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Beijing Zoo

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April 25th 2007
Went to the zoo this morning. Decided to walk there as i wanted to go to the foriegn lanuage bookstoore to get a map of shanghai and i belived that was half way there. I was wrong. I walked for an hour and a half. the zoo has two entrances. I started at the south entrance and i never saw any english signs. As always the queue wasnt a queue. People pushing past each other and it took me a while t ... 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