China: Total Solar Eclipse and Grand Yangtze River Cruise

On July 22, 2009, totality will cross China and throw eclipse chasers into shadows along the Yangtze River. Astronomy magazine and MWT Associates invite you to join us as we celebrate more than 5 minutes of totality and the ebb and flow of Chinese life in the 21st century. Astronomy Editor David J. Eicher will be your guide to this eclipse.

Before the cruise, we will fly to Beijing and tour the Forbidden City and the Great Wall. Afterwards the flight takes us to Xian before continuing onto the Chongqing to board the vessel. Options to extend the tour in Cambodia, Thailand and Hong Kong are available.

This tour also includes:

• Visits to the Great Wall, Sacred Way of the Ming Tombs, Tiananmen Square, and Summer Palace


• Inspection of Xian's terra cotta army


• Tang Dynasty dinner show


• Excursion to the Three Gorges Dam
• Tour of the Hubei Provincial Museum


• Trip to Huangshan's "Yellow Mountain"


• Lectures by Astronomy's David J. Eicher


• Round-trip airfare from major United States gateways

Click here to listen to Editor David Eicher and MWT Associate's Melita Thorpe discuss the trip's highlights.

Book soon, this trip is filling fast!

For more information, contact MWT Associates, Inc.
Address: 1243 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95126
Telephone: 877.707.7827
E-mail: tours@melitatrips.com
Web site: www.melitatrips.com