Snow scene in Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) Fri.even-Sun. night, December 8-10 Tour: Yellow Mountain & Ancient Anhui Villages

Highlight of this weekend:

Join our Saturday afternoon's tour: Beijing Urban Planning Exhibition Hall & Ming Wall Ruin or Sunday's trip to the Silver Fox Cave (warm now there in the cavern !);

And don't miss the Making Lotus Lanterns workshop on Sunday 2:30pm.

Workshop in Shunyi
Tuesday, Dec.5, 12:00-2pm
Hands-on: Making Tiger Shoes (in Shunyi)

Upcoming travel around China

Fri.night-Sunday,December 2-3
Ancient City Xi An (Terracotta Warriors)
December 1-4
Hakka Earthen Round Buildings
December 9-10
Bucolic Township Kaiping Watchtowers(Portuguese Gothic)
December 25-28
4-day Lijiang Trip
December 29-30
2-day Trip to Shanghai

Workshop: making Lotus Lanterns  Sunday, Nov.26, 2:30-5pm

Dec.30-Jan.2
Yunnan trip: Xishuangbanna & Lijiang
Dec.30-Jan.2
Yunnan trip: Xishuangbanna
New Year Trip, Dec.30-8pm-Jan.1
Harbin--Snow World


Beijing Tour

Friday, Nov.24, 9:30am-1pm
Walk: Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square

Friday, Nov.24, 2:30-4:30pm
Hutong (Alley) & Courtyard Houses Pedicab Tour

Saturday, Nov.25, 2-5pm
Tour: Beijing Urban Planning Exhibition Hall & Ming Wall

Sunday, Nov.26, 9am-4pm
Day-trip: Silver Fox Cave

Thurs, Nov.30, 9:30am-1pm
Back-Street Beijing Walking Tour(4)-Xisi
Stroll in the old cultural streets at Wusi & Wenjin Street, and others, and view the Red Mansion of old Peking University,Wenjin Street, old palaces of Beijing library, and the "Northern Cathedral of Beijing"

Sunday, Dec.3, 9am-3pm
Hot Spring Spa & Organic Food Base

Friday, Dec.8, 2-4pm
Hutong (Alley) & Courtyard Houses Pedicab Tour

Thursday, Dec.7, 9:30am-7pm
Great Wall Mutianyu & Ming Tombs

Friday, Dec.8, 9:30am-1pm
Walk: Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square


Seminars / Classes

Tuesday, Dec.5, 12:00-2pm Hands-on: Making Tiger Shoes (in Shunyi)

Sunday, Nov.26, 2:30-5pm
Making Lotus Lanterns
Hear interesting lantern stories from Mr. Zhang, 73, nicknamed Lantern Zhang, who acquired the craftsmanship from an eunuch master in the Forbidden City.

Wednesday, Nov.29, 7:30pm
Why Kuan Yin (a bodhisattva in buddhism) is a female?

Sunday, Dec.3, 10am-12pm
Hands-on: Tea Ceremony

Tuesday, Dec.5, 1-3pm
Lecture: All about Buddhism

Tuesday, Dec.5, 12:00-2pm
Hands-on: Making Tiger Shoes (in Shunyi)

Sunday, Dec. 10, 2-4:30pm
Try Hand-pulled Noodles and making dumplings

Wednesday, Dec.13, 10:30am-12pm
Daytime Book Club:"The True Story of Ah Q"

Thursday, Dec.14, 10am-1pm
Hands-on: Batik & Wax-dye

Wednesday, Jan.17, 10:30am-12pm
Daytime Book Club:"Moment in Peking"

Wednesday, February 28, 10:30am-12pm
Daytime Book Club: "Red Dust" by Ma Jian


Explore China

Huge Earthen Round House groups in Fujian

November 25-26
Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Longmen Grottes
Take a weekend trip to Luoyang to visit the Longmen Grottoes, UNESCO-listed world heritage site in 2000. It is one of the 4 most famous Buddhist grottoes in China with over one hundred thousand Buddha figures in more than twenty three hundred niches

December 01-04
Hakka Earthen Round Buildings
Get to know Fujian province, the southeastern end of China's mainland facing Taiwan across the strait. Xiamen, beautiful seaport city with Gulangyu Island; then dirve into the villages in the mountains south and west of Fujian for the magical earthen

Fri.night-Sunday,December 02-03
Ancient City Xi An (Terracotta Warriors)
Take weekend trip to visit the famous Terracotta Warrior Site; Ancient City Wall, Shaanxi Museum; Great Mosque and Muslim Street; Wild Goose Pagoda, etc.

December 09-10
Bucolic Township Kaiping Watchtowers(Portuguese Gothic)
Kaipíng, 136km southwest of Guangzhou, 164km from the Macau border, and also reachable by sea directly from Hong Kong, is China at its most bucolic.Peasants in conical straw hats bend over their plants, and position hand-powered threshing machines o

Fri.even-Sun. night,December 08-6pm-10
Yellow Mountain & Ancient Anhui Villages
You will visit the following three places, the first two are UNESCO-listed sites: 1. Yellow Mountains, 2. Ancient Anhui Village Hongcun (fengshui village & shooting site for the movie Crouching Tiger, ...

December 25-28
4-day Lijiang Trip

December 29-30
2-day Trip to Shanghai

Dec.30-Jan.2
Yunnan trip: Xishuangbanna & Lijiang

Dec.30-Jan.2
Yunnan trip: Xishuangbanna

New Year Trip, Dec.30-8pm-Jan.1
Harbin--Snow World

Jan.12-8pm-14
Harbin--Snow World

The Snow Lantern Festival in Harbin

Jan.26-8pm-28
Harbin--Snow World

Jan.19-6:30pm-21
Sanya--China's Tropical Playground

Feb.9-8pm-11
Harbin--Snow World

Feb.18-8:30pm-20
Ancient City Xi An (Terracotta Warriors)