Originally Posted by
moondog
In post #3, you stated/implied that your goals are:
1) relaxing
2) not boring
Your proposed plan (remarkably) manages to fail on both of these counts.
I encourage you to think outside of the box a bit more and get back to us. If you provide us with info about your secondary/tertiary interests, we may well be able to help you craft a plan that nails your stated goals right on the head.
Sorry if I did not express myself clearly.
With relaxing I was thinking not too much moving around to different places, i.e. we would like to stick to only these three cities. In addition I meant that we want to have enough time to relax in our (very nice) hotels in addition to seeing some of what these cities have to offer in terms of shopping, culture and food. If there are for example four must see sights in a city, we would be happy to spend four days there, seeing one sight plus maybe the area around that specific building/museum/temple or whatever each day and then spend the rest of the time in the hotel (spa/pool etc.) plus go out for meals or a walk to see an interesting street, look at a nice view etc.
In terms of the kind of things we like to do, we love architecture, temples, shopping and markets. We love to wander around in interesting neighbourhoods, modern or traditional, and we are definitely foodies enjoying both Michelin star fine dining and great street food from around the world.
A perfect day for us could for example include getting up really early to see a local park where the Chinese participate in different activities or to visit a market looking at all the different products offered. Wander around there and have a local breakfast somewhere followed by a visit to a temple. Thereafter back to the hotel where we would relax in the spa or pool, read or even take a nap. Light lunch in the hotel. Late afternoon or early evening we would go out again. Visit an area where there are either traditional shops (chinese medisine, tea shops etc.) or a modern mall whereafter we would have dinner in a great restaurant in that area.
We have travelled a lot in Asia, but not been to these three cities and we thought it would be a nice trip for this autumn.
Hope this helps in terms of making suggestions for how we could spend our days in the three cities we would like to visit and to advice me in terms of how to split our 13 nights between these three cities.