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Sunday - morning after the night before sleeping and the acrobats

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September 5th 2014
After all the shenanigans of the previous evening I was dog tired. I woke up before the boys so left them to sleep and headed outside to sit in the court yard where we had eaten dinner the previous evening. The mini bus driver had been to pick up everyone else left on the wall who had hiked down after seeing the sun rise and walking along the old wall for a while. They were all shocked at ... 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