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The Great Wall

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June 21st 2009
Better late than never....our trip to the Great Wall. We picked the worst day to climb as the fog was so thick you can hardly see the views at all especially in the photos but we may aswell put up some of the photos anyway! As we were walking down the wall we got stopped a large number of times by people looking for photos with us...our ghostly white skin seemed to be more of an attraction than th ... 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