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A fully escorted quality three-week tour organized by the NZ China Friendship Society.
$8200.00pp twin share (estimated - Auckland to Auckland)
The New Zealand China Friendship Society invites you to join their delegation to a fascinating area of heartland China - a trip of a lifetime!
The tour price includes all transport outside New Zealand, most meals, all accommodation (twin-share), all sightseeing, all transfers, and departure taxes.
Maximum size of tour party 24.

Further information contact NZCFS Tours Tim Jensen Telephone 07 579 0746 or 0800 22 44 62
nzchinatours@xtra.co.nz
See About our tours for background information.

Itinerary

Please read our Heartland Tour terms and conditions for full details.

The New Zealand China Friendship Society and its branches have run tours to China for many years. These involve general tours - designed to introduce Society members and other interested New Zealanders to the People's Republic of China - and special interest tours.

The Society's national tours committee, based in Tauranga since 1989, normally organises one general tour each year. As a general rule tours on the Silk Road are run in even-numbered years, with alternative routes used in odd-numbered years. Routes used in recent times, apart from the Silk Road tour, have included:

• Silk Road tour (Click here for a members short report on the 2005 tour)
• The Yangzte Gorges, plus Shanghai, Sichuan Province, Xi'an and Beijing.
• Southwest China, including Shanghai, Yangtze Gorges, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, and Hong Kong.
• In the footsteps of Rewi Alley, visiting places of significance in the career of the late Rewi Alley.
• Kathleen Hall's life, tracking the career of the brave New Zealand missionary nurse in the 1920s and 1930s.

Individual branches of the Society intermittently organise tours to their own sister cities, and surrounding districts.

Society national tours are especially suited to people making first-time visits to China, or to parts of the country they have not previously visited. They are led by NZCFS members familiar with that country, and itineraries are agreed in advance with the Chinese People's Association For Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), so the programme is known before departure. Most include visits to Beijing so members have the opportunity to enjoy the world famous attractions of China's modern capital.

Prices are ALL INCLUSIVE (transportation, meals, accommodation, sightseeing costs, airport taxes etc) so there are no hidden extras. Good quality Chinese international tourist class hotels are used throughout and transport is in comfortable and reliable vehicles.

As well as a New Zealand leader, Society tours are accompanied by an English speaking national guide supplied by CPAFFC, with powers that allow them to iron out problems which can often beset independent travellers. And English speaking local guides with good local knowledge are provided at each place visited.

NZCFS tours are generally restricted to a maximum of 20-24 people for both travelling convenience and friendship which develops in smaller groups.