More decor inside lovely Summer Palace

October 25th 2012
It was always going to be hard to follow up on such an amazing day at The Great Wall, but we had heard so much about the Forbidden City in Beijing we had to visit it and see for ourselves what all the fuss was about. With blue skies and sunshine once again, we walked there via Tian'amen Square, which for such an open space has quite a serious mood and Soviet influences were still clearly prese ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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

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Victoria and Scott

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Victoria & Scott are off... September 2010...We work hard and play hard and love our holidays! So much so that six a year just wasn't enough so we left our jobs, friends, family and home behind and took off for nearly 5 months to travel around the world! We visited: South America- Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile (September-Mid Oct) New Zealand- the North & South island in a camper van (Mid Oct-early Nov) Australia- the East coast from Melbourne-Cairns (Nov) South East Asia- Singapore, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia (December & January) We blogg... full info

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