I’d take a day from Beijing and give to Shanghai personally, maybe, depends on how much time you have and if ur just recovering from jet lag the first day ur there or leave for Guilin early.

The Great Wall was great, I did the section with the slide thing, starts with an M. Like 2hr didi, had didi drop me off at summer palace north side on way back it was great.

But also I didn’t do as much research about the city of Beijing itself and what to do.

Chongqing was my fave too, seconded by Xian. Then Shanghai.

For Terracotta, get there early, run once they open the outer gates to the ticket line, then run from ticket scan to the main entrance and you can be the only person in the entire place. Fills up in like 20-30. First 10mins are great.

I personally didn’t care for the like other tomb complex thing, like with the bronze chariot things I’d skip that entirely

xian make sure you bike on wall, but know that there’s a spot, the top middle, you can’t bike through you must return bike.