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Name:Joel Bleicher 2008-7-12 1:59:19 From: Pretoria, South Africa |
| Thanks you for booking such a lovely trip to China. Everything went smoothly, with good hotels, good food, good guides and drivers. Your team did a great job. I need one thing. Please provide me with the airline ticket numbers (16 digit), booking class, and seat numbers for two of my children. Again here are my many thanks and best wishes.
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Name:Liz Dunbar 2008-5-16 9:22:21 From: Fredericton, Canada |
| The terraced villages outside of Guilin and the Terra cotta warriors are the most memorable attractions. We loved all 3 of our tour guides. April was kind, generous, and friendly. Lily was very outgoing with a great sense of humor. Lemon was resourceful and very intelligent. All 3 had an excellent command of the language and were able to tell us a great deal of the history and of current events in their city as well as in China as a whole. We liked all the hotels. We already have recommended you. The terraced villages outside of Guilin were fantastic. We wish that we had had more time to go into the countryside surrounding Yangshuo. We loved riding bikes on the city wall at Xi'an. |
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Name:Pablo Komorowsky 2008-5-7 2:56:47 From: Bath, UK |
| Thank you for all the arrangements you made for our tour in China, it all went very well but for one place. All the hotels were very good - both in their quality as well for location. The only exception was the hotel in Guilin, it was definitely not of the same category as the other hotels. A resort hotel, built in more then one level should have an elevator - this one does not have and the rooms are far from the category of the other hotels we stayed in during the rest of the tour. |
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Name:Susan Laws 2008-4-26 4:19:07 From: Liverpool, UK |
| Your company was the first company I have ever used that offered travel packages that cater to small groups and in my case for ONE person and I can not tell you how GREAT that was for me. I've been traveling around the world on my own lately but I was afraid to tackle China by myself and if I had not seen your website I still may not have made it to China. You really put together the BEST itinerary for me to see the most of China in two weeks. ALL the travel arrangements, flights, hotels, meals, etc. were GREAT. (And the fact that - I - didn't have to make the arrangements myself was a major plus) I could not have asked for anything else. ALL your travel guides were Intelligent, Professional, and knowledgeable and believe me when I say they define: Customer Service!!!! And I have to tell you Michael, I was soooooooo thankful that you assigned Jeff to be the FIRST person I met in China. |
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Name:Alan Becker 2008-4-9 11:54:12 From: Coquitlam, Canada |
| We visited Hangzhou and Suzhou and Tongli, one of the water towns. I think Hangzhou is a great, if long, day. Take the train from Shanghai South station and then take a taxi out to West Lake. We then hired funny bouncy bikes and rode around the lake (not right around - too far!). Worked up an appetite and had late lunch in a restaurant by the lake called Louwailou restaurant (founded 1838). That was great. Then taxi back to the station and train back to Shanghai. |
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Name:Sal Buckler 2008-3-25 21:26:57 From: Wichita Falls, USA |
| “This archetypal Tibetan village is located 7km from Danba by a narrow but sealed mountain road. The name ‘jiaju’ means ‘one hundred families’ in Tibetan. The tiered village extends to the base of the sacred Yaxiao Mountain. An information board at the entrance to the village informed us that the ‘elegant white Tibetan houses embellish in forest on the hill which scattered all over like stars in the sky.’ It continued, ‘the green trees and Tibetan houses and terraced fields form a beautiful picture feeling like heaven on earth’. The houses indeed were dotted on the hillside scattered amongst corn fields. At this altitude and distance from the large cities, we had escaped the pollution to reveal a sky that is as pristine and blue as we’re accustomed to in Australia.” |
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Name:Emilia Ferraro 2008-3-17 7:47:56 From: Daly City, USA |
| “It was drizzling and cool. Mountains towered over us and the Tibetan influence on the landscape was evident - Buddhist stupas, prayer wheels and the architecture of the homes. Following this we returned to the tour bus and journeyed along the Wuzi River, the sides of which comprised high rocky walls studded with Tibetan homes.” |
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Name:Ralph A. Drees 2008-3-3 17:12:57 From: Queenstown, New Zealand |
| We flew in over Beijing at around 9:30pm on New Year's Eve and the view was astounding. As far as we could see there were fireworks exploding EVERYWHERE! We were able to watch the festivities from the balcony at our hostel once we arrived. At midnight there were fireworks exploding every couple hundred feet on every block everywhere in Beijing. By fireworks we don't mean bottle rockets, we mean the giant exploding flowers and mortars they use in the professional shows in the US. Here, everybody can buy those same fireworks from the street vendors. It was absolutely amazing! |
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Name:Robert A. Barton 2008-2-29 10:44:10 From: Los Angeles, USA |
| We started our ride around the new, amazing National Theater building. We circled it and admired its egglike profile. It looks like a huge button, or a shiny smooth humbao. Then we made our way back towards Tienmen square and once again rode slowly and with confidence in an even larger bikelane, designed to hold thousands of cyclists at once. We passed the two biggest sights in modern day communism, Tienmen Square and Mao’s huge portrait. They seemed jovial and fun from the back of a bike made for cruising. Mao seemed to be grinning his approval at us as we passed.
We rode back through the narrow lanes of more hutongs, admiring the familial energy emanating from open doorways and smells of cooking dinner sizzling through dark, noisy little windows. The setting sun cast the grey allys with golden light. The trees above were filled with birdsong and rustling breeze. We realized, somewhere on the ride back, that we might actually come to love Beijing”
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Name:Darryl Martin 2008-2-7 5:16:06 From: Clark County, USA |
| “We felt like royalty in a city built for bikes, the People's transport”
“In the afternoon we enjoyed the amazing weather (it had rained mysteriously heavily the entire day and night before) by renting bikes and rolling with ease through ancient hutongs (the famous ‘narrow alley’ neighborhoods in Beijing) and around landmark towers, past sparkling lakes and bustling lakefront markets. We cruised through crowded backstreets and on the wide open bike lanes of Beijing’s main streets. We rode by the moats of the Forbidden City and under the overhanging branches of the surrounding tree lined streets…
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