Little cars they have here

Today we visited the Forbidden City.

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August 26th 2014
Geo: 39.9165, 116.391After a late breakfast we headed out for our first day in Beijing. It was a beautiful sunny, clear day. First thing to do was to get a SIM card for our phone. Then we walked to the Forbidden City. For almost 500 years the Forbidden City has served as the home for emperors and their households. It was built between 1406 to 1420 and has 980 buildings and covers 180 acres. T ... 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