Trips

MPOWRS Fall Trip 2009

Sorry, due to schedule conflicts and the construction on the museum in Shenyang not being completd, we are CANCELLING the 2009 trip.

Maybe in 2010....

Philippines – Mukden – Beijing - Southern China

This trip is intended for you to select the parts in which you wish to participate

Everyone with a connection to POWs of Japanese during WWll is invited – MPOWRS, ADBC, B B’s

PART 1  Philippine Islands

Leave SAN FRANCISCO on - Sat, October 17^th.  Lose a day in flight – Arrive Manila  Monday,

October, 19^th.  Breakfast, – Arrive Manila - Meet and transfer to Sofitel

                Philippine Plaza Hotel - Day Free – No Host Cocktails -

               Welcome Dinner Poolside – Overnight Sofitel

October 20 – 26 includes: Whole Day Manila City Tour with Lunch

Corregidor Tour with Light & Sound Show-Malinta Tunnel        Tour of Subic Naval Base

Tour of Bataan with Lunch                                                                         Tour of Subic Naval Base

Tour of Clark Airbase with Lunch at VFW                            Tour of Cabanatuan with Lunch

TRIP PRICING: Per Person (15 – 19 persons)

Airfare (SFO-Beijing RT ) plus Philippine land segment.

Economy Class                                                           Business Class

Single Occupancy -          $2, 649                         Single Occupancy -           $4, 895

Twin Occupancy -            $2, 192                         Twin Occupancy -             $4, 439

Triple Occupancy -          $2, 135                        Triple Occupancy -            $4, 381

Less for people just going to the PI and home

This part of the trip is planned and organized by Sascha Jean Jansen, who was born in the Philippines and held as a civilian by the Japanese. She is an experienced tour leader with rave reviews.

Part 2  Sascha will arrange a special trip within the Philippines to see your choices of places or spend some time in the sun at a resort. Price to be determined based on your choices. Oct 26 - 31

Air fare from Beijing – Shenyang – Beijing is separate. It will be $150 each way per person.

Part 3  Jack, our wonderful China travel agent, will fly us up to Shenyang for some time at the Museum. We should get there on the 27^th and leave October 31. There we will go to the Museum, Have a Memorial service, visit some sites in town, including an amazing Money Museum and talk.

Part 4    Arrive in Beijing  on Oct 31. People may join the group from the Philippines

Nov 1 Tian’anmen Square, Forbidden City, Lunch Olympic Green Park. Duck dinner

Nov 2 Great Wall, lunch at local restaurant. Free in the afternoon, Chinese Kongfu Show in the evening. Dinner at local restaurant

Nov 3 Summer Palace (including ferry boat ride), Hutong Tuor. Acrobatic show in the evening. Both lunch and dinner at local restaurant.

Nov 4 Head for home or the trip South

Cost - $375 per person. Higher for singles.

Part 5

Nov 4 Beijing/Xian (B,L,D)  Temple of Heaven in the morning. After lunch take afternoon flight to Xian. Upon arrival,  check into hotel Dinner at local restaurant

Nov 5 Xian (B,L,D) Visit to Terra Cotta Copy Factory. Then visit Terra Cotta Army Museum. Lunch at museum restaurant. Afternoon back to hotel for a rest. Tang Dynasty Dinner Show is arranged in the evening.

Nov 6 Xian (B,L,D)  Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Bell Tower Square. After lunch fly to Guilin.

Nov 7 Guilin (B,L,D) River cruise along Li River. Lunch on the boat.  Yangshuo Market. Local ethnic show in the evening. Suzhou/Shanghai (B,L,D)

Nov 8 Guilin/Shanghai/Suzhou (B,L,D)

Reed Flute Cave in the morning. After lunch fly to Shanghai, upon arrival transfer to Suzhou. Dinner at local restaurant.

Nov. 9  Tiger Hill, and Lingering Garden. Silk Factory.  After lunch back to Shanghai. After dinner, evening tour along the Bund.

Nov 10 Shanghai (B,L,D) Yuyuan Garden, Oriental Pearl Tower. After lunch walk in the main shopping street

Nov 11 – head for home

Cost  $1450  - more for singles

 Much more info is available from patwangnc@yahoo.com or 7404-264-9877.

trip application      China Travel Visa Application

This pictures shows participants of the 2007 trip at the Three Friends Workshop in Shenyang, China.  The 3 friends the workshop gets its name from are men who worked as slaves at the Mitsubishi plant during W.W. II (alongside the POWs), they now manage this workshop that supports crafts from pottery to computer graphics.  Nine of the men seated in the first row are former POWs of Mukden camp and one is one of the men who parachuted into the camp at the end of the war to help liberate the camp.  Part of a model of the camp is in the front left corner.

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