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Beijing- The temple of Heaven

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July 5th 2007
We arrived around 7:30 and caught taxi's to our hotel. Todays agenda was to see the 'Temple of Heaven' a land make to ancient Chinese traditions. The site is massive encompassing many temples, exhibitions, parks, gardens and the main treat itself self. A spectacular sight let down by what is effecting all of Beijing in the run up to the olympic games next year- being renovation works. The temple ... 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