Tour Features: By this tour, you can closely enjoy Xiamen City by visiting Gulang Yu Island, Nanputuo Temple, Wanshi Botanical Garden and Xiamen University. Take a flagstone bath in Riyuegu Hotspring Resort; enjoy the beautiful Mount Wuyi; enjoy a wide variety of beautiful wood, brick and stone carvings in Caodun Ancient Village; taste Dahongpao tea, which is the most famous tea and known as the "King of Tea". All of these will give you a special and wonderful tour.

Day by Day Itinerary:

Day 1: Arrival in Xiamen (-, L, SD)

Upon arrival in Xiamen, your tour guide will meet you at Xiamen Airport and transfer you to your hotel by private car.

After having a short rest, you will start your tour with visiting the Xiamen University, founded in 1921, located at the foot of the green mountains, facing the blue ocean and surrounded by Xiamen bay. It is famous for its beautiful campus with nice scenery and parks.

Then you will move to Huli Hill Fort, situated along the coast. This huge cannon was made for the Qing government by a German manufacturer in 1891 and was the largest cannon in the world which is 60 ton (60,000 kg) and 14 m (46 feet) long.

You will enjoy a seafood dinner in the evening.

Day 2: Yongding, Hakka earthen dwellings-"Tulou", Riyuegu Hotspring Resort (B, L, D)

You will have an early start to Yongding, about 2-hour driving from Longyan, to visit Hakka earthen dwellings-"Tulou", unique Chinese rammed earth buildings of the Hakka in southwestern Fujian Province. They were built for defence purposes around a central open courtyard with few windows to the outside and only one entrance. Tulou buildings were discovered by the American Central Intelligence Agency that took satellite photos in the 1960s. They were mistaken as nuclear reactors, but later, after a closer look, they were found to be simply houses. One dwelling can house a whole clan with several hundred people and is known as "a little kingdom for the family". There are over twenty thousand of these houses architectural designs of tulou in Yongding, with a well-concentrated distribution of clusters, ten of which are over 600 years old, and the oldest one is over 1,200 years old.

Then you will driven back to Xiamen. Take a flagstone bath in Riyuegu Hotspring Resort-a sanctuary for those seeking tranquility, therapy and a spiritual time-out.

Day 3: Day trip in Xiamen: Gulang Yu Island, Nanputuo Temple, Wanshi Botanical Garden (B, -, -)

Today you will have a full-day city tour around Xiamen and it starts with visiting the Gulang Yu Island, only ten-minute boat ride from Xiamen. You will first see the Shuzhuan Garden, which once was a Taiwan businessman's private villa. It is divided into two parts-the Garden of Hiding the Sea (Canghaiyuan) and the Garden of Making-Up Hills (Bushanyuan). The garden is in the sea and the sea is in the garden. Then you will walk to Sunlight Rock, the island's highest point that can be reached by cable car.

Then, visit Nanputuo Temple, located on the southeast of Xiamen Island. It is surrounded by the graceful sea and at the foot of the Wulao Peaks. It was founded in the Tang era and its three halls hold a wealth of Buddhist statuary.

Afterwards, you will move to the Wanshi Botanical Garden, which houses a wealth of plants in 29 different garden and over 5,000 species of plants, especially from South China and Southeast Asia.

Then you will go to Wuyi Shan by air in the evening. Upon arrival in Wuyi Shan, your tour guide will meet you at Wuyi Shan Airport and transfer you to your hotel by private car.

Day 4: Wuyi Mount (B, L, D)

Today you will have a full-day private tour in the beautiful Mount Wuyi (Wu Yi Shan), a sheer, mist-shrouded sandstone mountain. It is one of the most outstanding subtropical forests in the world and has a large number of ancient relict plant species, wild animals, many of which are endemic to China.

You will climb to Tianyou Peak, the traditional spot from where to watch the sunrise and view the city's landscape. Later, you will take a raft through the gorges, which is the best way to enjoy the landscape along Nine Bend Creek (Jiuqu Xi) .

Day 5: Caodun Ancicent Village, Dahongpao Tea Plantation (B, -, -)

Today you will enjoy Caodun ancient village, 35 km from Mount Wuyi. It retains a large number of ancient wood architectures and you can enjoy a wide variety of beautiful wood, brick and stone carvings. For centuries every family in the village makes tea and the tea even is exported abroad.

Then, visit Dahongpao tea plantation. Dahongpao is the most famous tea and known as the "King of Tea". The tea trees grow up in a canyon of Mount Wuyi, about 600 meters above the sea level. Since Song Dynasty, Dahongpao was an annual imperial tribute and the royal tea garden was set up here.

Then your personal guide escorts you to the Airport for your flight to your next destination.

Itinerary: B: Breakfast  AB: American Breakfast   L: Lunch   D: Dinner   SD: Special Dinner

Xiamen: Marine Garden Hotel, 4 Star
Wuyishan: Ramada Hotel, 3 Star