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Snow Mountain in Lijiang. Photo: Forward/kawing921
Great Wall of China. Photo: Sean Pavone Photo
Li River in Yangshuo. Photo: Forward/EcoShot
Tailor-made trips to China Over the past 20 years, Sinex Rejser has become one of Denmark’s leading travel agencies for travel between Scandinavia and Asia. Founded in Denmark in 1993 by the school teacher Laila Liu, the company has developed good relationships with embassies and local authorities as well as expertise in all kinds of travel to China and its neighbours.
vidual ventures, whereas there’s been a steady rise in businesses seeking out local connections,” Carstensen notes. “We’re old, big and local enough to be able to do them all.”
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One of his favourite types of bookings is parents using Sinex Rejser to reconnect their adopted children with the people and places they came from. “The best of everything we do, I think, is we connect you to real places, real experiences and real people, whether you’re travelling for business, leisure or, like it all started out, going on a school excursion.”
Laila Liu worked as a teacher in China, her country of origin, before she moved to Denmark and enrolled at a teachers’ academy there. As part of her training, she began to organise and plan trips to China for her fellow students. Demand for the trips kept growing until she finally had to choose between teaching and travel planning. Today, Sinex Rejser employs both Danes and Chinese people and, on top of their own Danish-speaking guides, cooperates closely with many of China’s best local guides and planners across the region – including Taiwan and Tibet.
and classes on Chinese culture. “Don’t be afraid to visit China,” he says. “It’s a vast country full of diversity, and much more than just Beijing, Shanghai and the Great Wall of China. Those places are wonderful, but one of the things we can really help with is opening up parts of China that visitors may not find out about on their own – fantastic places like the Gobi Desert; the lush, pastoral Sichuan and Guizhou provinces; and the steppes of Xinjiang, China’s largest and least populated area. That’s not to forget the white, warm beaches of the southern Hainan islands.”
All of Sinex Rejser’s employees have extensive knowledge of China and southeast Asia. The company’s director, Michael Carstensen, has spent at least three years of his life travelling across China and, like Liu, regularly gives talks
Sinex Rejser uses its experience and extensive networks in both Denmark and Scandinavia to tailor advice and bookings to the clients’ needs and ideas. “Since Laila started, packaged group holidays have declined a little in favour of indi-
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Lion in Forbidden City. Photo: Touchstone
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