Ancient Kingdoms of China

With guest speaker Julie Nixon Eisenhower

June 4-19, 2013

From $4,035 per person, (plus $210 taxes and air at an additional cost)

Join this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who will share her perspectives on China and the pivotal role her late father, President Richard M. Nixon, played in bringing Communist China out of isolation and re-opening U.S. relations for the first time since 1949. This exclusive, comprehensive, 15-day journey features a custom-designed itinerary including a sixnight exclusively chartered Grand Cruise along the fabled Yangtze River, sailing all the way from Chongqing downstream to Shanghai. Spend three nights in Beijing, one night in Xi’an and three nights in Shanghai, in centrally located five-star deluxe hotels. Visit five UNESCO World Heritage sites. Tour the awesome Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest dam. Call on ports seldom visited by Westerners—Wuhan, settled more than 3,000 years ago by the Han Dynasty; Huangshan, famous for its majestic mountain range; and Nanjing, former capital of Imperial China. See Beijing’s Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the ancient capital of Xi’an, the Terra Cotta Warriors and mystical Old and spectacular New Shanghai. A Guilin and Hong Kong post-program option is offered.