Summer Palace Lake

It's good to be the king! He had this entire lake to himself.

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CHINA!

December 3rd 2013
I guess the best place to begin is at the beginning. We arrived in Beijing after about 15 hours in the air, tired, grumpy, sleepy and slightly smelly. The thought of vegging out in our hotel room was very appealing at the time. That was not to be the case. Our first day in China, after a too brief respite to clean up and brush our teeth, we were off to our first attractions, The Temple of Heaven a ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing » Summer Palace

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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