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Do you want to travel around China whilst studying Mandarin at the same time? China offers a wealth of culturally diverse travel destinations.
All EBT study programs include EBT Trips at no extra charge. Traveling in China with EBT enables you to integrate language and culture study with the excitement of experiencing a diversity of tourist destinations.
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Please see the table below to see how many EBT Trips are included in your program.
Duration |
4 weeks |
8 weeks |
12 weeks |
1 semester |
1 year |
EBT Trip A |
2 trips |
4 trips |
6 trips |
8 trips |
12 trips |
EBT Trip B |
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1 trips |
2 trips |
EBT Trip C |
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1 trips |
The EBT Trip Card will be given to each student on the Orientation day.
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3 trips at least are arranged every month. There are more than 20 EBT Trip A offered, please see some introductions below.
Great Wall:
From Shanhaiguan on the Bohai Sea to Jiayuguan in Gansu province, the Great Wall extends 6400km across the northern periphery of China , a distance longer than the width of the continental United States ; and, as all school-children know, it is the only man-made structure visible from the moon. In 221 BC, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty joined various defensive walls together to create the Great Wall, intended both to guard the newly unified nation and to permit communication between the capital Xianyang (near modern-day Xi'An ) and even the most far-flung outposts of the country. In an ironic twist of fate, the construction project, one of the largest ever undertaken, was eventually held up as one of the emperor's crimes against the Chinese people because of its enormous cost. Although the skeleton of the Great Wall is more than 2000 years old, it owes most of its lenth and mass to the more recent Ming dynasty, when the treat of Mongol invasion spurred emperors to reconstruct the Great Wall and extend it for a thousand kilometers to protect ShanXi .
Beijing has more than 3 most famous Great Wall: BaDaLing, MuTianYu, SiMaTai and HuangHuaGang Great Wall.
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A total of four tan (imperial shrines) were constructed in Beijing as the sacrificial altar place for Tian (heaven), di (earth), ri (sun), and yue (moon). The largest of these, Tiantan was designed as venue for the annual imperial ceremony to appease the heavens, secure good harvests, expiate sins, and receive divine direction. A fascinating cornucopia of structural symbolism, Tiantan, constructed in 1420, is considered the perfect embodiment of Ming architecture. The 273-hectare temple complex is rounded at its northern end and square along its southern edge, reflecting the traditional Chinese belief that the earth is square and the heavens are round. Within the park compound, a serene stone boulevard carried the imperial procession from earth to heaven. Closed to public until 1949, Tiantan park now draws crowds of taichi practitioners, bird cage bearers, and opera-singers at dawn.
Summer Palace (Yi He Yuan):
The largest imperial palace and garden complex in China, the magnificent Summer Palace is situated on 300 hectares of entirely artificially created landscape, including the vast Kunming Lake and towering Longevity Hill. Scattered across the emperors' enormous summertime playground are over 3000 halls, pavilions, towers, courtyards, and even a re-creation of the southern Chinese city of Suzhou where empresses could go shopping for fine silk. First constructed in 1750, the Summer Palace is laid out in three general sections: the palace area, the residential area, and the scenic area. A Y5 investment in a tourist map provides a suggested walking tour. Suzhou Jie is the one ara sufficiently off the beaten path to not to make it onto the mapped walking tour, but is nevertheless a must-see. Cool green water laps the sidewalks, stylized gondolas idle beside dumpling restaurants, and stone walkways wind between water on one side, and shops, snack stands, and street artists on the other.
Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan):
In stark contrast to its splendid younger counterpart, the Old Summer Palace remains in ruins from its plunder and pillage by French and British troops during the Second Opium War of 1860. People feel very differently between the two Summer Palace . One of the most famous pavilions is Wanchunyuan ( Beautiful Spring Garden ) in the southeast and former grandeur. Rustic and desolate, a visit to the park can be treated as a leisurely stroll around Qinghua University .
LaMa Temple , Fragrant Hills, Sleeping Buddha Temple , Ming Tombs, Eastern Qing Tomes, HouHai as well as SanLiTun Bar Street , Silk Market and Pearl Market are arranged as EBT Trips.
  
• Type B: Two days trip for weekends ptop
One trip at least is arranged every month. There are about 8 EBT Trip B offered, please see some introductions below. Generally, departure on Friday evening from Beijing and come back the following Monday morning.
Inner Mongolia :
Inner Mongolia is a Mongol Autonomous Region. It shares neighbouring borders with Mongolia and Russia . The Mongols united under Genghis Khan in 1206 and their descendents went on to conquer the rest of China and then parts of Europe in the 13th and 14th century. this region is a popular destination for the adventurous. The nights are cool with Winter temperatures very low and sandstorms in Spring.
Capital city, Hohhot ( Green City ) is 1000 meters above sea level. It dates back to the Ming Dynasty, at least 400 years ago. The traditional religion is Lamaism, a branch of Buddhism related to that of Tibet . Dazhao Temple , the oldest temple, has a rare silver Buddha and many musical instruments.
You can travel out and sleep in a yurt in the grasslands. You may ride camels and camel carts, try Mongolian bows and arrows, drink tea laced with milk, butter and grain. Try barbecued lamb, mutton hot pot, beef kabab and camel hoof. You will learn the ways of Mongolian lifestyle, particularly after your visit to the Provincial Museum . Mongolian folk songs and dances are unique and most entertaining. Saber-fighting, horseback acrobatics and horse racing are regularly performed, reflecting the nomadic life of Mongols.
Shaolin Temple :
The Shaolin Temple was built in 495 AD and is located northwest of Dengfeng County . The Indian Monk Boddhidharma arrived in 527 and initiated the Chan (Zen) sect of Buddhism. Shaolin hence became the birthplace of the Chan Sect. At the beginning of the seventh century, 13 martial arts monks were rewarded by Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Shimin after they had saved him from danger . The Temple was given the title, "No. One Temple Under Heaven." Shaolin kungfu thus developed rapidly and its fame spread. The 30,000-square-meter temple is composed of seven rows of buildings including the Hall of Heavenly King, Dharma Pavilion, Thousand-Buddha Hall, White-Robe Bodhhisattva Hall and Hall of Ksitigarbba (Guardian of the Earth).
ChengDe:
ChengDe is 256 kilometres northeast of Beijing . Surrounded by mountains, it is a famous scenic city to the north of the Great Wall. Its major tourist attractions are Chengde Mountain Resort and Eight Outer Temples .
Built in the 42nd year of Emperor Kang Xi's reign during the Qing Dymasty(1703), the Chengde Mountain Resort was a summer resort palace frequented by Emperor Kang Xi and other Qing rulers of the time. The palace and the temple reflect the different styles of architecture by various Chinese nationalities.
The mountain resort presents breath-taking scenery featuring of north and south China , whilst the Eight Outer Temples is a tribute to the unique cultures of the Han, Tibet , Mongolia and other minority nationalities.
Xi'An :
Xi'An , one of the six ancient capitals in China , was the starting point of the world-famous Silk Road . It can be well likened to a history museum. Moving around this old city is like going through thousands of years back in time.
In this vast museum you will see the Banpo Village Remains of a matriarchal community; the Huaqing Hot Springs which was noted as early as the Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years back; Qin Shihuang's terra-cotta warriors and horses; the imperial cemetery grounds of the Han and Tang dynasties; the Great Mosque with unique features; the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda built in the Tang Dynasty; the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower of the Ming Dynasty; and the Forest of Steles with a rich collection of age-old stone steles.
DaTong , QingDao , DaLian , TianJing and BeiDaiHe are arranged as EBT Trips as well
  
• Type C: Week trip for 5 days to 7 days ptop
Three times a year: Since there are 3 longest holiday in China every year, and each one usually is 7 days off, so EBT arranges the 3 EBT Trip C on Chinese new year (Changed every year in January or February), Labor Day (1st May) and National Day (1 st October). There are about 8 EBT Trip B offered, please see some introductions below.
YunNan :
The word on the street among backpackers in the know is that Yunnan province, tucked away in China's far southwest, is no farther from heaven than it is from Hong Kong. There is much to love about Yunna, and, what's more, what there is to love comes in infinite varieties. The province, China 's fourth largest, encompasses landscapes in ten thousand shades of beautiful, from the high mountains passes and snow-capped peaks of the north to the luxuriant tropical rainforest of the south. The ethnic composition in Yunnan is too complex for even the most determined ethnographer to fully digest; the province is home to more separate minority groups than any other in the country. Radically different cultures and mutually incomprehensible languages have coexisted in Yunnan for centuries, and the region today is exciting and explosive.
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Blessed with vigorous rivers, a mild climate, and endless rows of terraced greenery, Sichan is justifiably known as China 's Heaven on Earth. The major breadbasket of the southwest, the province is home to a whopping 110 million people. Most live in the fertile and flat Sichuan basin centered around the provincial capital of Chengdu . Once the are's largest city, Chengdu 's rival Chongqing was elevated to the status independent municipality in 1997, joining the exclusive ranks of Beijing , Shanghai , and Tianjin . To facilitate state control over the controversial Three Gorges Project, Chongqing and the entire eastern quarter of the province were penciled in as a municipal district, instantly becoming the largest city in the world with a population of over 30 million. In contrast, the western hinterlands of Sichuan , once a separate province called Xikang, are sparsely populated with Tibetans, Qiang, and Yi Minorities as well as endemic wildlife such as the giant panda. The thundering rapids, snow-capped peaks, and ubiquitous yaks found there signal the cultural, if not geographic, border with neighboring Tibet .
XinJiang, HaiNanDao (HaiNan Island) may arranged as EBT Trips as well.
  
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