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The Summer Palace and more Beijing

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June 21st 2009
The Summer Palace is the Palace that the Emperors of China in the Ming Dynasty used to go for their vacation to in Beijing. It is a vast area that we spent the whole day in but didnt get to explore all of it. 14,000 Beautiful old Chinese handpaintings covered the walls of a long corridor leading to a 17 arch bridge in the middle of the lake it was built around. We hired a boat for an hour for the ... read more

Asia » China

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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