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Day 294 - It's a long way you know

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April 22nd 2007
The initial plan for today was to go and visit the Great Wall of China. But after Melinda could not find us a reasonable priced driver who would take us there we decided to change the plan which seemed not so easy to grasp by Melinda, who kept saying after every suggestion of places we wanted to visit “then we go to wall”. Anyway we became the tour guides for most of the day as we visited the ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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