Beijing in 4 days: The hunt for the Great Wall and the almighty Peking Duck - Day 3
May 3rd 2014 Our hotel room is lovely (and really quiet- not a circular saw within earshot, hurrah!) but the only negative is that it is extremely hot so I get quite a restless sleep and wake up rather dehydrated. It’s 11.30am so we drag ourselves out of bed whilst we can still claim it is morning (you’d think it gets easier to get up early as you get older, but for me it seems harder- probably because I n
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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 
