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Beijing, Forbidden City and Food Market.

September 30th 2007
Spent a week in Beijing, our longest stop on our trip so far. We visited temples, tourist sites including the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, eating snakes and scorpions and the famous Peking duck, survived riding bikes, rickshaws and squashing on buses with busy commuters. The blog entries are split up as we have so many photos! Our first hostel had a Moon party, to celebrate the Moon fest ... read more
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