China Adoption Tour with Orphanage Visit Option in Gansu Province

Orphanage Addresses – GanSu Province

Note: At the end of the address, please do not forget to add “Province, Postal Code, People’s Republic of China”, for example:

BengBu Children’s Welfare Institute 950 Chaoyang Road BangBu, Gansu 238000 People’s Repulic of China

Itinerary of China Adoption Tour to Gansu

Day 1 Arrival in GanSu Province

Pick up from airport and private transfer to hotel.

Have a good rest today.

Day2: Orphanage visit

a typical process of orphanage visit: Your family will be welcome by firecracker ceremony with hanging red banner(Written sentence meaning welcome for home return visit), then you will have a conversation with orphanage director and staff, after that it’s a limited visit of facilities the SWI and view the file of your child(if possible). Having lunch with orphanage director and staff, in the afternoon you will visit the “finding spot” of your child or doing the city sightseeing.

Please note that process of each orphanage is different, actually there is no standard process.

So activities of a typical orphanage visit could be:

• Visit facilities and surroundings of the Orphanage(SWI)
• View profile of your Child
• Meet the Nurse/Nanny of your child
• Meet the foster mother or family
• Conversation or with orphanage director and staff
• Meal with orphanage director and staff
• Visit the “finding spot”
• Gifts to orphanage directors, caregivers, foster families and children
• Donate to the orphanage

More and more chinese orphanages are now open to adoptive families for return visiting, but each province is different and has different regulations, No single person can 100% guarantee the permission to visit an orphanage. so please check with your Travel Advisor beforehand to see what you should expect when visiting your child’s orphanage.

We work closely with Social Welfare Institutes throughout China and Chinese Government department like Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau (CAB) and CCAB to arrange your orphanage visit. With great knowledge, experience and resource, by fully understanding the needs of both adoptive families and government, we have helped many families to visit orphanages of their adoptive children.

Day 3 sightseeing visit

Zhangye Danxia national Geopark: Zhangye Danxia is known for the unusual colours of the rocks, which are smooth, sharp and several hundred meters tall. They are the result of deposits of sandstone and other minerals that occurred over 24 million years.

Jiayu Pass: is the first pass at the west end of the Great Wall of China, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. Along with Juyong Pass and Shanhai Pass, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall.

Day 4 sightseeing visit

Mogao Cave: an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road. The Mogao Caves are the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes and, along with Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes, are one of the three famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China.

Mt. Mingsha: also called whistling sand or barking sand, is sand that produces sound. The sound emission may be caused by wind passing over dunes or by walking on the sand.

Crescent Lake: The lake and the surrounding deserts are very popular with tourists, who are offered camel and all-terrain vehicle rides.

Day 5 Departure from Dunhuang

Private transfer to Airport or Train station

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Prior to your orphanage visit application submission, please make sure you have the following documents ready:

• A copy of each visitor’s passports
• A copy of the adoption certificate or the notarized adoption documents
• An orphanage visit application letter