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November 02 - November 15, 2008
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Dear CCC Friends:
We are entering a good time of year to eat seasonal food favorites among the Chinese people, particularly the hairy crab and scallops steamed in their shells with either garlic and thin rice noodles placed inside the shell (northern cuisine style) or with shredded white turnip (southern cuisine style).
The steaming process allows the juices of the scallop to infuse with the noodles or shredded turnip and the flavors of the vegetables in turn flavor the scallop meat. You will find many Chinese enjoying these popular favorites this time of year in local restaurants and in markets around China. So, give it a try and open up those scallop shells and hairy crab Chinese favorites!
It is also the ripe time for persimmon and go to the outskirt of the city to enjoy the ripe persimmon trees along these countryside treks.
Upcoming China Tours departing from Shanghai
 Ancient City Xi An (Terracotta Warriors)
Nov.7 eve.-9
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 |
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Shaolin Temple & Luoyang Longmen Grottos
Nov.7 eve.-9
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 |
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Pastoral Township Kaiping & Gothic Watchtowers
Nov.14 eve.-16
Kaiping, 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 >>> more |
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Hakka Earthen Round Buildings
Nov.21-23
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 |
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Datong Trip (Grottoes & Hanging Monastery)
Nov.21 eve-23
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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Pingyao--Raise the red lanterns
Dec 5 eve.-7
Listed as UNESCO Heritage Site, this exotic ancient city and city walls bring you back to the history and the atmosphere and environment like the Europeans back to the Middle Age Europe, and the awesome walls and carvings of the Wang Family Residence >>> more |
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6 Days Yunnan: Xishuangbanna & Lijiang
Dec.25-30
The 6-day Yunnan tour will explore the subtropical Xishuangbanna (known for various ethnic minority peoples and villages) in the south of Yunnan and Lijiang Ancient Town in the north, and its surrounding Jade Snow Mountain & Tiger Leaping Gorge >>> more |
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Hakka Earthen Round Buildings
Dec.26-28
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 |
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Ancient City Xi An (Terracotta Warriors)
Dec 25 eve.-27
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 |
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Yunnan's Yuanyang (Hani Rice Terrace), Jianshui & Luoping
Dec.26-29
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 |
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Harbin--Snow World
Dec 31 eve.-Jan 2
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 |
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