A hall within the Ming Tomb grounds

Our Great China Adventure, Part I: BEIJING

May 6th 2007
BEIJING: May 6th- We arrived in Beijing late in the evening and met our Beijing tour guide, Michael, who ended up being the coolest tour guide of our entire trip! Michael and our driver then took us to our hotel, which was only minutes away from Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. We got some rest before the first big day of our tour! May 7th- On this day we we ... 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

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Laurence Buckley & Melanie Buckley

Laurence Melanie

Hello World, Our journey started on February 16, 2005, when we met in New York City. We became inseparable from the very first day we met, began dating, fell in love, and moved in together in SoHo, N.Y.C. Our lives, now intertwined, took a very adventurous turn as we moved to Japan. While living in Japan for a year I (Larry) taught English as a second language in Shin Uryasu-shi and Melanie was Ariel in a performance of 'The Little Mermaid' at Disney Sea in Tokyo. After Japan, we realized how much we enjoyed traveling and decided to move to South Korea. During our first year in Sout... full info

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