| Our expert  Over 
              the past twenty years our General Manager, 
              Mr. Hua Qing, has traveled all over China 
              as a tour leader and national guide. As a pioneer of specialty and 
              adventure tours in China, Mr. Hua and his capable team have planned 
              and operated many such tours in remote and unraveled areas of China. 
              Mr. Hua Qing's goal is to share with our clients the unique cultures 
              that are gradually disappearing due to modernization. Our clients 
              leave China with lifetime memories. Mr. Hua Qing was born in the countryside of Eastern Tibet. He grew 
              up with a special love and understanding of nature, farmers and 
              nomadic people. He therefore has a creative sensitivity that forms 
              the basis of unusual specialty and adventure tour itineraries. Many 
              of the places he shares with his groups are not regular tourist 
              destinations and cannot be found in guidebooks. Ethnic culture, 
              textiles, local festivals, minority arts and crafts, high land trekking 
              and cycling, bird watching, as well as different study tours along 
              the Silk Road, are some examples.
 Botany and agriculture tours along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers 
              and from the highlands down to the flatlands are other adventures 
              also available. Mr. Hua Qing and his team are pioneers in arranging 
              unusual agriculture tours such as dairy, duck, deer, kiwi fruit, 
              and potato farming. Other interesting tours show the client the 
              changes in the modern life of Chinese farmers and peasants.
 West-Eastours.com itineraries become unique experiences as our clients 
              are taken into the homes, hearts and minds of the native people. 
              Mr. Hua Qing's extensive relationships in China ensure that our 
              clients are welcomed everywhere.
 Our general manager believes that customer satisfaction should be 
              our service priority. He has instilled in his team his own high 
              standards of good service. Our company strives to give the client 
              the best available service, and to ensure the client's comfort, 
              safety and happiness during all tours. We contract highly skilled 
              native guides, experienced drivers and professional tour operators. 
              In short, we hire the best team to do the best job for our clients.
 Just as the words of Shakespeare, Dickens, Balzac, Hardy, and Jane 
              Austin open our minds to new ideas and concepts, and just as the 
              music of Strauss, Hayden, Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart calms and 
              soothes the soul, Mr. Hua Qing's adventure tours give our guests 
              stimulating and different life experiences in comfortable and secure 
              surroundings.
 Tourists coming to China, with West-Eastours.com enjoy different 
              peoples, beautiful landscapes, good food and comfortable hotels. 
              We share with them our own deep knowledge and interesting perspective 
              of Chinese Ethnic culture spanning 5000 years.
 _To travel thousands of miles with us is to read thousands of books¡
 
  Tashi 
              Phuntsok, Tibetan by birth, a monk for seven years with knowledge 
              of several Tibetan grassland dialects and possessing a happy personality, 
              has been with us for the last several years. We are so grateful 
              for him considering all of our wishes as his command and helping 
              to make our expeditions a great success. I always think of him yelling 
              Lha Jia Lo at all the high passes as he tosses the prayer papers 
              with Lhongta the Wind Horse into the air! He has scrambled up rocky 
              cliffs to bring us a rare flower and has given us understanding 
              of the dark side of Tantric Buddhism as well as the joy and lightness 
              one may personally attain.
 
  Duker 
              Tsering was born in a Golok nomad family in Amdo of great 
              Tibet, at the foot of Mt. Amnye Machen, he fought against his fate 
              of becoming a nomad like his father and grandfathers. At the age 
              of 13, Duker left his loving mom and dad and the grassland which 
              had nurtured his family from generation to generation. He was on 
              the back of a yak for the first day's trip to Lanzhou, capital city 
              of Northwest China's Gansu Province. He tied his yak well and went 
              to sound sleep the first night. However Duker found no yak on the 
              second morning and he was left alone on the vast grassland. His 
              yak went home apparently. With tears in his eyes, Duker had a last 
              look at the direction of his home and carried all his belongs and 
              started his very first trekking in his life, it was a trek of a 
              life time, it was a trek for a new life and a new world, mysterious 
              but with hope. He trekked for two days to reach the bus station 
              where he saw the first vehicle in his life and this vehicle took 
              him to Lanzhou where he met his aunt. With the help of his aunt, 
              Duker finally became a student at a school in Lanzhou where he was 
              one of the two Tibetan students. He anxiously studied Chinese and 
              English from the very beginning. It was the learning of English 
              that changed him, his way of life and his perspective of the world. 
              Wow, what a different world was what he found out one year after 
              he started to learn English and finally he realized that he had 
              to do something for his fellow Tibetans upon his graduation. He 
              went to the Labrang Monastery and worked as a part time tour guide 
              to help Westerners to know Tibetan culture where he met Americans, 
              British and people from the West. Of course, middle school English 
              was never good enough to communicate. Duker had to study English 
              by himself and practiced with travelers. The Labrang Monastery is 
              one of the six most important monasteries in whole Tibet. Besides 
              English, Duker had thoroughly studied Tibetan Buddhism, history, 
              and culture. His knowledge of Tibet enables him to provide information 
              even to those demanding Tibetan scholars from the West. Today Duker 
              is one of the best guides in Tibet. Born in Golok of Amnye Machen 
              area, Duker recognizes himself as the son of Mt. Amnye Machen who 
              knows every inch of Amnye Machen. Duker believes that it is his 
              obligation to introduce his hometown, Tibet to the world, to take 
              good care of those who come to visit his hometown.
  Liujie 
              is a tour operator and tour guide worked in West-Eastours.com 
              for 4 years. She was accepted by North-West University to studied Tourism English 
              in 1998. During 4 years study life, in order to make the wish ---- 
              "Go Around the Whole World" to the praxis, she studies 
              hard for many courses: Language, Culture, Art, Philosophy, religion, 
              politics, history and so on.
 She has 5 years experience as a group leader or tour guide from 
              the year 1999, she traveled with many kinds of groups to many areas, 
              such as Beijing, Shanghai, Xi`an, Nanjing, Hangzhou, especially 
              the Silk Road. After being a staff of BYTS, she operated groups 
              in Tibet, Amdo and Tibetan area in Sichuan Province. At the same 
              time, she investigates the agriculture tour such as Potato Tour, 
              General Agricultural Tour, Dairy Industry Study Tour and Silk Road 
              Tour in China.
 In the future days, her attitude towards her work is to study and 
              work hard, and she always cherishs high sense of responsibility 
              for her clients.
  Liangye, 
              graduated from Capital University of Economics and Business with 
              a degree in management, has been working with us for one year, and 
              operated several tours in China, including agriculture tours and 
              special tours. The reason why she loves her job is that she loves 
              the nature. Liangye was born in Urumqi, capital city of Northwest China's Xinjiang 
              Province, and lived with her grandparents in the countryside in 
              Hunan province during her childhood. She went to the field with 
              them everyday, helped do a little farm work, and could recognize 
              many crops such as potatoes, paddy rice, sweet potatoes, edible 
              wild vegetables, soybeans and so on. She also fed the beautiful 
              cock and fat pigs in the yard. It was her grandparents who led an 
              idyllic life and taught her to be a nature-lover. Later, she lived 
              in Xinjiang province for 7 years, and she never forgets the mountains, 
              the lakes and the people accompanying her growing-up, then she moved 
              to Beijing with her family in 1997. She was once an excellent accountant 
              with the biggest real estate company of Beijing. Just in July, 2003, 
              her boyfriend Bing took her to Qinghai, his lovely hometown, to 
              see his birthplace and to do sightseeing. What a different world. 
              The clean blue sky and the white clouds were rare to see in modern 
              city. She loved to lie down on the grassland and closed her eyes, 
              letting the wind whistle through her ears. The Kokonor Lake that 
              she had been longing to see day and night was much larger and more 
              beautiful than she’d expected. The highlight was that she 
              saw many different sects of monasteries and local religious ceremonies. 
              She was deeply moved by those native nomadic people who turned the 
              prayer wheels everyday praying not only for their family but also 
              for the human beings, and those devout pilgrims who did prostration 
              all year round. That was a beautiful piece of land, peace, quiet, 
              and arousing her deep love towards nature. She therefore quit the 
              former job and started a new career of her life. She has read numerous 
              books about Chinese agriculture and Tibetan areas, and traveled 
              all over China. With her English language capability, she becomes 
              more skillful and experienced. All her effort is geared to a higher 
              level of service for our guests. Some persons say that:“ it 
              is money that makes the world go round”, but there is an inner 
              voice in her heart :“it is love that do makes the world go 
              round.”
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