14 Night Cruise sailing from Hong Kong to Shanghai aboard Azamara Journey.

Forgo the crowds and experience a voyage tailor-made for today's discerning traveler aboard Journey. In addition to butler service in each stateroom and suite, Journey affords her guests more verandas than most cruise ships, so you can watch the world melt away into the fiery sunset.

Journey also features two specialty restaurants, concierge amenities, our Spa and Wellness Center, a coffee cafe, a piano bar and a wine bar, live entertainment, daily enrichment programs (like wine and champagne tasting), and this is only her short list.

Highlights of this cruise:

Hong Kong
Neon signs galore, dim sum, and amazing temples are a few of the favorite experiences in Hong Kong. Take is as much as you can of this thrilling city with its endless shopping and towering skyscrapers. Your agenda for Hong Kong should include Victoria Peak, an Aberdeen Fishing Village, the Man Mo Temple and Sheung Wan Dried Food and Herbal Market. Be certain to have extra room in your suitcase for the bargains you are bound to discover.

Xiamen
Xiamen was a thriving port by the 17th century, and became one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in the 1980s. Since then it has flourished, attracting a major influx of foreign investment. Clean and tastefully renovated, it consistently shows up on the list of China's most livable cities. Xiamen was one of the five Treaty Ports ceded to European powers after the first Opium War, and its tiny island of Gulangyu became a foreign enclave. Today it is a place of lush tropical gardens, a rich musical and cultural heritage, and hundreds of aging but elegant early 20th century mansions.

Taipei
Enjoy the contrasts of Taipei, located just 18 miles from the port of Keelung: lively clubs and ancient temples; skyscrapers and small street markets; bustling streets and peaceful gardens. As expected for a city surrounded by ocean, the seafood is spectacular. Visit the National Palace Museum to view the world's largest collection of Chinese art treasures. And for an unsurpassed view of this city, visit a mountainside tea house.

Shanghai
This great metropolis is a fascinating blend of East and West, past and future. Facing each other across the Huangpu River are The Bund, lined with stately colonial buildings that once housed foreign banks and trading houses, and the 21st century financial and commercial district of Pudong, where skyscrapers seem to sprout like weeds. Fortunately the core of the old Chinese city remains, with its historic gardens, temples, and teahouses. Shanghai's first heyday began in the 1920s when it was a swinging, fast living city of jazz clubs and Western fashion. Today is its second, as it strives to surpass Hong Kong and Singapore as the economic center of Asia.