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Husband and wife…. traveling and eating our way around the globe
Category: CHINA
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Our Great Wall trip also included a few days in Beijing, the capital of China. With a population of 21.5 million people, Beijing is the nation's second-largest city after Shanghai. It is a modern city known for the ancient temples, the Forbidden City, Olympic stadiums and terrible pollution. It also has some of the most…
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Hong Kong August 2014 This was our second trip to Hong Kong, the first was in 2003 and it was our very first visit to an Asian country. Never in a million years would we have thought we were going to live in Asia! We forgot how beautiful Hong Kong is…
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The Dragon Back Rice Terraces Longji, China This truly was a magical place… with breathtaking scenery. Our arrival It was quite the event just getting to our hotel. Luckily, I had researched enough to know that we should not attempt to…
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Yangshuo, China We flew into the city of Guilin, and immediately drove south for an hour and a half to the small village of Jiuxian (shown below). Talk about being off the beaten path! It is in the Guangxi Province of southern China, about 15 minutes outside of Yangshuo, the largest…
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