The Great Wall

Trans-Siberian Experience Phase 1

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July 22nd 2016
Welcome to our Trans-Siberian Experience blog. Today we begin our journey across Asia into Russia with some highlights of our last couple of days in Beijing. Thanks for joining us on the journey. We hope that you enjoy it as much as we will. There is nothing like arriving in Beijing in the middle of a couple of days of a tropical storm that drenched the whole of the east coast of China and p ... 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