pingyao

Pingyao in the snow.

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February 24th 2008
Neil: We've now left Beijing and arrived in a small town called Pingyao - an ancient town with a 6.7km wall surrounding the old part - very nice! First though, a word about taxi drivers. In India and most of China, they are all over the place. India especially, you get pestered by them all the time offering their services. It becomes a real pain at times. When we left Beijing, we decided to ... 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