Chinese Exchange Trip Destination Info

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Chinese Trip Schedule (2005)

Day 1 (5/23/Mon.)

• From RDU USA to Shanghai China

• Take NW flight  

Day 2 (5/24/Tue.)

• Arrive at Shanghai, check-in hotel and get rest

• Stay at New Century Hotel.

Day 3 (5/25/Wed.)

Shanghai

• Shanghai is the largest city and the country’s most important commercial center, which is known as ‘the Paris of the East’. We will spend a day to visit: the famous waterfront promenade along the Huang-Pu River, traditional Chinese garden: Yu-Yuan Garden, and the Temple of the Jade Buddha. (The Jade Buddha Temple is one of the main tourist highlights of Shanghai and it's also one of the best-conserved temples in China. The jade Buddha is in a separate room with two guards. Photography is strictly forbidden in this room.) We also will go to visit Chinese traditional night market that day.

• Stay at New Century Hotel

Day 4 (5/26/Thur.)

Shanghai/Zhou-Zhuang/Su-Zhou/Wu-Xi/Nanjing

• People know zhou-Zhuang as ‘the Venice of the East’.  We will all ride sampans to travel among lanes of this city and try some very unique dishes. Later we will visit Lion Garden in Su zhou. Lion Garden is one of the most famous 4 traditional Chinese gardens. Then we will visit the Three Kingdoms Garden in Wu-Xi, and our destination of today is Nanjing.

• Nanjing is the capital of Jiang-Su Province and was the capital of Republic of China before Communism took over China in 1949.

• Stay at Howard Johnson Mandarin Garden

Day 5 (5/27/Fri.)

Nan-Jing

• During the day, we will visit very famous Bridge of Yang-Zi River, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen’s Mausoleum, and museum of the Massacre of Nanjing.

• Dr. Sun Yat-Sen established the first democracy China, Republic of China in 1912, which is also the first democracy country in Asia, who’s known as the Founding Father of China.

• There is another important history role of Nanjing in WWII. The massacre took place within a few weeks after Japanese took over Nanjing in December 13, 1937. An estimated 260,000-350,000 civilians were killed during that time. That’s more than the loss of civilians in Great Britain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. We will also go to visit the museum of the Massacre of Nanjing.

• Stay at Howard Johnson Mandarin Garden

Day 6 (5/28/Sat.)

Nanjing/Xi-An

• Fly from Nanjing to Xi-An.

• Xi-An boasts one of the world’s great archeological treasures. The partially excavated mausoleum of the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang (259-210 B.C.), who unified China’s divided territories into one nation. We will visit Stone Tablet Museum after we arrive Xi-An, and Small Goose Pagoda.

• Stay at Jianguo Hotel Xian

Day 7 (5/29/Sun.)

Xian

• Today, we will see thousands of life-size terra cotta soldiers and their horses, chariots, and weapon, standing in formation – the Imperial guard ready for battle.         And we also will go to visit the first Islam temple in China.

• Stay at Jianguo Hotel Xian

Day 8 (5/30/Mon.)

Xi-An/Zhong-Zhou

Take train from Xi-An to Zheng-Zhou.

Zheng-Zhou is a capital city of Shang Dynasty, the first written dynasty in Chinese history, in He-Nan province, where is the region of Yellow River and the birth place Chinese culture.

Stay at Jianguo Feng Le Yuan Hotel

Day 9 (5/31/Tue.) to Day 13 (6/4/Sat.)

• Students will stay with their Chinese host families.

• 5/31 Arrive at school in the morning, have campus tour, visit different. They will go home with host students and have lunch until 2:30 P.M. The school will hold a welcome party at night.

• 6/1 Chinese History, Chinese Geography, and PE in the morning. During afternoon will visit He-Nan Province Museum.

• 6/2 Visit Shao-Lin Temple.

• 6/3 Visit Kei-Feng city and a famous traditional Chinese Garden. School will hold another gathering discussion/meeting/party at night.

• 6/4 Students will have free individual ctivities with host families.

• And be back to hotel on 6/4 (Jianguo Feng Le Yuan Hotel)

Day 14 (6/5/Sun.)

• Take train from Xian to Beijing.

• After we arrive at Beijing will check in hotel first, and students will get their luggage for the night and following nights with host student of our sister school in Beijing. Then we will go to our sister school to have dinner and welcome party there with teachers, host students, and their families. Students will go home with their Chinese friends.

• Teachers will stay at Jade Palace Hotel

Day 15 (6/6/Mon.)

• Students will stay with their Chinese host families and have tour in Beijing City themselves.

Day 16 (6/7/Tue.)

Beijing

• Student will return to hotel by 9:30 A.M. then we will go to visit Forbidden City. Forbidden City is a huge complex of places, pavilions, court yards and gardens, which was off-limits of commoners for 500 years. Summer Palace is a royal park very close to Forbidden City, where for emperor to spend hot summer. After lunch we will go to NCR. At night, watch famous Acrobat performance.

• Stay at Jade Palace Hotel

Day17 (6/8/Wed.)

Beijing

• Go to climb Great Wall will be the high light of today. Great Wall is an extraordinary 4000-mile long fortification built to thwart the barbarian invasions. A walk along the enormous undulating towered and turreted wall is spectacular. And we also will visit Ming Tomb.

• Students who participates NCR summer internship will leave hotel at night.

• Stay at Jade Palace Hotel        

Day 18 (6/9/Thur.)

• Fly from Beijing back to America. 

Day 19 (6/9/Thur.)

• Arrive at Raleigh.