{"id":3791,"date":"2011-05-23T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2011-05-23T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:59:00","slug":"victoria-cruises-adds-cultural-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/05\/victoria-cruises-adds-cultural-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Cruises Adds Cultural Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_oYPKFUtmcQ\/TXwONPUSJVI\/AAAAAAAANYI\/KCAgI0k8yes\/s1600\/Victoria-Queen.ashx.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_oYPKFUtmcQ\/TXwONPUSJVI\/AAAAAAAANYI\/KCAgI0k8yes\/s400\/Victoria-Queen.ashx.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Victoria Cruises\u2019 has redesigned ships and added a new excursion<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Cruises, which has redesigned and rechristened the Victoria Liana, Victoria Selina and Victoria Prince, is launching a new shore excursion to Guqin Terrace in Wuhan, China, for 2011 sailings of its eight-night Three Gorges Discovery program in the upstream direction. It replaces the Hubei Provincial Museum on upstream sailings for a limited time through the 2011 sailing season.<\/p>\n<p>Gugin Tai, or Heptachord Terrace, is on the bank of the Moon Lake, with dramatic scenery surrounding a teahouse and arboretum, commemorates the ancient legend of the friendship between famous musician heptachordist, Yu Boya, who lived here between 770 and 476 B.C., and a woodcutter, Zhong Ziqi, who gave him the appreciation of his music that musicians dream of. Zhong Ziqi died before they could meet a second time, and Yu Boya played, once again, by his friend\u2019s grave and smashed his heptachord, never to play again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuqin Terrace is quite remarkable both in terms of scenic beauty and historical intrigue,\u201d said Larry Greenman, manager of public relations for Victoria Cruises. \u201cOur guests will find the Terrace&#8217;s peaceful setting exceptionally relaxing while absorbing its colorful background and developing an appreciation for one of the world\u2019s oldest and most unique instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Cruise are represented in Australia by <a href=\"http:\/\/helenwongstours.com\/\">Helen Wongs Tours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Cruises\u2019 has redesigned ships and added a new excursion Victoria Cruises, which has redesigned and rechristened the Victoria Liana, Victoria Selina and Victoria Prince, is launching a new shore excursion to Guqin Terrace in Wuhan, China, for 2011 sailings of its eight-night Three Gorges Discovery program in the upstream direction. It replaces the Hubei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[82,81],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-helen-wongs-tours","tag-victoria-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}