The Summer Palace

Beijing - in the soup!

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July 22nd 2010
The grey gloom we had seen on the train rather set the tone for Beijing- and indeed much of China! The mist, or was it smog, or perhaps smoggy-mist, kept everything a few degrees cooler but boy was it stubborn. For our whole stay it felt as though we were about an hour away from an enormous thunder storm. At first I thought that one good rain shower and the city would be fresh and clean again. Wel ... 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