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The Eastern Qing Tombs and Dowager Empress Cixi’s Final Resting Place
Weekends are for daytripping – at the end of last month that motto brought us to the Eastern Qing Tombs in Zunhua, almost 130km northeast of the Jing in the province of Hebei.
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The Pride of Lions guarding Beijing’s Marco Polo Bridge
Saturday, the 29th of April 2017 One more of Beijing’s sights is down from our tourist bucket list. Last weekend we took a bus all the way out to the suburbs of Beijing and visited the Marco Polo Bridge, a historically significant place in the south-west of town. There is not much else out there,…