Pearl Market

Craxy market place where you could get everything from fake Prada handbags and fake Nike shoes (with a backwards swoosh) to real jewlery and pearls. All the sales ladies hassled the hell out of you. If you talked to them and walked away they would chase you down trying to get you to buy!

Tour de Beijing: Day One in the City

July 4th 2008
I made it here all in one piece! Got to my hotel about 10:30 pm local time last night (July 3rd locally). I met up with some of my classmates this morning at breakfast and we got some bikes from the hotel to ride around the city this morning. We went to the Forbidden City, Tienammen Square, and a local park. That took about 3 hours and the bikes were a great idea. It was so much cooler while ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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