Touring the forbidden city

Beijing - redux

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May 20th 2012
Ni hao from Beijing again! Its almost feels like I never left. Except I missed all the excellent food. And did not miss all the unexcellent pollution. After spending all day Thursday flying, we checked into our hotel at a sparkling 2.15am, making it almost exactly 24 hours travelling time from my bed. After a short amount of sleep, we pulled ourselves out of bed to go on a full days bicycl ... 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