Home Stay - Hutong Haven

Holidaying in Beijing, China’s capital city, can take many forms. There are a number of tour packages that offer plenty of sightseeing, visiting such places as the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. However, what these package tours don’t offer is the chance to experience ‘traditional’ Chinese life.

Traditional Chinese life centres around Hutong. Hutongs are the lanes or passage- ways that connect traditional Chinese houses (Siheyuan) where most Beijing residents live.  It is where people cook, wash and their children play.  If you really want to know the real Beijing, it’s the people and their lifestyle within Hutongs that will truly give you this experience by actually staying and living among the locals.

In the morning you will see breakfast cooked, join in for a 'youtiao'.  Then you see the bustle as people are off to work, leaving their 'siheyuans' in finely pressed clothes.  During the day you see the elderly walking through the alley, looking after grandchildren while parents are at work.  Afternoon when the school bell rings and the alley is filled with children playing traditional games and doing their homework in front of the family restaurant.  Every afternoon a group of elderly men meet for a game of 'majiang', just as they have for many years.  As day turns to evening, the alley is filled with the aroma of the restaurants cooking real Chinese food.

If you’re looking for a unique holiday with difference, then imagine yourself living in the middle of traditional Hutongs, on your ‘Life Experience’ holiday with the opportunity to not only see all the great sights that tourists see, you will see them as a local!

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Tailor made packages are available, and for enquiries contact Go China.

Orphanage

The New Hope Foundation, founded by De Joyce Hill and her husband Robin, and recently honoured with the medal Member of the Order of Australia (AM) bestowed by the Queen of England, is an orphanage adopting babies and providing personal care and medical treatment to children that have been abandoned and born with deformities.

With a Christian heart, along with the help of the local Chinese Children’s Welfare Institute, they were able to open their home in February 2000 in a small village south-ease of Beijing and start what is known today as the New Hope Foundation.

Their vision is to meet the very specific needs of very young babies either at risk or in need of surgery that would not otherwise be available to them.

We invite you to visit this orphanage where miracles happen every day, and offer your support through donation to this charitable cause.

Thousands of babies and children seek adoption every day, and for your chance to meet the people fulfilling these children’s dreams, you can also visit the Hope Healing Home.

Tailor made packages are available, and for enquiries contact Go China.