mabroda April 30th, 2009

Hales Fund 2008-09
China Environmental Studies Trip Itinerary

May 12-25, 2009

(Team participants: Susan Clayton, David McConnell, Matthew Broda)

TUESDAY MAY 12

• Leave Cleveland at 7:30 am on Continental #87
• Arrive in Newark at 8:58 am
• Leave Newark at 11:20 am on Continental #87
• Arrive in Shanghai at 1:45 pm (five hour layover)

WEDNESDAY MAY 13

• Leave Shanghai at 7:05 pm on China Eastern #748
• Arrive in Kunming 10:05 pm
• Met at airport by Yu Yang – Director, International Cooperation and Exchange Department
  Yunnan Agricultural University
  Kunming City, Yunnan Province
• Overnight at International Center, Yunnan Agricultural University

THURSDAY MAY 14

• Morning: Meet with Professor Zhang Naiming, Dean of Natural Resources and Environment Protection, Yunnan Agricultural College (2 hours)
• Afternoon: Visit to Lake Dian:
  
  See Professor Zhang’s environmental projects, including a Nature Conservancy project, “The Project of Water Recovery from Pollution in Dianchi Lake.”
• Return to Yunnan Agricultural University by 9 pm
• Overnight at International Center, Yunnan Agricultural University

FRIDAY MAY 15

• Morning and afternoon: Visit Stone Forest and other environmental sites in and around Kunming:
  
• Overnight at International Center, Yunnan Agricultural University

SATURDAY MAY 16

• Leave Kunming at 7:15 am on China Eastern #5941
  Arrive Lijiang at 8:05
• Met at Lijiang airport by Li Jian Rong, driver and interpreter
• Drive to Tiger Leaping Gorge (approximately 2 hours):

• Hike to mountain lodge (approximately 5-6 hours)
• Dinner and overnight at mountain lodge

SUNDAY MAY 17

• Morning: Hike out of the mountains
• Afternoon: Drive to Zhongdian (Shangri-la):
  
• Late afternoon and evening: explore environmental sites of interest
• Overnight at Zhongdian hotel

MONDAY MAY 18

• Morning:  Explore environmental sites of interest in Zhongdian
• Afternoon: Drive back to Lijiang (approximately 4-5 hours)
• Evening:  Leave Lijiang at 9:20 pm on China Easter #5855
  Arrive Chengdu at 10:50 pm
  Take hotel van from airport (reserved)
  Overnight at Tibet Hotel in Chengdu

TUESDAY MAY 19

• Morning and afternoon: Panda Research Center
• Overnight at Tibet Hotel in Chengdu

WEDNESDAY MAY 20

• Morning: Visit to Sichuan University (tour of the university, meeting with faculty and students in the environmental studies and sociology departments, Susan’s talk)
• Afternoon:  Leave Chengdu at 3:50 pm on China Eastern #2348
  Arrive in Xi’an at 4:55 pm
• Met at Xi’an Xianyang airport by Xiaoou Li
  Hostess of Hello and School of English Studies
  International Department
  Xi’an International Studies University
  Shaanxi TV Station
• 6:30 pm Check in at Union Alliance Atravis Executive Hotel
• 7 pm:  Dumpling banquet in city center
• After dinner: walking around the Drum and Bell Tower Square and the Muslim street
  

THURSDAY MAY 21

• Morning: Visit museum of terra cotta warriors
  
• Lunch: Xingsheng Restaurant
• Afternoon; Saaxi History Museum, South Lake Park
• Dinner: Near the north square of Big Wild Goose Pagoda
  
• After dinner: Watch the biggest music water fountain in Asia

FRIDAY MAY 22

• Morning: Leave Xi’an at 9:00 am on China Eastern #2109
  Arrive Beijing at 10:40 am
• Check into Beijing Jade International Youth Hostel
  5 zhida beixiang, Dongcheng
• Afternoon:  Meet with Wei Wang, vice president of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, about smog and water quality in Beijing

SATURDAY MAY 23

• Visit Summer Palace, Tianenmen Square, and Forbidden City
  

SUNDAY MAY 24

• All-day hike along the Great Wall
  

MONDAY MAY 25

• Morning: Possible meeting with Shunkang Xin, member of the Chinese People’s Congress, representing a large district in Beijing and a member of the CCP committee of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Afternoon: Leave Beijing at 3:45 pm on Continental #86
  Arrive in Newark at 6:20 pm
  Leave Newark at 8:30 pm
  Arrive in Cleveland at 10:23 pm

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