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Focus on China Tour Tentatively In) October to November for 23 Days 2014 FOCUS ON CHINA TOUR Email: [email protected] or [email protected]@yahoo.ca Telephone: (613) 234-9513 or Cell: (613) 276-6203 2 Day 1 Ottawa - Air Direct Air Canada flight from Ottawa via Vancouver to Beijing In flight Oct 15 Beijing L/D Wed Day 2 Beijing Air/ Arrival in Beijing (around 14:45), Airport greeting. Meet with Local Guide and transferred to Hotel. On B/L/D Oct 16 Coach the Way tour around Cheungan Street and stop at the National Grand Theatre for Evening photos. Thurs Settle in Hotel Rest before dinner. After Dinner, it is a free evening or if you are not tired, enjoy the evening scenes of the famous Wangfujing walking Street & Donghuamen Evening Food Market Capital of China, Beijing is a world-class cultural and educational centre with a population of 21 million (2013), ranking it China's second largest city behind Shanghai. Beijing is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, and huge stone walls and gates, treasures that make it the most popular tourist city in China. Overnight in Beijing Day 3 Beijing Coach After early Breakfast, visit Tiananmen Square (the worlds’ largest inner city square) & Imperial B/L/D Oct 17 Palace (the world’s wooden structure building is the symbol of Beijing, also known as Forbidden City Fri or Imperial Palace Museum & the best preserved imperial palace in China and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world). The design and the layout of the 870 buildings in the palace represent the essence of traditional Chinese architecture. with a history of around 600 years. Then to Jingshan Park – Best site to take the bird-side views of Imperial Palace & surrounding area. Rickshaw ride through the old residential area and visit Nanluoguxiang南鑼古巷胡同“hutongs” area. Visiting a local family is a nice way to discover traditional Beijing life. Hutong refers to an ancient alleyway with siheyuan or ''4-sided courtyard house" on both sides. The Beijing hutongs are mazes of narrow alleyways linking old single-story traditional courtyard houses. Hutongs give a wonderful glimpse into the world of yesterday in Beijing. Then to Beijing Olympic Park with shooting of Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube, Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, Media Centre…. And also including evening shooting at the 2nd largest LCD screen in the world at the Place Hall 世貿天階 before dinner Overnight in Beijing Day 4 Beijing Coach After early Breakfast visit Badaling Great Wall by Coach. Up the Badaling Great Wall (including B/L/D Oct 18 Cable Ride Up & Down Hill) See more Info at www.badaling.gov.cn Badaling is the site of the Sat best-preserved and most popular section of the Great Wall. 370 foreign leaders and VIPs have climbed the Badaling section. Great Wall was built to hold off tribal invaders from the north. Photo Stop at Ming Tomb (Changling Tomb) Way. In the front part of the imperial necropolises, there usually is a Sacred Way (or Divine Road) which means the road leading to heaven. Along the it, 24 Stone Statues of Animals as well as 12 Stone Statue of Persons, the Gate with Dragon and Phoenix patterns, Five-arch Bridge and Seven-arch Bridge are arranged from south to north. Drive back and visit the famous Qianmen Street (of 570 years of history) & 大棚欄購物街 Shopping area Photo Taking at the National Grand Theatre before dinner. Then enjoy the traditional Beijing Duck Dinner. Beijing roast duck is the epitome of Beijing cuisine and also one of the eight most popular Chinese dishes. The dish is mostly prized for the thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat. Evening enjoy the Beijing Opera Show”. Beijing Opera is regarded as Chinese cultural treasure. The make up, the face masks, the gorgeous costumes, the unique vocal style, and the demanding actions make Beijing opera a high-class performance entertainment. Beijing Opera blends acting, dancing and live music with acrobatics and kung-fu-style stage combat to create a breathtaking evening of drama Overnight in Beijing Day 5 Beijing to Coach After breakfast, visit the Temple of Heaven, a great masterpiece of Chinese architecture and B/L/D Oct 19 Hohhot Air landscape design) & the royal altar where the Ming and Qing emperors offered their sacrifice to the Sun heaven praying for peace and harvest. The area of the Temple of Heaven is more than twice that of the Forbidden City. If have time we will visit 798 Art Area before to Beijing airport Then fly to Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Inner Mongolia has peculiar natural scenery, a long history and brilliant culture. Arrive Hohhot. Visit Zhaojun Tomb (Tomb of Zhaojun commemorates a concubine of a Chinese emperor who went Mongolian to marry a chieftain and make peace between the Han Chinese and a horsemen tribe), Dazhao Temple (There are three famous treasures in Dazhao Temple, namely, the silver Buddha figure, the dragon carvings, and the wall paintings) and Muslim Bazzar street. After dinner, free evening, rest or enjoy the night in hotel, or just walk a few steps from the hotel and do some shopping or photo taking of the evening scenes on your own arrangement Overnight in Hohhot Please note: We reserve the right to adjust the itinerary in case uncontrollable factors happened in coming months p. 1 2014 FOCUS ON CHINA TOUR Email: [email protected] or [email protected]@yahoo.ca Telephone: (613) 234-9513 or Cell: (613) 276-6203 2 Day 6 Huhhot to Coach After breakfast, bus to Xilamoren / Xilamuren Grassland. On the way if have time, visit a local school BLD Oct 20 Xilamoren/ and photo with Mongolian children. En route visit Puhui Temple Mon Xilamuren/ Xilamuren Steppe (80 kilometers north of Hohhot) located on a 5000-foot-high grassy plateau and Hilamuren is one of the first steppe areas to be set up for tourists, who stay in "yurt-hotel" Grassland Xilamuren is a beautiful place with thriving green grass (depends on the season that we’re going), abundant water and herds of sheep and cows. It is the first grassland opened to tourists to enjoy the wild grassland of Hohhot and the nomadic life of Mongolian people. Join some Local traditional & cultural activities including the welcome ceremony, horse racing, Mongolian wrestling, horse & camel riding, rodeo competitions, archery, … Here, you will visit a local folk residence - yurt, a kind of round-roofed tent made of felt. Taking Grassland Sunset Photos. Making short trips to Aobao. It time permitted we will have the Bon Fire Party Overnight in Xilamoren Grassland. Note: If Yurts are closed during this time, the group will have to stay in the hotel Day 7 Xilamoren/ Coach Take early sunrise images of the Grassland before breakfast (Personal Choice) BLD Oct 21 Xilamuren After breakfast, from Hilamuren/Ordos(Erdos) drive to Resonant Sand Gorge in Kubiqi Tues Grassland - Desert. Photo stop at the Yellow River Bridge. Resonant Tour the desert. Today we are going to experience a natural phenomenon: at the desert: Sliding Sand down from the 90 meter high and 45 degree sand hill, one can hear the sounds like automobile Georg in and aircraft engines, a phenomenon nobody can explain.. Pax could join sand surfing or ride Kubiqi camel on your own expense. If the seasonal Mongolian Wedding Ceremony Performance is not Desert – closed, we can pay to enjoy the ceremony which is good for photo-taking Baotou Resonant Sand Gorge back to Baoyou Overnight at Baotou Day 8 Baotou - Coach Has an early morning City Tour of Baotou before leaving to Hohhot and then to Datong the 2nd B/L/D Oct 22 Hohhot – largest city of the province of Shanxi. Tues Datong - After lunch, visit of Yungang Grottoes which are ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes near Yungang the city of Datong. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most Grottoes famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. The others are Longmen and Mogao Grotttoes. The Yungang Grottoes are divided into three zones: east, west and central and numbered from east to west. Caves 1 and 2 contain carved pagodas. Cave 3 is the largest in this group, although it contains only a seated Buddha flanked by two Bodhisattvas. Visit Jiulongbi.(Nine Dragon Screen) made of glazed tiles in the East Street of the city is the largest and earliest one of the three famous Nine-Dragon Screens in China (Note: the other two are respectively in Forbidden City and Beihai Park of Beijing) After dinner night tour of Datong downtown and evening shooting(personal choice) Overnight in Datong Day 9 Datong – Coach On the way to Hanging Temple of Mt. Heng (Hengshan) with a morning City Tour of Datong. B/L/D Oct 23 Hanging Hanging Monastery built more than 1,500 years ago is an architectural wonder. This temple is Thurs Temple – notable for its location on a sheer precipice a cliff in the province of Shanxi. The monks who built Wooden this temple had three basic reasons: the 1st build a house of worship to show their determination. Pagoda – The 2nd d reason is to avoid the terrible flood, besides the top of the mountain protects the temple Pingyao of rain, snow & also decreases the damage from long time sunshine, & the 3rd is to promote unity among the Chinese people through a combination of the three major religions: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Then stop at Yingxin County to visit the Wooden Pagoda. The real name of the pagoda, is Buddha's Palace.
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