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Beijing - Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City

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November 2nd 2010
This is my second day in Bejing - what an amazing place and we have only scratched the surface. The city of Bejing is approx 190km by about 140km and houses 22 million people. Yesterday most of the tour group arrived at different times. Those that had arrived had our first experience using chopsticks. Most of us are determined to master them, although some of the chinese food is more difficu ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing » Forbidden City

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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