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Drinking + Great Wall doesn't mix!

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February 27th 2007
From Beijing we took a 3 hour bus ride out to a fairly remote part of the Great Wall and trekked along it for about 4 hours. It was really hard going at times with about a million steps and it didn't help that we'd been out at a bar the night before until pretty late. We'd checked out Ho Hai, the bar district, and after some hard bargaining we got cheap drinks at a funky little bar and made some ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more