​​​​2019 The Yangtze Signature 12 Days

Leading in Luxury River Cruises on China’s Yangtze

5-Star Cruise — Century Sky

Sailing from Shanghai to Chongqing

11 Days and 10 Nights Cruise plus 9 Included Shore Excursions
(Tour Code: CS11D19)

Visiting Cities: Shanghai / Taizhou / Nanjing / Chizhou / Jiujiang / Wuhan / Jingzhou / Wushan / Zhongxian / Chongqing

Day01 Shanghai Arrival  (April 11th, May 30th, November 19th, 2019)
When arriving in Shanghai, you will be greeted by our professional tour

guide at the Shanghai Pudong Int’l Airport and then transferred to the

hotel. The rest of the day will be free for your own leisure.
Hotel: Central Hotel Shanghai 4* or similar

Day02 Shanghai (B, L, D)
After hotel breakfast, begin our wonderful city tour by visiting Yu Garden,

which was first built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty. Then visit the Old

Town. Lastly, stop by Jade Buddha Temple. After the city tour, transfer to

Shanghai International Cruise Harbour. The cruise is departing around 21:00 pm and sailing for ChongQing. You can come to sun deck to enjoy the scenes of the Shanghai Bund, The Universal Expo of architectures, the Oriental Pearl Tower and Lujiazui finance and trade zone. Don't miss it.

Day03 Taizhou (B, L, D)
After breakfast, you’ll join the Excursion: Taizhou Day Trip includes Ancient City Wall + Tower & Gardens visiting + Lunch at the Ancient Town + Fengcheng River smaller boat tour
Around 15:30 back to the cruise for onwards cruise itinerary.
Taizhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province in eastern China. Situated on the north bank of the Yangtze River, it borders Yangzhou to the west. Hu Jintao, former President of the Communist Party of China considered Taizhou his home town as did Mei Lanfang, one of the most famous Peking opera artists in modern Chinese history.
**Century SKY sets sail to Chongqing after you come back from the excursion. Either leave yourself in the library, gym, bar or enjoy the reading and relaxing in somewhere onboard. Of course, you could join the variety of onboard activities! After enjoy dinner onboard, The Crew Cabaret Show will be performed.

Day04 Nanjing (B, D)
After breakfast at around 08:30am, you will join the shore excursion to Nanjing Guanyin Statue Park & the Ancient Bodhidharma Cave. The excursion takes about 1.5 hours. Afternoon is opening hours for free walk around Nanjing Confucius Temple.
**Or you will join the optional afternoon shore excursion to Niushou Mountain with surcharge of CNY180/per person (about $36 in CAD). The excursion takes about 2 hours.
Nanjing Guanyin Statue Park & the Ancient Bodhidharma Cave: as one of the famous 48 scenic spots in Jinling (the name for Nanjing in ancient China), the Bodhidharma cave was built in honor of the Indian monk Damo, also known as Bodhidharma, the first person to bring Buddhism to China in AD 527. There are 101 bronze statues of Bodhidharma with different expressions, set in 101 shrines in a three-layered natural cave on the slopes near Wumadu square. The 101 statues and seven reliefs in the scenic area were created from 250 tons of bronze materials.
Nanjing Confucius Temple. Located on the Northern bank of the Qinhuai River, the Confucius Temple in Nanjing is built for people to worship Confucius, a great thinker and educator in ancient China. It is one of the top four largest Confucius Temples in China. The other three are in Qufu, Jinan Province, Beijing, and Jilin Province. The temple is part of Qinhuai scenic area and become a feature of the landscape of the ancient capital of Nanjing.

Upon return to your Ship Century SKY, enjoy dinner and GAME PARTY will be held with lucky draws in the bar till late of the evening.
Niushou Mountain is located in Jiangning District of Nanjing. The mountain twin peaks look like ox horns, hence the name. 1700 years ago, the first founder of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, emperor Yuandi, wanted to set up two magnificent gate towers to symbolize imperial power. However, Prime Minister, Wang Dao, considered it inappropriate to do so. One day, when they looked afar at the east and west peak of Niushou Mountain, the Minister suggested that the two peaks were the most suitable heavenly-made gate towers. Hence, the name Tianque mountain.
【*NOTE: LUNCH is on your own upon your interests at Confucius Temple waling street.】

Day05 Mt. Jiuhua (B, L, D)
After breakfast at around 08:30am, you will join a full day shore excursion to Mt. Jiuhua. The excursion takes about 7 hours.
【*Lunch will be served by traditional table service with exquisite vegetarian food.】
Mt. Jiuhua(“Mountain of the Nine Lotuses”) - Located in south central Anhui Province, Jiuhuas Shan or “Mountain Jiuhua” is one of the four sacred mountains in Chinese Buddhism. Local climate is favorable, making it a popular summer resort. Observant Buddhist make a pilgrimage to climb Greater Tiantai peak, regarded as Jiuhuashan’s most important, although not the tallest. The construction of temples began in the Tang Dynasty and was enlarged in subsequent dynasties. The Buddhist influence still remains to this day throughout this area.
Upon return to your Ship Century SKY enjoy dinner.

Day06 Jiujiang (B, L, D)
The delicacy Breakfast will be served in the main restaurant. Complimentary Morning coffee, tea, home baked cookies and Taichi exercise onboard will leisure the beginning of your day. Either leave yourself in the library, gym, or enjoy the reading and relaxing in somewhere onboard. Of course, you could explore the ancient city by walking alongside the Yangtze River or join the variety of onboard activities or join the optional tour of A or B!
【Optional A: Jingdezhen】
Bus tour to Jingdezhen [*CNY380/per person (about $76 in CAD) with a day tour of about 9 hours & lunch at the tour site]

Porcelain Capital of China. The single side drive is nearly 2 hours. During the tour, you can visit the manual antique porcelain factory, ancient kiln porcelain yard and ceramic Expo area where you can see the whole process of hand-made porcelain and browser the exhibition of the historical customs and ceramic relics of Jingdezhen. After the Scenic spot lunch (Table dinner, ten people/table), stroll the China ceramic city, where you can see different levels of Jingdezhen porcelain.
【Optional B: Mt. Lushan】
Bus tour to Mt. Lushan [*CNY380/per person (about $76 in CAD) with a day tour of about 9 hours & lunch at the tour site]

Mt.Lushan earns its fame for the grand, precipitous but breath-taking natural landscape there. Lushan National Park has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996 and it is a prominent scenic spot especially during summer time for weather is cooler here than most places in Central China. Thus, it has been the most popular resort for foreign missionaries, for example, Absalom Sydenstricker who is father of Pearl Buck is one of the 5 earliest missionaries to acquire real estate in Kuling area in the mountains.

Day07 Wuhan (B, L, D)
After breakfast, a tour to the Hubei Provincial Museum (about 1.5 hours), one of top ten museums in China. It has collected over 200,000 cultural relics. Among these cultural relics, about one thousand are listed as first-class relics of China. Also, it has the China's largest museum of ancient Musical Instruments. Then tour to the East Lake Scenic Area, the largest downtown lake of China. East Lake is known as the ninety-nine Bay for its twists and turns along the lakeshore. Embracing the largest cherry flower park of China and the largest plum flower garden of south region Yangtze River.  
** Century SKY sets sail to Chongqing after you come back from the excursion. You could join the variety of onboard activities. We honest invite you to join the guest talent show after your dinner, which you can show your charm on the Yangtze.

Day08 Jingzhou (B, L, D)
After breakfast, you will have the shore excursion to Jingzhou Ancient City Wall, the best-preserved southern wall in China. In fact, the whole ancient city wall is composed of three parts, namely the outermost water city wall, the in-between brick city wall and the innermost earth city wall. The extant brick city wall has a circumference of around 11 kilometers and a height of 9 meters. With most of which reconstructed during Ming Dynasty (1368AD–1644AD) and Qing Dynasty (1644AD–1911AD), the ancient city wall was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit by Chinese government in 1996.

Day09 Yichang -Three Gorges Dam (B, L, D)
After an early breakfast, either join in the optional shore excursion to the historical and cultural site of Three Gorges Tribe with Surcharge CNY290/per person (about $58 in CAD) or at your leisure onboard. After lunch, you will join the shore excursion to the Three Gorges Dam Site, which is the largest water conservancy project in the world. (about 3 hours) You can climb up to the Jar mountain view scenic spot to overlook the dam panoramic view. After dinner, you will continue cruising in direction to Three Gorges Dam Side through 5-step ship locks, the tour guide will tell you the relevant information about the level 5 locks of the three gorges.

Day10 Wushan County (B, L, D)
After breakfast, you will have the excursion at the Shennv Stream (about 3 hours), changing from your Century SKY into a smaller boat. The Shennv Stream is 15 kilometers long. Because of the turbulence of the water and the narrow stream, there are 10 kilometers as remote valley. After the dam's three phase of storage, tourists can go deep into the depths of the gorge to explore, then surprised see beautiful scenery and the original inhabitants. Upon return to your ship, Century SKY sails through the natural beauty of the Wu Gorge and Qutang Gorge, the tour guide introduces the unique scenery of the two banks on the sunshine deck. After lunch, either join in the optional shore excursion to the historical and cultural site of White Emperor City with Surcharge CNY290/per person (about $58 in CAD) or at your leisure onboard.
After enjoy dinner onboard, you’ll be welcomed to the Lounge to enjoy Waltz Dancing Party.

Day11 Zhongxian County (B, L, D)
After breakfast, taking excursion at Shi Baozhai Pagoda (about 2.5 hours). If you enter the Pagoda and look down from it, you can have a panoramic view of the infinite scenery – the rolling the Yangtze River, blue sky, the sail shadow and so on. After lunch, join the various activities onboard. And a brief introduction of disembarkation will be held in the bar. After dinner, the farewell dancing party or talent show will bring you more fun of the night on the Yangtze.

Day12 Chongqing (B)
After an early breakfast onboard Century Sky. Guests will disembark around 08:30am from Chongqing Harbour. Transfer to airport for homebound flight. Tour ends.

【Disembarkation time may delay due to the water level, please do not book homebound flight in the morning】

Package Price: CAD$/Per Person

*Note: Prices per person and subject to change. Single supplement will be charged for each passenger occupying a single room/cabin. Cruise cabin can be upgraded, please contact us for details.

​Cost Includes: 

• 11 days 10 nights Yangtze River cruise based on double occupancy (Deluxe Cabin)
  
• English-conducted sightseeing land-tours/shore-excursions specified in the itinerary 
  
• 1st class hotel accommodation based on double occupancy
  
• Meals as listed in the itinerary
  
• Sightseeing admission fees according to itinerary
  
• Ground transportation/round trip airport transfer
  

Cost Excludes: 

• International airfare
  
• China visa
  
• Travel insurance
  
• Tips and personal expenses
  

*Remarks: 

• B–Breakfast / L–Lunch / D–Dinner
• All rates are per person double occupancy and subject to change
• Pre-stay & post-stay is available, please contact us for details
• Cruise cabin can be upgraded, please contact us for details.
• Tipping for Cruise members: RMB￥500/Per Person (USD$80/pp). This fee will be credited on Passenger’s account once checking in onboard and be settled when disembarking. For land tours or shore excursions, we recommend USD10 per person per day paid directly to guides and boat men.
• The cruising itinerary onboard Century Fleet is subject to change due to weather conditions, water level, navigation and seasonal conditions.
  

Wish you a memorable cruise & pleasant onwards Journey!​