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ceramics china tour, june 2011

updated sat 15 jan 11

 

Guangzhen Zhou on thu 13 jan 11


Ceramic China
Tour, June 2011

2011
Ceramic China, ---Tour and Exchanges,
June 12-27.

Shanghai, Yixing, Hangzhou, Yellow Mountain, Jingdezhen, Xian and Beijing.

$4,950 per person,
(Scholarship is available for educators);

$1,500 deductible if you
are going to buy your own international round trip air tickets. Costs: ($50=
off
if signed up before March 31, 2011)

Additional fee $700 for
single supplement. The cost may vary if you return to a city other than San=
Francisco. The fee includes: international air tickets,
local transportation, lodging, three meals a day, and tour guides/interpret=
ers.
The travel agent has limited insurance, so we suggest that you buy your own
traveling insurance.

The fee excluded: Chinese visa, tips to tour
guides and drivers, personal phone calls, etc.

This itinerary is
designed for both professional ceramic artists and art lovers. We may excha=
nge (lectures)
with art schools based on the inquiry of the group. We will take one in-cou=
ntry
flight from Jingdezhen/Nanchang to Xi $B!v (Ban and take an overnight train=
to Beijing. We are going to
use one bus between the cities from Shanghai to Jingdezhen. You won $B!G (B=
t need to carry your
luggage in the waiting rooms of airport or train stations all the time. The
longest bus ride will be about 4 hours from Hangzhou to Yellow Mountain.

Itinerary

June 12, departure from
the US;

June 13, arrival in
Shanghai in the evening,

June 14, Yu
Yuan Garden and market, site seeing and cruise on Huangpu River in the even=
ing,

June 15: visit Shanghai Museum in the morning, bus to Yixing in the afterno=
on (three hours), June 16, tour at an ancient dragon kiln site, visit to na=
tional masters $B!G (B studio and Yixing Ceramics Museum;

June 17, in the morning - bus to Hangzhou, tour at West Lake (one night);

June 18, in the afternoon - bus to Yellow Mountain City;June 19, one day to=
ur to Yellow Mountain;

June 20, in the morning - bus to Jingdezhen, tour at the Jingdezhen Ceramic=
Institute, Ancient Porcelain Factory and museums, June 21, Sculptural Fact=
ory and art galleries;

June 22, bus to Nanchang and a flight to Xi $B!v (Ban, East Han Museum;

June 23, bus to Fuping Village, visit Fule International Ceramic Museum,Jun=
e 24, visit Terri-Cotta Warriors Museum, overnight train to Beijing, (on th=
e train);

June 25, arrival in Beijing in the morning. Visit Great Wall, Bird Nest and
798 Art Distract;

June 26, visit
Panjiayuan Ghost Antique Market, Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City;

June 27, home flights
from Beijing to the US. Arrivals will be on the same day in US local time.


Guangzhen "Po" Zhou
Chinese Clay Art Corp. / ClayGround
Clay Art Supplies and Studio
1155 S. De Anza Blvd. San Jose, CA 95129

Mailling address:
PO Box 1733, Cupertino, CA 95015

Tel. 408-343-3919, Fax. 408-343-0117
www.ChineseClayArt.com, ChineseClayArt@hotmail.com
Art Tools are Part of Art Works.