China Active and outdoor Trips

China Highlights was an amazing trip, I enjoyed it from the begining to the end. I am very happy with this trip, Olly, out tour leader, was great and very helpfull, he took care lf all of us. Thank you for a wonderfull trip.

The basic itinerary of the trip is excellent but exhausting in its current format. Be prepared for flights that get you to your hotel at 3am and a very basic overnight train. If the overnight train was replaced with the fast bullet train it would make the world of difference. Despite this there were plenty of highlights. The Li river was a highlight as was the cycling and rafting in Yangshuo. It was wonderful to experience some countryside as well as the big cities. Of course the Terra-cotta warriors, Tiananmen Square and walking the Great Wall were fantastic. And the light show and the best acrobatic show I have ever seen. We had a wonderful guide, Frank, who took us for some fantastic meals and got us to all the sights before the crowds. It was a fantastic trip with a great group of people but I would urge Explore! to tweak the itinerary to make the trip less exhausting.

We had a great time on the China Highlights trip. Frank the Explore leader was excellent. The Itinerary is a little rushed with one really incovinant internal flight. The Hotel in Hong Kong is too far out like visiting London and staying in Uxbridge, and the Hotel in Yangshuo is well below the standard expected (dirty)

A full-on tour including a bullet train, sleeper train, river cruise, internal flight, chairlift, optional cycling/ river show and acrobat show, with visits (and plenty of walking) to the Terracotta Warriors, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. An extra day would have been helpful but nevertheless a very enjoyable tour.

I went on this cruise tour at the beginning of August and want to express my great impression it made on me. As for the boat and its staff, they were high-class, not to mention the experiences I lived along the route down the Yangtze river. Very appreciated the visit to the Fengdu ghost city as well as the excursion to one of the Yangtze's tributary on smaller vessels. While the final visit to the spectacular and breath-taking Three Gorges Dam was the worthy crowning of the entire cruise.