ROOTS OF WING CHUN
CHINA TRIP 2015
It takes well over 12 months to
organize everything.
Flights, Hotels, Fast Train Travel
around China.
Coach hire for Tours from hotels in
each Country.
Organize transport and tickets for
various venues.
Organize group sightseeing.
Organize group Dinners.
And, arrive home safely.
We will visit Kenneth Cheung’s wing
chun in Singapore via the local Sifu whom is Wesley Lim. Singapore has many
places of interest for the Tourist.
After 3 days in Singapore, we will
catch a flight to Taipei, which is the capital of Taiwan.
Lo Man Kam is the nephew of the late
Grand Master Yip Man.
There are many places of interest to
see in Taiwan.
After 3 days in Taiwan, we will catch
an internal flight to Fuzhou in southern China.
Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian
Province.
Our group will visit 2 Shaolin
Temples. One in Putian and Fuqing.
There will be some sightseeing, as
well, before we catch a fast train to Shanghai.
We will be staying in central Shanghai
at the JW Marriot Hotel.
There will be a lot of shopping and
sightseeing in Shanghai. Also.
After Shanghai, we will catch another
fast train to the Capital of China, Beijing.
While in Beijing, we will visit the
Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Great Wall, Hutong, Drum and Bell Tower, Forbidden
City and Ming Tombs.
In 2012, the skies around Beijing were
a beautiful blue and the air was clean, believe it or not.
This will be the School’s sixth trip
to China. In 2012, we started in Beijing and headed south to Henan and northern
Shaolin Temple, then flying to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province. We
travelled around Guangdong Province for several days and finished our trip in
Hong Kong, covering around 3000 kms.
This trip, we will be predominately
travelling from Australia, to Singapore, to Taiwan and then along
the East Coast from Southern China travelling north to Shanghai and Beijing.
The trip in 2015 will cover around
2000kms around China plus travelling around Taiwan and Singapore.
In the previous trips, we spent all
our time in Hong Kong and travelling around Guangdong,
visiting wing chun schools and doing demonstrations and Chi sao with the
Chinese practitioners.
After the Communists takeover of China
in 1949, a lot of martial arts practitioners fled or left China for a life of
freedom in other Countries such as Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
The 2015 China trip will concentrate on wing chun
kung fu outside of China and predominately, outside of southern China and Hong
Kong.
