2012 年晨鳥折扣券，延到 2 月底：2 月 29 日之前報名參加 2012 年出發的系列團的貴客可以享受 $100 的折扣！(必須出發前 90 天訂。)
	2012 年龍與長輩折扣券：屬龍或 60 歲以上的貴客在 2012 年參加系列團可以享受 $50 的折扣！

請注意：

• “系列團”是指我們的中國大陸綫路，團號 CIT001 至 CIT012。
• 中國國旅假期的折扣券不能重復或同時使用。

北京+大華東+黃山15天遊 (CITS15)

您今年想過一個難忘的聖誕節嗎？參加中國國旅假期新安排的綫路！
以$1899 （全包）的價格參觀中國旅遊者最喜歡的幾個地方。本綫路有下列的特點：

• 行程包括北京、蘇州、無錫、南京、杭州、黃山、上海
• 親眼看黃山的壯麗山景
• 享受全程4星的豪華酒店
• 泡黃山酒店的溫泉
• 在上海自由活動兩天
• 有限的購物點：不要浪費時間
• 逃避美國12月的瘋狂，過一個輕鬆的聖誕節

詳細的資料在本行程的 PDF 裏

進入童話的山區	可能有機會看黃山的雪景

想看更多的黃山照片嗎？請打開我們的黃山照片廊。

Strange mannequins in a Shanghai shop—one of many interesting sights I’ve come across in China

As a white American who was double-majoring in philosophy and Mandarin, my first acquaintance with China and Chinese culture was primarily academic. I had an idealized impression of Chinese culture formed by the many hours I had spent analyzing the Analects of Confucius, stumbling through t’ai chi, meditating to Buddhist chants, struggling with the abstractions of Chinese poetry, listening intently to the feverish plinkety-plink of classical Chinese music while drinking green tea and inhaling incense smoke, and scratching out Chinese calligraphy that must have seemed to my Chinese friends like the scratchings of a second-grader – in other words, through an ivory-tower exploration of China’s vast cultural panorama. Although I had had a number of close Chinese friends for years, they were primarily well-educated, somewhat Westernized Chinese who were not at all representative of the typical citizen of China or Taiwan. So I guess it’s no surprise that some part of me always expected to find in the daily lives of the Chinese people a more elevated, culturally sophisticated lifestyle than I had observed in American society. In that sense, I’ve had some disappointing experiences in China: I’ve seen pollution, ignorance and backwardness, a dog-eat-dog business mentality, shallow popular culture, and, of course, harrowing city traffic (not to say, of course, that these same flaws and many more can’t be found in the United States). Fortunately, looking back on the last thirteen years of my travels there, I can say those experiences have been far outweighed by the many more pleasant surprises that China has given me, in addition to treasured friendships, soul-cleansing mountain hikes, touching encounters with earnest rural villagers, late-night strolls through the urban canyons of Shanghai, euphoric drunken karaoke binges, wide-eyed walks along ancient city walls, and meditative moments in temples and teahouses, all of which have made every day of my time there fresh and stimulating. China is a land rich with paradoxes and brimming with vitality.

Relaxing in a boat on Hangzhou’s West Lake

These are the things that I’ll be sharing with you in this blog, and these are the things that I hope our company will allow some of you to experience for yourselves. When you travel anywhere, life is more vivid, more intense, somehow more REAL than it is during the mundane routine of daily life. Nowhere has that been as true for me as it is in China. No matter what kind of life you’ve lived, traveling to China will be one of the best things you’ve ever done – especially with the extensive knowledge, practical experience, and thoughtful service that my Shanghainese wife and her Cantonese partner, along with our many connections in China, can provide. Our tours are a good place to start your own cultural journey.

Welcome, then, to the home of China International Travel CA, Inc. I hope you enjoy browsing our website and watching it grow. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you have.

(originally posted on our old blog on June 5, 2009)