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The Temple of Heaven  
   

The Temple of Heaven

China

November 8th 2006
We arrived in Beijing on Monday about 3pm and there was a bitterly cold wind. By the time we had got the bus into the city it was 4pm and we attempted to find the hostel with the directions we had from their website. We struggled so asked 2 different policemen who both sent us in opposite directions but we were later found by some other hostel girls who showed us there. We later found out that peo ... read more
Asia » China » Beijing

Chinese Flag 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
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