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Feb 13 -
Depart your home city
Feb 14 -
Arrive Beijing and transfer to your hotel. Balance of the day at
leisure.
Overnight:
Beijing- Grand Mercure Hotel
Feb 15
-Enjoy a full day tour of the Forbidden City and the
Summer Palace. Begin at Tiananmen Square, the largest public plaza
in the world. Erected in 1417 at the height of the Ming Dynasty,
the square was renovated and renamed two centries later at the onset of
the Great Ming Dynasty. View several impressive monuments
outlining the Square's perimeter, including the Great Hall of the
People, the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong and the Square's famed ceremonial
gateway. From here ventur notth for visit to the Forbidden City
(Imperial Palace), a construction coomparable to the Pyramids in Egypt.
Known today as the Palace Museum the entire site is comprised of 800
buildings with more than 9000 rooms. Enjoy lunch at an authentic
Chinese Restaurant close to the Forbidden City, before a visit to the
Summer Palace. BL
Overnight:
Beijing Grand Mercure
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Feb 16 -
Enjoy a full-day excursion to the Great Wall of China, the longest
man-made structure on Earth, spanning nearly 4,000 miles of China's
northern frontier. Walk along the promenades and enjoy unrivaled
scenic views of beautiful mountain passes, plateaus and grasslands from
this 7th centruy defensiuve fortification. Afterwards depart for
lunch at a klocal Chinese restaurant. Following lunch, continue
for a tour of the Ming tombs before returning to Beijing.
Overnight: Beijing Grand Mercure BL
Feb 17 -
Depart Beijing for Sydney Australia |
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Port Location |
Arrive |
Depart |
| Feb 18 |
Sydney Australia
-Although Sydney is one of the largest cities in the world,
you'll find most of the things you want to see and do are
centered around one of the world's most beautiful harbors. And
the first thing you'll want to do is check out the Sydney Opera
House. With its dramatic white-sailed design, it's one of the
most easily recognized buildings on earth. Then head for the
almost equally familiar Sydney Harbour Bridge for some pictures.
In the center of town you'll find a concentration of world-class
restaurants, shopping, entertainment and museums. And if you're
there during the summer season, no trip to Sydney is complete
without a little sun and surf at one of the city's many
spectacular beaches |
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6:30PM |
| Feb 19 |
Cruising |
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| Feb 20 |
Melbourne,
Australia - Sitting pretty in the southeast
corner of Australia is the very
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multi-dimensional Melbourne. Whether you're into
football or funky fashion, local pubs or chichi cafés,
out there or traditional architecture - this epicenter
of everything truly has it all. Including a rich and
notorious past. You'll find traces of it all over, from
the Old Melbourne Gaol (one of the many Australian
jails) to its many museums. Today it's considered one of
the world's most livable cities. So pack accordingly.
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7:00AM |
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| Feb 21 |
Melbourne,
Australia - Shop for
Bargains - Leave it to the ladies to get it right.
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Elizabeth and Victoria streets you'll find Queen
Victoria Market, and shop 'til you drop is no
understatement. You'll find a thousand or so vendors
selling everything but the kitchen sink, and on a good
day you may even find that. |
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5:00PM |
| Feb 22 |
Burnie, Tasmania
- Burnie is a lively, attractive port city on the northwest
coast of Tasmania, originally settled in 1827 as Emu Bay. With
its broad beaches and rising hills, Burnie is as physically
attractive as it is culturally interesting. The city's
architecture reflects the history of industry in this remote
part of the world, starting with sheep and moving to tin to
silver, and now to cargo shipping. Known for its lovely
waterfalls, winding gardens and scenic vistas, Burnie is also a
good place to see a penguin or a platypus |
9:00AM |
5:00PM |
| Feb 23 |
Port Arthur,
Tasmania - Located on the Tasman Peninsula, just
37 miles southeast of the state capital, Hobart, lies the scenic
and historic town of Port Arthur. Although it is best known for
its infamous 19th-century prison, the peninsula region rewards
the visitor with a dramatic coastline and several natural
wonders, including Devil's Kitchen, Tasman's Arch, The Blowhole
and Remarkable Cave, so called, because when viewed at low tide,
the opening of the cave remarkably resembles the outline of
Tasmania |
9:00AM |
5:00PM |
| Feb 24 |
Hobart, Tasmania
- There are few places as tranquil as the island of Tasmania. So
it's no surprise that Aussies head here for a taste of laid-back
island life. Over a third of the landscape is covered with
national parks and wilderness World Heritage areas. It's even
home to one of the world's best beaches and tons of aboriginal
creatures such as the short-beaked echidna, little pygmy, and
yes, the Tasmanian devil himself. And Hobart, the island's
Europeanesque harbor town, is the perfect prequel to it all |
7:00AM |
6:00PM |
| Feb 25 |
Cruising |
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| Feb 26 |
Sydney Australia |
5:00AM |
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| Feb 27 |
Arrive back in your home city |
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