China

Explore Shanghai and make your way to Zhouzhuang, Chengdu, Yangzi River, Chongqing, Yichang, Xian, and Great Wall of China, before finishing in Beijing.

What you get

Travel Associates has a 15-day Yangzi and Beyond luxury tour with Peregrine from $4715 a person, twin share. Includes 10 nights’ hotel accommodation, a three-night boat cruise, one-night soft sleeper train, 14 breakfasts, three lunches and two dinners and selected activities and attractions including an acrobatic show in Shanghai and tea tasting in Chengdu. Valid for sales until September 30, 2017.

What to do

Set among the cliffs of Longqing Gorge, 85km north of Beijing, is the seemingly out of place dragon escalator. The bright yellow dragon is the world’s longest outdoor escalator and rises 258 metres. At the top, you can ride a cable car or bungee jump into the gorge. This escalator is only one way, but you can ride a toboggan back down.

When to go

Tour departs Shanghai on April 10 or 24, 2018. Airfares are additional.

See travel-associates.co.nz or call 0800 951 655.