Tuesday, August 26, 2008

China part 1






Before our big USA/CAN trip, we went to China for 2 weeks.  The flight over took us along the coastline of Russia where sea ice was still breaking up.  We landed in Beijing and everywhere you looked were building cranes, if you could see them through the haze.  The locals claim it is mostly due to blowing sands from the Gobi desert this time of year....  We enjoyed tours of the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and the Great Wall.  It had snowed the night before on the Wall which gave it a nice touch.

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