Temple of Heaven

We made it!

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December 4th 2006
Well, we arrived at our hotel in Beijing at about midnight last night and were knackered! Had been travelling for over 24hrs in total! 3 lots of feeding on aeroplanes though. We think we're going to be aeroplane food tasters for the next few weeks! lol. We were v impressed with the flight from Hongkong to Beijing which was run by Dragon Air. We were at the front of cattle class and had quite a bit ... 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