This is the 8 January 2002 Edition of
this page, was produced BEFORE the trip and was subject to modifications.
CHINA inc YANGTZE
Sept 2001
Day Activities Accommdn
1 Travel to London Heathrow
Fri Heathrow checkin 14.30
7 Sept Dep on BA to Beijing 16.30 Aircraft
2 Sat Arr Beijing 09.30
8 Sept Transfer to Hotel Harbour Plaza
Tiananmen Square Hotel
3 Sun Forbidden City Visit
9 Sept Jingshan Park for view
BEIJING Drum Tower at Beihai
.. rickshaws to 'butongs' Ditto
Houhai Lake (eve cruise)
.. with music
4 Mon Drive to Mutianyu part
BEIJING .. of GREAT WALL Ditto
10 Sept Temple of Heaven
eve Duck Feast
5 Tues Summer Palace visit
11 Sept Kunming Lake
WUHAN (aft) Fly to Wuhan. Asia Hotel
Transfer to Hotel
6 Wed Yellow Crane Tower
12 Sept Yangtze River Bridge
WUHAN/ Hubei Prov Museum
YANGTZE .. and music
CRUISE Evening transfer to CRUISER Regal Cruiser
.. goes upstream to Chongqing
7 Thurs Arr Yueyang on
13 Sept .. Donging Lake
YANGTZE Cishi Pagoda
CRUISE Qizi & Wen Temples Ditto
8 Fri Enter First Gorge
14 Sept ..Xiling Xia via Yichang
YANGTZE Gezhouba Dam
Three Gorges Dam
.. construction site!! Ditto
9 Sat Small Craft excursion
15 Sept .. Three Gorges
YANGTZE Later to Wu Xia
Evng through shortest/narrowest
..Qutang Xia Ditto
10 Sun Anchor at Wanxian or Fengdu
16 Sept Wanxian rattan & cane market
YANGTZE Fengdu's 700 Temples
.. on Mingshan Hill Ditto
.. bizarre statuarry
11 Mon Disembark at Chongqing
17 Sept Tour of Old Town
XIAN Fly to Xian in evng Jiango Hotel
Transfer to Jiango Hotel XIAN
12 Tues Visit TERRACOTTA Warriors
18 Sept After lunch to Wild Goose Pagoda
XIAN Then Grand Mosque and
.. Muslim Quarter
Dumpling Banquet as Farewell Ditto
13 Wed Leave Xian with Ceremony
19 Sept Late morng flight to Hong Kong
Xian/Hong Kong Transfer to Regal Kowloon Hotel Regal Kowloon Hotel
14 Thurs Leisure and sight-seeing
20 Sept Ditto
Hong Kong
15 Fri Free Day
21 Sept Transfer evng to airport
Hong Kong/London BA flight around 23.15hrs On BA flight
16 Sat Arr Heathrow about 06.20hrs
22 Sept Nat Express Coach to Malvern Home
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