Flying Fox

Day 24 - Beijing

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November 5th 2009
Today started at 6am, we were armed with 3 double cheeseburgers each (there was seriously nothing else we could buy at the supermarkets) and headed to the back packers hostel. We got onto a bus which doubled as a sauna as the heating was turned up way too high. We arrived at the start of our hike 3 hours later. We chose to do the Great Wall hike to Simatai which is the most original part of the wa ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing » Chaoyang district

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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