Michael is still learning to use chopsticks :)

Our Last Day in Beijing

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August 23rd 2009
Today is our last day in Beijing; tomorrow we will leave for Changchun, and will arrive at around 9:30 in the morning. The tours have been really interesting. The day before yesterday we went to the Summer Palace, Tienanmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven. It was a lot to do in one day! Our tour guide, Juli, would stop quite a bit to tell us the history of everything. I love ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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