Hiking along Great Wall Simatai and Jinshanling
Saturday, March.13, 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

Songzhuang Contemporary Artists Village Tour
Sunday, March.14, 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

Backstreet Beijing Walk - Mosque & Muslim Quarters
Tuesday, March.16, 10:00-13:00

This CCC walk will head you to Niujie (Ox Street), a largely Muslim community in Beijing's Xuanwu District. This walk will give you a feel for the unique Muslim quarter with old Beijing hutong atmosphere. >>> more

Hiking Around the Lily & Flower Wood Villages
Saturday, March.20, 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

Backstreet Beijing Walk - Xinjiekou & Huguosi
Sunday, March.21, 13:30-17:00

This walk provides an good opportunity to learn the hutong and local life of Xinjiekou area, including coal workshops, a bonsai museum, a museum for a famous artist and famous opera master's courtyard, and walk around West Lake bank. >>> more

Light Hiking: Shentangyu Natural Park and Great Wall
Wednesday, March.23, 09:00-17:30

Join our CCC Ambler's hiking tour to a scenic natural park and remote section of the Great Wall two hours outside of Beijing. CCC's Amblers Tours are CCC's signature hiking tour series for the leisurely, moderate hiker. >>> more

Beijing Amblers: Wise Water Village
Saturday, March 27, 09:00-18:00

The Wise Water Village south of Beijing has longer history than the Ming Village (Chuan Di Xia) and has never been open as a tourist spot. Go with CCC to visit the village to see old wretched temples, houses, trees, and visit some local families. >>> more

Eunuch Tombs, Mural and Temple Tour
Sunday, March.28, 09:00-15:00

CCC takes you to explore two obscure and fascinating sites in the west suburb Beijing, the Eunuch temple with well-preserved 565 year-old mural by Ming court artists and largest eunuch graveyard with memorial and museum - obscure and pristine >>> more

Live Zen - Practice & Meditation
Every Thursdays, 19:30-21:30

Join us each week for an insight into the teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism. We'll be guided on our journey of self-discovery by a Buddhist layman and learn about Zen through its music, its stories, its art, its rituals & martial arts. >>> more

Hands-on: Chinese papercutting -- Celebrate the year of Tiger
Saturday, Mar.13, 10:00-12:00

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 Applique (Buduihua)
Tuesday, March 16, 14:00-16:30

Traditional Chinese Applique(Buduihua), is made of rags with different colors cut, pasted, and embroidered with exquisite patterns. It is most popular in northern of Shaanxi, China. Come and stitch multi-colored fabrics into a nice Chinese picture. >>> more

Hands-on: Chinese papercutting
Thursday, Mar.18, 10:00-12:00

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

Cookery: Floral Bread
Saturday, Mar.20, 10:00-12:00

Learn to make steamed breads with colorful flour decorations, which is very popular in yellow plateau area of Shaanxi. The decorations vary from animals, flowers to traditional symbols of Shaanxi, and the breads are more made during the Spring Festiv >>> more

Hands-on: Make Traditional kites
Saturday, March.20, 14:00-17:00

Learn to make traditional Chinese kites with a famous kite master Mr. Zhang. Various types of kites will be explained and appreciated, and then you have a chance to try your hand at one special Beijing style of "sand swallow", and painting >>> more

Peking Opera Workshop
Sunday, Mar.21, 14:00-16:00

CCC will invite professional actors of Peking Opera to introduce you to the history, complexity and subtleties of this famous art form. Selected parts from Peking Operas will be performed to explain movements and gestures and voice adaption. >>> more

Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Longmen Grottos
March 19 eve.-21

Take a weekend trip to Luoyang to visit the Longmen Grottoes, one of 3 most famous Buddhist grottoes in China and Shaolin Monastery, the birthplace of both kung fu and Zen Buddhism. >>> more

Chengde Imperial Mountain Resort
March 20-21

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

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

Yangtze & Grand Canal Cities: Nanjing, Yangzhou and Wuxi
March 26-28

Explore with CCC the historical and cultural cities at the junction of the Yangtze and the Grand Canal - Yangzhou, Wuxi and Yixing, where so many notable artists, musicians and scholars were born; then Nanjing, once capital of six Dynasties. >>> more

Datong (Grottoes) & Pingyao Trip
March 26-28

CCC guides you to see two UNESCO World Heritage sites both in Shanxi Province-the second-largest of the nearly 51,000 sandstone statues of Buddha in 53 Yungang grottoes and Pinyao ancient town... >>> 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

Southern Water Towns: Suzhou, Wuzhen, Hangzhou
April 2 eve.-5

Chinese ancient Water Towns in South China are well known for their ancient houses, bridges and the rivers running through them. Explore with CCC Hangzhou and Suzhou, and one peaceful ancient town Wuzhen. >>> more

Ancient City Xi An (Terracotta Army)
April 3 eve.-5

Take 2 days trip to visit the famous Terracotta Warrior Site; Ancient City Wall, Shaanxi Museum; Great Mosque and Muslim Street; Wild Goose Pagoda, etc. >>> more

Maijishan Grottoes & Famen Temple
April 3-5

Maijishan Grottoes in Gansu remains 194 caves, 7200 sculpture, 1000 square M fresco which are excavated on the cliff. Famen Temple, northwest of Xian, in keeps China's only Buddha Sarira, or the finger bone relic of Buddhism founder Sakyamuni. >>> more

Hunan Zhangjiajie & Wulingyuan and Phoenix Town (Feng Huang)
April 3-7

This trip offers two distinct sides of Hunan Province--the beautiful landscape in the nature reservation of Zhangjiajie, the clear waters of Mengdong River; and the traditional town of Phoenix Town with minorities and Huoluping Miao village >>> more

The Long March's Terminus Yan'an & Yellow Earth
April 3-5

Yan'an is famed as the terminus of the long march and the de facto capital of the Chinese Communists.The appeal of this part is its very austerity -- the cave dwellings, the dry terraced hills, and the yellow loess that covers it all. >>> more

Sichuan Panda Natural Reserve & Leshan Buddha
April 3-5

Visit the Panda center at Ya'an Natural Reserve, taking photos with the giant Pandas or even holding a panda; visit the famous Le Shan Giant Buddha, world's largest Buddha statue in the World >>> more

Yellow Mountain & Ancient Anhui Villages
April 3 eve.-5

Explore two UNESCO-listed sites with CCC: Yellow Mountains, the loveliest mountain of China', and Hongcun, an ancient Anhui Village with unique architecture and decoration (shooting site for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) >>> more