Our Christmas Dinner

Beijing and the Great Wall...

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January 2nd 2007
Hi again all... I arrived here in Beijing around 7:30 at night and got a hotel room from the tourist office at the airport... the cost was 200Y for one night but I just wanted to get a room and figure out later where I wanted to spend Christmas day and my time here in Beijing.... Once in the hotel room I so badly wanted to go to Tiananmen Square.... I asked at the hotel if they had a map but ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing » Great Wall of China

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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