A Glimpse At the China Tour Itinerary

photo from: http://www.4seasonstvl.com/Beijing_Itinerary.htm

I leave for China in less than 2 weeks. Since friends are wondering what I will be doing here is a list. We love lists!

• tour the Forbidden City
• visit the Grand National Opera
• vist the Temple of Heaven
• eat (lots and lots of eatting :))
• go to the Great Wall (which I cannot believe I will be walking on on March 30!!! eeee!)
• go to the Ming Tomb Museum
• visit the Niujie Mosque
• visit a migrant school in Beijing
• EAT!
• Beijing Ancient Observatory
• Summer Palace (whoo-hooo!)
• visit Olympic Park
• visit the Lama Temple
• tour an artists' village
• Fly to Kunming
• round-table discussion on cultural diversity education at Yunnan University
• visit a middle school
• visit the Stone Forest
• visit a Yi village
• Fly to Shanghai (4/5)
• visit Shanghai museum
• vist TongLi
• dinner with Professor Pan Tianshu
• visit Baoshan Community hospital & discussion about China's medical system (this should be interesting since I want national healthcare and China is a huge country like the US)
• visit the Yu Garden
• 4/8 - shoppping! and then fly back to Beijing to go home