Beijing at sunset

In Beijing for our last days in China

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October 8th 2007
We arrived in Beijing on Sat. evening, Oct. 6 and are now visiting my (Andrea) cousin and her family who have been here for 2 years. Today we visited Tian anmen Square and the Forbidden City, tomorrow we head out to The Great Wall. We'll fly home on Thursday--leaving Beijing at noon on Thursday and arriving in Albuquerque Thursday evening of the same day. (The return flight gives us back the 14 ... 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