Gullivers Incentives Trip to China

China 2008

Gullivers Incentives 2008 China tour was organised for the Cymru (Welsh) Group and was the group’s 15th tour with Gullivers since the inception of Cymru tours in 1992! The whole trip was a fantastic experience and the group travelled by plane, train, ship, boat, coach, raft and even rickshaw.

The food was particularly interesting, especially when our local agent in Beijing treated us to a seafood dinner. First course – jellyfish, second course – pick your own fish from the tank, third course undeterminable but definitely something fishy about it, all followed by five other courses!

The group of 50 visited Beijing, the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Warriors in Xian, the massive city of Chongqing (population of 34 million) and the Buddhist rock carvings at Dazu. We then boarded a deluxe river boat for a three night cruise on the Yangtze River passing through the famed Three Gorges. These are still very spectacular despite the river being raised by 150ft due to the building of the Three Gorges Dam. The river is still rising and will become a 430km long reservoir by 2010.

We then descended through the five, unbelievably huge ship locks alongside the Dam before disembarking in Yichau, 20km downstream, and after a day there, flew onto Shanghai for four nights. Here we took a lift to the top of the (then) tallest building in the World and a bullet train to the water town of Suzhou, built on a series of canals. Other highlights were the colourful and traditional village of Zhujiajiao and an evening cruise on the Huangpu River to see the fantastic light show, a 20 minute spectacle using the quayside tower blocks and hundreds of lasers.

We also experienced a Kung Fu Show, an acrobatic show, a silk factory, 28 Chinese restaurants, pandas in the zoo and the night market in Beijing’s Food Street to see the variety of wildlife that is prepared in front of you – scorpions (3 different types), millipedes, silkworm cocoons, snakes, starfish and other specialties that we couldn’t even identify and didn’t want to ask about!

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