The sun was shining when we woke up. We were delighted to discover that the hotel offered a huge and varied buffet breakfast; everything from stir fried dishes, to sushi to cocoa cereal. There was also honey dripping from the comb, many types of dim sum including one designed to look like a dog’s head, fresh fruit, dried fruit, yogurt, pancakes with whipped cream, waffles, pastries, salmon and more, …
Our day started at 4am because we had an early flight on Hainan Airlines to Shanghai. We met our new tour guide Celia at the Shanghai airport and took our bus to the Bund area of Shanghai, passing many modern and artistically shaped sky scrapers. Lunch was at a restaurant near the People’s Hero’s Monument. All our lunches and suppers are in restaurants with large lazy Susans in the middle of the …
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Wake up call at 5:45. After a buffet breakfast we were in the lobby, ready to go by 7:30. Our first stop was the jade factory. We had an interesting seminar on jade. Unlike Barry, Cole, Steve and Carol, I managed to forego the temptation to buy. For me the highlight of this stop was getting a great picture with the Terracotta Warriors. Not the real ones; those are in Xian. …
Our gang met up at 6:30am for the hotel’s buffet breakfast. It was a mix of western and Asian breakfast food. The sun made a brave attempt to shine through the haze of pollution. Our tour consisted of thirty three people from The Greater Toronto area, Montreal, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Ottawa, And Niagara. Our group was made up of middle aged people , people in their twenties, a senior, one …