Itinerary: The 21-Day China & Tibet Farming Tour covers Kunming (Yunnan Province), Dali, Lijiang (located at the foothills of the Himalayas), Zhongdian (Tiger Leaping Gorge), Lhasa (Tibet’s capital), Shigatze, New Tingri (Everest), Tsetang (Tibet’s Granary) and Chengdu described by Marco Polo as China’s Paris and the Research Base of the Giant Panda. At the conclusion of the tour in Chengdu on Friday 29th May you may extend your stay in China to include Beijing or Shanghai or even a Yangtze River Cruise.
Highlights: As with all Australian Farmers Tours we’ll get off the tourist track visiting, sheep, beef, dairying and cropping properties. Apart from these valuable on-farm inspections technical visits also cover large experimental farms. The tour has been designed as a business trip, which may qualify as a tax-deductible expense. However, it is not all work and no play and the tour also includes leisure and sightseeing to provide a well rounded itinerary. Travelling on the “Roof of the World” and seeing Mt. Everest is certainly a major highlight.
Tour Cost: The cost is fully inclusive of all meals and utilises the services of Singapore Airlines and their subsidiary Silkair.
Tour Leader: Andrew Combe has been with Elders Horsham for the past 16 years and is their Network Sales Manager for all Elders products. In 2004, together with his wife Jane, he visited China on a wool growers study tour and in 2006 he led a very successful wool tour to Western Australia. Andrew will be accompanied by his wife Jane and because of the popularity of the Australian Farmers Travel China Tours this tour is expected to fill very quickly.
About Us: Australian Farmers Travel registered in Victoria and owned and operated by Andrew Curry, commenced in 1973 as a service to primary producers and shareholders of the then major rural co-operatives Victorian Producers’ (now Elders), Westralian Farmers (now AWB Landmark), Primaries (now Elders), Gippsland and Northern, Bennetts Farmers and Farmers & Graziers. Our tours offer the chance to see how farming is practised worldwide and also provide a sense of fellowship and a chance to meet other farm families from all over Australia. Friendships formed on an Australian Farmers Tour often last a lifetime.
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