Teach In China

Explore! Beijing 2-Week Tour and Study Program

What are you doing this summer? Join us for 2 weeks in China as we Explore! Beijing in our Explore! Beijing 3-Week Tour and Study Program! Teach Abroad is offering current college students a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to Beijing and experience all that Beijing has to offer. Climb the Great Wall, tour the Summer Palace, visit Mao's tomb at historic Tiananmen Square, as well as many other famous sites (listed below). Take the time to sample the traditional and delicious Chinese cuisine including a Peking Duck Welcome Dinner, and travel the city and immerse yourself in Chinese language and culture as never before!

After the 4-night tour is complete, travel to Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei Province, to participate in our Chinese Language and Culture Program. Immerse yourself and explore a traditional Chinese city, significantly and rapidly enhance your understanding of both Chinese language and culture, listen and learn from special guest speakers, and enjoy a number of smaller excursions to explore the Chinese countryside and experience the real China, outside of the metropolitan, more westernized, Beijing.

Your final night will again be spent in Beijing so you can enjoy all that this city has to offer one last time before your return home the next morning. Please, come and join us in this unparalleled opportunity to Explore! the world in our Explore! Beijing 3-Week Tour and Study Program!

Program Details:
Explore! Beijing Highlights / Services Included
• English-speaking local guide
• Full-day sightseeing tour of Beijing featuring the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace
• Delicious Peking Duck Welcome Dinner
• Enjoy a day-long excursion to the famous Great Wall and the Ming Tombs
• Take a morning rickshaw ride through the Hutong area on our "Make-A-Friend" program
• Free time to enjoy Beijing on your own
• 10 nights stay at College hotel in Hebei Province capital city (Shijiazhuang City)
• Course text books and CD Tuition for the 10 day Chinese Language and Culture Program
• Local tours and guest speakers in Shijiazhuang
• 30 day tourist visa
• 3 - week international emergency medical insurance through International Medical Group (IMG)
• Porterage of 1 bag per person
• Membership in GeneralAssist, a network of around the clock emergency on-tour assistance
• General Tours travel bag, document folder, and luggage tags
• Transportation Roundtrip international airfare from San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY on United Airlines based on "W" class of service
• Motorcoach: deluxe air-conditioned Group Airport Arrival & Departure
• Transfers with Assistance Bus (or train) travel to and from a college in Hebeiâs capital city where 10 day Chinese Language and Culture Program is hosted
• Hotel Accommodations 5 nights at Xiyuan Hotel Beijing, and afterwards hotel accomodations in Shijiazhuang.
• January 2007 Hotel taxes and service charges
• All accommodations with private bath or shower
• Dining (Tour Segment) Breakfast:
• Daily Lunches: 2
• One Peking Duck welcome dinner
(• Study Segment) "purchased at on"campus dining facility or local restaurants for $5+ per day

Complete Package Pricing:

From San Francisco: $2,450
From New York City: $2,550

*Other departure cities possible.

Program Dates for 2007:

EB1: June 21- July 9

EB2: July 10- July 25th (tentatively scheduled)

EB3: July 26th - August 10th

Services Not Included

• Air transportation taxes above current estimate of $330, customs fees, security charges and passenger facility charges
• Fuel Surcharges Gratuities to drivers and local guides
• Gratuities to wait staff
• Foreign Airport Departure Taxes (where applicable)
• Optional Excursions
• Items of a personal nature

Terms and Conditions Apply:
• Due to the high cost of cancellations and the fact that airfare is booked months in advance, there will be no refunds issued for any reasons whatsoever 5 days after receipt of the program fee.
• Airline taxes and fuel surcharges are always changing. Our cost includes current tax and fuel surcharge levels from September of 2006 (priced at $330). If taxes or fuel surcharges increase at any time prior to your purchase, the program costs will rise accordingly.
• Students must obey the laws of China and carry themselves in a respectable manner. Any disorderly conduct, violence, drunkenness or any other behavior that is deemed to be disrespectful towards our Chinese hosts or illegal will be cause for immediate dismissal from the program without refund.
• School Credit: Want academic credit? Contact your school Registrar or other appropriate authority and Teach Aboad, Inc. will assist you towards achieving academic credit upon successful completion of the program.

• Flight changes and tour changes made by students are paid for by the individual, and not Teach Abroad.

• Though this will be avoided at all costs, there may be changes to hotel, tour, or flights that are beyond the control of Teach Abroad or its affilliates in travel,

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