"This
year's jaw-dropping adventure is the Dive
The Great Wall trip. Most people consider
themselves lucky if they get to walk on the
Great Wall of China. A select few might view
it from the air, but only the elite
adventurer gets to dive the Great Wall.
Urbane
Nomads' Dive The Wall Expedition is a SCUBA
tour of a section of the Great Wall of China
in Hebei province, which was submerged when
the Luanhe River was dammed to create a
reservoir in the 1980s.
'Scuba
sherpas will suit you up, take you to the
exact spot where the wall dips underwater
and guide you to its most dive-worthy parts.
Once submerged, you'll come across a few
Ming-era stone carvings, some intricate
tunnels and a tight-squeeze guard tower.'
The day is concluded with dinner in a
restaurant overlooking the moat of the
Forbidden City and a night spent at the
trendy Commune by the Great Wall Kempinski,
where you get to view the Great Wall of
China for the final time from the comfort of
a luxury villa."~
Ethan D. Spears, Singapore Airlines'
Priority Magazine
From exquisitely restored
courtyard hotels (some of which are not even
featured here) deep in the hutongs
of Beijing to designer home
rentals fringing the Great Wall, the iconic
Peace Hotel in Shanghai, independent
boutique hotels in Shanghai to the rustic
luxury of the Amanfayun or the stylish,
sleek Four Seasons Hangzhou. Then there's
the range of boutique hotels in Yunnan, from
large scale Banyan Tree Resorts to small
hotels like those on the Songtsam Circuit -
Urbane Nomads selects the most eclectic
range of hotels and weaves them into your
travel itinerary to China.
Camping in luxury on the
Qinghai-Tibetan plateau,
this itinerary coincides
with the annual Horse
Festival set against the
picturesque plateau.
An introduction to
Tibet, this itinerary
places an emphasis on
its spirituality as well
as determining a
comfortable pacing for
all travellers. The
accommodations range
from a hotel that
doubles in function as a
museum for its wealth of
artifacts in Lhasa to an
atmospheric former home
of a high-ranking
Tibetan lama.
