Bei Hai Park- Nine Dragons Screen

Back to Beijing

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May 19th 2011
We thought we would try to take the buses back to the airport so we went to the bus station around 8 in the morning and caught a bus to Guilin. This took longer than we thought about an hour and a half. Our flight left at 11 AM so we jumped out of the bus when it got to Guilin and caught a taxi to the airport. It took almost a half hour to get there from the bus stop. We had gotten in a taxi and i ... 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