- Your WildChina Beijing guide will meet you at the airport arrival hall exitwith your chauffeur and private vehicle ready to take you to your hotel for check-in

- FromTiananmen Square, enter the Forbidden City, where emperors ruled, concubines fluttered their fans, and eunuchs schemed for five hundred years. If interested, enjoy special access to the lavish sitting rooms and living quarters of Chonghua Palace, normally closed to the public

- Rest your legs with a lunch break at The Temple before touring Beijing’s antiquated and interwoven hutong neighborhoods

- Visit a traditional siheyuan(courtyard) and try your hand at various traditional Chinese activities, ranging from calligraphy to Chinese yo-yo

- Savor a Peking duck dinner at a renovated siheyuan

- Transfer out of the city (1.5hrs) to the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall

- Hike along this wonder of the worldbefore enjoying an exhilarating toboggan ride downhill, if interested

- Enjoy a picnic on the wall or lunch in a courtyard restaurant

- Return to the city in the late afternoon

- Enjoy the rest of the day at your leisure

- Celebrate Shabbat with a day of rest (we recommend going on a leisurely walk around Sanlitun, a modern area popular with expats)(Noguide and private car service from WildChina)

- Take morning high-speed rail to Tianjin

- Explore Tianjin’s European past by strolling through the diverse European architecture of the Five Avenues, built when nineforeign countries had concessions in the city

- Visit the former Tianjin Synagogue, built in 1939 when Tianjin hosted China’s third largest Jewish population

- Walk through the Five Avenues and the Small White Building district (Xiaobailou District) to view where Tianjin’s Jewishpopulation used to live

- Take late afternoon flight to Harbin

- Visit Harbin Jewish New Synagogue, the largest Jewish synagogue in East Asia,and check out its impressive collection of relics from Harbin’s past vivacious Jewish community

- Check out the Old Synagogue, now a café and hostel, and the neighboring old Jewish school and hospital

- Stroll through the European-influenced Central Street, which includes Jewish architectural wonders such as the old Jewish Bank

- Visit the imposing St. Sophia Cathedral, a grand Russian structure that used to be a Russian Orthodox church but is now a museum

- Visit Huangshan Public Cemetery(35-40 min drive), which houses graves from the former Jewish Cemetery

- Sample Harbin’s European-influenced cuisine

- Learn about China’s perspective of World War II at the Unit 731 Museum, a former Japanese concentration camp (45 min drive)

- Enjoy a Russian-infused lunch

- Explore Harbin’s distinctly European Old Quarter, once the residence for Russians and Jews

- Catch an evening flight to Henan Province’s capital, Zhengzhou

- Transfer from Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airportto Kaifeng, one of China’s ancient capitals

- Explore Kaifeng’s Jewish legacy by visiting a family descended from Kaifeng’s original Jews in the Jewry

- View the Jewish Stone Monuments, which tell of the key moments and beliefs of the Kaifeng Jewish community from the 15th to 17th centuries, in the Kaifeng Municipal Museum

- Travel to the original site of Kaifeng Synagogue, built in 1163 and which withstood several natural disasters before being demolished

- Stroll through what used to be the vibrant Jewish Quarter whose past is present in its name: Teaching Torah Lane

- Spend the rest of the day at your leisure (we recommend exploring Kaifeng’s famous night market)

 Enjoy a scenic drive through Chinese countryside to Zhengzhou (1.5hrs)

- Take high speed rail to Xi’an (2.5hrs) and stand before the unflinching, eternally-stationed Terracotta Warriors Army

- Travel to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport to catch your early evening flight to Shanghai

- With Jewish expert DvirBargal, visit the former Shanghai Jewish Ghetto, which was officially liberated in 1945

- Drop by Ohel Moshe Synagogue, once the center of Shanghai’s Jewish community and now a museum commemorating Shanghai’s role in saving the lives of tens of thousands of Jews

- Visit the Children’s Palace, built by a Jewish family from Baghdad between 1918 and 1931

- Travel back to Shanghai’s stylish 1930s as you walk down the elegant tree-lined streets of the French Concession

- Wander through Yu Garden, the most celebrated classical garden in Shanghai

- Enjoy the day at your leisure

- We recommend in observance of Shabbat, exploring the Shanghai Museum,a veritable treasure trove of Chinese artifactsonly walking distance from your hotel

- Watch the reflections of the jewel-encrusted Shanghai cityscape as you take a stroll along the Bund

- Note: there will be no guide and private car service from WildChina

- Transfer to airport for flight to next destination