7-day tour of falling in love with Xiamen with round-trip flights
HOT1: Explore the Gulangyu Island World Cultural Heritage Site
HOT2: Explore the Wuyi Mountain World Heritage Site
HOT3: Explore the Tulou World Heritage Site
HOT4: Pure play
Itinerary content:
D1 Urumqi—Transit city or Xiamen
Meals: On your own
Accommodation: Transit city or Xiamen
Transportation: Airplane
Please arrive at Urumqi Airport 2.5 hours before your flight departure and gather by yourself. The full-time airport transfer staff, "Jiang Jiang", will assist you with the check-in procedures, and then you will take a flight to the garden city on the sea—Xiamen. You will be picked up from the airport and taken to your hotel. (If you encounter a transit flight on the next day, you will stay in the transit city overnight and fly to Xiamen the next day. The itinerary will be postponed by one day)
D2 Yongding Earth Buildings – Chengqilou – Qiaofulou – Wuyunlou – Shizelou (One-day tour of earth buildings as a combined tour offered by the Tourism Hub)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Xiamen
Transportation: Coach
Yongding Earth Buildings – Chengqilou – Qiaofulou – Wuyunlou – Shizelou (One-day tour of earth buildings as a combined tour offered by the Tourism Hub)
Attraction 1: Yongding Earth Buildings: Take a coach to Yongding Earth Buildings (about 3 hours’ drive)
Attraction 2: Chengqilou: After lunch, visit Chengqilou (built in 1635 and completed in 1719), a miracle in architectural history and a World Cultural Heritage site. The pattern of Chengqilou was adopted for the "Fujian Folk Houses" stamp, which was rated as the best world folk house stamp of the year by Japan. Chengqilou is renowned as the "King of Round Buildings" for its grandeur, uniqueness, and simplicity. Chengqilou has a diameter of 63 meters, and it takes 292 meters to walk around the outer corridor. It doesn’t resemble a building; it’s more like a circular city. At its peak in the late Qing Dynasty, it housed over 80 households with more than 600 people.
Attraction 3: Qiaofulou: Visit Qiaofulou (also known as the "PhD Building")
Attraction 4: Wuyunlou and Shizelou (rectangular earth buildings built in 1565, the 44th year of Emperor Jiajing’s reign in the Ming Dynasty). Return to the city in the afternoon.
Tips: Xiamen’s Tourism Hub offers combined tours. No refunds for local cancellations; there are many small items sold by villagers within the scenic area, which are not shopping stores. Purchase accordingly.
D3 Today’s schedule: Colorful Scenic Coastal Road + Gulangyu Island + Yuyuan Garden
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Wuyi Mountain
Transportation: High-speed train, Bus
Today’s schedule: Colorful Scenic Coastal Road + Gulangyu Island + Yuyuan Garden
After breakfast, visit the千年-old Southern Putuo Temple in southern Fujian (about 40 minutes), which is one of China’s earliest Buddhist higher education bases and the only Buddhist college in the country, a prominent temple in southern Fujian; take an exterior tour of the beautiful Xiamen University campus. View the Scenic Coastal Road from the car and proceed to the ferry terminal [actual boarding time depends on the booked flight schedule]: take a ferry (about 10 minutes) to Gulangyu Island, a national 5A tourist attraction known as the "Garden on the Sea, Homeland of Music, Pedestrian Island" (tour time about 3 hours). Visit the International Architectural Exposition (American Consulate, Japanese Consulate, British Consulate, German Consulate, Catholic Church, etc.) and then visit the peaceful and beautiful Yuyuan Garden (about 20 minutes), built in honor of the outstanding people’s medical scientist Professor Lin Qiaozhi. Free walk around Gangzaihou Beach, then stroll through Longtou Road’s commercial street, where guests can taste local Xiamen snacks and specialties. Afterward, return to Xiamen by ferry and take a high-speed train to Wuyi Mountain.
Tips: The shops on Gulangyu Island are open-style shops, not designated shopping stores by the Tourism Bureau. Please inform tourists to compare prices when shopping on the island and purchase accordingly. The order of attractions may vary based on the specific arrangements of the tour guide for the day. Xiamen implements a bus rotation system, so guests may encounter waiting for buses. Please understand.
D4 Today’s schedule: The highlights of Wuyi Mountain – the steep Tiger Roaring Rock and the magical One-Line Sky
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Wuyi Mountain
Transportation: Coach
Today’s schedule: The highlights of Wuyi Mountain – the steep Tiger Roaring Rock and the magical One-Line Sky
After breakfast, take an environmentally friendly sightseeing bus (at your own expense, RMB 85 per person, a mandatory government project) to visit the [Tiger Roaring Rock Scenic Area and One-Line Sky] (no less than 3 hours): Tiger Roaring Rock has the reputation of "a picturesque view as far as the eye can see", and is a new tourist hotspot.
Enjoy the [Eight Scenes of Tiger Roaring]: White Lotus Ferry, Jiyun Pass, Binji Cave, Yu’er Spring, French-style Suspended River, Boatless Boat, Pumen Pocket, and Poxian Belt. Then visit One-Line Sky, Wind Cave, Dingming Bridge, Observation Deck, Tiancheng Zen Monastery, and Luosi Cave. One-Line Sky was originally named Lingyan. Because there is a crack along the top, like it was opened by a sharp axe, it is less than a foot wide and about 100 meters long. A ray of sunlight shines through it, as if spanning the empty blue sky.
[One-Line Sky] Opposite it is the Louge Rock. To its left is another rock called Lan Rock, with stone inscriptions on its wall. A stone leans against the cliff wall below the rock, and a stone path stretches into it, like a gateway.
D5 Today’s arrangement: The essence of Wuyi Mountain scenic spots – Asia’s first giant rock, towering Tianyou Peak
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Xiamen
Transportation: High-speed train, Bus
Today’s arrangement: The essence of Wuyi Mountain scenic spots – Asia’s first giant rock, towering Tianyou Peak
After breakfast, proceed to Wuyi Mountain scenic area to visit the [Tianyou Peak Scenic Area] (no less than 3 hours) – located behind the Wuqu Yinping Peak in the middle of the Wuyi Mountain scenic area, with an altitude of 408.8 meters. It stands alone among the peaks, surrounded by clouds. Famous peaks surround it on all sides, and the Nine-Bend Stream winds around it on three sides, offering a panoramic view of Wuyi Mountain. It connects to Xianyou Rock on the east and Xianzhang Peak on the west. With towering cliffs towering above the surrounding peaks, it boasts attractions such as Cloud Nest, Tea Cave, Yinping Peak, Tiesun Peak, Shuiyue Pavilion, Saibu Rock, Xianyu Pool, and Observation Deck. Optionally, you can take the Nine-Bend Stream bamboo raft drifting [RMB 150 per person, at your own expense] (drifting time is about 2 hours). The Nine-Bend Stream winds through the eighteen bends of Wuyi Mountain. The group members will take a bamboo raft, about 2 meters wide and 9 meters long, tied together with six to eight bamboo poles. The front of the raft is upturned like a boot, equipped with several bamboo chairs. Sitting comfortably on it, you can rush down the waves. Not only can you experience the excitement, but you can also enjoy the mountain scenery above, the water below, listen to the sound of the stream, and touch the clear water, making it endlessly enjoyable. Moreover, when the boat reaches the Fifth Bend, tourists can appreciate the mysterious boat coffin culture of Wuyi Mountain.
Then take the second-class seat of the high-speed train to the garden city on the sea – Xiamen (about 3 hours by car). After arrival, you will be picked up and taken to the hotel.
D6 Xiamen – Transit City
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Transit City
Transportation: Bus, Airplane
Sleep in until you wake up naturally, free activities. Generally, hotels require check-out before 12:00. If you have a late-night flight, you can leave your luggage at the front desk and then take a flight to the transit city after sightseeing. After arrival, you will be picked up and taken to the hotel.
D7 Transit City – Urumqi
Meals: None
Accommodation: None
Transportation: Airplane
Free activities in the transit city, return to Urumqi by flight according to the flight schedule.
Specific inquiry: 0991-8585456 (same)