Tours to China from Hong Kong in January

11-02-2003, 09:39 PM

I will be in Honk Kong for January '04 and would like to go on a tour
to China. I've checked out the brochures available in the UK but those
tours don't start until March/April. Can anyone suggest any - it'd
only have to be for a few days. It could be a food tour; I'm quite
happy to hike to look at the architecture and culture.

I am also interested in Environmental Health and would like to
see/know how this operates in both HK and China. Obscure, perhaps, but
can anyone help?

Thanks,

G

11-02-2003, 11:23 PM

On 2 Nov 2003 14:39:57 -0800, the renowned (SoloG)
wrote:

    >I will be in Honk Kong for January '04 and would like to go on a tour
    >to China. I've checked out the brochures available in the UK but those
    >tours don't start until March/April. Can anyone suggest any - it'd
    >only have to be for a few days. It could be a food tour; I'm quite
    >happy to hike to look at the architecture and culture.

Dunno, I'm not into tours. Maybe you could contact the HKTDC in London
or whatever and ask them for a recommendation. I think there are
plenty of few-day tours, but they look pretty pedestrian to me. You
need enough time to arrange the visa (which used to be a group visa
taking a few days, but that may have changed).

    >I am also interested in Environmental Health and would like to
    >see/know how this operates in both HK and China. Obscure, perhaps, but
    >can anyone help?

My wife has done environmental work in Tianjin (up near Beijing) as
part of Canadian aid to China. It's apparently done mostly
provincially, and they are trying centres of excellence which will
then pass the information out to other provinces of China. Even the
laws (not to mention the enforcement) are pretty far behind the
developed countries, of course, but they are making progress.

For HK, try a google search, you should find plenty of info in
English. They invest significant money for such things- cleaning up
pollution in the harbour and maintaining acceptable air quality in the
cross-harbor tunnel (an engineer friend worked on that one).

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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11-03-2003, 05:04 PM

"SoloG" <> wrote in message
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    > I will be in Honk Kong for January '04 and would like to go on a tour
    > to China. I've checked out the brochures available in the UK but those
    > tours don't start until March/April. Can anyone suggest any - it'd
    > only have to be for a few days. It could be a food tour; I'm quite
    > happy to hike to look at the architecture and culture.

Any HK travel agency can hook you up with a tour. when You get to HK check
out some local travel agencies.

    > I am also interested in Environmental Health and would like to
    > see/know how this operates in both HK and China. Obscure, perhaps, but
    > can anyone help?

HK has an environmental protection office. You may want to check them out.

    > Thanks,
    > G