While today was mainly a travel day, we did manage to see a couple of interesting things and also learn a bit more Chinese history.
Th...
Day 5 - Beijing - Silk Rugs, Great Wall II, Olympic City
First stop today was a silk rug factory where we saw three styles of 100% silk rugs--those woven tight, tighter and extremely tight. Even a 12"x12" square was over $200, and the best ones were over $6000. Unlike Madeline Albright, Maggie Thatcher, and...
Day 4 - Beijing - Tiananmen Sq, Forbidden City , and more
There is no rest for the weary on this trip--well not quite. After 4 hours of walking in the morning, we had an incredible foot massage. More later...
Tiananmen Square is the large, 108 acre are...
Day 3 - Beijing - Temple of Heaven, the Hutongs, and Peking Duck
After spending the past two days pretty much on our own, today marked the actual start of our formal tour through Uniworld. The first big surprise was that the tour group only consists of a total of 8 people (we had expected anywhere from 30-60), so i...
Day 2 - Beijing - Exploring the city
We are finally catching up and feel like we are on our new time schedule--yay! After breakfast, we took a cab to the 798 Art District--a unique area of about 16 square blocks with lots of alleyways consisting of pretty high quality art galleries, muse...
Day 1 - Beijing - Mutianyu and the Summer Palace
We arrived in Beijing at about 9 pm on Friday night after an extremely pampered and relatively easy day of travelling. All that hard work saving up frequent flyer miles paid off as our first class seats on American were extremely comfortable. By 11 ...
2015 Uniworld China Trip Info (PDF)
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Our 2015 China Itinerary
BEIJING
June 25 Thu - depart Boston
June 26 Fri - arrive Beijing, get to Conrad Beijing Hotel (late evening)
June 27 Sat - private tour of Great Wall at Mutianyu and Summer Palace
June 28 Sun - free time in ...
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