Great Wall

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March 19th 2007
The soft sleeper to Beijing was awesome. They give you little slippers to wear and serve dinner, plus there's a western toilet in one of the two lavatories in each car. Very nice. Too bad it's too expensive. We got in to Beijing around 7 and I headed straight to the Saga hostel. It's located down a "hutong" (small alleyways that are quickly disappearing in Beijing) and in a very local part of t ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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

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