Forbidden City from Jingshan Hill

Beijing

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April 21st 2011
Having left all our luggage with friends in Hong Kong, we arrived in Beijing with day packs, cameras and an iphone loaded with a map of the Beijing subway system (probably the handiest thing we had over the next couple of days). The airport express took us as far as Donzhimen where we changed to the blue line for our destination station of Chongwenmen. Each time we had to buy tickets for the subwa ... 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