Yangtze River Tours in Summer

We came back home after the trip We had a wonderful trip all because of you; everything went well as you planned. My husband was simply amazed. Everything went smoothly tour guides, all 3 of them including Jennifer in Beijing, Helen in Xian and another Jennifer in Shanghai all of them were just too perfect, caring and extremely helpful!

The guide was very nice and her attitude was remarkable despite the airport incident. Especially our guide in Xian was very knowledgeable and shared a lot of historical facts with us. She was always ready to provide us with more. All the hotels are amazing. Thanks for our travel advisor Raylene. She created us an unforgettable holiday in China.

Fabulous tour - it covered everythingI wanted to see or do, and much more -it exceeded my expectations. I loved every minute. Everyday was different and a pleasant experience. Great guide, great group, great fun, great tour, not to be missed.

Everything about the trip was amazing if a little challenging at times. It included all of the 'Must see' sights of China, many of which were mind blowing - how did they manage to build a wall that long and high so high up in difficult terrain?! We travelled on flights arranged by Exodus from a regional airport and the transfers were part of the package and worked well. The optional trips in Beijing were good and the Acrobatic and Kung foo shows were both worth doing and entertaining. The overnight sleeper trains were interesting!! Some stations had escalators which was great but some only had staircases which were challenging and stowing our large bags in the sleeper compartments often involved lifting them onto the area above the door as there was limited space under the beds, the men in the party found themselves lifting several bags each. The optional excursion to the Han Yang Ling Mausoleum, which we did before the Terra Cotta Warriors was on a very different scale and very interesting. Most days involved leaving the hotels between 7.30am and 8.30am in order to travel to the place of interest for that day and arrive in good time before the crowds got too big. In Chengdu we did an optional visit to an ancient Chinese town en route to the Giant Buddha in Leshan which was interesting in spite of the 'touristy' nature of the place. We went to the optional Chinese Cultural Show which was amazing - so many unusual brilliant acts, the 'Face Changers' were fantastic. The bullet train was very smooth and seeing the porters carry our heavy bags to the China Goddess 2 for the Yangtze river cruise was humbling, they are so strong!! The cruise ship was much nicer than we had expected and the accommodation was very nice, we even got a lesson in playing Mahjong which was quite complicated but very interesting. The scenery in Yangshuo was amazing and the optional trip to the tea plantation was great fun even in the rain! The trip to the Ancient water town of Xitang was lovely and fortunately as we were not there at the weekend, it wasn't too busy. One evening in Shanghai our guide suggested going to the Global Financial Centre to the Observatory on the 100th floor as the weather was good, to hopefully see the sunset over the city - we were lucky and it was beautiful. Our last day in Shanghai was wet but it didn't stop any of the activities and we had time to see some of the city before we left the following morning.

An amazing trip, non stop wow factor. It was everything I thought it would be. The tour leader was excellent and looked after us really well dealing with all our needs along the way. The itinerary was hectic but enabled us to cover a lot of ground can't recommend it enough.

The whole trip was fantastic and our guide Alan was brilliant . I did all the included and optional trips and excursions and enjoyed them all. There were so many highlights and a great mixture of types of highlights and activities. We had great warm weather on the April excursion date. Another 1-2 days in Shanghai at the end would have been great. A busy trip with lots of variety.