Beijing: Silk Carpets & Summer Palace
September 27th 2012 Sept. 27
We're starting to get used to lima beans, bok choy and sweet potatoes at breakfast. As long as I also get my beloved cereal I'm happy! Today we started with (after the obligatory hour-long traffic tie-up) a factory tour, our second, actually. Yesterday we went to a cloisonne factory (enamel painted onto copper vessels), and today a silk carpet factory with the wonderful name of
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