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The Great Wall

climbing the great wall

June 4th 2008
So we've now met up with our tour group who are all really cool, there's a good mix of ages and nationalities. We all went out for dinner and a couple of drinks on Steve's birthday where he ate deep fried scewered scorpions (suprisingly tasty). It was quite a tame one though as we had to be up early to go to The Great Wall of China! Luckily we took a bus out to one of the less touristy areas (ca ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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