CCC e-Newsletter > Beijing
  January 21 - January 31, 2010
     
 

This Weekend

Hiking Changyucheng Village & Highest Wall
Saturday, Jan.23, 08:00-18:30

Come join our five to six hours of serious hiking onto Changyucheng Section of the Great Wall in Yanqing County and border to Hebei , which boasts to have one of Beijing' s highest Great Wall towers and fantastic views! >>> more
Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Sunday,Jan.24,16:00-22:00

Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. >>> more
Hands-on: Chinese papercutting
Saturday, Jan.23, 14:00-16:00

Take up scissors and learn to cut traditional folk patterns and decorations from CCC's folk artist, then use them to ornament your home ! >>> more
Hands-on: Chinese Grass Weave
Sunday, Jan.24, 14:00-16:00

The grass weave crafts include practical baskets, fruit boxes, mats and slippers, and handicrafts like little insects and animals and plants. Come and learn with CCC's artist to weave palm leaves into butterfly and cricket. >>> more

Over the next two weeks

Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Tuesday,Jan.26,16:00-22:00  Repeat: Jan 30 / Feb.6 / Feb.7

Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. >>> more
Hiking Around Lily & Flower Wood Villages
Saturday, Jan.30, 08:30-16:30

We will drive to Xiazhuang to walk along the path to chestnut orchards, and Lily’s village with a temple and a small market, and then climb the rocky hills till we arrive Flower Wood Village. >>> more
 The new development of Songzhuang Contemporary Artists Village Tour
Sunday, Jan.31, 09:00-16:00

Songzhuang Village is China's largest contemporary artist community. It is different with 798 Art Zone crowded with galleries. CCC makes appointments with a handful of artists who will allow you into their farmer's homes or rental studios. >>> more
Light Hiking around Glazed Roof Tile Village
Wednesday, Feb.3, 09:00-17:00

The so called "Glazed Roof Tile" Village used to have many imperial kilns in the entire village, providing golden tiles for the Forbidden City and royal buildings. Now the tradition is kept. Family kilns are still available and in use. >>> more
Day-trip: Taoist Temple & Silver Fox Cave
Saturday, Feb.6, 09:00-18:30

Visit a remote taoist temple and meet the taoist priests in the suburb of Beijing, do light hiking around the mountain and village, then head to the Silver Fox Cave, enjoy the spectacular sights in the karst cave with the unusual formations and stone flowers, and boating along the river. >>> more
Beijing Temple Fair Tour
Sunday, Feb.14, 09:00-16:00

If you've never visited temple fairs of Beijing, then you must experience this style carnival with the locals and feel the bustle and lively New Year atmosphere of Beijing >>> more
Beijing Temple Fair Tour
Monday, Feb.15, 09:00-16:00

If you've never visited temple fairs of Beijing, then you must experience this style carnival with the locals and feel the bustle and lively New Year atmosphere of Beijing >>> more
Celebrate Chinese New Year in a Village- unique of CCC
Tuesday, Feb.16, 09:00-16:00

CCC will organized an exclusive event to celebrate the Spring Festival in a village of the suburb Beijing. We will be welcomed with firecrackers and gaily bedecked, lively folk dancers, performers and crowds of hospitable, curious farmers. We will >>> more

 Some hands-on classes and courses

Talk/Hands-on: Spring Festival & Spring Couplets
Saturday, Jan.30, 14:30-16:30

Learn all about Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) - meanings, customs and traditional activities. And hear the meaning of chun lian (spring couplets)-- a must for every Chinese family during the Spring Festival! Then try your hand writing them. >>> more
Foot Reflexology Course
Mondays & Wednesdays, Feb.1-10, 15:00-17:00

4-session foot reflexology course will be instructed by licensed traditional Chinese physician therapist. English narration. Each class is small group with adequate practical exercises. >>> more

Out-of-Beijing Tours

Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Feb 6-7

Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar and Russian Restaurant! >>> more
Subtropical Hakka Round Buildings & City Xiamen
February 15-17

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 >>> more
Yunnan's Yuanyang (Hani Rice Terrace) & Tropical Xishuangbanna
Feb 15-20

Yuanyang, southeast of Yunnan, is renowned for its rice terraces crafted out by bare hands by the Hani people since one thousand years ago and even today, the world largest nature wonder. Luoping is famous for its blossoming of rapeseed flowers. >>> more
Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Feb 15-16

Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar and Russian Restaurant! >>> more
Sichuan's Fairyland Jiuzhaigou & Leshan Buddha
Feb 16-20

Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area and Huanglong Parklands are two famous World Natural Heritage sites. Jiuzhaigou offers spectacular landscapes with alpine features: crystal clear and serene lakes, snow-capped mountains, countless waterfalls and lush forests. >>> more
Tibetan Festival Tour From Qinghai To Gansu
Feb.25-Mar.02

Catch up the Tibetan New Year festival and the annual "sunning of the Buddha" ceremony in the Tibetan towns of Tongren in Qinghai and Xiahe in Gansu. You will be enchanted by the atmosphere & pilgrims and Tibetan monks in their saffron robes. >>> more
Nanjing's Plum Blossom Festival Tour
Feb.27-28

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 306 km (189 miles) NW of Shanghai. First the nation's capital in the early years of the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), then the capital of the Republic of China from 1911 to 1937, and now capital of Jiangsu Province >>> more
7 Days Yunnan: Dali, Lijiang & Shangri-La
March 23-29

Dreamland Yunnan is famed for its beautiful landscapes and colourful and diverse ethnic cultures. Enjoy the famous ancient town Dali and Lijiang, UNESCO's World Heritage Site, its surronding Jade Dragon Snow Mountains, then tour Tibetan inhabited Sha >>> more
Pastoral Kaiping and Picturesque Yangshuo & Guilin
April 2-6

Kaiping, 164km from the Macau border, is China at its most bucolic. Its old European style watchtowers are very unique residences. While Guilin & Yangshuo has China's most "Chinese" scenery, the limestone carst peaks are especially magnificent. >>> more

 

 
   
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Taichi (taijiquan) Course (19:30-21:00)
Chinese Landscape Painting Beginner's Course (19:00-21:00)
Ba Zi Destiny Analysis Course ( 10:00-12:30)
Calligraphy Beginner's Course (10:00-11:30)
Jan 21
Live Zen Practice & Meditation (19:30-21:30)
Chinese Bird-flower Painting Beginner's Course (10:00-12:00)
Jan 22
Jan 23
Hiking Changyucheng Village & Highest Wall ( 08:00-18:30)
Hands-on: Chinese papercutting ( 14:00-16:00)
Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour (16:00-22:00)
Jan 24
Ba Zi Destiny Analysis Course ( 10:00-12:30)
Taichi (taijiquan) Course (19:30-21:00)
Chinese Landscape Painting Beginner's Course (19:00-21:00)
Hands-on: Chinese Grass Weave ( 14:00-16:00)
Great Wall Mutianyu & Olympic Venues Tour (09:00-16:00)
Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour (16:00-22:00)
Jan 25
Calligraphy Beginner's Course (10:00-11:30)
Jan 26
Ba Zi Destiny Analysis Course ( 10:00-12:30)
Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour (16:00-22:00)
Jan 27
Chinese Bird-flower Painting Beginner's Course (10:00-12:00)
One Time Overview Instruction of Taichi ( 10:00-11:30)
Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace Tour (09:00-17:00)
Jan 28
Great Wall Mutianyu & Ming Tombs Tour ( 09:00-18:30)
Live Zen Practice & Meditation ( 19:30-21:30 )
Jan 29
Pedicab Hutong, Home Visit & Forbidden City ( 10:00-16:30)
Jan 30
Hiking Around Lily & Flower Wood Villages ( 08:30-16:30)
Talk/Hands-on: Spring Festival & Spring Couplets ( 14:30-16:30)
Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour (16:00-22:00)
Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo (Jan 30-31)
Jan 31
Songzhuang Contemporary Artists Village Tour ( 09:00-16:00)
Great Wall Mutianyu & Olympic Venues Tour (09:00-16:00)
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