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June 14 - June 23, 2007 |
Editor:
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Other tours of the month:
Day tour: Great Wall Huangyaguan in Tianjin
Saturday, July 16
Inner Mongolia Grassland Weekend Tour
June 29 eve.--July 1 and Throughout July
Talk & Tour: Courtyard Layout and Architectural Symbols
June 24, 14:30-18:00
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 Calligraphy Course
Monday, May 14-July 2, 19:30-21:00
Conducted in English, the class teaches everything, from meaning and evolution of the characters, culture to related history and music. You don't have to be able to write Chinese already, just have to be enthusiastic and be willing to hold a brush >>> more |
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Royal Canal Boat Tour to the Summer Palace
Saturday, June 16, 09:00-13:30
Cruise along the imperial canal in a motorized canopy boat past the Beijing Zoo, the Beijing Aquarium and the Purple Bamboo Garden; appreciate the great views en route, and stroll in the garden to meet taichi practitioners beside lotus ponds and amat >>> more |
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Huangyaguan Pass and Great Wall at Tianjin
Saturday, June 16, 08:30-18:00
Go by coach to the Huangyaguan Great Wall, 28 kilometers north of Ji Xian County, Tianjin. Originally built in 557 A D, the Huangyanguan was repaired for the first time in Ming Dynasty with bricks and for the second time in 1985. In 1986 it was liste >>> more |
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Tour: Tap Water Museum & Underground City
Sunday, June 17, 14:00-18:00
This is the museum to see how Beijing's water supply system works and learn all about water flow and purification techniques; and then explore dark, damp, and genuinely eerie tunnels under the Tian'anmen Square which were built in 1960s. >>> more |
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Hutong & Courtyard Houses Pedicab Tour
Tuesday, June 19, 14:30-16:40
Go to the peaceful hutongs (alleys) and courtyard houses in Beijing Xuanwu District, learn the real life of Beijingers in the neighborhood , get into their homes for a chat, check out a kindergarden with lovely kids; see an old opera houses >>> more |
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Book Club Day Group: "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
Wed, June 20, 10:30-12:00
by Anne Fadiman. "In the 1960s, the CIA recruited a primitive but fiercely independent people in Laos -- the mountain farmer/nomads known as the Hmong -- to fight the Communist forces, and all but promised to take care of them if they and the US lost >>> more |
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Royal Canal Boat Tour to the Summer Palace
Wednesday, June 20, 09:00-13:30
Cruise along the imperial canal in a motorized canopy boat past the Beijing Zoo, the Beijing Aquarium and the Purple Bamboo Garden; appreciate the great views en route, and stroll in the garden to meet taichi practitioners beside lotus ponds and amat >>> more |
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Weekend trip to Chengde: Imperial Mountain Resort
June 23-24
Take CCC's comfortable bus to Chende, Hebei Province to see the Summer Mountain Resort (Bishushanzhuang) and its Outlying Temples. The size of Chengde Summer resort is as big as the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace combined. It is surround >>> more |
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Hike: Great Wall Simatai and Jinshanling
Saturday, June 23, 08:30-18:30
Simatai section of Great Wall in Miyun County, Beijing, remains one of the best options for those who want more of a challenge from the Great Wall, harrowing, steep and unrestored. It connects to another section, Jin Shan Ling, in Hebei. >>> more |
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Talk & Tour: Courtyard Lay out & Architectural Symbols
Sunday, June 24, 14:30-18:00
CCC guest professor Zhao will give a 30 minutes illustrated presentation of the characteristics & categories of courtyard before guiding CCC members to check typical courtyards in three different hutong areas of Beijing--the gates, and roofs, decorat >>> more |
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Great Wall Mutianyu & Ming Tombs
Tuesday, June 26, 09:30-18:30
Mutianyu is a famous section of the Great Wall, and it is not so commercialized but also a moderate section (not so physically demanding). Ming Tombs is the largest and well preserved imperial tomb complex with over 500 years >>> more |
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Hutong & Courtyard Houses Pedicab Tour
Wednesday, June 27, 14:30-16:40
Go to the peaceful hutongs (alleys) and courtyard houses in Beijing Xuanwu District, learn the real life of Beijingers in the neighborhood , get into their homes for a chat, check out a kindergarden with lovely kids; see an old opera houses >>> more |
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Huitengxile Inner Mongolia Grassland Tour
June 30-July 01
it was worthwhile to visit the enchanting steppes & fantastic grassland! To find the less spoiled and touristy grassland with relatively full -up grass, and yet accessible for a two or three days excursion, CCC recommends the grassland Huitengxile (2 >>> more |
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Royal Canal Boat Tour to the Summer Palace
Saturday, June 30, 09:00-13:30
Cruise along the imperial canal in a motorized canopy boat past the Beijing Zoo, the Beijing Aquarium and the Purple Bamboo Garden; appreciate the great views en route, and stroll in the garden to meet taichi practitioners beside lotus ponds and amat >>> more |
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Datong Trip (Grottoes & Hanging Monastery)
Jun.29 eve.-Jul.1
Join this weekend tour to see the second-largest of the nearly 51,000 sandstone statues of Buddha in 53 Yungang grottoes. Buddhist cave art began here in Datong, 160 miles west of Beijing, in the fifth century, by Xianbei minority, which ruled North >>> more |
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Hiking: Little Yellow Mount.Yun Meng
Sunday, July 1, 09:00-18:00
Mount. Yunmengshan in Miyun, Beijing is nicknamed Little Yellow Mountain for its beautiful scenery, rich plants and pleasant weather all year round. >>> more |
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