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CCC e-Newsletter > Shanghai
April 26 - May 06, 2006 Editor: Feng Cheng
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Guilin and Yangshuo tour
(May 19-21)

Dear CCC Shanghai friends,

CCC wishes you a smooth and pleasant week
during the Chinese Labor Holiday !

Here is the update tours around China departing from Shanghai

Explore China - dpearting from Shanghai

April 29-May 5
7-day Yunnan and Tibet trips are fully booked

Fri.night-Sun.evening, May 6-7
Pingyao--Raise the red lantern
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


May 13-14

Sichuan Panda Natural Reserve
Tour (May 25/27-28)


Datong Trip (Grottoes & Hanging Monastery)
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


May 13-14
Underwater Great Wall, Pass and Castle
CCC is going to explore two of them in Hebei.The Great Wall at the Green Mountain Pass, suburb of Tangshan (4 hours' drive) is still known to few people, both locals and foreigners alike. Thus it is not spoiled by tourists at all. The village nestled


May 19-21

Karakuri Lake and Mount Muztagata
part of the Silk Road tour (June 8-13)
 


3-day Trip to Guilin and Yangshuo
Guilin is one of top ten destinations for both local Chinese and foreigners. Guilin has China's most "Chinese" scenery. The limestone carst peaks along the Li River are especially magnificent.Guilin to Yangshuo Cruise along the 83-kilometer (51-mile)


Fri.even.-Sun, May 19-21
Mount. Taishan & Confucius Hometown Qufu
This is a weekend trip to three places, two of them are UNSECO-listed World Heritage site: Mount.Taishan and Qufu, Confucius Hometown, where there are Confucius Temple, Confucius Residence, and Confucius Family Cemetery.


Thurs./Sat.- Sun., May 25/27-28
Sichuan Pandas and Leshan Giant Buddha
Visit the Panda conservatory at Wolong Natural Reserve, taking photos with the giant Pandas; then walk along Min River to see Dujiangyan Irrigation System and old temples and palaces; drive to tour the famous Le Shan Big Buddha, world's largest Buddh

Hakka Earthen Round Houses
The Hakka village is just beautiful !



May 27-28
Shaolin Temple & Luoyang 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


June 3-4
Ancient Xi'an Town (Terracotta Warriors)
Take weekend trip to visit the famous Terracotta Warrior Site; walk on the ancient walled City, Shaanxi Museum; Great Mosque and Muslim Street; Wild Goose Pagoda, etc.


June 3-4
Qinghai Lake & Bird Island
It is the largest salt water lake in China, and rank No.1 of the top ten best lakes in China -- large, high, salty, and stunningly blue. Yellow reep blossom will be all over the region. Over 100,000 birds migrate from the Indian Ocean feed on spawn

Mount. Lushan, UNESCO listed
World heritage site, is an ideal
summer retreat in China (May 17-18).



June 8-13
6-Day Silk Road Trip
CCC will organize a 6-day trip to trace the Silk Road Route, starting from Dunhuang Grottoes through Turpan to Kashgar and Karakuri Lake and Snow Mountains.


Sat.-Tues., June 10-13
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


June 14-15
Underwater Great Wall, Pass and Castle
CCC is going to explore two of them in Hebei.The Great Wall at the Green Mountain Pass, suburb of Tangshan (4 hours' drive) is still known to few people, both locals and foreigners alike. Thus it is not spoiled by tourists at all. The village nestled


June 17-18
Weekend Trip: Lushan National Park

Hulun Buir, the most beautiful
granssland in inner Mongolia
 


Mount. Lushan one of the favourite mountains of Mao and Li Bai (most famous Tang Poet), After 1949, it became famous as a favoured meeting place for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Listed by UNESCO as world Heritage site in 199


June 17-18
Hulun Buir Grasslands (Inner Mongolia)
The most beautiful grassland in inner Mongolia near the border with Russia ! Located just outside the remote border town of Manzhouli, the Hulun Buir's grasslands(Inner Mongolia) are the most pristine in China. This expanse of gentle emerald hills, perfectly punctuated with small streams and rocky outcrops, is all the more at

 
     

  CCC Calendar  
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Apr 26
Apr 27
Apr 28
Apr 29
6 or 7-day trip to Tibet (April 29-May 4 or 5)
7-day Yunnan Trip (April 29-May 5)
Underwater Great Wall, Pass and Castle (April 29-30)
Apr 30
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
Pingyao--Raise the red lantern (May 5 even.-7 even.)
May 6

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