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Beijing - Day 92-96

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June 7th 2007
Great Wall Day! We woke early and took a two hour bus trip to Mutianyu, our Great Wall access point. Rather than take the gondola up to the top (yes - they have a gondola at the Great Wall of China) we decided to hike up to the wall which kicked off a day of a lot of hot hiking - it was very humid and about 38 degrees Celsius - which is 99 decrees Fahrenheit! Despite the heat the wall was stunnin ... 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