Hunted down dinosaurs, tried to get into the Forbidden city but ended up shopping instead
March 24th 2012 Having read about the Beijing Natural History Mueseum in the guidebook with it's wonderful dinosaur exhibition the boys and I decided to go on an outing to find it. I consulted the map and decided we could take the subway and walk to 1.5km to the mueseum. So off we went - big mistake - first of all the map was lousy we wandered around in circles at the top end of Tienamen square trying to f
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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 
