Xiamen-Quanzhou Muslim 5 Days Tour

Place & Transport: Arrive in Xiamen, Flight not included
Today's Activities: Guide meets you at Xiamen Airport, then escort to Quanzhou by private coach. Upon arrival, shopping in Tumen Street. Check in hotel after dinner.
Meals: Dinner

Detailed Itinerary:
Upon arrival, bus to Quanzhou. Enjoy shopping in Tumen Street: Quanzhou Tumen Street is located at the middle stage of Zhongshan Road,with Xinmen Street to its west and Wenling Road to its east.It is a properous commercial street integrated of shopping,religion and dinning.In 1995,Quanzhou Tumen Street was widend the second time and it is basicly finished in 1997 to form this new block of local specification and modern style.The most attractive in Quanzhou Tumen Street is the national culture protection unite,Qingjing Temple and the famous Tonghuai Guanyue Temple.It is also the o­nly o­ne Shopping Guaranteed Street in fujian Province.

Check in hotel after dinner.

Place & Transport: Quanzhou-Dadeng-Xiamen
Today's Activities:The Islamic Holy Tombs, Qingjing Mosque, Quanzhou Overseas Transportation Museum, Dadeng Trading Market
Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Muslim Flavor Lunch, Seafood Flavor Dinner

Detailed Itinerary:
After breakfast, visit The Islamic Holy Tombs in Quanzhou: Holy tomb of Islam is located in other Lingshan southern foot of the east of Quanzhou. State according to book of Fujian : In the period of Tang military Germany 618- 626),Four people, disciple of Mohammed, founder of Islam, come to China, preach, third it is virtuous to reach to Quanzhou to be virtuous, four, the soldier buries this mountain, repeatly make its presence or power felt differently, the holy tomb of Lingshan of popular name. This tomb stores one of the oldest, most intact holy marks now for Islamic world.

Qingjing Mosque: The Qingjing Mosque is the oldest mosque now existent in China. It was first built in 1009 and is well-known to the Moslem world. The gate to the temple is built of stone with a vaulted narrow arch top. In the mosque are the Terrace for the Moon, the Pavilion for Prophet Sighting and the Altar for Heaven. The outlandish flavor is very strong. The temple was formerly a place for sacrifice and prayer for the Moslem travelers and merchants from foreign countries and for a time it enjoyed great fame.

Quanzhou Overseas Transportation Museum: It is the only maritime museum in China, with two sites -- the old one in the KaiyuanTempleand the new one in the East Lake, built in 1959 and 1991 respectively. From the hundreds of thousands of cultural relics like real boat parts, stone, wooden and iron anchors, and models of sea boats through the dynasties, the rises and falls of ancient port city Zaitun are vividly revived.

Bus to Shishi for enjoying hala lunch. Then back to Xiamen, enjoy shopping in Dadeng Trading Market:

Place & Transport: Xiamen
Today's Activities:Gulangyu, Shuzhuang Garden, Piano Museum, Longtou Shopping Street, Xiamen University, Hulishan Fortress, Golden Island Ring Road, Zhongshan Street
Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Xinjiang Flavor Lunch, Seafood Flavor Dinner


Detailed Itinerary:
After breakfast, visit Gulangyu: The roar of the waves breaks on the rocks. Impressive melodies surround and linger on this island made famous because of its piano-laden past. As a place of residence for Westerners during Xiamen's colonial past, Gulangyu is famous for its architecture and for being home to China's largest piano museum.

Shuzhuang Garden: Shuzhuang Garden is exquisitely designed to reproduce the scene of Banqiao private villa with the characteristic of gardens on the Yangtze Delta. It creates infinite space by using a plot of slopes and take in all the sceneries that can be seen around the garden.

Piano Museum: Given Gulangyu’s musical heritage, it is no surprise that Australian Overseas Chinese Mr. Hu Youyi chose his ancestral home for Asia’s largest piano museum, which now has over 100 pianos from the U.K., France, the U.S., Germany, Austria, and Australia, as well as over 100 priceless piano lamps.

Longtou Shopping Street: It is the main commercial street at Gulangyu Island, and also the only way which must be passed to enter into the beautiful island. Lots of handicrafts stores, calligraphy and painting shops are established along two sides of the road including local handicraft articles like beading, line engraving, silk figure, decorative porcelain and so on, as well as the precious antiques, jade articles, calligraphy and painting, and chinaware from all over China. Meanwhile, the local southland dried food is also the best choice to present a gift.

After lunch, outside visit Xiamen University, Hulishan Fortress: Hulishan Fortress is a key national historical and cultural site. In August, 2000, it was listed into "the complete collection of Guinness World Records of the year 2000". The Fortress, built in the 20th year of the emperor Guangxu's reign (1894), has more than 100 years' of history both good and bad. The base of the fortress is made of the mixture of camphor tree sap, liquid brown sugar, glutinous rice, clay and sand forming a very solid base.

Golden Island Ring Road: Ring Road Xiamen runs along Xiamen's beautiful shoreline. There lawns and gardens, and paths for hikers, bicyclists and roller bladders along miles of beaches. It has become one of the most beautiful Marathon route for international competitions.

Free activities in Zhongshan Street, enjoy shopping in Outlets.

Place & Transport: Xiamen
Today's Activities:Xiamen Muslim church, enjoy Hui’an girls performance, Huihe Stone Cultural Park
Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Xinjiang Flavor Lunch, Seafood Flavor Dinner

Detailed Itinerary:
After breakfast, transfer to Xiamen Muslim church after lunch:

Enjoy Hui’an girls performance and tea break in Huihe Stone Cultural Park: Xiamen Huihe Stone Cultural Garden is located in the northeastern part of Xiamen Zhonglun Park on Lvling Road, covering an area of about 12,000 square meters. It is a thematic garden of stone culture proud of traditional Chinese Garden’s landscape scenes blending well with modern Japanese Garden’s layout elements. At Huihe Stone Cultural Garden, zigzag corridor,skillful stone structures and exquisite stone sculptures blend perfectly into the elegant landscape. The Garden is a showcase of the enduring history of Southern Fujian’s stone culture and a testament to the co-development of stone culture and human civilization as well.

Place & Transport: Depart Shanghai, Flight not included
Today's Activities: Hotel to airport Transfer (Shanghai)
Meals:Hotel Breakfast, Xinjiang Flavor Lunch

Detailed Itinerary:
Free activities, then fly back home after lunch.