It's that time of year when many expats begin escaping China for a little rest and relaxation! The way I look at it, I can be in China about 3 months at a time and then I need to escape! Luckily the Chinese holidays fall about 3 months apart during the school year!! We currently are choosing destinations outside of China based on beaches and sunshine, another criteria is to fly into a major city that has good shopping!
On Wednesday we will be departing for Malaysia!! We are so excited for some family time, shopping, beach, and sunshine! We will fly into Kuala Lumpur Wednesday and stay there until Friday. On Friday we will fly on to Kuantan and stay on Cherating Beach for 6 days! We are hoping that during our stay we will get to visit the turtle sanctuary at night and watch the turtles come on shore and lay their eggs!
The children and Danny are off school and work over these next two weeks for October holiday. During this time the Chinese will be celebrating the Moon Festival and National Day on October 1st. This is the 60th year of communist rule here, so the festivities will be gigantic! I'm assuming they will rival the opening ceremony of the Olympics last year. I read that 200,000 people will be participating in events in Beijing alone. We also received an e-mail last week that they will be closing Beijing International Airport (yes, thousands of flights are in and out daily) from 8:30 - 12:30 during the main part of the celebration. We anticipated that they might do something like this so thankfully we scheduled our flight out the day before!! Danny's mom sent me this article on the preparations...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/china_prepares_for_its_60th_an.html
I'm sure after perusing through this you can understand why an escape is in order!!
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