AUGUST 1st -11th, 2010
Aug 1:
Depart Des Moines 600A – arrive Chicago 718A (UA 494)
Depart Chicago at 1220P (UA 851)
Aug. 2:
Arrive Beijing at 2:40P
Tour Great Wall in PM
Hotel accommodation at the Holiday Inn Lido Beijing
Aug. 3:
Depart Beijing at 805A arrive Kunming 1140A (CA 905)
Have lunch and visit market in Kunming
8 pm flight to Zhongdian
Hotel accommodation in Old Town Zhongdian at the Compass Inn
Aug. 4:
Flight to Lhasa around 8:45 am. (exact flight yet to be determined)
Arrive Lhasa approx. 10:35 with about 75 minute drive from airport to town
Hotel accommodations at Yak Hotel
Lunch at Snowland Café
Afternoon time to coordinate / pack education bags for kids, quilts & school uniforms
Deliver education bags, quilts & school uniforms to children in evening
Aug. 5:
Visit the Jokam Lamasery in morning
Visit the Potala Palace in afternoon
Aug. 6:
Day trek to Nomadic Area to visit local villages & nomadic Yak herders
Aug. 7:
Fly to Zhongdian - morning
Bus drive from Zhongdian to LiJiang
Stop at Tiger Leaping Gorge
Hotel accommodations at Grand LiJiang Hotel
Aug 8:
Visit Orphanage in Lijiang
Visit with Bottle Man and pick up bottles to bring home
Visit Ren Li Clinic and deliver dental equipment
Dinner at Naxi Home
Aug 9:
Bus ride to Yi Village / Mountain Trek
LiJiang to Kunming on PM flight
Kunming Hotel yet to be determined
Aug 10
Depart Kunming 1220P arrive Beijing 325P (CA 1404)
Hotel accommodations at the Holiday Inn Lido Beijing
Aug 11
Tour Tiananmen Square / Forbidden City
Depart Beijing 410P arrive Chicago 413P (UA 850)
Depart Chicago 830P arrive Des Moines 946P (UA 464)
