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Sample Schedule for 2 Weeks
1st Week
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Sunday |
Arrive in Kunming.→ Airport pick-up and go to the school. → Accommodation arrangement: single room in hotel with private bathroom (24-hour hot water, western toilet), TV, mineral water, 24-hour internet access. The hotel is only 5 minutes' walk from Keats School. |
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8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. |
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. |
Monday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Chinese calligraphy and
Chinese paper cuts
(group learning) |
Dinner
(Ya Zhi restaurant) |
Watch a show Dynamic Yunnan
(group) |
Tuesday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Visiting
the Western Hills
(group) |
Dinner
(Cross-bridge
rice noodles) |
rest |
Wednesday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Chinese calligraphy and
Chinese paper cuts
(group learning) |
Dinner
(Jixin restaurant) |
Watch a show
Jixin Dance
(group) |
Thursday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Visiting
the Golden Temple
(group) |
Dinner
(Hot pot) |
rest |
Friday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Chinese calligraphy and
Chinese tea making
(group learning) |
Dinner
(Dumplings) |
Chinese tea tasting
in a tea house
(group) |
Saturday |
Breakfast |
Visiting a famous local high school
and communicating with high school students |
Lunch |
Visiting the Stone Forest
and after visiting,
have dinner at Chinese village flavor |
Visiting Chinese families
(Chinese families will go to the hotel to pick up the students.) |
Sunday |
Living in Chinese families with local high school students and making friends with them and experiencing the Chinese daily life. |
leaving Chinese homes
(Chinese family will take the students to the hotel and see them off there.) |
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2nd Week
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8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. |
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. |
Monday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Chinese calligraphy and
Chinese massage acupoints
(group learning) |
Dinner
(Local-food center) |
Watch a movie
(group) |
Tuesday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Visiting
the Daguan Park
(group) |
Dinner
(Yangguang restaurant) |
rest |
Wednesday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Chinese calligraphy and
Chinese massage acupoints
(group learning) |
Dinner
(Hefuyuan restaurant) |
Karaoke
(group with teachers) |
Thursday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Visiting
the Museum and Yuantong Temple
(group) |
Dinner
(Dai flavor restaurant) |
rest |
Friday |
Breakfast |
One-on-one
Chinese lessons |
Lunch |
Shopping
(the Flower and Bird Market, Tea Market and Parkson shopping mall) |
Dinner
(Yipindian restaurant) |
Chinese foot massage
(experiencing foot massage acupoints)
(group) |
Saturday |
Breakfast |
Leaving |
- All group-visits will be lead by 2 teachers. And also 2 teachers accompany all students to have dinners and shopping.
- Accidental Insurance included.
- Besides group activities, a teacher accompanies students if they want to go out.
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Please Note: The schedule can be adjusted to specific requirements.
Why one-on-one?
One-on-one Chinese instruction is designed by Keats teachers to meet the needs and interests of individual student. One-on-one Chinese instruction provides you more opportunities to practice your Chinese and get corrected in time and speak Chinese all the time during the lesson. So far, one-on-one is the most efficient way to learn a language.
Total program fee for each student is $2,530.
Fee includes:
- Tuition and course materials for one-on-one Chinese instruction and Chinese culture lessons
- Single room accommodation with private bathroom
- Breakfast and Lunch at the school, dinner at local featured restaurants
- Admission entrance fees for the places listed in the program
- Transportation from school to the places listed in the program
- Accidental insurance
- Airport pick-up and drop-off upon arrival and departure
- Laundry
- Unlimited Internet Access
- Framed calligraphy works from calligraphy class
Not included:
- Flight tickets between home country cities and Kunming are not included.
- Personal and miscellaneous charges such as visa application fees, baggage overweight charges, communication bills, and any type of activity that is not part of the program will not be covered in the program fee.
Tourist visas can be obtained by applying at one of the six embassies in the US located in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington DC.
This is the hotel where students will live in, and Keats School is in the building behind the hotel.
 
Introduction of the places for group sightseeing
Western Hills
Western Hills are also called 'Sleeping Beauty Hills' for the hills when viewed together look like a beautiful young lady laying beside Dianchi Lake with her face upward and her hair trailing into water.
There is a saying - 'If you do not visit Western Hills, you haven't visited Kunming; if you do not come to Dragon Gate, you haven't been to Western Hills.' Being the outstanding scenic place in Western Hills, Dragon Gate which was built on cliff, is a big exquisite stone carved edifice. The stone paths, stone rooms, stone grottos, and stone Buddhist figures are all carved with excellent craftsmanship on a large natural rock.
 
Golden Temple
Golden Temple is the largest copper temple in China. It used 250 tons (246 gross ton) of solid bronze. Except for the staircases and balustrades, which are made of marble, the walls, columns, rafters, roof tiles, altars, statues, wall decorations and the banner near the gate tower are all made of copper. The burnished copper gleamed like gold and that is why people named it the Golden Temple.
The hillside around the Golden Temple abounds with pine trees, evergreens, hardy cypresses, and a multitude of plants. The beautiful walk up the stairs to the temple helps you to leave your mundane cares behind you.
Stone Forest
The best of the world famous Stone Forests (Shilin) of Kunming are in Lunan County, 75 miles south of Kunming. Due to a process of weathering and erosion, nature has created an art gallery of stone sculpture here.
This typical karst physiognomy takes the form of a forest of stone pillars and boulders. It is as if the countless stone shapes have sprung from the ground, assuming different shapes as if vying to surpass each other in grandeur and sublime beauty.
Some look like sheets or pillars, others resemble swords raised towards the sky while others, standing in pairs, suggest scenes of young lovers overjoyed in reunion or sad at parting or of a mother and child strolling side by side.
 
Daguan Park
Daguan, which means 'the grand view', is the most befitting name for the park and the pavilion which locate on the shore of Dianchi Lake and faces the Western Hills. At the entrance of Daguan Pavilion, there is the longest antithetical couplet which was written by a famous Qing Dynasty scholar named Sun Ranweng. This couplet of 180 characters is one of the most valued cultural treasures in Yunnan Province. The first part of the couplet describes the beautiful and magnificent natural views before your sight, tell people to enjoy and treasure. The second part reviews the 2000 years' history of Yunnan, awakens to that no matter how successful or frustrated you are, all will be in nothingness in the end.
Yunnan Provincial Museum
The Yunnan Provincial Museum is a regional museum, containing around 50,000 objects in its collections. Among these, historical objects account for around 30,000 items of which there are 7,000 bronzes, revolutionary items (7,200), ethnic minorities cultural objects (7,000), handicrafts (4,000).
The Yunnan Historical Objects Exhibition has strong regional characteristics, elements that distinguish the local cultures from the Central Plains Han-Chinese culture. Using a diversity of excavated objects, the exhibition displays the face of ancient Yunnan. Many of the objects in this exhibition have important scientific and artistic value, and provide material evidence of mankind's social development.
 
Flowers and Birds Market
Flowers and Birds Market is the city's biggest, most attractive shopping market. You'll hear continuous bird song from parrots, mynahs, thrushes, and cuckoos, most of which are for sale. The fishes are mainly tropical -- small and brightly colored for home aquariums.
The Flowers and Birds Market is also a popular trading place for antiques. Curios, coins, jade articles, jewelry, ink stones, porcelains, potteries, stone carvings, and marble products are among the arts and crafts to be found there. It is a treasure trove for souvenirs. Do not miss the shops that sell colorful ethnic costumes with headdresses. Most are handcrafted and very popular with tourists. Prices are reasonable, and you may even bargain with shopkeepers.
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