9 Days Best of Hubei Tour from Wuhan

Highlights

Visit:

Guiyuan Temple

Heptachord Terrace

Yellow Crane Tower

Hubei Provincial Museum

Wudang Mountain

Golden Palace

 

Nanyan Temple

Purple Clouds Palace

Jingzhou Ancient City Wall

Yichang Museum

Shennongjia Nature Reserve

Shennongding Scenic Spot

Experience:

Visit comprehensive Hubei museum with unearthed relics on show;

Appreciate Taoist Culture and History by visiting Wudang Mountain;

Explore the intact ecosystem and find original land in Shennongjia.

Sampling Itinerary Day by Day

Day 1 Wuhan Arrival

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Welcome to Wuhan, the capital of China Hubei Province! Your guide and driver will meet you at airport or train station and pick you up at your hotel. The rest of day is free for you to explore this city.

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Day 2 Wuhan (B)

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After breakfast, your will begin your whole day Wuhan visit

Your first stop is Guiyuan Temple. First built in the early Qing Dynasty, Guiyuan Temple is one of the four biggest temples for Buddhist meditation in Hubei as well as an important Buddhist temple in China.

Later, head to the Heptachord Terrace (Guqin Tai), located on the south bank of Moon Lake, near the western foot of Tortoise Hill. It is the beautiful site with great layout where you could appreciate the sincere friendship between Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi in Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.).

Lastly, transfer to Yellow Crane Tower, one of the most renowned towers south of the Yangtze River. It enjoys the fame of “The First Scenery under Heaven”. And its cultural significance led to its being made the symbol of Wuhan City.

Stay overnight in Wuhan.

Day 3 Wuhan-Wudangshan (B)

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At early morning, you will transfer to Hubei Provincial Museum. Founded in 1953, it has 6.5 hectares with 200,000 exquisite items include bronze, jade and lacquer work, porcelain and paintings. You can enjoy a performance of chime bells, stone chimes and other ancient instruments. The museum is a window to explore Chinese history.

Then transfer to railway station in Wuhan to take a high speed bullet train to Wudangshan (about 2.5hrs). In the late afternoon, you will arrival in Wudangshan. After check in hotel, you will free to visit this place at leisure.

Day 4 Wudang Mountain (B)

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After breakfast, you will embark on a unique tour of Wudang Mountain, the famous Taoist Mountain.

Firstly take tourist bus to Zhongguan and change cable car to the Wudang Mountain Summit. On the top, you will visit Taihe Temple, Zhuanyun Palace and Golden Palace, the landmark of Wudang Mountain. After that, take cable car down and head to the other side of mountain to visit Nanyan Temple, and Purple Clouds Palace operated by Taoist Association to learn some Taoism. Later come to Prince Slope to visit the place where prince studied. Stay overnight in Wudangshan.

Wudang Mountain: also named as Taihe Mountain, it’s famous for the Taoist and Tai Chi, a kind of Martial Arts. It was the must destination for Taoist learners to become immortality since the end of Han Dynasty, and had a peak time in Ming Dynasty. In 1994, Wudang Mountain was declared to be World Heritage Site. It has 72 peaks and the highest one is called Tianzhu Peak about 1612 above sea level, marking the height of Wudang Mountain. And those ancient buildings in Wudang Mountain epitomize the architectural and artistic achievements of Chinese Dynasties of Yuan, Ming and Qing, especially the Nanyan Temple, Taihe Temple and Purple Clouds Palace, reflecting the highly religious thought.

Golden Palace: situated in the summit, it’s the symbol of Wudang Mountain with the same level of Forbidden City in Beijing. As costing 100,000 kg of copper and 300 kg of gold in Ming Dynasty, Golden Palace showed the Wudang Taoist’ highest position at that time.

Day 5 Wudangshan-Wuhan-Jingzhou (B)

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After breakfast, you will take a 2.5-hour morning high speed bullet train from Wudangshan to Wuhan. After arrive in Wuhan, our tour guide will with you to catch the late afternoon D-train from Wuhan to Jingzhou City within 1.5 hours. Stay overnight in Jingzhou.

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Day 6 Jingzhou - Yichang (B, L)

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Welcome to Jingzhou City, the cradle of Chu Culture. Today, after breakfast, you will venture out in this day tour to find out the history and culture relic sites.

First you will visit Jingzhou Ancient City, the crucial battleground in the Three Kingdoms period. Went through numerous dynasties, it kept intact and firm. The city walls with chariots and soldiers in make the ancient city more historical.

Later, you will leave for Jingzhou Museum with many relics about Chu Kingdom displayed, a better place to know the Chu Culture, and the dead body is the highlight.

After the tour, you'll take the high speed train from Jingzhou to Yichang. After arriving at Yichang East Railway Station, your guide will pick you up and escort you to your hotel. 

Day 7 Yichang-Shennongjia (B)

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Welcome to Yichang! After breakfast, you’ll visit the Yichang Museum with a collection of more than 30,000 pieces cultural relics. Built in 1990, Yichang Museum is three-story building in the style of ancients. Here, you could have in-depth understanding of Yangtze local culture like Changyang People’s fossils, Chengbeixi Culture, Daxi Culture etc.

Later, you will head to Shennongjia Nature Reserve, the well-kept geological park in China for 3-4 hours car driving arrival in Muyu Town, where Shennongjia is located. Stay overnight in Muyu Town.

Day 8 Shennongjia (B)

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Today, you will have half day to visit Shennongding Scenic Spot-total nature view. There are many sites included, you can find the wild Golden hair monkey in Golden Monkey Ridge forests, visit the top view at Shennong Valley and overlook the central Shennongjia scenery in the top Shennong Peak with 3105.4 meters above sea level. Even to track the footprints to find the “wild man” in Banbiyan.

Later, you will visit Yantian Scenic Spot which is famous for the Yanzidong (swallow cave). With 2400 elevations, this cave has over 20 meters high and contains thousands people. Enter inside, you can find shapes of Stalactite standing and swallow nest spread around the whole cave walls. What’s amazing is these swiftlets can accurately fly back to their nests in this dark cave.

Stay overnight in Muyu Town.

Day 9 Shennongjia-Yichang (B)

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After breakfast, you will begin to visit 2 other Shennongjia Scenic Spots. First you will come to the Natural Bridge Spot known for its unique views has the odd natural bridge, majestic waterfall, caves and steep rock walls along the cliff, all attract tourists to explore. Then turn back to visit Shennong Alter- the land of worship Yandi and see the Millennium fir king and ancient botanical garden.

After the tour, your Shennongjia tour ends and time to take private car back to Yichang. Our tour guide will escort you to airport/train staion or cruise port for your next destination. Service end and wish you have a nice trip!