Dear CCC friends in Shanghai,

The year of the Rabbit is almost at an end and the year of the Dragon is almost upon us.

For those of you are heading to Beijing for the Chinese New Year, make the most of this opportunity by joining some of the local celebrations as listed below. Places are limited on both of the above tours so please register soon.

Our office will be closed from Saturday 21 th Feb and will re-open on Sunday 29 th, Jan.  Until then we wish all our CCC friends, Gong Xi Fai Cai!

Spring Festival and Lantern Festival Programmes in Beijing !

Beijing Temple Fair Tour
Monday, Jan.23, 09:30-16:00

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

 Celebrating Chinese New Year in a Village near Beijing!
Wednesday, Jan.25, 09:00-16:00

CCC will organized an exclusive event to celebrate the Spring Festival in a village of the suburb Beijing. You will see happy revelers giving painted-face performances and walking on stilts, gay clowns, even paper donkeys, funny-looking ladies smoking tobacco pipes, and puppet shows. Then you will have lunch in local villagers' home. In the afternoon you will be rewarded by a performance of a troupe of old Beijing street entertainers, which can rarely be seen elsewhere. >>> more

 Joining Yu County's Lantern Festival - Molten Iron Fireworks
Feb.04-05

The hundred-year old Yu County is a fortress-like township, famous for its paper-cutting, and throwing Molten Metals as fireworks during the Lantern Festival. The molten metals are thrown up in the air and onto the wall, creating magic firework effect >>> more

Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Saturday,Feb.04,16:00-22:00
Sunday,Feb.05,16:00-22:00
Saturday,Feb.11,16:00-22:00
Saturday,Feb.12,16:00-22:00

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. Performances and toboggan add to its fun. >>> more

 Out-of-Town Tours departing from Shanghai

Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Feb 3 eve.-5 / Feb 10 eve.-12

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. >>> more

Subtropical Hakka Round Buildings & City Xiamen
Feb 17-19

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

Explore Guangzhou, Foshan and Pastoral Kaiping
March 2-4

Kaiping, 164km from the Macau border, is China at its most bucolic. Its old European style watchtowers are very unique residences. While Guangzhou and Foshan in the Pearl River Delta Region feature Cantonese culture, custom and cuisine. >>> more

Myanmar - An Age-old Asian land Stuck In Time
March 6-11

As Southeast Asia modernizes rapidly，Myanmar remains the last country in the region preserved in amber. Men still wear sarong-like lungis rather than pants, and traditional rituals like the novice ceremony still hold up traffic. >>> more