The Great Wall - JinShaling - Simitai

Driven up the Wall

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November 13th 2006
Well kids - what had saved us heaps of money to date ie. doing our own thing instead of taking the tours with the masses this time proved to be fruitless. The increasingly frustratingly wrong planet guide which we placed clearly too much faith in - told us we could get to where we wanted to go for 15 kwai one way, the hostel tour wanted 110 kwai return, ha we'll show them we thought! Setting o ... 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