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Visit China's Historic Cities - Veterinary Medicine Study Tour
Your chance to join a Veterinary Medicine study tour and visit: China’s Historic Cities Beijing, Xian, Shanghai and Chengdu. With a Special visit to Chengdu Wild Panda Reserve.
Visit ancient and modern China and explore the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, The Ming Tombs, Tiananmen Square. See the famed Terra Cotta Warriors of Xian, and wild Pandas in their natural setting at Chegndu Breeding and Research Center.Stroll and shop madly in dynamic bustling Shanghai, China’s gateway to the Twenty-First Century where the U.S. dollar goes far. Stay in comfortable Five-star hotels.
HERE'S WHAT'S INCLUDED
• Scheduled Air Transportation
• Meetings With Veterinarians
• Special Visit To Ya’an Panda Reserve
• Special Visit To Beijing Zoo An Panda House
• Daily Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
• Tour Director
• Local Guides
• Five Star Hotels
• Full Sightseeing Program
• Peking Duck Dinner Banquet
• Theater Performances
Price of Tour: $3585 From San Francisco
Date of Tour: May 26 - June 8, 2010
Round Trip Add On Fares Available From Other U.S. Cities Approximately $200.00
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Your Complete Itinerary
Day 1 We depart San Francisco for Beijing via United Airlines. (There are low cost connecting flights from most cities.)
We depart San Francisco for Beijing via our United Airlines non stop flight. Full meal service will be provided.
Day 2 (D)?We arrive in Beijing Five Star International Hotel.
We arrive in Beijing, are met by our local guides and taken to the luxurious five star Beijing International Hotel.
We will have a short briefing about our professional agenda and dinner will be served. The rest of the evening will be free for us to relax.
About Your Hotel
Conveniently located in the heart of Beijing near the Forbidden City, the five star Beijing International Hotel offers 1,008 elegantly lavish guest rooms with centralized air-conditioning, IDD phone, mini-bar, and satellite TV. Its Starlight Revolving Restaurant is where the "East meets West" in a popular buffet selection which is offered at breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can enjoy a great view of Changan Avenue while sampling delicious daily International buffets at the only revolving restaurant in the heart of Beijing.
About Beijing
China is the oldest, most populous and most continuous civilization on earth and Beijing, once the self-proclaimed center of the world, is its capital. "Nowhere in the world are such rare and precious goods traded as in Khanbaliq. Just imagine, every day more than a thousand wagons arrive fully laden with silk and precious jewels," wrote Marco Polo in the 14th century. Incidentally, among other things, he discovered pasta, ketchup and gunpowder. Human settlement there goes back about half a million years, and around 3,000 BC villages were established in the area. In the 15th century, Emperor Yongle named the city Beijing, meaning northern capital. From then until the 20th century Chinese emperors lived in its Forbidden City without interruption.
During the 20th century Beijing endured the turmoil of war, revolution, industrialization and a massive building boom. As the undisputed hub of China, something is always happening in this city of 6 million. It retains its rich past with aristocratic parks and palaces and a great heritage of art and history displayed in over 50 museums. Today the heart of Beijing would still be familiar to Emperor Yongle.
Day 3 (B,L,D) We visit Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven. Later, we attend to our professional agenda at Beijing Zoo. Five Star International Hotel
Our first destination today is Tiananmen Square, China’s most famous square covering 100 acres in the heart of Beijing. On October 1, 1949 a million people gathered there to hear Mao Zedong proclaime the birth of the Peoples Republic of China. Next we visit the Forbidden City, otherwise known as the Gu Gong (Imperial Palace). Construction of the Imperial Palace originally started in 1406 as a residence for the Ming emperors. Over the centuries twenty-four Ming and Ching Dynasty emperors lived and ruled. We plan a visit with our colleagues from Chinese Veterinary Medicine at the Beijing Zoo (and see the Pandas at the Panda House). At these discussions we will exchange views with our colleagues and have a background briefing about how the Veterinary Medicine functions in China. Later we return to the hotel .
Day 4 (B,L,D) Visit the Great Wall of China and the Ming Tombs. Tonight we enjoy a Peking Duck banquet. Five Star International Hotel.
The Great Wall is the only visible structure on Earth that can be seen from the Moon, and is nearly four-thousand miles long. Construction of the Great Wall began in the fifth century, B.C. as a series of defensive boundaries around China's smaller states. Over the centuries it was improved and extended as protection from the Huns and other nomadic tribes. We have lunch at the Great Wall and then travel on to 'The Valley of The Thirteen Ming Tombs' and the 'Sacred Way'. The thirteen tombs date back to the year 1409, when construction on them started. Each tomb has an underground palace, defense wall, soul tower, and sacrificial hall. The 'Sacred Way' is a vast collection of twelve larger than life human statues, and twenty-four stone unicorns, lions, camels, and elephants.
Tonight we enjoy a Peking Duck Banquet. The Wall Street Journal featured a three page article about the incomparable Peking Duck Dinners served in Beijing (Peking). Enjoy the delicately sliced duck, wrapped in thin pancakes and dipped in dark brown hoisen sauce.
Day 5 (B,L,D) We take a fascinating tri-cycle tour of the “Hutong” (narrow alleyways) Five Star International Hotel.
This morning we take a tri-cycle tour of the hutong (narrow alleyways) These charming alleyways were originally built in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, after Ghengis Khan’s army had reduced the city to rubble. Over the centuries wealthy and influential officials crowded their houses around the Imperial City, but all dwellings had to be beneath the Imperial Palace. Much of the old city remains and families still live around tiny courtyards in a tight maze of alleys. Your tri-cycle tour enables you to experience the sights and smells of old Beijing.
Day 6 (B,L,D) This morning we travel on to Xian. Five star Shangri-la Hotel
This morning we travel to Xian, arriving there in the early afternoon, and are taken to the five star Shangri-la Hotel. On arrival we will take an orientation tour of the Old City. Among the sights we will see are the Old City Wall and Wild Goose Pagoda.
Day 7 (B,L,D) We sightsee in Xian and see the famous “Terra Cotta Warriers”. Later, we enjoy a “Dumpling Banquet”. Five star Shangri-la Hotel
We visit the Qin Army Vault Museum and the famous 2,181 year old ceramic army of more than 8,000 soldiers still guarding the tomb of the first Qin emperor, Qin Shi Huang. This terra cotta army, discovered in 1974, is a great mystery because the emperor left no record of it. We also visit the Cloissonne factory, and the Provincial Museum with its antique collection bringing us back 5,000 years into China’s magnificent history. Then we go to the Imperial Hot Springs of the Tong Dynasty, and the Neolithic Banpo Village where we see how people lived at the dawn of civilization. Tonight we enjoy a “Dumpling Banquet”.
Day 8 (B,L,D) Morning flight and afternoon sightseeing in Chendu, capital of Sichuan province. Five star Crown Plaza Hotel.
We’re off to Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, where China’s spiciest food is served. Among the sights that we’ll see this afternoon are San Xing Dui Museumwith its collection of Bronze Age artifacts, just discovered in 1929.
About Chengdu
Chengdu, a modern city that has preserved its history, offers a look into Chinese life beyond Tiananmen Square and Shanghai skyscrapers. It offers fine temples, gardens, architecture, a teahouse atmosphere and - above all -giant pandas. Chengdu is a great place to try ‘Hot Pot’ where spicy red oil is heated to a boil at at your table and you dip raw meats, chicken, fish and veggies until their done.
Day 9 (B,L,D) Today we spend the entire day at Ya’an Panda Reserve and see giant pandas in their natural habitat. Five star Crown Plaza Hotel.
We visit the ‘Giant Panda Breeding Reserve Base’ located about 6 miles north of Chengdu. First opened in 1995, where 85 pandas roam about in their natural habitat - a sizeable domain of bamboo groves and forest. (Newborns are kept in a plastic incubator.)
We plan to arrive there in the early morning when the pandas are fed and playful (the best time to see them). There’s also a breeding area as well as a detailed exhibition on panda habits, habitats and conservation efforts.
Day 10 (B,L,D) We visit Chengdu Zoo and meet with Chineses Veterinarians. Later, there will be more sightseeing. Five star Crown Plaza Hotel.
Today we start out with a visit to Chengdu Zoo where we will meet with our colleagues and discuss developments in our profession.
Day 11 (D) We travel to Shanghai. and check into our hotel, the five star Ramada Plaza Gateway Hotel.
We travel to Shanghai, meet our local guides and go to the five star, full service Ramada Plaza Gateway Hotel. We will have a short briefing about Shanghai. Later, we dine at our hotel.
About Shanghai Asia’s Shoppers’ Paradise
The booming coastal city of Shanghai is changing at the speed of light into a city of the future. With a population of 16 million, this dazzling city with its blend of Chinese and Western influences fascinates visitors as a cultural and trading crossroad of the World. Shanghai is China’s window to the future.
Shanghai, China’s major port and most cosmopolitan city, is a glittering shoppers’ paradise where bargains of every kind flood its markets. China is the World’s factory and produces goods with American, European and Japanese labels that sell at high prices at home. These same products can be purchased at deep, deep discounts all over Shanghai. Silks, Porcelain, clothing, antiques, artwares, cameras and all sorts of electronic products are everywhere.
Day 12 (B,L,D) Today we sightsee in Shanghai. Ramada Plaza Garteway Hotel.
Among the sights we will visit are: the "Bund" waterfront area that will bring us back to the days when Shanghai was a notorious and nefarious sea port. We will travel through the Nanjing Road Commercial Center overflowing with department stores and specialty shops. We will visit the Jade Budda Temple with its priceless lifesized Budda carved out of Burmese Jade, the Old City District with scrambling and snaking mazes of narrow alleys overflowing with bustling shops and restaurants, and the classical Yu Gardens built as a Mandarin retreat.
Day 13 (B,L,D) We have a free day in Shanghai. There are many shopping opportuties in Shanghai. Your guides will advise you about other things to do there. Ramada Plaza Gareway Hotel.
Day 14 (B,LD) Return to San Francisco.
After breakfast this morning we will have time for some last minute shopping activities before boarding our full meal service flight to San Francisco. We will arrive in San Francisco in the morning on the same day.
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