Pricing
Departures: Throughout the year as a private journey.
Price:
Per person sharing room from $6,890
Internal air per person (estimate) $520
For more information, to book, or to speak to an R. Crusoe & Son tour specialist, please call us at 800-585-8555.
Local Flavor
Land of towering mountains, emerald valleys, magnificent silks, porcelain, pandas, pageantry, and people. China is an inscrutable county, a place of mystery. Her cities, her citizens, her Great Wall and Forbidden City, her majestic landscapes-all continue to beckon travelers seeking something different.
China, too, is a land in flux; the Chinese people have strong ties to a traditional way of life that is being brought into focus against a backdrop of 21st-century changes-technological, economic, and cultural.
China. The Sleeping Giant is Wide Awake.
12 Days.
Isn't it time you experienced China? A whopping $42 billion in infrastructure was put in place for the Olympic games in Beijing. Post-games, the improvements help us navigate the country more smoothly than ever. (And yes, of course we have to look at the Water Cube and the Bird’s Nest. How could we not?)
On R. Crusoe's unusual, bespoke guided tour, touch down in the 21st-century city of Shanghai. Its highly charged atmosphere in the 1920s and 1930s was but a warm-up for today’s edgy scene. If you choose, allow the city’s secrets to unfold through the eyes of the best Shanghai expert we know, 
Patrick Cranley, a student of China’s economy, politics, and history for years. He sorts out where Shanghai’s been and where it’s going.
Walk the Bund. Perhaps you want dinner at Shanghai’s top “it” spot, a private club? R. Crusoe has entree. Peruse the collections at the Shanghai Museum. The icing on the cake? Take a remarkable free day in and around Shanghai with a (very) private car, guide, and driver—yours alone. Talk about luxury...
Jet to Xian to see the 2,000-year-old terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. (Careful, your noses might touch.) Others who come to see the spectacle must 
keep their distance. Crusoe travelers, however, can get up close and personal on a private guided tour accompanied by the site’s head archaeologist.
But there’s more to Xian. Opt for a discussion with a group of university students to hear what’s what in modern China (when school is in session). Take a tutorial at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, if you like, where a curator gives us a rare and private look at Tang Dynasty murals generally hidden from public view. Visit the oft-overlooked Han Dynasty Museum. (Caution: Naked Han warriors within.)
Finally, Beijing. Visit the Temple of Heaven in a heavenly park. Adventure awaits at the Great Wall at its best spot. Go on an excursion beyond the city limits. Get an eyeful of several Olympics venues and an earful at the Beijing Opera. We’re off to the zoo and Empress Cixi’s Summer Palace (there are stories to tell about the place). Tour a Hutong aboard a rickshaw before we step inside a private home to meet the neighbors. Tiananmen Square, then the Forbidden City with a unique insider’s tour of a prince’s residence closed to the general public.
Then home.
Do you crave more of China? If so, consider extending your stay with one (or two, or all) of our customized mini-journeys to China and Tibet that you can mix and match: Hong Kong. 3 Days; Yangtse River & the Three Gorges Cruise. 4 Days; and Lhasa, Yarlung Valley, & Dunhuang. 9 Days.
Or consider pairing it with our off-the-beaten-path journey, Yunnan & Shangri-La. Hidden China. 11 Days.
To request a detailed itinerary for this journey (and others), click here.