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Historic China The Ancient City of Beijing - Nursing Study Tour
Your chance to join a CPC Nursing study tour and visit: Historic China The Ancient City of Beijing
See the most important sites in China. Visit the The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, The Ming Tombs, The Temple of Heaven, Tiananman Square, Lama Temple. See the the heart of Chinese civilization
as it was and as it is now. Fantastic shopping opportunities.
Price of Tour: $2585
From San Francisco Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose And Most Other California Cities
Date of Tour: July 7 - 15, 2010
HERE'S WHAT'S INCLUDED
• Scheduled Air Transportation Via United Airlines
• Meetings With Nurses
• Hospital Visits
• Daily Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
• Tour Director and Local Guides For Entire Program
• Five Star Hotel
• Full Sightseeing Program
• Peking Duck Dinner Banquet
• Theater Performances
• Special Visit To The Countryside
• Fascinating Tri-Cycle Tour Of “Hutong” (Old Beijings Narrow Alleyways )
• Special visit to a rural village
View our July 16th complete Historic China's Study Tour Itinerary .:
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Accreditation For Registered Nurses
This continuing education activity has been approved for 19 contact hours by the New York State Nurses Association's Council on Accreditation, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The Approval Code: 7W7H5M-09. In addition, CPC is a licensed continuing education provider in the state of California as certified by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 14671.
This education program is under the supervision of:
Mary S. Collins, PhD, RN,FAAN
Director, Nursing Education
Office of Nursing Education
Corporation For Professional Conferences, Inc.
Babylon, NY 11702
Reciprocity Agreements For Continuing Nursing Education Activity
Most states have reciprocity agreements with California or New York and recognize the approval by the American Nurses Credentialling Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Your Complete Itinerary
Day 1. We depart San Francisco for Beijing via United Airlines. (United Airlines has connecting flights from most U.S. cities.)
We depart San Francisco for Beijing via our United Airlines non stop flight. Full meal service will be provided aloft.
Day 2. (D)?We arrive in Beijing Five Star International Hotel.
We arrive in Beijing, are met by our local guides and taken to the luxurious five star Beijing International Hotel. We will have a short briefing about our professional agenda and dinner will be served. The rest of the evening will be free for us to relax.
About your hotel
Conveniently located in the heart of Beijing near the Forbidden City, the five star Beijing International Hotel offers 1,008 elegantly lavish guest rooms with centralized air-conditioning, IDD phone, mini-bar, and satellite TV. Its Starlight Revolving Restaurant is where the "East meets West" in a popular buffet selection which is offered at breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can enjoy a great view of Changan Avenue while sampling delicious daily International buffets at the only revolving restaurant in the heart of Beijing.
About Beijing
China is the oldest, most populous and most continuous civilization on earth and Beijing, once the self-proclaimed center of the world, is its capital. "Nowhere in the world are such rare and precious goods traded as in Khanbaliq...Just imagine, every day more than a thousand wagons arrive fully laden with silk and precious jewels," wrote Marco Polo in the 14th century. Incidentally, among other things, he discovered pasta, ketchup and gunpowder.
Human settlement there goes back about half a million years, and around 3,000 BC villages were established in the area. In the 15th century, Emperor Yongle named the city Beijing, meaning northern capital. From then until the 20th century Chinese emperors lived in its Forbidden City without interruption.
During the 20th century Beijing endured the turmoil of war, revolution, industrialization and a massive building boom. As the undisputed hub of China, everything is always happening in this city of 6 million. It retains its rich past with aristocratic parks and palaces and a great heritage of art and history displayed in over 50 museums. Today the heart of Beijing would still be familiar to Emperor Yongle.
Day 3. (B,L,D) Visit the Great Wall of China and the Ming Tombs. Tonight we enjoy a Peking Duck banquet. Five Star International Hotel.
The Great Wall is the only visible structure on Earth that can be seen from the Moon, and is nearly four-thousand miles long. Construction of the Great Wall began in the fifth century, B.C. as a series of defensive boundaries around China's smaller states. Over the centuries it was improved and extended as protection from the Huns and other nomadic tribes. We have lunch at the Great Wall and then travel on to 'The Valley of The Thirteen Ming Tombs' and the 'Sacred Way'. The thirteen tombs date back to the year 1409, when construction on them started. Each tomb has an underground palace, defense wall, soul tower, and sacrificial hall. The 'Sacred Way' is a vast collection of twelve larger than life human statues, and twenty-four stone unicorns, lions, camels, and elephants.
Tonight we enjoy a Peking Duck Banquet. A few years ago the Wall Street Journal featured a three page article about the incomparable Peking Duck Dinners served in Beijing (Peking). Enjoy the delicately sliced duck, wrapped in thin pancakes and dipped in dark brown hoisen sauce.
Day 4. (B,L,D) We visit Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven. Later, we attend to our professional agenda. Five Star International Hotel
Our first destination today is Tiananmen Square, China’s most famous square covering 100 acres in the heart of Beijing. On October 1, 1949 a million people gathered there to hear Mao Zedong proclaimed the birth of the Peoples Republic of China. Next we visit the Forbidden City, otherwise known as the Gu Gong (Imperial Palace). Construction of the Imperial Palace originally started in 1406 as a residence for the Ming emperors. Over the centuries twenty-four Ming and Ching Dynasty emperors lived and ruled. We plan a 'Round Table' discussion with our colleagues from the Chinese Nursing Profession. At these discussions we will exchange views with our colleagues and have a background briefing about how the Chinese Healthcare Delivery System functions in that sprawling, constantly changing land. Later we will return to the hotel and have some free time to relax.
Day 5. (B,L,D) We visit the Summer Palace, Bejing Zoo and the Lama Temple. Five Star International Hotel. Tonight we ejoy an acrobat show.
We start out visiting the Summer Palace which was used by the court as a retreat from the capital’s heat for 800 years. The Empress Dowager Cixi made it her residence and spent vast amounts of money to create a veritable Xanadu. Then we visit the mysterious Lama Temple consisting of five halls, connected by five courtyards and three archways. During the rein of Emperor Qianlong it became a center of learning for Tibetan Lamaism and had a community of 1,500 Tibetan and Chinese Lamas. Finally, we visit the Beijing Zoo and see the Pandas. Tonight we enjoy an acrobat show.
Day 6. (B,L,D) We visit the Chinese countryside and see how eighty percent of the Chinese people live. Five Star International Hotel.
Today we travel into the countryside and see how life goes on in a rural setting where eighty percent of China’s people live that are seldom visited by tourists. In fact, for years tourists were discouraged from visiting the countryside. Now, as China slowly but surely opens, visits are possible. Our tour will take us through the agricultural areas and small villages that make up most of China, allowing us to compare rural and urban life.
Day 7. (B,L,D) We take a fascinating tri-cycle tour of the “Hutong” (narrow alleyways) Five Star International Hotel.
This morning we take a tri-cycle tour of the hutong (narrow alleyways) These charming alleyways were originally built in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, after Ghengis Khan’s army had reduced the city to rubble. Over the centuries wealthy and influential officials crowded their houses around the the Imperial City, but all dwellings had to be beneath the Imperial Palace. Much of the old city remains and families still live around tiny courtyards in a tight maze of alleys. Your tri-cycle tour enables you to experience the sights and smells of old Beijing.
Day 8. (B) Today is free for roundup shopping or sightseeing perhaps you would want to pamper yourself with a Beijing foot massage Five Star International Hotel. (see About Reflexology)
Today is free for you to follow your own agenda. Perhaps you want to re-visit some places that intrigued you. Or you may want to shop some more or experience Reflexology (the science of Chinese foot massage).
About Shopping In Beijing
Beijing, China’s major city and crossroads is a shoppers paradise where bargains of every kind flood its markets. China is the World’s factory and produces goods with American, European and Japanese labels that sell at high prices at home. These same products can be purchased at deep, deep discounts all over Shanghai. Silks, porcelain, clothing, antiques, artwares, cameras and all sorts of electronic products are everywhere.
About Reflexology (Foot Massage)
Reflexology is a natural healing art, based on the principle that reflexes in the feet and hands correspond to every part of the body. By stimulating and applying pressure to the feet or hands, you increase circulation and promote specific bodily and muscular functions. Kevin Kunz, one of the pioneers of reflexology, puts it best - "Imagine stepping on a tack. Your whole body reacts because of something perceived by the foot.” Reflexology with a full range of pressure sensors, utilizes the same body system of fight or flight to relax the body." Indeed, the feet and hands are more sensitive than most people realize. Your tour escort can recommend a local practitioner of Reflexology.
Day 9. (B,LD) Return toUSA.
After breakfast this morning we will have time for some last minute shopping activities before boarding our non-stop full meal service flight to San Francisco and other U.S. cities, arriving the same day.
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