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Last day in Beijing

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December 8th 2011
It was our last day in Beijing. We went to Wufujing Street. We heard it was a walking street. It has very high end stores. We stumbled across a food market that sold many different eats. Many people munched on meat kabobs with spices. You could also get bbq'd scorpion, starfish, centipedes, cockroach, beetle, trantula etc. Some on the sticks were still alive. We headed back to our hotel to ... 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