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Hello Lily

Hope you are well. I know it has been a long time since you heard from us but I just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU for helping with organizing our China trip in June/July this year. Your advice was very good and the holiday was absolutely wonderful. All the arrangements went so smoothly and the tour guides (and drivers) were all very professional and friendly.

Please pass our thanks on to Success China Tours and their staff for the expert service, especially Ting-Ting in Shanghai, May in Suzhou, Sunny in Beijing, Michelle in Xian and Owen in Guillin. Everybody's English was superb and we would not have got along without them. They were very informative and offered a lot of information on not only the country's history, but also the people, food, entertainment, lifestyle, culture and traditions. We shared lots of humour and had some good laughs along the way too. The transport was impeccable and we could see the drivers take pride in their vehicles (very clean and in good condition) so please thank them too. Their driving skills were very good in all that traffic.

Your country of China is a very beautiful place, and so are the people of China. Our friends ask us which is the best place we visited in China, but the answer is they are all so different and all so wonderful. The cities are very much larger than our cities in South Africa, and the history and culture goes back so far! We loved the bright colourful lights and huge buildings in Shanghai, the beautiful canals and gardens in Suzhou, the magnificent Forbidden City and Great Wall in Beijing, the amazing Terracotta Warriors in Xian and the beautiful scenery and relaxed atmosphere in Guillin. And these were just the highlights!

The variety of food was also enormous and very tasty - dumplings, spicy Sichuan cuisine, and my personal favourite - the Peking duck. However, it was a good thing that the tour guides helped us with translating the menu and ordering the food! I remember one occasion when Derek tried to act like a shrimp when he wanted to order a second helping!! Believe it or not, we found that chop sticks are much better to use than our silly knives and forks. We definitely put on some extra kilograms on this trip!

I won't even mention the shopping!! I bought an exquisite silk tiger embroidery painting in Xian and we also shipped some terracotta warrior replicas (from Xian) and some silk merchandise (from Suzhou) back to South Africa. As can be expected from China, everything has arrived safely and promptly. Unfortunately we had to pay many taxes and duties on the merchandise in our country, but we are still pleased with what we
bought.

Please accept my sincere apologies for not contacting you sooner. Things have been very hectic for us since we returned from our holiday and I have been delaying contacting you because I wanted to send you some photos of our trip at the same time. But I have still not sorted all the photos out (we took very many), so I will rather forward them to you (and the tour guides) at a later stage. From our trip we realized
that things happen a lot slower in Africa than they do in China!!!

We are very grateful for the opportunity to experience your wonderful country of China. We are definitely recommending a China trip (and Success China Tours) to all our friends and colleagues in South Africa. We have learnt a lot from our trip but there is still so much to see in your country. Now that we have a good overview, we would like to experience more of the day-to-day life and out of the way attractions (instead of just the major tourist spots) as well as other parts of your enormous country that we never visited this time. Hopefully we will be able to return some day soon...

Kind regards

Roanne & Derek Lahee

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