Testimonial

Dear Cheryl, We have enjoyed our china trip very much, and we are very happy overall with the accommodation and services provided by your company. It was a completely new experience for us and our children. In particular, Bakhor street was fantastic. We enjoyed everything very much.

Dear Elaine, I would like to say that our trip would not have been as wonderful if it weren't for Annabella (Xiang Fengli) our tour guide. She was amazing and I have recommended her name to other friends that are thinking of traveling to China through China Highlights. We were so impressed. She is a gem and gets my highest praise and thanks for a great trip. The service was second to none! I have never been catered too more professionally. Our trip was better than expected to be honest. Each morning we were picked up in the lobby to experience an entire day of true vacationing. Our driver and guide made this trip as special as it was! They were great! Jason Hattrick

Dear Sunny,

We were blessed with an excellent, amazing experience throughout China, in no small part due to your assistance. Each step of the way, the plan unfolded like clockwork - the guide to Simati, the train tickets, our greeting in Xi'an and the excellent tour of the Warriors, the amazing Li river cruise, the paradesa hotel-each step more beautiful and perfect than the previous. I only wish we had more time. That place aside, we're grateful for your help. We felt very vulnerable and helpless coming over there. It was a relief that we could count on you guys to show up right on time, as scheduled each step of the way. The care you took was typical of the warm, loving embrace we recieved from the people of China throughout our whole adventure. Thanks for delivering what you promised. Your contribution will never be forgotten.

From the heart,

Phil Kirschbaum

Candy, Now that we have rested and recovered mostly from the jet lag, I thought I would send a brief email thanking you for putting together a wonderful trip for us. I especially appreciate the care that China Highlights puts into the organization of the individual tours and the monitoring of their clients satisfaction during the tour. All the tour guides were very helpful and worked hard to please us. I especially enjoyed the journey through the ethnic minority area of Guizhou and Guangxi providences. Though at times the traveling on the rough roads was quite wearing, it was an amazing and beautiful area, relatively untouched by tourism. I valued the opportunity to walk through remote villages and rice terraces and observe everyday life without the numerous souvenir shops that lined the streets in such places as Dali and Lijiang, though I enjoyed those areas as well but for different reasons. Driving for days through the sculptured landscape with sinuous rice terraces continuing up all the high mountains as far as the eye could see was truly incredible. I especially liked the chance to walk with the farmers and their water buffalo along these terraces high in the mountains and looking out over the extensive terraces. The opportunity to spend the night in Zhaoxing and explore this lovely town for several hours was one of the high points of our trip. I hope more extensive tourism does not find this interesting town. The rice wine ceremony as we entered the Qingman village was also an unexpected treat. Again, thank you for organizing our trip and I would highly recommend you and China Highlights to anyone considering traveling through Guizhou and Guangxi providences or to anyone wanting customized individual tours. Craig Smith

Hello Cheryl, I have recently returned from my holidays. the first leg of my holidays was to China. i would just like tyo take this opportunity to thank you and your company for making our trip to beijing and xi'an a memorable one. Our guide in Beijing- Crystal was excellent and you should be very proud to have her as a member of your team. although we had a relatively short time in China, we managed to see most major sights and still did not feel we were being rushed around. This was due in no small part to our driver and Crystal. Thank you for the service you provided. Because of your company we really did have the trip of a lifetime. I would not hesitate to recommend china highlights to anyone interested in a trip to China. Yours sincerly, Maura Holly.

Hi, Sunny, The best thing about our trip I would have to say was the cruise on the Yangtze it was just lovely, wish it could have been for a few days more. The Terracotta Warriors in Xian was also fantastic to and of course the Great Wall, but in all the whole trip was just great and everywhere when we arrived and had to go we got picked up and back to railway station or airport without fail. I can recommend train travel only not in China holiday time but if you have time it is a great way to travel no worries. It is great to have some time for yourselves and not always be in a group the whole time. Ask your guide where local go and eat we had great fun in some restaurants with the staff many times we were the only foreigner there and the staff thought it was great. There are so many attractions to see the once you know about, but in the cities we tried to venture away a few times from where the tourist go and found it very interesting to be away from the hurly burley and mingle a bit with the locals and you only really get chance to do that if you include free days in your trip. Regards Lars and Britt

Hi Sunny, Me and my friend's opinion of our trip to China and about China Highlights service can be summarised into three words: Excellent! Excellent! EXCELLENT! The more we remember our trip the more we reach the conclusion that it is almost impossible to identify something that may have gone wrong or below our expectations. The trip went extremely smoothly and exceeded our more optimistic expectations. We are extremely happy with China Highlights' service. It is difficult to improve on what is already very, very good; We thoroughly enjoyed the majority of our meals. We had the feeling that the local restaurants selected were the top of the range; we had the impression that chinese people go to these restaurants, but they are not the common chinese people. Other restaurants were effectively tourist restaurants (examples: the lunch after the Great Wall, the lunch after the Jade Buddha Temple, the lunch in Suzhou). As I said and I have to insist on this, your service was EXCELLENT. Your country is wonderful and you make an excellent contribution to give the best possible impression of your country and of your people to your customers. We fell in love with China and we are already planning our second trip, which we will book with you, of course! Now, regarding your questions: the best thing about my trip: There were so many good things about this trip: the guides, the cars, the food, the sites, the people, China... I don't know. I think the best thing is the fact that we were treated as friends and not just as customers. This surely contributed to everything going SO WELL! Once again, thank you so much for your help and your work, thanks to the drivers for their competent and safe driving and to Jay, Lee, Rebecca and Jeffray for their company, competence, assistance and friendship! With my best regards Paulo

What a great part of our trip to China! From the moment we got off the plane and saw Mark standing there with our names on a sign we knew we had made the right choice with China Highlights. The attention we received from that time until the moment we passed through security to catch the plane for the next stage of our journey was excellent. Almost everything met our expectations, a good driver (and skilful too, which pleased us on the mountain roads), and a friendly guide in Mark, who showed us through an excellent range of activities. The scenery was amazing, the mountain rice terraces of Longshou and the village of Longji (great lunch spot by the way, thanks Mark), the trip down the Lijiang and the lovely town of Yangshuo(with an excellent hotel), as well as the scenic spots around Guilin, we thoroughly enjoyed it all. Mark was extremely helpful from helping to ensure Gary had vegetarian food, to making sure we knew the history and significance of what we were seeing and based on our experience we are very happy to highly recommend China Highlights for anyone who wants a trip tailored to their needs, rather than being in a large tour group. Regards Maggie

Dear Eva I just wanted to tell you, we (my daughter and myself), appreciated the service provided by you and Rebecca with the Driver. We really enjoyed the terraces field visit and some other visits customized by Rebecca when returning to Guilin. Li river cruise was very nice too. With my best regards D. Huerre

Dear Karen, I very much enjoyed Zhangjiajie. I had seen pictures of this National Park 3-4 years ago when visiting a fair for tourism in Zurich and the CNTO (Chinese National Tourist Office) had a booth with brochures on different places to visit. I was very impressed by the beauty of Western Hunan province and Zhangjiajie and the park itself was quite spectacular. The only thing that probably wasn't perfect was the weather as it's the rainy season, but we were lucky to have 3 days that were dry but somewhat cloudy. I guess living in China, I also appreciate the chance to experience the local culture. My son and I walked through the city and only saw 2 Western visitors the whole time we were there. I guess the only outside folks that have discovered Zhangjiajie are the Koreans as there were many signs in Chinese and Korean. The tough part is that English is not very widely spoken. I'm trying to improve my Chinese and enjoyed the chance to try my limited ability in the restaurants -- very nice experience for us! I would really recommend this place if someone likes nature and the chance to experience local culture. It was absolutely great! I also want to compliment you on the guide, Leon. While I realize that he was from the local agency, he had a very high level of English ability and knew Zhangjiajie very well. The Lantian Hotel and the Wuling Yuan Hotel were very acceptable, clean and good service. The Lantian did have people who spoke English at the front desk and restaurant which was a plus while the Wuling Yuan didn't really have English speaking folks. I do hope that more Western people will find out about Zhangjiajie, on the other hand, I enjoyed it just because it was more local in flavor and not so many Western tourists! Thanks again for everything. I'll be back in touch with you a little later on -- Guilin is still on my list and we will probably be trying to visit after the summer. It would be great to meet you once and say hello. Kind Regards, Butch