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THE GREAT WALL

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October 15th 2015
Left hotel at 7.00a.m. this morning to head about 80klms out of Beijing to the Badaling section of The Great Wall, enroute visited a Jade factory but so expensive but interesting nonetheless. Our guide picked the Badaling section because it is not so crowded...good choice.. there was plenty of room to move around and not be bumping into people. It really was breathtaking! We only walked up a short ... 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