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July 24, 2015 Epilogue - Wendy’s Reflections on our China Trip We’ve been home a week, and not a day goes by where I haven’t read a huge article in the paper about China—the economy (bad), their stock market July 16, 2015 Day 19 -  traveling home through Tokyo Although we are not looking forward to more than 16 hours of traveling, several interesting things happened on our way home. Hong Kong airport is July 15, 2015 Day 18 - Hong Kong - Victoria Peak, Stanley Market, and HK at Night Unbelievably, this is our last day in China. The buffet breakfast was the best here of all the Shangri-Las we stayed at. It is going to be hard to July 14, 2015 Day 17 - Guilin to Hong Kong - Tea Institute, Hong Kong at Night We started off the morning not too early driving through Guilin to the governments Tea Research Institue where they grow tea, showed us how it is July 13, 2015 Day 13 - On the Yangze - Shennv Stream Our only excursion today started nice and early, at 7:45. Walked through several ships and docks (they all park next to either on the docks so often July 13, 2015 Day 16 - Guilin - sailing the Li river, rural life in China Guilin reminded us the most of Taiwan when we lived there. Just seeing the town, the many storefronts with wares, big bags of rice, people July 11, 2015 Day 14- On the Yangtze - Shibaozhai Pagoda, heavy bargaining We were out again, bright and early to walk to the Shibaozhai Pagoda, a well-known attraction that is a 12-tier wooden pavilion about 400 years old July 11, 2015 Day 15- Disembarkation, Airport hassles and Guilin Disembarkation was amazingly slow. The boat pulled up to a floating dock, inch by slow inch, and finally the ropes were thrown out. That took about July 9, 2015 Day 12 - On the Yangtze - the Three Gorges Dam Relaxing on our cruise this morning, we had a lesiurely breakfast, and then went to a lecture on Chinese traditional medicine. Dr. “Tony” onboard is July 8, 2015 Day 11 - Shanghai to Yichang and our cruise begins After a little extra time this morning to pack and have our last delicious breakfast at the Waldorf- Astoria, we started our journey towards Yichang July 7, 2015 Day 10 - Shanghai We are in love with our hotel (see yesterday’s post), and the food is wonderful. Breakfasts are luxurious (high quality tea and coffee), beautifully July 5, 2015 Day 8 - Xi’an to Suzhou - Chinese Gardens Today was primarily a travel day but finished with some beauty and tranquility. We flew from Xi’an to Shanghai and from the airport in Shanghai were July 5, 2015 Day 9 - Suzhou to Shanghai - Silk and Sampans There was a lot of bus riding today with several stops along the way to Shanghai. Suzhou is known for four things as we wrote yesterday–beautiful July 4, 2015 Day 7 - Xi’an - Terracotta Warriors and Dumplings Finally, the eighth wonder of the world–the Terracotta Warriors! Although we’ve seen pictures, getting up close and seeing the vast archaeological July 3, 2015 Day 6 - Beijing to Xi’an - the Tang Dynasty 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. The flight from July 2, 2015 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” June 30, 2015 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… June 29, 2015 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 June 28, 2015 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 June 27, 2015 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 June 20, 2015 2015 Uniworld China Trip Info (PDF) Trip details: 14-PAS-049-China-CC.pdf #published #evernote June 19, 2015 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