View of the Great Wall

The Great Pee

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July 18th 2011
Sometimes you get so excited about finally visiting famous tourist sites which you have seen in photos and on movies but then feel a little disppointed when you get there and find it over run with hawkers, garbage and other tourists......today was a rare exception to that rule. Thanks to Dani's fabulous Chinese skills we took a local bus out to Huairou then haggled hard for a driver to take ... 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