Summer palace

Summer palace and Olympic park

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August 30th 2014
We seem to have almost adjusted to the time zone, and were up at 6.30 this morning. We headed out of the city center to the summer palace, an amazing park full of elaborate buildings, high arch bridges and a big lake - it was so smoggy you could barely see the other side! We walked a long way, and Lara took a lot of photos... From there we headed to the even smoggier Olympic park, seeing the birds ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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