First Stop Shanghai

The first stop on our China Study Tour will be in Shanghai.

Shanghai is an exciting city of 16 million inhabitants located at the mouth of China's Yangtze River. Shanghai is China's largest city and is also China's economic powerhouse. Hundreds of Chinese and foreign firms have built huge factories near the city. Shanghai has also become the country's commercial and banking centre.

Our main reason for visiting Shanghai is to visit the World Expo which opened on May 1st 2010 and will close at the end of October. You can find more information about the Expo on the official site. We will spend the whole of our first full day at the World Expo. There are hundreds of pavilions and other attractions there and we will only have time to view a small part but it should be an exciting day.

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Our second day in Shanghai will be spent seeing some of the mainsights of the city including  TheBund, Nanjing Road (Shopping district), Yuyuan Gardens and possibly the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the Jade Buddha Temple.  You will be able to read more about what we actually see once our journey begins.

On September 26th 2010 13 students and 5 teachers from Oberthur Primary School will be heading to China for a two week cultural study tour. We leave Perth early Sunday morning and arrive in Shanghai later the same day after a lengthy stopover in Singapore. In Shanghai we will visit the World Expo and a few key sights there. Oue second stay is with homestay families from the Xinghi Primary School in Hangzhou. We will attend school for two days and also have a chance to do some sightseeing in Hangzhou. Our final destination in China is Beijing. We will visit the Great Wall of China, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City and many others interesting places. We will have many opportunities to experience Chinese culture through the school visit, homestay and the sightseeing opportunities that we will have. We hope to be able to post photos and information about our activities as we go along. Keep a look out for future posts.
Preparations are under way for our trip. Flights and accommodation are organised and we are all looking forward to our fantastic two weeks in China.
We will keep you posted about our preparations and our trip so stop by and read all about it!