Crowd Funding

By -
We welcome any donations towards the visit to China. Thank you for making this once in a lifetime opportunity become a reality for our students.
This is a small group of students and we intend to build upon this but need financial support to subsidise the cost for families.
If you are able to donate please do so via the Crowdfunding website:

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ucanvisitchina


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Students have arrived in Beijing - Monday 11 July 2016

By -
Image
We have all arrived in Beijing safe and sound. Everyone is very tired but excited and looking forward to getting to our hotel. Although the flights were long they both went very quickly with lots to see, especially in Dubai airport. It's half past five here and we are just on the coach travelling from Beijing airport to the Rainbow Hotel. We expect it to take about an hour but it's peak time and we've just been informed there are six million cars in Beijing so we could be waiting a little longer for our dinner. We are off to the forbidden city and Beijing Zoo tomorrow where we shall hopefully pick up our mascot and see the pandas (something we've all been looking forward to). 1 hour later... We arrived at our hotel and had a lovely meal (a mixture of Chinese and Western dishes). Our guides promised us a much more authentic Chinese meal tomorrow which we are all excited but a little apprehensive about. We then had a lot of fun figuring out our hotels fabulous li
Read more

Day 4 (14 July 2016)

By -
Today's the day! After a few changes to the itinerary, today's the day we finally get to go and see the pandas. We got up and went for breakfast earlier than planned and then we arrived at the meeting point early (we were all really excited). It took us about an hour to get to the the zoo and we waited outside while our guide Kevin sorted our tickets out. We took lots of group photos outside with our banner. This is always funny because we get lots of Chinese people stopping to watch and asking to take photos with us and our banner. First stop, the pandas ... They were all so fluffy and chubby and cute. They were either eating bamboo (they couldn't get the leaves in fast enough) or they were asleep - sprawled out with their legs resting in the air or star-fished on their bellies like a human. We all returned to the shop at the end to buy panda teddies (apart from Dannielle who got her tiger). We wondered around after seeing lots of animals we haven't seen before. T
Read more

Hotel Information

By -
Image
During the visit to China our students will be staying at some amazing hotels. We have created a page (at the top of this blog) where you can find more information about travel and accomodation. Harbin                                                                                                                                    Heilongjiang University Beijing Rainbow Hotel
Read more