This was such an amazing tour. Our guide was really lovely, spoke good English, was knowledgeable about the area, and kept it at our pace. First piece of advice, start hungry, and by the end of the day you will be full. Highlight was sitting on a little non-tourist street having breakfast with the locals. The twisted bread and the soup dumpling are just to die for! The pecking duck and the peanut noodles were also AMAZING!
We would like to thank and appreciate your support when we constantly kept changing our schedule; your flexibility was marvelous to us especially because we had a 7 year old kid who needed more attention on her mood than my teen one. I also really appreciate the local travel specialist for the easy method of tour payment. We read many reviews before chose you and your active reply also helped us a lot on understanding the situation before we reached the destinations. We liked Jackie a lot. He was honest, open minded, entertaining, attentive, high spirited, and talkative (knowledgeable) in terms of history. We also liked Vivian in the different way. She was straight forward about the condition of the location as well as the history/knowledge in general aspect. She was also very creative in taking memorable photo poses. She was helpful and patient when she had to accommodate our requests.
Imperial China and the Yangtze River We wanted to get a real insight into China and see the great icons of the country too and this trip certainly delivered on both fronts. It was hard work at times because of the full on travel but the upside was that we saw a lot of the country and how the infrastructure works (or doesn't, with floods in Xi'ian!). Our guide Alan/Hongbin Liu was excellent - more on him later.