Hou Hai Lake

Hou Hai is a recreation/tourist area in Beijing. We walked around the lake on our first day in Beijing. Note the mountains in the background-the air was incredibly clear. Apparently, the government has a weather bureau and can partially control the weather. For the 1st, they created a rain and thunder storm which cleared the pollution. It was the cleanest we'd seen since arriving in China.

Beijing Part 1 :::: 北京一部分

October 13th 2009
About halfway into the fall, the Chinese celebrate two holidays - Mid-Autumn Festival and National Week. The first holiday usually marks a long weekend of eating Moon Cakes (a rich date-filled pastry-ish treat-ish) and family time. The latter holiday marks, for the better part of a week, a mass mobilization of most of China when everyone plays tourist while waving small Chinese flags. This year ... 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

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