valid from Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2027, except Chinese public holidays, local fairs or events.
※ YUNSKY reserves the right to adjust the price caused by exchange rate
※ No guide on the flight and Yangtze River cruise. 
※ Recommended hotels are subject to change in actual booking
※ Special requirements should be advised to YUNSKY in advance.
※ YUNSKY reserves the right of final explanation for any change due to the reasons beyond our control.

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Five-star traveler review rating 5.0

Traveler review profile photoPunkNelson

Five-star traveler review rating 5.0

Great Hotel stay Very Nice Tour guides Convenient planned daily trips Average selection of restaurant for food though

Traveler review profile photoKiwimac53

Five-star traveler review rating 5.0

We were looking for a tour in SW China while in the area for work and found this one. While we wouldn't normally get a private tour but surprisingly it was actually cheaper than most of the group tours in the area and was great value. While I would usually rather keep one guide for the whole tour, as you get to know each other and they get to know what you are interested in, we changed guides 5 times during this trip (fortunately we had the same guide in Kunming at the start and end of the tour which was a real bonus as Murphy, our Kunming based guide, was excellent.) In this case changing guides had the advantage of local knowledge at each site so compensated for the change. Of the 4 guides we had 3 excellent and 1 very good with each of them working hard to look after us and make sure we enjoyed our trip. Vicky, our Dali based guide was also extremely good making our time there a highlight. The tour gives you 2 days at each base ie travel in the morning, have the afternoon and the next day touring the area then drive to the next base. We chose the driving tour as we feel it gives you a better experience of the area and you get to see the locals in action. All the drivers we had were great – they went out of their way to look after us and were very safe, which is saying something for driving in China. While all of the guides were very fluent in English none of the drivers could speak English which was a slight disadvantage as you didn't have the guides with you when traveling between bases but the friendliness and helpfulness of the drivers more than made up for this.
The tour was very well organised and we knew what we were doing from the time we met our guide on arrival at the Kunming railway station to when we walked through security at the airport on our way out. The tour comes with 4,5 and 6 star accommodation choices and we went for the cheapest 4 star option. While the English at the hotels was limited the guides made sure we were checked in and out and took care of any issues (which were minimal). The 4 star option is largely “Chinese style” hotels ie designed for Chinese visitors with breakfast consisting of what many westeners would consider dinner style food but there was always eggs and toast for the less adventurous. The hotels were all clean and comfortable and generally very well located. The Hotel in Kunming (Jin Jang Inn) was a bonus as it seemed higher than 4 star and we stayed there both on our way in and out. As well as breakfast, lunch came with the tour which was enjoyable as the guides choose the restaurants so we got a variety. I got the feeling that most of the restaurants were owned by friends or family or there was some arrangement with the guide, but as you get to formally review each guide and the meals at the end of each stop they work hard to make sure you enjoy the meal and there was always an abundance of food. We tried a range of local cuisine and there was only one meal we didn't think was up to par. You get your own dinner which also suited us as there is invariably a range of restaurants or for the more adventurous there is the street vendors and you can choose what you want. The vehicles we were driven in were all very good- plenty of space and very comfortable.
Being a private tour, while there was a set itinerary, which was diverse and very interesting with something for most people, the guides could tweak it to suit individual interests eg more time at one site and less at another. It is easy to get a bit templed out but overall the itinerary was a good mic of nature and culture. I would thoroughly recommend the tour and the company and we will be looking to the company if/when we go back – Guilin is next on the list as the guides were very happy to discus what they thought we would and wouldn't enjoy based on working with us on this tour,

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Five-star traveler review rating 5.0

Excellent guides, flexible and knowledgeable travel agent. They speak good English. Our trip was very well organized. We are 100% happy and I can recommend Top China Travel to everybody.

Traveler review profile photoWesley O

Five-star traveler review rating 5.0

I contacted Top China travel for a 13 day China vacation (Beijing/Xian/Yangtze River cruise/Shanghai) and right from the start Bonnie provided me with great choices and package options. Throughout the entire planning and even during the trip Bonnie was there for us following up and making sure everything was perfect. Thank you Bonnie for making our China vacation unforgettable.

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Five-star traveler review rating 5.0

From the minute I contacted Vicky at Top China Travel to book our holiday, to the time we were taken to Pudong airport for our flight home, the experience was perfect.
My wife and I visited Beijing, Xian and Shanghai and all of our tour guides were fluent in English, very knowledgeable and very friendly.
Thank you Vicky and all at YUNSKY and I will definitely be in contact when I return to China.

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