Publication: Country & Town House This excerpt originally appeared in Country & Town House and is reproduced here as part of Imperial Tours’ media and publication archive. Guy Rubin Guy Rubin, founder of Imperial Tours, pictured with a giant panda during his years of travel and exploration throughout China. For the last 10 years, there’s […]
On October 9, 2000, five explorers set out in the middle of the world’s fifth-largest desert, the Taklimakan, as a team to walk the entire length of the Ming dynasty Great Wall of China. After a few weeks, winter set in and the terrain was covered in snow. By March the following year as winter […]
Originally published in a Beijing tourism publication. Reproduced for archival and reference purposes. Guy Rubin: Beijing, My Second Home The National Centre for the Performing Arts, one of Beijing’s major cultural venues. Born in Israel, Guy Rubin grew up in the United Kingdom and impresses with his fluent Chinese. He formerly worked for London strategic […]
Over the past five years, Imperial Tours has been an avid supporter of Half the Sky, contributing to the nurturing care and education of 10 orphaned babies and children. Many of these children have since been placed in loving homes. Most recently we also became a “Half the Sky Medical Care Sponsor” which helps provide […]
Mr. Ma came to our office to teach us the traditional craft of Chinese egg carving. This involved the laborious process of drawing, in pencil, the character “fu” (“prosperity) on a hallowed egg, then using a blade to slowly chisel away the peel of the egg. While at first frustrating, each of us eventually […]
