2008 Tour

古中国文明掠影

Please contact themeridiansociety@gmail.com for details or download the brochure and application form. The deadline for applications has now been extended until 15 April 2008.

Previous Tours

2007 Tour to Shen Nong Jia Wuhan-Chibi-Shen Nong Jia-Wu Dang Shan

31st August - 8th September, 2007

Last year we organised an exciting tour that featured some of the greatest and most spectacular natural scenery in China, including the Wonderland of Geology - Shen Nong Jia, as well as sacred sites including a mountain range known as Wu Dang Shan where the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi originated. The tour included insightful and inspiring cultural lectures by experts during the journey.

Please see the Gallery for photos of this tour.

2006 Journey to Shangrila Sichuan - Yunnan - Tibet

28th August – 14th September, 2006

In summer 2006, The Meridian Society offered all members a Journey to Shangrila, an exclusive tour arranged by the China Travel Service. Shangrila was romanticized in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon as the land of eternal youth. No one knows its exact location, but it is believed to cover the area where the provincial borders of Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet meet. The highlights of our tour included horse-riding in the fabulous Yading Nature Reserve, following the Sichuan-Tibet Highway at an altitude of 5008m in a convoy of jeeps and visiting the unique and splendid Potala Palace in Lhasa, the home of Chinese Buddhism. This was an opportunity to see a paradise that truly lived up to its mystical name, observe the life of minority groups, savour local cuisines and delicacies and traverse landscapes of exquisite and unspoilt beauty.