Forbidden City

China Day 3

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September 24th 2006
24th September 2006 When the alarm went off we leapt out of bed and collected our bags for the day ahead. We had agreed to go to the hotel breakfast, and we knocked on my parents door, discovered they had overslept! We went to breakfast and they were to follow. We encountered a slight problem in that before we could sit down they wanted paying. Kitty was with mum so we had to wait until th ... 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