Beijing

Beijing

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May 9th 2011
So day one we arrived in Beijing 40 minutes early. Taking a cab was painless but I had read to bring the hotel name and address in Chinese, if we hadn't we wouldn't have found the hotel. We arrived at our hotel Park Plaza around midnight and fell right asleep. We were both awake at 5 the next morning due to people working down the street and the thin windows. After picking up a map of Beij ... 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