China travel specialist - China Travel Plan team

About China Travel Plan

China Travel Plan is a small specialist internet based tour operator, offering you a unique way of travelling around China. Our China travel specialists will help you build your own trip, handing you complete control of your holiday.

China Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel, an online adventure tour operator made by travellers for travellers. Our trips are very individual, and you won't be part of a large coach tour but instead you'll travel by trains, buses, private car, planes, and sometimes minibus.

We also like to give something back to local communities, which is why we sponsor various charity projects. See our responsible travel page for more information.We're able to keep our prices low because we don't produce flashy brochures or run luxury shops. However you're more than welcome to visit our China travel specialists during your travel planning! We are based in Brighton, on the South Coast and we're the sister company of round the world specialists, Travel Nation.

Laura Clark

China Travel Specialist

Asia is just so captivating, with its friendly people, amazing landscapes and fusion of ancient traditions and modern life, nowhere encapsulates this more than China, a country so diverse and fascinating.

I visited China towards the end of a round the world trip in 2007, highlights included the beautiful tiger leaping gorge trek, seeing giant pandas, the terracotta warriors and of course taking in some pretty amazing food along the way!

I had some great experiences during my time there, walking along a deserted part of the Great Wall on a beautiful spring day ranks as one of my most memorable.
China travel specialist - Laura Clark
China travel specialist - Jim Faulkner

Jim Faulkner

Senior China Travel Specialist

I visited China briefly in 2006, as a side trip to South East Asia. I flew into the capital Beijing, which was busy with building work for the Olympics, and stayed for 5 nights. This was a perfect length of time to take in most of Beijing’s sights, sounds and smells !

We visited Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and had an early Tai Chi lesson with the locals in a beautiful central park, the name of which escapes me.

The definite highlight was a walk along the Jinsaling section of the Great Wall of China. It's as good as all the photos, and only whilst you walk along can you appreciate who much effort and resources, and how long this must have taken to build.

My last evening in China started by watching the most amazing circus show, followed by a slap up meal at a specialist
Crispy Peking Roast Duck resturant, onto an ultra modern private Karaoke bar, and finishing off with all night dancing at a club on Bar street will stay with me forever.

China wasn't somewhere I'd planned on staying too long, but after my brief but intense taster, I'd go back like a shot.

Haydn Wrath

Manager

China Travel Plan is run by Haydn Wrath.

I left the University of East Anglia in 1984 and escaped what seemed a very grim England by spending the rest of the 1980s travelling independently and working myself round the world. During this time I put in some usual stints as an English teacher in Tokyo, a landscape gardener in Sydney and a tarmac layer's assistant in Alaska. In 1990, I joined Bridge the World Travel Centre in London as manager of the World-wide department, where I was able to put my degree in Politics and Philosophy to good use.

I fulfilled my ambition to set up a specialist travel company in 2001 when I founded Travel Nation, and later in 2007 set up Rickshaw Travel and China Travel Plan.
I have travelled independently to China a few times, and am always utterly amazed by the people and the atmosphere there. China has so much going for it, and the Olympics showed that they certainly know how to put on a good show. Also of course, in common with so many other visitors, when I'm in China, I am in food paradise...especially that Crispy Peking Duck they do....

China travel specialist - Haydn Wrath

Rickshaw Travel

Rickshaw Travel is the holding company for China Travel Plan, and also operates in a number of other countries, check out the following sites. Our range of travel destinations is continuously growing. At the moment we offer pre-arranged independent travel options in the following destinations:

Asia:
Thailand Travel Plan
Vietnam Travel Plan
Laos Travel Plan
Cambodia Travel Plan
India Travel Plan
Nepal Travel Plan
Indonesia Travel Plan
Malaysia & Borneo Travel Plan
 

Africa:
Morocco Travel Plan
South Africa Travel Plan
Kenya & Tanzania Travel Plan
Egypt Travel Plan

Americas:
Mexico, Guatemala & Belize Travel Plan

Oceania:
Australia Travel Plan 
 

China Travel Plan : Work for us

China Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel, a fast-growing internet based travel company employing dedicated travel specialists, over a variety of countries. We are continuously looking for well travelled, customer-focused staff with in-depth knowledge of the countries in which we work.

We work in a busy and friendly environment in Brighton, where you will be encouraged to develop your product knowledge and service skills to their full potential. If you are interested in joining our team, please send a covering letter and an up to date CV
to careers@chinatravelplan.co.uk

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